Founded in the fall of 1991, Laurel Moon is Brandeis' oldest, national literary publication. Each issue we publish features original work from undergraduate students.
If I shined a light on Metuchen that was as fluorescent as the pharmacy where I pick up my antidepressants you’d see houses of gray taupe and that milky Zoloft blue stuffed with incessant nosey neighbors peeking right back out at you might have heard of the ‘Brainy Borough’ just three diners and a tricounty mall our Levittown let down suburban downtown a luminescent Main Street in the middle of it all streetlights screaming we’re contented resplendent transcendent we’re doing just fine as if we aren’t all here on the checkout line faking acquiescence masking our divergent minds chit chatting while we’re secretly resenting our lives like the hell-bent half-spent cash-register attendant who barely even tries to be kind sure she mopped up my guts there on aisle four but I can’t handle her silent torment anymore when I said I loved my hometown I meant it I meant it but here in this store it’s hard to pretend it's just me who’s lost all my marbles and outgrown my pants, my skin, my friends or maybe I’m just wallowing in Walgreens again
Rebecca Perlmutter is a senior at Brandeis University passionate about reading, cheese, and the hit ABC television program, The Bachelor.