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while i watch love island
TRUE STORY: the promised escapism of reality dating television fails to let sad, cold, broke woman stop thinking about Bad Things™ so she wrote a poem about it. Join Kyra as they watch yet another seemingly endless season of Love Island while everything starts to crumble around them.
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MTN DILK
*heavy chanting* “MTN DILK, MTN DILK, COME AND DRINK THE SPICY MILK!” Back with one to make you chunder, Rebecca our queen among carnivores serves up jugs of the fresh and frothy ‘MTN DILK’.
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The Spell
When desire speaks a different language.
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bare bones jealousy/the secrets of a petrol station run
What happens when you listen to ‘Born to Die’ by Lana Del Rey once a day for an entire summer? Camden Clement plays polyamorous passenger princess (gender neutral) and is going to be your dream boy in this new poem.
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dentist’s foraging
Teeth and mushrooms, pulled from their tender beds unceremoniously in ‘dentist’s foraging’ by Chris White.
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You don’t know if I want you to touch me but I do
What do the climate crisis, capitalism and crushes have in common? Terror, for one. Read, ‘You don’t know if I want you to touch me but I do’ by Eliana Gray to find out the rest.
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Pausanias Explains My Sexuality to Me
In a fit of surreal uneroticism, Dani Yourukova goes to rope class with their flatmate’s Tinder date and has a cry in front of some conspicuously well-adjusted members of the kink community.
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celestia
‘celestia’ chronicles a messy, magical night of first queer intimacy through both the cinematic and the silly details you fixate on while knowing you will remember something forever.
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For what it’s worth
‘For what it’s worth’ is a poem penned in a frantic reflection of the intoxicating and often nauseating sensation of falling in love when you are young.
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EMDR
Imagine you’ve got trauma. Imagine they say the way to heal is to think a lot about it while watching something move back and forward really fast. Imagine it starts to… help?
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Waterview Tunnel song
This poem is about the absurdity of love, tunnels, Tinder, and singing in the car.
Category: poetry
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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