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by May-Lan Tan I cut my own hair.I can see in the dark. I look better naked.Money doesn’t excite me. I need more sleep than most other people.I only take care of the parts of my body that others can see. I can never tell when someone is joking.I prefer to eat really delicious foodContinue reading “Speed Dating”

by Conor Harris 1. sext: you are a super-dense train accelerating toward the sun and I am the comet you happened to pull out of orbit I will watch you burn then implode and become something that people who live forevers away will look to for answers but all that will be left is your gorgeousContinue reading “Four Sexts”

by Amanda Oaks It’s raining your name & five miles backmy windshield wiper eyes gave up onclearing the way you used to mother meinto thinking that it was okay to love melike that. It’s raining your name likethe way bones shake when they arestanding in the tallness & balancingon the hollowed-out surfaceof either our loveContinue reading “You Flood”

by Jeannie Yoon I am learning to walk while lovingStill tripping into the ditchesAstride the rocky roadA clear and searing day Burns the air thick and heavySinging my nose and my atrophyingTongue turns restlessIn its desiccated bed The TV bitches splayed on the sandsOf Miami or somethingSmell like synthetic coconutI should get up I getContinue reading “Autodiddle”

by Timmy Reed Everybody in detention said“You won’t like this diseaseUnless you are doing it correctly.”I ate the teacher’s underpants(they were on fire)Because I was skeptical.“I refuse to believe in the death of Rock ‘n Roll,”Barked the coolest girl in schoolWhile we perused the nine-dollar binat the gas stationShe called “Proof”Of something else.“I believe inContinue reading “High School 101”

by Christian Wacker i need to stop thinking of you in terms of bright coffee and the surface; i need to begin thinking of you in terms of tongues on fire and time enough to watch the sun move across its lazy sky. i would like to take this time to proffer a formal andContinue reading “Apology”

by Rachel Harthcock I remember Phil saying we should write a list ofall the people who bothered us, whispering over the phone after the internet had cut out, ending our AIM conversation. I remember the night we camped outand I watched him walk into the pines to pee,then realizing he was the only Polish personContinue reading “Pomegranate Mind”

by Tyler Barton 1__ I spring backI am falling fora bad bathroom excuse I jackpine for seascapeI crackpot the bluest roseI mohawk the leopard printripoffs of the avenueI cross myself in my dream andI goddamn a devilock I bulldoze in doorwaysI pull off the coversI understand to be smashedby wavesI muster I mustn’t I tieContinue reading “Acrostic Spelling Me Out”

by Kaitlin Harness Once a spider bit my tongueIt felt so weird and made it numI drank some water and chewed on gumBut it did not work and it was still num

by Sean Kilpatrick Hi, kids! I got a garden in my penny.I’m the creepy crawly mayorpopular since spoiling.I teethe exit signs.Noxious puddings swim in me.Such uber-magnetized defoliants glidemy conjecture like moons we can’t share.We are glued to our oldnessand smiling through crowds.I found all of you in a hamper.Now we share one throat.Good thing IContinue reading “Helter Skelter”