Issue Five:
Cock
By Len Lukowski
Cock-blocked, I told her
But how would you even— ?
That’s the trouble with straight people:
no imagination.
If I’d said the actual words:
‘Home? With me? Now?’ instead
of just implied it
if I hadn’t told her so much
about myself
or expanded on what I did say —
I swear they’re just like muscles
slightly bigger
slightly different shape —
if I’d been more like those guys,
spoke less,
if she didn’t know
if I wasn’t
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Losslit canon
Stranger, Baby - Emily Berry
Emily Berry's 'meditation on a want that can never be answered'. A collection of poetry that grapples with the childhood loss of the Berry's mother via Freud, dreams, childhood memories and a rawness of imagery and sentiment which prods at the heart. As relentless and beguiling a collection as the sea referenced without cliche throughout its pages.
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