Word: shitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only five feet, it's true, but as tough and mean as a hungry tiger locked in a cage surrounded by the fat and the stupid. And even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to deal with something as big as this; I have enough heavy shit going down right now to last me till graduation...
...Gold's ironic "Coherent Explanation of Straight While Male Sexuality" has some clever insights, its narrator complaining. "I can't stand straight men: they don't lust after me. All they want to do is win arguments with me or beat me at pool. I don't need that shit." Along a similar vein of psychological insight, Michael Manning, an acclaimed sex comic, explains his art through the statement, "I like the idea of humans and animals having sex together. We think of animals as lower, but we also nurture them. It seems like a normal impulse to pull them...
...shit she's holding back...
...bowling ball idea. Not really an "image" because it's more tactile than visual, it is a simile so original, massive, and vivid that it forces you to touch what shocks you. The twin holes of the bowling ball suggest the dichotomy between good and evil, sex and love, shit and "shit." The reader senses bitterness and self-recrimination amidst unrepentant profanity...
...around the poetry board, students drowse and old books sigh, unwittingly caught in a silent crossfire of "poop" and "shit." Tokio Rose's poems, and the diatribes they have inspired, are curling in the dry air; occasionally a sheet floats down to the floor, revealing a dark blue rectangle of unfaded construction paper...