LITERATURE, POETRY

“Suicide Note From a Boy Named Elle” by Brent L. Smith

No Comments 14 April 2013

Finder of these words−   Get ahold of yourself! It’s only a dead body−for fucks sake−stop taking it all so seriously.  But if you know me, all apologies etc. etc.  And hopefully you’re not male−A Man.  Our unraveling quickens, wouldn’t you say? I am-was–26.  Old to some and young to most.  21st Century Quarter Life [...]

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LITERATURE, POETRY

“The Anita Cobby Murder” by Ariel Maccarone

No Comments 11 April 2013

When I imagine them, I imagine them as boys. I imagine days of sun that would have leathered once soft adolescent skin, revealing the men they would become.   Their bodies would be covered in freckles and bleached arm hair. Smiles would have yet carved themselves into lines. Their eyebrows would have shaped the angst [...]

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Photo of Ariel Maccarone by Louis C. Oberlander

LITERATURE, POETRY

“I Want You” by Ariel Maccarone

No Comments 03 April 2013

I have eclipsed the age at which my mother became pregnant with me, eclipsed even more so the age at which she lost her virginity. I am twenty-eight, and yet still look like a thirteen-year-old girl entering puberty. So when men proposition me- when men my father’s age stare too long at me- I wonder [...]

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