Harper Joplin
Joined October 2009
I’m Harper Joplin, and I’m from Jersey.
I find that the majority of northern New Jersey natives are insufferable dreamers, probably because we have the world’s best view of the New York City skyline. All those winking lights across the river tend to call out to a person’s inner idylls, making us wish for things like Camelot and stardom and a beautiful reality similar to that of “Newsies”.So now I’ve got all this insightful pain and sentimental quips, all because I’ve spent my whole life looking out at the City, wishing to be as big and as bright and as perfectly shattered as the lights across the river.
I’d love to be that hopeless poet, romanticizing the world into a capsulized moment of aesthetic catharsis. Unfortunately, I’m still just a twenty-something year old college chick suffocating my inspiration in the social pits and hovels of young adulthood. All I can post up here is what makes it through, and what pulls me through with it. But hey, even Joyce couldn’t start with “Ulysses,” ya know?So maybe someday I’ll be a famous writer. Maybe I’ll figure out what I’ve gotta do to build my own “Ulysses”. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll live up to all those dreams I had on warm summer nights, driving around my small Jersey town with my friends, looking at that damned skyline.But until then, please read my shit and tell me what you think. I’d really love to know. =P