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ISSUE 5: AEVUM

[we highly recommend reading on desktop for optimal experience]

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ARUSHI (AERA) REGE

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medial prefrontal cortex

arushi (aera) rege | Poetry

the person you love is three layers of skin; the person you love is 46 chromosomes; the person you love is the product of evolution. their ancestors are fish your ancestors are fish everything is fish; the person you love is comprised of about 30 trillion cells; the person you love has two eyes, two arms, two legs, two feet, two breasts, two ears, two sides of the brain; the person you love took AP Biology and cursed out the CollegeBoard every day; the person you love is about 55% water; the person you love is woman is nonbinary is man is both is neither; the person you love has a chemical reaction in the medial prefrontal cortex. this means they love you. this means love is nothing but chemical attraction. this means that your medial prefrontal cortex matches theirs; the person you love took AP Psychology and knows how the brain works; the person you love realizes that love consists of dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine; the person you love is a jumbled mess of carbon-based compounds; the person you love wrote a prose poem about all the ways they loved you; the person you love likes coffee, but very specifically the mocha cookie crumble from starbucks; the person you love thinks that you’re beautiful when you’re doing nothing; the person you love has chemicals that spark in his brain when he looks at you; the person you love loves you because they love the rush of dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine; the person you love loves you because biology dictates that they feel electrochemical signals in the medial prefrontal cortex when they see you; the person you love loves you regardless

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arushi (aera) rege is a queer, chronically-in-pain, Indian-American senior in high school. They tweet occasionally @academic_core and face the perils of instagram @aera_.writes. They are the proud author of exit wound (no point of entry), twin exit wounds (twin points of entry), and BROWN GIRL EPIPHANY. They are the EIC of ink&ivy lit, Bus Talk, and Draupadi Interviews. You can find their website at arushiaerarege.carrd.co.

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