elementia
Woman
By Sarah WoodsWoman.
Care-taker, life-giver,
nurturer, chef, doormat.
Woman.
Raised to believe my gender put
me on the bottom.
I am to please, not to be pleased.
I am the inferior, the weak, the
soft, the submissive.
The Plight of T he G2
By Aroog Khaliqsing in me, O Muse, the plight of the second generation american;
she is a girl with brown eyes and skin and hair,
with $300 Beats that match her silk headscarf affair.
she brings “exotic” food to school,
and cringes when lentils get on her skirt of tulle.
The Workstation
By Steven McPherson
Mental Silence
Physical Noise
“Click Clack Clickity Clackity Click Click Clack”
The Blue Switch Thermaltake Poseidon Z Mechanical Keyboard speaks a special language to me
A language that is only understood by a certain herd of people
Unsocial Media
By Ben WeigelHeadphones cradling my ears
I enter a world
Where electronic pictures and sounds
Are ever present
I take a seat
At the Twitter home page
Where people project themselves to me
Competing for my attention
I don’t want to be left out