Preface
Facts:
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A scuba diver can only stay under the water for a certain amount of time due to
limited air supply. Other factors such as depth, experience, conditioning, and currents affect the amount of time one can be underwater. |
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An individual can only bind their chest for a certain amount of time due to limited
air supply. More than 8 hours and the ribcage begins to constrict, cutting air flow, circulation. Other factors such as transphobia, back pain, soreness, chafing, and rashes affect the amount of time one can be underwater. |
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Some lovers are more gentle than others.
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The prettiest sight I’ve ever seen was the zoomed in pulsating buzz behind skin
where his arm reaches up to the shoulder, acid angel veins thumping beneath shallow skin. It was also the ugliest. |
5. |
No one on campus walks on the grass.
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6. |
99° in April feels like stretching out veins in the summer. You crack the window
every night and expect the same results. |
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Karson Samons is a non-binary poet at Arizona State University. Their writing often explores the body, gender, language and form, growth, and residual feelings of strange. They are interested in the intersection and exploration of text and media, film production, and collage art. They have published nonfiction work in The Lux Undergraduate Creative Review.
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