by jahna bird
Category Archive: Toronto
consider:
love as a butch
who makes everything
easy.
In the final act of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, the titular character kills the two men who perpetrated the rape and mutilation of his daughter.
R – robot, n
: a machine that resembles a living creature in being capable of moving independently (as by walking or rolling on wheels) and performing complex actions (such as grasping and moving objects)
If you want to feel beyond human capability. Sink your teeth in. Tear at the flesh of another. Let the blood mix with the salt water. Find the liver.
n another week the rain will sweep our bones together and
we will be some vast and bloated thing
So, to love a robot is to love yourself.
I stayed while they stuffed me like their taxidermied doll.
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We are forever tied together, wherever we are in this world.
Photos by Joseph Priolo
When you and I first met, you sounded the vowels of my name out—I warned you that my limbs may vanish in the last sung ‘a.’
He is almost gone, he does not tell anymore
of the Partition
By Sipora WestEdited by Ellena Lu and Alloe Mak I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. Mary […]
On nights when I’m especially tired or feel a cold breeze through my hair, I close my eyes and see those grey walls with my mother’s curtains and lost time through my eyelids.
Disarmed, another year folds upon itself. Trains, planes, and automobiles—your virile body—delivered you as far as the earth reaches.
He’s special, my son. My little Ethan, I want to take him somewhere special.
The past didn’t haunt. It waited. And it stayed, long after everyone else had gone.