Monthly Archives: March 2023

Combustible, Not Tractable There wasn’t any friction during the Mother’s Day conversation, except about the use of capital letters and hyphens—there was a heated discussion there. “Excessive uses! Much too much!” one of us said. Hang up. There is no … Continue reading →

Outcome when you’re on the knife’s edgeyou breathewhen you’re on the pivot pointyou’re mindfulwhen you’re at the fulcrumthere is a binaryoutcome which way do you turn?where does this go?how does this end? What I’m Reading: “Some blind girlsask questions of … Continue reading →

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “What would I do without tears,I used to ask myself in another world.” — Patricia Jabbeh Wesley / “Healing Will Come: Elegy after Nartural Disaster” “A new disease caused solely by plastics has … Continue reading →

bedroll and nape the author is free to make narcissus dislocatefrom his bedstead narcotic—a demon of countless bitter decanters he is both limber and in rigorin bedroll and napewith a perpetual jab a wrecker among the dislocated galaxiesfolding the hole … Continue reading →

The Song That You Sing I don’t like the song that you singthe way that you sing itthe key that it’s inI don’t like the lyricsThat turn of a phraseThe bridge or the chorusThe tempo it’s inYou sing like you … Continue reading →

The Chafing of 100 Millennials When you awaken your dictionary is large—the days of abridgment have long passed. You search for globes with a friendly eyebrow cormorant and press on. You seek out varied terrain, and the enemy of trance, … Continue reading →

Apropos of Nothing: Dollars for Dollops Blindly devote yourself to formulary Z-074. Make triplicate copies send one to me, one to Human Resources, and one to the Department of Repressive Operations. Sing, glory be! Glorioles and halo benders and everything … Continue reading →

Going to Pot The Communists are organizing grumbles.The empire neophytes need lighthouses. We’re singing the virile draftee ballads of gelding escapades— While women with pinched noses file reports with the Stasi.The expansionist neocolonialists have a mercantile exchange they’d like you … Continue reading →