“When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.” WantWellsPersonsDiesParentBehindsExistenceBoysPiecesMinutesDyingColdPleaseStandingWindowScaredDinnerKitchenScareNot AfraidWetHelloCandyLitBehind YouRefrigeratorsMoodySuffocating Author:Zachary Schomburg
“Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.” KnowsLittlesKidsMotherWaterHalfBoysWetDaddySkullsLittle BoysTreadingTreading Water Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist
“Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?” GivingMeanNightHoursSleepBoysSeaKingsDenyBootsWetRudeReposeUneasyAppliances Author:William Shakespeare
“Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge.” LooksSelfDreamGirlCoursesSexBoysPeriodsInternalsExplorationPregnancyWetSelf KnowledgeUnwantedEjaculationWet DreamsUnwanted Pregnancy Author:Peggy Orenstein