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Witch Poem

(photo from http://j-walkblog.com) mockingly, shockingly light as a feather i flew on my broom through all sorts of weather brazenly, lazily stiff as a board i flew to the moon i felt like the Lord. i felt like a teen i felt too, too nice then i was drowned, the lake froze, and  i lay in the ice. i soon was a ghost i killed half the town that's what you get when you make a girl drown.

Guest Writer Em Kwissa

Em Kwissa is a young writer who has already achieved so much:  she is a founding member of Canada’s first rural spoken word collective, who, at the age of fifteen, was the first minor to compete nationally at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, as well as competing in two other festivals; she runs popular writing workshops for youth in their schools, and has been involved in the Champions for Kids Foundation; she was a Poet of Honour at Canada’s first national youth poetry slam; and lastly, she is a passionate advocate against domestic and dating violence, attending youth events, protests and meetings with legislative assemblies as an advocate for abuse survivors.  This last focus of hers is what caught my attention, when I read about her activism in the feminist blog Jezebel.  I asked her to write about the experience of having her memoir,  Am I Not , made unavailable by ebook publishers Lulu.com, in an act of censorship I find astounding and senseless.  Chec...

bad sign (bad day)

great grandma Luba (paternal) great grandpa (paternal) grandma Hope (maternal) if it wasn't for bad luck i wouldn't have no luck at all