Skip to Main Content
Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Image by Alex Hanks

A Rose

Rand Whitfield, Staff Writer March 8, 2022

A rose is a rose Is a rose is a rose. A rose rose in defiance From cracks in the road,      A rose helped a man To charm his betrothed That one fateful evening On...

Image by Alex Hanks

Right person wrong time

Anonymous March 1, 2022

I honestly just hate you right now. I hate that you didn’t choose me.  I hate that it’s not me that you love more. And I hate that I’m mature enough to realize that it’s not you I hate.   I...

Image by Alex Hanks

Open Me Carefully

Lucia Llano, Staff Writer February 22, 2022

Remember when you were a postcard            promising better things and                            I swallowed you in distance                                screaming,...

Dealing With Love

Dealing With Love

Jada Thomas, Copyediting Coordinator February 8, 2022

how does one cope with the reality  that they’ll never be the person somebody chooses to love?   and i don’t mean your friends who you can’t believe you’re  lucky enough...

Image by Alex Hanks

The Fairy Tale That I Deserve

Rand Whitfield, Staff Writer February 1, 2022

Why can’t I cry anymore?   I used to be able to.  I used to weep as I passed through The double-door threshold of Middle school, charging into waters Much better charted than those...

A toxic relationship with time (a poem)

A toxic relationship with time (a poem)

Kennedy Bustos, Staff Writer January 18, 2022

Time warps and wraps around my body, gripping my neck and catching my breath with reckless cruelty.   Time slides and slithers down my spine, curling its way around...

Image by Alex Hanks

Getting older

Jada Thomas, Staff Writer November 30, 2021

One night as I lay in bed, When the room was quiet but my mind was not A jarring reality hit me I’m getting older   Feeling distance tear away at the friendships That I left back...

Load More Stories