TRIGGER WARNING: These poems contain graphic accounts of an individual living with bulimia. They may be triggering to those struggling with an eating disorder. I am bulimic. A non-functioning person. I see all the normal people who eat. Who live in a world where food is their friend and not their enemy and I wonder [...]
ReadI sat near the entrance to the Fine Arts Library And as though Through the grace of God on this Holy day – this conclusion Of the Festival of Booths – You happened upon the table adjacent mine. You began to read a worn copy of Yang’s Semiotic Warfare. I watched as your hazel eyes [...]
ReadIt was my first night playing Kings, a drinking card game – which, by the way, is the best combination of fun I can possibly imagine. It got us all pretty wasted. People kept confusing my makeshift Minnie Mouse costume with a puppy, probably because I had painted a big black spot on my nose, [...]
ReadTRIGGER WARNING: This content deals with an account of sexual assault and may be triggering to some people. Reader discretion is advised. I’ve always wondered what rock-bottom would feel like. Prophetically, I also always knew I’d somehow hit it. Would it be a sharp sting or a hard thump? Would there be a [...]
ReadI. I knew a boy once. He was three years older than me when we met. Only a boy, I realize now. But young as I was then, he became an object of my admiration, someone I thought after, imitated even. He fascinated me. And an affection for him kindled in me rapidly, as sometimes [...]
ReadWhere did their brains go? I can’t be sure Personalities swallowed Up into the floor Gone is their ability to think; Any desire to ascertain truth Their religion has overtaken Mind, body and soul They have lost all interest In creative self-expression Their only wish Is to do the bidding of Heaven No longer does [...]
ReadWe would like to remind our readers that “The Written Word” is a section designated for student literary expression with both fictional and nonfictional content; literary works occasionally contain material that can be perceived as offensive by some readers, so reader discretion is advised. Pushing himself to his knees and then onto his feet, he [...]
ReadI searched for Him Near and far But nowhere was He to be found Not in the vastness of space Nor in the still, silent sound I could not see him in the tomes of religion Nor the tracts of philosophy I did not hear Him in music Nor in the crashing waves of the [...]
ReadMisery. Cryin’. Gone. Someone like you. Unbreak my heart. I’m all out of love. Besides raking in millions of dollars for whoever happened to originally sing these songs, all of these song titles have one blatantly obvious characteristic in common – heartache. When you feel absolute misery over the breaking of your heart, the love [...]
ReadIn honor of Passover, the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, and the ongoing struggle for liberation of oppressed people around the world. “They can forge your chains and shackles from the mountains to the sea, but the Lord will send some Moses, for to set His children free…” We is gathahed hyeah, my [...]
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