poems i wrote not to be run over by a garbage truck, not to cut off my toes with a pair of scissors, not to die of electrocution while microwaving my phone and most of all not to sing a love song in a hailstorm.

J.C. Manto alias Claudia Toman is a writer, designer, photographer, feminist, resister and geek from Vienna, Austria. She has published half a dozen novels under her real name and the pen name Anna Koschka, designs book covers for a living and writes poetry to survive.