Written by ANAXIFORMINGES
REVELRY | Artwork by Lawrence Parsons
One day, the world woke up and there was no more Humanity. Everyone gave a great sigh of relief and went around doing whatever they wanted; everything was legal now. If you wanted to rape a child or shoot your ex-lover in the face, no one tried to stop you. In fact, it was written in the law that you must not show any Humanity or you yourself would have your head cut off. Yes, there was no longer any Humanity anymore, therefore the world did not exist, and the people were finally happy.
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Louis Bourgeois is the Executive Director of the Mississippi non-profit arts coalition, VOX PRESS, and is the Director of the Mississippi Prison Writes Institute, a literacy agency that serves incarcerated writers and artists. He is primarily a poet, but he has published translations, fiction, memoirs, poetry, and interviews in over 300 magazines and journals and is the author of the National Book Award nominated, The Gar Diaries, and the award-winning collection of poems, OLGA. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a BA in English and was the first graduate of The University of Mississippi’s MFA program in Creative Writing.