Contributed By: Stephen Gibson
It’s possible in one’s soul to feel this lonely
and, so, to purchase someone to caress,
if not in flesh and blood, then in latex.
It’s possible in one’s soul to feel this lonely.
Girl-Who-Always-Smiles is an anomaly—
Girl-Who-Opens-Mouth is big business.
It’s possible in one’s soul to feel this lonely
and, so, to purchase someone to caress.
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It’s possible to loathe and desire the same thing. What the heart wants isn’t simple. It’s complex. In graphic novels heroines beg for it to sting. It’s possible to loathe and desire the same thing.…
The need to be restrained is a given— by rope, by ball-gag riding bit, by chain: the art of knot tying is not for everyone, but the need to be restrained? A given. Everyone understands…
She wasn’t sure what happened, hearing the news— she was buying a pack of smokes at the corner (not for herself, she didn’t smoke, for her father). She wasn’t sure what happened, hearing the news:…
Clo needs to believe she’ll help to end the war and, with those others she lives with in the Haight, that she’ll actually find peace and love forever. She’s run away with a girlfriend—this…
But if // you leave it be, refuse to name it, yellow / eyes dance in the jar of the night like stars.
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For my brother Ahsan, whose name means “an act of kindness” and for my sister Salina, whose name means, “to bring peace” My voice is gone. It leaves me as I stand on a street corner, waiting for a moment to wade across a road awash in the Calcutta monsoon wilderness. The water is up […]
