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Poetry: Psalm 151

March 30, 2013by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

By: Jack Michaelson  Dear Lord, Forgive this young woman, this friend of Dorothy, who stumbled in the red plastic heels she bought as she sauntered down the gold plated avenue […]

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Poetry: The Ring

March 23, 2013by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Elaine Body    I was looking around a hair and beauty salon When I heard two girls talking to each other One of the girls working there asked the […]

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Poetry: Musings from a Psychological Statistics Class

March 23, 2013by inourwordsblog 2 Comments

by: Sarah Stringer I’ve never liked bell curves. The beauty of a scatterplot: sprinkled dots in art without design, is forced into a pattern of normally distributed slopes. We devote […]

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Poem: A Love Broem

February 9, 2013by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Jack Michealson cut off t-shirts. basketball shorts during pledge week, ironic jorts something about you makes my heart take flight is it the muscle milk, or the natty light? […]

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Poetry: Loose Joints

January 12, 2013by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Melanie Sue  Tuck your knees into your chest And make your body smaller than my heart. Keep squeezing your shins in tighter As if to show me how you […]

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Poetry: A Word For You (notes on a search for a gender neutral pronoun)

January 5, 2013by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Lindsay Popper Is there a word for the congregations of fireflies just past dusk that fill the fields that line the only road to your house like fallen stars […]

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Poetry: Sewn Up

January 5, 2013by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Lindsay Popper Tell me the one where the student body president lets himself fall in love with the boy who goes to therapy twice a week to try and rub […]

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Poetry: Human

September 1, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Andy Karol Today I’m making my heart into candy so I can fill you with the words I mean. Can you stomach me more than butterflies? I want to […]

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Poetry: Boyfriend

August 18, 2012by inourwordsblog 2 Comments

by: Andy Karol She said, “You are the best boyfriend.” I said that was great because I never made the best girlfriend, or wife, for that matter, always teetering on […]

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Poetry: I Do Not Like Myself Today

August 11, 2012by inourwordsblog 2 Comments

by: Elaine Body I do not like myself today I know I must love myself Since I am stuck with her forever But I do not like her today The […]

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