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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at TAMU chapter.

I will not be reasonable.

I will not be quiet.

I will be loud and angry and large.

I will rip your throat out with my teeth.

Would you tell a tiger to be reasonable?

It would laugh and sharpen its claws on your spine.

I will grow so big

that I swallow the world whole,

filling all the empty space in the sky

with my unbrushed hair and spotted thighs

and stomach like rolling hills.

The tigers will be nothing but ladybugs in a garden,

stripes turned to spots as they crawl along my face,

steel wool tongues polishing my cheeks.

I will not apologize.

I will not look away.

I will make you want the tigers back.

Izzy Bynum

TAMU '22

Hey, you. You’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us and that thief over there. Now that you’re here, though, let me introduce myself: I’m Izzy! I’m a Psychology major who spends way too much time imagining stories in my head and not nearly enough writing them down! My interests include baking poorly, hoarding stickers, and petting dogs.