issue 4 fall 2021

Page 11

intrusion By Rabiya Ismail

my psychiatrist says I can only focus on one thing at a time spinach, check. bananas, check. but the thought of you has never left my mind; so I haven’t done anything right since that night i loiter in aisle 13 in hopes that you might m a t e r i a l i z e my cart boils over while my friends question my immobility your name threatens to leave my lips i resist they can focus on two things, even four sometimes while my mind can only focus on your body on mine

DESIGN BY JULIA STEINER, ART BY CHEYANNE ATOLE

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