The End of Unlikely 2.0

A Sardine on Vacation, Episode Sixty-Nine: Recommendations
Whispers of Arias: Music by Stephen Mead and Kevin MacLeod
Phil Rockstroh and Angela Tyler-Rockstroh document Occupy Wall Street with an essay and a 20-minute documentary
Linh Dinh finds meaning at Occupy Wall Street
Yacov Ben-Efrat chronicles the Tel Aviv protests
Robert Levin seeks the why behind proselytizing
Two Down (Europe, USA), One to Go (China): The Chinese Ponzi Scheme and the Oncoming Global Depression by Sam Vaknin
Three Poems by KJ
Three Poems by Sheri L. Wright
Three Poems by John Grochalski
Three Poems by Luke Skoza
Three Poems by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Two Poems by Jonathan Penton
Playdate: Poetry by AE Reiff
The Rin Tin Jubilee: Poetry by Luke Marinac
Autobiography: A spoken-word film and poem by Kristina Marshall
What You Lose When You're Weak, You Take Back When You're Strong: Fiction by Jon Alan Carroll
My Sorrows and Disorders of the Psychiatric Kind: Fiction by George Sparling
Kara: Fiction by Iman Carol Fears
Living Two Wars: Creative Non-Fiction by Rita Bozi
Magalíluismil: Fiction by Paul Kavanagh
Peg's Cat: Fiction by Heidi Bell
Four Photographs by Sheri L. Wright
Five Images by Fabio Sassi
Six Sculptures by Stephen Harrison
In you, everything sank: A short film by Rebecca Freeman and Adam Fine

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Allow me to introduce myself

I am an amateur philosopher & professional vixen

Weaving webs of fairytales for those that will listen.

Perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself

After all, you don't know me from Eve.

Allow me to introduce myself to you.

I am from where right is wrong & wrong is right.

I am from Negro spirituals being sung as sharecroppers till their soil.

I am from "bitch you talk like a white girl."

I am from a time & space where there is no time & space

4^th dimension, over the moon, through the stars

& all them rings on Saturn mean that God really must've liked it

& if you find that joke corny, that's okay because sometimes my humor falls a little short

& this wine that I'm drinking has me thinking things that I won't even remember in the mornin'.

But behind my armor of drunk chatter & a pretty smile I am truly a CATWOMAN at heart.

I like the color black, I land on my feet, shiny objects amuse me, & if I could lick myself...

I would because it would save me a whole lot of unnecessary bullshit.

Untamable by nature & defiant by design

I see well at night & yes, I have left claw marks on a few backs but truthfully...

Being a CATWOMAN means that I will follow my own desires.

So, if I wanna roar, I'll ROAR!

I'll sing songs about Jesus & songs about sinning

Drink beer in the daytime, eat an entire pie, & then do a workout tape

Because I am a ONE WOMAN REVOLUTION.

& as my own P.R. manager I can assure that I won't stop until this revolution is televised.

A revolution of brown skin & thick thighs

Of hard work during hard times

Of making love during rainstorms

& walking barefoot in your own backyard

Keeping a flask in your garter belt & crying less frequently

But at the end of the day...

I'm just a dreamer who was awake at 1:58am

That allowed my pen to speak for me.

Kristina Marshall is a senior at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette graduating in December with a concentration in Arts & Humanities. Kristina is a television and radio personality who is a published poet and actress in southern Louisiana. As a production assistant at Cité des Arts, she started a night of spoken word and open mic poetry titled "Words & Words" which is held monthly in Lafayette, Louisiana. Kristina now works as a radio sports announcer for KPEL-FM. Her recent stage credits include: The Vagina Monologues, For Colored Girls Who've Considered Suicide: When the Rainbow is Enuf, Trickster at the Gate, Bat Boy, The Birthday Dinner: A Play by Brian Egland, and Insurrection: Holding History.