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TO THE PAIN OF CHILDBIRTH by Ana Istarú (translated by Mark Smith-Soto)
Hello, pain, let’s dance. Today you will be my short-lived lover. Your ship’s siren, your sonorous rings in my mouth, I know, I know. Oh, Jehova’s beast, your bite’s point-blank. Hello pain. Let’s dance, what the hell. Soon I’ll watch you burn, rabid, alone in your parade and I, spilling froth from my breasts, delighting […]
The Fundamental
by Jesse DeLong
constants of physics— the speed of light, the absol- ute of gravitational attraction, the weak & the strong forces of our interactions. If we change any of these by the tiniest of amounts, nothing life-like would’ve ever emerged: no plants, no atmospheres, no solids, not even the elements except hydrogen & helium, but maybe not […]
Margaret Sanger and Me: (F)actual History and Its Plan for the “Fit” and the “Feeble”
What was Important to Me Then What was important to me back then was happy hour and high heels, Dooney & Burke, free entry at the club before ten, office hook-ups and rumors of office hook-ups, my hair, my money, and my time. I was twenty-nine years old and a paralegal in the premiere intellectual […]
