Odelia Kaly

Odelia is a high school student majoring in visual arts. You may generally find her writing, doing yoga, reading about the Beat generation, or twisting in odd positions to make funny popping noises with her joints. Her lifelong dream is to become a ballerina or a bearded old man meditating on a mountainside in India. In the meantime she moonlights as a columnist for The Huffington Post [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/odelia-kaly/].

Articles by Odelia Kaly:


An Open Letter to the Department of Education

in Issue 35 | Dynamite (Dec 2013)

She didn’t know it yet, but she was quite unhappy - if every piece of paper documenting her supposed success were to be incinerated - overwhelming, wave-like, all-encompassing lie - your brain is a mismatched circuit board - Half the police department is stalking the hallways - A chasm grows and swells, that’s what happens - harmful and harmed, poisoned and poisonous

Me Versus Me

in Issue 32 | Small Wars (Sep 2013)

God’s football games - my insides turned quiet - headlines of sorts - a vacuum cleaner sidles - Oh God, okay, maybe hanging out with my friends? - give anorexia a try - the world doesn’t need more things - (according to WiiFit)

I Am Not Interested

in Issue 30 | The Daddy Issue (Jul 2013)

his lungs were filled with tar - taking me home and not leading me astray - I dedicated a whole candle to you in my candle-lighting ceremony - you crashed my sister’s bat mitzvah and forced her into another bout of anorexia - our shared blood - your goddamn CDs - you do nothing but smoke and smolder - halfway home now - I AM NOT INTERESTED

Talking to Dirt

in Issue 29 | Faces and Masks (Jun 2013)

half-Sharpie’d on the breast - the infant-bug resemblance - a bongo-themed rave going on in my chest cavity - I wanted so desperately to create a perfect sphere - secret nervous snail self - the true core of its being: dirt

Robot Apocalypse!

in Issue 27 | Drone Robot Cyborg (Apr 2013)

constantly whirring brain - my everyone-is-out-to-get-me mentality - desperate need of Raisin Bran? - newborn babies forever - totally legal in most scenarios - making all our decisions - the age of approximately twelve - wall-less, abyss-like - I don't think technology is pure evil