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Brian Russell is an undergraduate at Endicott College in Beverly, MA.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade

Brian Russell

Based on a painting at the Manninen Center for the Arts at Endicott College.

That’s what everyone says, but honestly
Sometimes you just leave them on the table.

one cut open, one just sitting there,
not doing anything, still bright though.

Got the vase, the book, everything kinda set up
like it’s supposed to mean something,
but really it’s just there.

And the lemons just sit
sharp, real, not trying to be sweet yet.

I guess not everything has to be fixed right away.

Sometimes you just let it be what it is

until you’re ready to do something with it.

— Brian Russell

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