Sound Bites, Issue 1: Lindsey Kutz

ABOUT OUR COLUMN

Sound Bites is a poetry column intended to be read, heard, and tasted. It is finger food, messy and hands-on, compacting all the sweetest bits of a writer into a few small moments. The column will accept student writing submissions in the form of poetry or short prose for every issue from any and all majors, ages, and backgrounds.

Submissions can be emailed directly to Poetry Editor Geneva Webber at gwebberinsider@gmail.com. Parameters for submissions are as follows:

• Please attach a Word (.docx) document of your piece(s) with a maximum of 750 words
• Include a short but personal bio about yourself with a maximum of 200 words
• Specify your preferred name and pronouns
• If you submit multiple pieces, give them a group title of your choosing (i.e. “Three Poems by Lindsey Kutz”
• Be prepared for follow-up questions 🙂

ABOUT OUR AUTHOR

This issue, our author is Lindsey Kutz: a double-major in Secondary Education and English Literature, and double-minor in Psychology and Creative and Professional Writing. Lindsey is the president and co-founder of the club P.A.W.S. (Pro-Activism With Service) and both Treasurer and Secretary for Sigma Tau Delta, the Pitt-Greensburg chapter of the English honor society. She is currently a third-year student at UPG.

But more than that, Lindsey is spunky, creative, and passionate as a writer and as an educator. Lindsey is both subtle, like a sticky note, and straight forward like spoken word. It feels only fitting that she would be our first feature in Sound Bites.

Take to the Skies 

For centuries people have been concerned about 

when we will be driving flying cars,

but I’m more concerned about 

what happens when the flying car

runs 

out 

of 

gas? 

Crotch Watch

Succumbing to society is when you shave your pubes knowing 

that the part where your leg meets your groin 

is gonna chafe and cause big red bumps

 that make it look like you have an STD, 

but you’d rather be caught dead 

then have a hair peek out 

from your bikini. 

Triumphing over society is knowing that regardless of whether it’s 

pubic hair or a big red bump that someone’s gonna 

be staring at your crotch anyway and you don’t 

have to make yourself look presentable 

for the strangers who are 

staring at your crotch. 

FULL

What does it mean to be full? 

      You can be full of a lot of things. 

You can be full of food 

and consequently full of shit. 

You can be metaphorically full of shit 

or full of yourself. 

        You can be spite-full 

      or full of passion. 

You can be hate-full

        or full of love. 

      You can be full of a lot of things.

          It doesn’t make you fulfilled. 

We are trying 

to make 

ourselves 

full

not knowing 

it will never

      fulfill 

us.