“Fish”

The search bar says,
“Fish,”
And my screen is flooded
With images of cooked, non-veg dishes.
I have nothing against those that eat it;
I am just The Ethicist, in my mind,
That’ll write a post about it later.

Red Line

Under my name, a red line. I stop typing, take my hands off my laptop entirely. In the background my teacher continues to explain what microaggressions are.

Suddenly I want to close the document I’m working on. ‘X’ out of all the tabs I have open, even out of the one where the teacher that can’t pronounce my name teaches what I want to learn about.

But I don’t. I right-click on my red-underlined name-

‘Add to dictionary.’