Accepted: Eviction

I checked my email to find:

We are happy to inform you that your work, “Eviction” has been accepted by our editors.

Garbage In, Garbage Out

Well, it’s finished, or at least I’m done with it. Maybe my cut-up poetry wasn’t a success. I found myself “cheating” (not that it matters) by rearranging the randomness, picking deliberately, editing the results, etc. In the end, there were only three results I could call a finished poem, and they’re short.
The lackluster feeling I [...]

Cut-up Poem #3

Stunned
By the look
Of another
This is what was and what never will be
Life is rhetoric from strangers
Imagined-spoken
Slower
Than hurry scurry all around
Look how close to one another
They don’t notice each other.

Cut-up Poem #1

The sun was dead
You were singing
Nevermind your eyes
You’re lost in the differences
Lost in the phrases and situations
Wrong when it feels right
Thoughts in the dark
Stars in the night.
You were singing.
I thought I heard you say
What I wanted to hear
I can’t see the differences anymore
No boredom, no sorrow
No pain, no tomorrow
No dreams, or thoughts of water
No questions, [...]

Physicalists Distribute Manifesto at Armory Show

On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (3/11 – 3/13) the Armory Show: the International Fair of New Art, was visited by the Physicalists – a group of artists who are challenging what has become the “norm” in contemporary art – art that is “deep,” angst ridden and visually uninteresting.
The Physicalists passed out over 300 balloons [...]

Cut-Up Poetry

After enough spare time spent sorting through old files and notebooks, I have produced a pile of unwanted writing: drafts, failed poems, etc. The pile is large enough that I would regret throwing it away. It is so much. It occurred to me that I could cut out anything remotely salvageable, and then make a [...]