Student Magazine at Wilfrid Laurier University

Articles from December 2005

Fragrances of Life

Gardens and roof tops, Markets and flower shops, Flowers are just like us, Human nature they possess, A child comes into existence, So does a bud develop, Both comprise delicate features, Form significant part in universe, One has delicate fingers, Other has unique petals, As a child transforms into youth, The bud too witnesses a [...]


(We Hope)

indeed, it has been said that all good things come to an end; the only question, ’tis true my friend, is time. even our world ends at some point, whether we die today, you or me, or whether we live to see the big crunch end us all, it ends. and there are those who [...]


Observations – A 2004 Report on the Progress of the New Year’s Revolution

8:00 PM family dinner. mouths are chewing the fruits of civilisation. ingesting caked chronology. eating evolution. anthropology never tasted so good. 9:00 PM human bodies dance in the designated living room to remind themselves briefly that they are living, as the room implies. family members forget that they are unhappy with wine and dance mix [...]


Time is an Elastic Band

Time is an elastic band,
The movement before it breaks it snaps,
And leaves you stinging and,
Not realizing it was there until it’s gone


Little Boxes

little boxes on the hillside all the kids go to university and they all come out just the same


7:29am

on the morning my flesh house burned the air was brisk and cool the ground was alive and wriggling and on the cracked asphalt beside the bus stop the wind rippled the standing water in the dirty yellow shell of a plastic bottle cup


The Poetic Path to Self–Destruction: Chapter 2, Observation

The next day Addison entered the cafeteria with only his metal canister in hand. “So, what’ll it be today, gents?” Addison asked before sitting down. “National politics? World affairs? The widespread delusion of the masses by the opiate known as organized religion?” This last comment had both of his former comrades heading for the exit. [...]