Among the rich, anger’s no rarity:
hatred comes cheaper than charity.
Genus, Aucte, lucri divites habent iram:
odisse quam donare vilius constat.
12.13 by Martial
Further Reading
Forging a Letter to Reach You
for Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal
by Ryan Clark
I uncover what I have touched, contaminated forever with touching, the America of it, the victory, beach sand affixed to the soft tissue of memory. So clear the heavy wind I can’t ever touch it, the home untouchable. A letter caught in vicious gust and flung 2,823 miles over an ocean is an uneasy document. […]
[WHO SENT THE SCISSORS,] by Maya Sarishvili (translated from the Georgian by Nena Giorgadze, Timothy Kercher and Ani Kopliani)
Who sent the scissors, the gigantic scissors to my feet? They open and close with a bone-chilling screech. I guess, in place of ankles I have balloons. Instead of being subdued, no doubt, I’m going to cut myself down, I’m going to overturn the streets and city squares. Perhaps this is a means of sleeping. […]
Instagram Envy
by Meg Johnson
Women with platinum blonde hair, cream colored sweaters, light tan pants, lie on beds with white sheets, no blankets. Brunettes wear thong bikinis, have their nails done, do handstands. The redheads are slim with large breasts. 1 in 4 people are vacationing in Bali. It’s been five years. You overslept again. Style an overhead […]
