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 Untitled anonymous The Beam by Sara Ost learn to love by Dex Something to Think About... by Michael Rivera Winter Falls by McKenna Catherine Kiefer Untitled by Stephanie Carberry THE MARK OF HIS LOVE anonymous "I Once Was Lost" anonymous Untitled by Deskrete Birthright by Nina Simon submit a poem for next month's edition go to current edition |
learn to love by Dex you gotta learn to love all the things you been taught to hate, cos there's a reason why they taught you to hate them and it ain't benevolent, or really even relevant. dont turn away from your own shit, learn to love it cherish it and all it's beauty for its whats inside that counts, and shit is a lot like words. representative of whats inside girl you gotta learn to unlearn you gotta love every fold and flab of fat on your body the bigger the better, the smaller the better whatever the better because there isn't anything better than anything thats just what you been taught all these years boy you gotta learn to unlearn you gotta love every other boy you see beauty isn't always opposite you, your papa got you mad confused you got a hand on your dick, and a hand on your bat but what are you beating? can't beat away repressed fantasies by off-gendered corpses strung up by trees to cover our insecurities cos insecurities are only because you've been taught:better but there is no better you gotta learn to unlearn we're all missing out, worshipping only one half of this world we gotta learn to unlearn, gotta love it all good bad better worse, and contradict. It breathes with every murmur under silken burls. It holds each drop, like lashes stuck, paring wounds with pained maple tears. Warped by constant, quiet rills, still unyielding, it nurses life. |
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