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I’ll Shave My Head Purple - K. Bron Johnson
I’ll shave my head purple We’ll see how it goes again Tomorrow I start over I see you in the darkness The breath of a child After the...
Jul 21, 20211 min read
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Gleeful Rejection of Object Permanence - Olivia Pierce
Olivia Pierce is the 4th place prize winner of the Spring 2021 Sad Girls Club Poetry Contest Of the boarding process and its reliably...
Jul 20, 20211 min read
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The lightness in my head is the voice of a flickering candle - Jacqueline Schaalje
The boredom grew monstrous, made fun of my emptiness, looked me in the eye, "Who are you when you don’t work?" The endlessness, bringing...
Jul 20, 20211 min read
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My Mother’s Mouth - D.I.E. McKinley
D.I.E. McKinley is the 3rd place prize winner of the Spring 2021 Sad Girls Club Poetry Contest I see my mother in my mouth The way it...
Jul 19, 20211 min read
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Cassandra - Sarah Cook
Sarah Cook is the 2nd place prize winner of the Spring 2021 Sad Girls Club Poetry Contest I am aiming my bow and arrow at the thing I...
Jul 18, 20212 min read
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when i was 19 - Marilynn Eguchi
when i was 19 i made a cave under the stairs at the bottom of a well i had fallen in. dark and lit like green sea glass. i had left my...
Jul 18, 20211 min read
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‘The Body (in theory)’ - Kelsey Smoot
Kelsey Smoot is the 1st place prize winner of the Spring 2021 Sad Girls Club Poetry Contest It’s taken me over twenty years to embrace...
Jul 17, 20211 min read
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A is for Apple - Lor Eftychiou
A is for Apple crispy green feels good to cut easy to reach for during those little moments i’m worth feeding. N is for nourish me...
Jul 17, 20211 min read
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Love Inconsistency - Sarah Bellum Mental
My mother said I love you at thirty years old. Inconsistency is a way of saying words that matter that never mattered to them, but it...
Jul 16, 20211 min read
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FOR ROSE CLARE - Andrea Hunter
Today I stole pearls from the body of a dead girl. I can’t be bothered to apologize, so don’t ask why we stare into each other’s eyes....
Jul 15, 20211 min read
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Modern Slavery (Senryu series) - Bree Leto
Steal another life To make a rich man richer Work them to the bone Break a soul in two To increase the bank balance Of a soulless man Pay...
Jul 14, 20211 min read
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greens - SJ Valiquett
he left things at my door a milk crate a little too small for its desired purpose a stack of records rare and precious pressings by an...
Jul 13, 20211 min read
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