Inklilngs 2024

_______ why do you sound like that? Francisco Gomez Rivas-Vazquez ’24 I am _______ I say the words that welcome my mouth I dress the way my body talks I learn from society who I am Society tells me that I am Labels are love Like a rug rupturing with spectrums of love, identity is not a word I can speak _____, so am I ______ I was not born _____, but my parent was I like _____ Welcome to your Mad Lib People love to help you fill in every empty space For they believe nothing is nothing when nothing is something We understand so little about the neurochemical sociological imagination The brain begets births beyond corporal cerebrations I think I am _____ Tell me Does my voice tell you not my words? Do the colors of my clothes? Their size? Their material? Knowing their material? I welcome openly the cacophony of voices voicing ventures into my mind 35