Issue #54


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Arguments For/Against Vegetarianism

Content Warning: Death/violence

All my friends have tried 

but did you know, when teeth split 

apple skin, chew and swallow

it’s still alive?  I may not bleed green but

I see me looming, coroner-like 

halfhearted flirtations, giggles, eyes, it’s a corpse

I can’t commit too.

I think I’d stop eating all together.  

That’s how it always ends 

just matters when, and soon.

In nightmares I am stabbed to death.

Evil men, residual I still feel it

even now, cells respire

base of my spine.

I wonder if anyone dreams of me.

Any victim.  Plunging knives.

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