Tag Archives: Cut-Up Writing

(thee blackout gradients) What I’m Reading: When your country does not feel cozy, what do you do? — Naomi Shihab Nye / “You Are You’re Own State Department”

The Visit Darkness envelops the visitfrom my dead father. He says psychicautomatism betrayed him—the paranoiac-critical debased him. We count the shadows of ghosts untetheredfrom the sheets over their heads—one forgot to cut the eyeholes out—a blind ghost singing off-keyfrom a … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week there’s no Walmart in Afghanistan, said the father, because there’s atarget at every corner — Aria Aber / “Operation Cyclone, X. Catalogue of Grief” / Hard Damage If everyone on the planet had agreed … Continue reading →

Revision of the Altered Nymph Ridge Title these oracular (modular) keywords and trending torts, intensely focused on micro-modal matters of textuality beyond sexuality. Let’s talk Altered Nymph Ridge. I can take the transmission of AI sextets (think Disco-Tex and the … Continue reading →

Canker-Gray (redux) The woman in 316 drowned in a starless fog.  She danced herself dizzy and collapsed onto her bed. Then the fog moved in. She ingested too much of the antipsychotic. It altered her senses. The fog was impossibly … Continue reading →

… thee thanksgiving reader The United States has a particularly blood-soaked history. By some measures, the country has been engaged in wars for 93.5 percent of all years between 1775 and 2018. The Founders explicitly regarded the country as an … Continue reading →

undesirable tendencies a welfare check on my chickpeasa moral bankruptcy pulls mefrom a restraint on my stoopa clue found in my miniature espresso rasp—my neurons are frayedwhile packing peanuts + PFAS dilute my membranesthumb-actuated airguns are hard to beat silt … Continue reading →

Bound to Find a Match Pucker pool azaleas and grand inquisitor kabobs for late lunch. The wine chalice dry. Your cilice wet with the blood of your midday scourge. The puppies in the box yipping by the sacistry. The girl … Continue reading →

avant-garde puppetry avant-garde puppetry is the way to hunger+wantrecuse urself from responsibility nowu snake ur way out of the systemur avant-garde poetry falls on deaf earsthink of ur future think of ur peerspeerage is for slags u sayu choose ur … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week We CAN have joy and OWN our alienation at the same time. — Jeff Tweedy / World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music America, like hope’s … Continue reading →