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5/26/2021 4 Comments

Poetry by Tahlia McKinnon

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you’ve spent your wasted youth growing up too fast, keeping company with college kids and middle-aged flakes. you smoke your first blem with them – trade zoots after dark in the local park. you spend the era at the bottom of a shot glass. fuck boys who grow green just to get a free feed, smoke the ‘samplers’ on their sweat-stained sofas. they might touch you in the dark without your permission, but when they taste you, they drink what’s left of your inhibitions. you pretend to be lovers, or friends, but you know they’re all just one-night stands that never seem to end. so you drink each other’s fluids, swallow each other’s pride, and sex is nothing but a cycle now of empty threats and unread texts. the spirits you swill dilute your own, but you blow smoke rings to stop yourself from saying no. besides, they’re the type of men that can’t be told. snort a line of codeine before they leave and never ask to stay. oh, but if only they would wrap their arms around you, the right way. how they’d feel you aching. as if your body were a cage.




Tahlia McKinnon is a wild writer, myth-maker and the Founding Editor-In-Chief of Hecate Magazine. Her work has/will be placed in The Daily Drunk Mag, Wrongdoing Magazine, Nymphs, Radical Arts Review and others. Tahlia’s prose often centres on haunted love, the colour and chaos of nature, exultant spirituality and her experience as a trauma survivor. You can find her online @tahliamckinnon and read more of her work via tahliamariamckinnon.co.uk

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Aleathia Drehmer
6/1/2021 11:01:12 am

"sex is nothing but a cycle now of empty threats and unread texts"

this is heartbreaking and full of truth and I think a place most of us have been at least once in our lives.

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Tahlia McKinnon
6/2/2021 04:49:40 am

absolutely. a sad truth - very flawed approaches to intimacy in current culture. i stay hopeful that this will change. thank you for your comment.

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Krys Walls
7/30/2021 12:54:34 pm

Yes, that line! "...and sex is nothing but a cycle now of empty threats and / unread texts.

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Lauren Theresa
8/25/2021 09:52:01 am

I felt this one in my gut and soul at the same time. Thank you for sharing, this is beautiful.

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