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Boilermaker
By Kari Gunter-Seymour In January Australia caught on fire. Was that fire put out? Who knows because America decided to play Russian roulette with Iran, then Prince Harry & Megan flipped off the Royal Family shortly before 45’s impeachment debacle, John Bolton trading his testimony for a book deal & just as Corona Virus…
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Tail of Masculinity
By Ben P. Effiòng I was born into a society Defined by fraternities In a hospital ward decorated with partiality My birth, celebrated like African obesity This was the privilege attached to my sexuality I was born a male, with the tail of masculinity Birthed into this artificiality Characteristic of ma/pa-triarchy I sat on…
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woman king
By Emily Mardelle I cut my hair off because my father would slide his hands over my stomach and tell me how fat I was getting and I I think sometimes I want to make a woman king so the moon can finally avenge the girls in the nighttime imagine her thick hair long…
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My Last Teacher Said My Thesis Doesn’t Have to Be a Sentence
By Yennie Cheung Bullshit. I call bullshit. It is bullshit that your last teacher ever said this, and bullshit that you think I’d ever believe that anyone who has ever assigned an essay in the history of essay-assigning would say that a thesis statement can be anything but a sentence. One sentence. Not a…
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Lamar Speaks for Lots and Lots of Us
By Philip Styrt We know that the President lied As he tried to corrupt the election; Still, we’ll “let the people decide.”1 Whether he should be disqualified; But for now we’ll provide our protection. We know that the President lied, Though we think it should be classified, And we’ll try to deny the connection:…
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No Vacancy
By Elizabeth Shack The hermit crab outgrows his shell and ranges across the ocean floor searching for a better home so he can grow a little more. Imagine the crabby billionaire hoarding the best and biggest shells while other crabs roam, all exposed without secure, protected cells. One crab has an enormous home; the…
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Air Floyd: A Ritardando*
(AKA “It’s Gotta Be The Shoes…”) By Hakim Bellamy George Floyd. The latest in a long noose of names to die in the street. At the hands and feet of police. Public asphyxiation is nothing new, but it has always drawn a crowd even on Sundays down South. However, he still couldn’t get…
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Winter of Needle and Thread
By Caroline Bock Dedicated to Grace Cavalieri Nana makes you learn needle and thread and you stick your fingers—and blood—“Don’t bleed on the cloth,” she says. In your hands is a scrap, an addition to the family’s patchwork quilt. “Stitch. Even stitches,” she insists. A bulb of red appears as you pull the needle…