Kat’s Corner is a poetry segment that is open to student submission. If you would like your piece potentially published, email the culture editor at krwoods@ksu.edu. This following piece is from the Collegian’s culture editor, Katelin Woods.
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Life is better hanging out of car windows
sitting in restaurants where they cook in front of you
and dancing so hard you feel your heartbeat
t h u d
heavy and harmonious
in the calves of your sparrow bone legs
Life is better losing sleep for all the right reasons
singing to songs birthed before you
came out
the
womb
talking to strangers even though who really knows how to
being comfortably uncomfortable
one step outside the frame they attempt to
squeeze
you into
Life is better taking the picture
getting angry when it counts
with passion licking the hides of your chest cavity
Life is better when you are a light that never goes out
when breast strokes
start feeling like brush strokes
when you are the bamboo shoot claiming the sky
Life is better
when you choose to stick around to live it
