#Lajward Zahra

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Lajward Zahra - Texas Fish

Wretched past refuses me, will not swallow the pain from the present. Suctions, the way you did. Saliva on my ant bites adding to the itch like the lick of water pushing against us, upstreaming salmon into slick jaws. Premonitions of border brown and gaping maws 100 miles into the desert You, with your American agility, and I, your dead-weight, floated in from some sea. The sea, yes.

Our faces hours from seeing it. Your eyes cutting through the windshield and coughing lamps. I would supply our kids with those ichthyic eyes, that invincible agility They’d be able to follow that blue line on your phone, the interstate, to the bowl holding the blue Miami when the Rio Grande River pulled me into its soft, wet mud. My only record a fossil record, only an itch in the belly of the bear.

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LAJWARD ZAHRA: WHAT DO YOUNG VOTERS WANT FROM KAMALA HARRIS?

Gen Z voters are cautiously optimistic about the vice president. But they want her to end the Gaza genocide. It was the summer of the ultimate crossover: brat meets Veep, and Kamala Harris is at the helm, steering a ship that could very well redefine the political landscape. After a fall and spring marked by disillusionment and disengagement among Gen Z voters, Harris’ candidacy is gaining…

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Lajward Zahra: Gen Z’s Political Paradox

Zoomers are politically active but electorally absent. A reporter explores why her generation is disillusioned with both major parties. Over the past several years, media pundits have repeatedly documented Gen Z’s unique engagement with politics. Nearly three-fourths of “Zoomers,” the generation born after 1996, are involved in a social or political cause. They are the age demographic with the…