thank you note to mother planet goddess gaia thank you for having us here thanks for having me here on your place birthing our asses on your beautiful planet thanks thank you for all you do for us and more please tell the stars I’m sorry sorry for the pollution and confusions the stupids, the […]
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Read more "3 POEMS by Ivan Ndoma-Egba"The Numerous Crucifixions of One Man One Lamb of a Man Often let his body’s aspects reset Into whatever the biased And calloused despised. Sometimes the changes Were ethnical, Racial or sexual. Many thought The Lamb of a Man was harmful. Bearing RED hatefulness, WHITE supremacists Had a drought in their BLUE eyes When they […]
Read more "The Numerous Crucifixions of One Man ~ Bob MCNEIL"IT’S TIME By Jenniffer Seward and Jessica Free It was close to midnight. Barely a sliver of moonlight peeked out through the clouds. Footsteps pounded on the cracked pavement ascending the rocky path toward the cemetery. As the footsteps approached the rusty wrought iron fence, dark shapes could be made out of the shadows as […]
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Read more "Míša Hejná ~ Ladybirds are god"Chem 342 Thermodynamics homework. 1:37am in the second living room. We up late. We forgot the date. We read the rate. We can’t approximate. We separate motions. We contemplate devotions. We partially derive. We finally nosedive. We calculate free energy. We succumb to lethargy. We plot and scheme. We got a 73. Styled from “We […]
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Read more "Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales ~ Yo Soy Joaquín / I Am Joaquín"I. How do you pack if your suitcase is suddenly just your own without your sister coming along to crowd the other half? You have space for sweaters, a coat, your anxiety, a few more pairs of pants, and the extra money your parents tuck into the suitcase’s lining for you, but the extra room […]
Read more "4 POEMS FROM Shauri Cherie"From the public employee protecting trees For Mr. Good of Northeast Columbus Dear Mr. Good, Of the 149 comments we received, yours was the one that made me laugh aloud. How could you have known that the “meddling parasitic bureaucrat” to read your words truly will “wax poetic about tree policy”? I know others are […]
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