Issue 38: Festival of Love | by Mayur Chauhan
my eyes bring peace | my nostrils flare to cause rains | my teeth celebrated worldwide
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Festival of Love | by Mayur Chauhan
My Perfect Body
my skull
talk of towns
hair lush
my forehead calm
center of universe
my temples worshiped
adam’s apple delicious
my eyes bring peace
my nostrils flare to cause rains
my teeth celebrated worldwide
dimples symmetry personified
my skin radiant
my BMI exact
my cheekbones subject of many a phd thesis
my ears maps of new bodies of water
my thorax people pledge on
my chest a greek god’s torso
my breasts dreams made of
my nipples cone-shaped marvels
my biceps are triceps
my triceps well-defined
my elbows symphonic
my pectoralis are my trapezius
my shoulder blades sheathed
my spinal column elongating
my nervous system confident
my calves graze
my tibia causer of wars
and peace treaties
my knees a muse’s muse
my thighs exporter of muscles
my censored artful
my censored mysterious
my censored WOW
just WOW
my posterior rugae spoken for by
the Louvre
my body image issues have issues
my personality humble
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Mayur Chauhan is an L.A. based immigrant, writer, actor, and teacher of creativity. He writes stories in all forms and has published over 35 short humor pieces in McSweeney’s and elsewhere. A Key West Literary Seminar, VONA and Bread Loaf scholar, Mayur created and facilitates C.A.R.E. for Artists an 8-week long online creativity, & accountability group for artists across disciplines. He wants you to know that you’re amazing. Mayur loves writing letters by hand, chai and you.
Issue 38 Highlights
Issue 38: Les combattants by Featured Artist Ousmane Bâ
Issue 38: dear Coral Grief by nawa a.h.
Issue 38: the void by Michael Nagle | Artwork by Kirk Read
Issue 38: Festival of Love by Mayur Chauhan
Issue 38: A Bridge is a Place by Marina Gross-Hoy
Issue 38: Everyday Apocalypses by Featured Writer A.B. Lim
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