the jar on your shelf

Philadelphia PA

Description

you keep the innocences you’ve stolen in a jar on your shelf. and every once in a while when things backfire, you pick it up and unscrew the lid. the light that emits from the glass bounces throughout the room in many bright colors. there’s so much depth that fits in such a tiny jar; you didn’t expect it to grow so much... you would have invested in a bigger jar. but once you started, you couldn’t stop. and by the time you close the jar, you find yourself recharged with optimism, charisma, a certain naïveté that has an expiration date of a year, if you got lucky. and while you may look shiny, new, and pretty again the timer begins to tick until you have to reopen the jar on the shelf that you hide from everyone but your ugliest truest self.