Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English and Comparative Literature – Creative Writing
Abstract
Table of Contents: The Queen of Maledictions; I. “Let’s Not Pretend”: Let’s Not Pretend; Growing Up; Matriarch; An Application for Sainthood; What Makes Me Feel Guilty; Dip Spit; Pretending; II. “How to Survive”: How to Survive; The Time of Our Lives; ADHD; Radiation; Acid; Lucidity; III. “Another One Bites the Dust…”: Toxicity; They Say Wait; Sleeping With the Enemy; Reclamation; Sodom and Gomorrah; Perpetuate; Eskimo Brothers; Commodity Fetishism; Wilmington; Subordination; Depletion; I’ve Tried to Write 1,000 Poems; Phantom Pains; Toxicity