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by Kit Travers Disappointment is more common than love.Or at least as common. At least as common as fathers& their children.As common as forced haircuts,family bible lessons, andlong rambling prayers,The point of which Is right between your eyesWhile his hand clutches yours, kneading your fingers,Grinding your knuckles, til they’re sore.As common as “street fighting lessons”Which is prettyContinue reading “Jesus Is As Good a Replacement for Crack as Any, I Guess”

by Jude Moore it’s not like the cactus is quite the sameas the computer animated shark but we’ve learned how to lieto ourselves & run away & sew our skin back together without lidocaineanyway. a girl i loved when i was young wrote a poem that had wein it & i know it wasn’t aboutContinue reading “Sun Models”

by Luis Neer last night i got blackout drunkfor the second time in my lifethe first time, i told myselfi would never do it againi was not going to go to the partybut i felt that everyone i knew was goingso i asked omar if i could tag alongi was interested in the beer pongContinue reading “WHY IS EVERYONE PARTYING?”

by June Gehringer he slaps my back as he saysmanyou need to learn to take a joke i have taken so many jokesmy identity is a jokemy gender is a jokethere are 37 new gender options on tinderand they tell me lol that is why facism prevailedloll o fucking l i will be willing to acceptContinue reading “POSSESSED BY CAITLYN JENNER’S GHOST / I NEED TO LEARN TO TAKE A JOKE”

by Annabelle Goll i started writing this poem in a bathroom stall of the Hillman library. it is over 50 degrees outside on february 17th. it is a friday. i am still trying to decide how i feel about not having a valentine. the floor tiling in this bathroom leaves something to be desired. inContinue reading “February 17th / Shoutout to Gravity”

by Troy Kody Cunio with thanks to M.C. McGinn so there was this bear who used to dig through my trashfor rotten strawberries and chocolate I am all for conservationrecyclingnot fucking things up for feral creatures just trying to make their way in the world creatures not so different from myself but I am also a responsibleContinue reading “The Thing About Bears”

by Penelope Jeanne Brannen i’m a sexy hot complicated bitchand sometimes i lean in real closeto the mirror and i breathe hard until i feel my own breath turningback at me from the glass fogging ituntil the it starts to heat upso that when i finally begin kissingmy sexy hot complicated bitchof a reflection she feelsContinue reading “Autogynephilia is the Lie They Made up to Trick Trans Girls into Hating Themselves”

by Jacqueline T. Nkhonjera “Wow, your English is so good. You sound American. You don’t even have an accent” … An American accent is an accent. You make up like 322 million of north of a billion English speakers world wide – that’s not even 50%!You do NOT get to set the standard. And if oneContinue reading “Origin”

by Alec Balasko My therapist thinks my name is Alexand I’m too embarrassed to correct him at this point.Like I’ve already been going there for over a month, and he still has no clue that my name is actually Alec.At this point it feels like I would be inconveniencing him to tell him he isContinue reading “My Therapist Thinks my Name is Alex”

Alec Balasko Jacqueline T. Nkhonjera Penelope Jeanne Brannen Troy Kody Cunio Annabelle Goll June Gehringer Luis Neer Jude Moore Kit Travers Evelyna Ekoko-Kay Alexa Doran Kay Kassirer Jessie Lynn McMains Isobel O’Hare Meron Afutu Billy-Ray Belcourt Kelly Williams Catherine Weiss Dorothy McGinnis Caitlyn Gilvary Davidheiser