The Usual by Ken Pobo
I’m walking up to the convenience store wearing a pink shirt, it’s suspicious, where’s my MAGA hat, guys don’t do pink, guys are blue jeans, I walk faster–a couple follow close behind, it’s broad and narrow daylight, they get closer, it’s like this almost everyday, walking while gay, avoiding eye contact, camouflage for an invisible […]
Rainbow Arson by Jack M. Freedman
You burn my rainbow because you are jealous that you only see black and white. No tinted windows. No calm tone. Just a lot of shade thrown as I wish I could kiss a man without the threat of kissing a fist Amid the hateful rhetoric Regurgitated by the KKK and the WBC, we can […]
On Not Speaking Up by Mycah Miller
A man, of course, it is always a man, once told a child, a boy, I was teaching to stop being distracted by my breasts. The boy, the child, wasn’t, but this isn’t good enough for patriarchy. I cannot be teacher and woman at the same time. I will always be reminded which is worth […]
ALL CAPS GIRL by Mycah Miller
A MAN ONCE TOLD ME TO STOP TYPING IN ALL CAPS; I AM TOO LOUD EVEN WHEN I AM NOT SPEAKING. GIRL IS SUPPOSED TO CHOKE ON THE WORD, IS SUPPOSED TO BE QUIET ENOUGH TO BE SCROLLED PAST. THE FIRST TIME I WENT TO A POETRY SLAM, A WOMAN SCREAMED AT ME, MADE ME […]
the wolves can go hungry by linda m crate
they growl and circle like hungry wolves ready to devour, but what they don’t know is i am the moon’s daughter; they think they will surrender my rainbow heart to darkness but they don’t know i have known the darkness all my life— i tire of people who are straight wanting a parade, like they […]
