Opinions from the Jukebox David Plumb Mar 16, 2014 A $100 permit and microchip implant for iguana identification? Too many iguanas? Watch out. Iguanas growing to be six feet long? May live twenty years? Terrorist iguanas? Never mind iguanas. Just take off your shoes and don’t bring too much shampoo or shaving lotion to the airport….

Which Words Come Last By Cara Lopez Lee As Mom traveled through time, I wondered which words would come last. Such unknown words required more listening than I ever before considered. I feared they’d be in old East L.A. Spanglish, and I wouldn’t understand. Or that they’d slip through tiny holes in my phone, impossible…

It Was Animation, I Know Lenore Weiss   Nested Structures Concentric rings settle on me. I am enclosed within a set of wooden dolls. I am trying to reach the smallest, the one that is not hollow.   Bounciness I gauge my days according to how they start. Today a box of Cheerios spills on…

Beige Girl Problems Gyasi Byng There are some benefits to being racially ambiguous. One of which is hearing a ridiculous amount of racist jokes. Why is this beneficial? In a glorious and horrifying way, racism and prejudice are ties that bind. Racial stereotypes unite as they simultaneously divide. Creating an “other” or “them” means that…