September 14, 2015 | Occasus | Issue 5 | Fiction

Boys

boys
are not literary do not write about
boys
will stick you like pork belly, fill you taut, boys
are not literary, boys
are politics
shaking your father's hand like a peace treaty
hours before he strikes you, listen
to your father when he tells you "all
boys"
and know this does not exclude him, your mother knows this
boys
will leave your neck flushed and hands sticky
with sweat and sin and allegiance please
stop writing about boys
will measure your worth in their cum boys
will spit down your throat and call it lovemaking boys
will stick themselves so far inside you that you forget which parts are
yours
put down that pen
boys
will be boys
especially when you think they won't 

VICTORIA WIEBE is a second year Psychology student with a minor in Creative Writing. Writing has always been her passion, penning three novel-length works (two of which, Continuum and The Lonely Hearts, have been published), as well as countless poems. She served as President of the Creative Writing Club and Editor-in-Chief of Nom de Plume literary magazine for the 2014-2015 year.