July 2011
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Daily 15
She has her hair pulled back tiiiiighhht. Making her forehead unmovable as Botox. Buttucks? She has buttucks pulled back, making her face look stern and not to be fucked with. She is made aerodynamic by the tightly cinched hair, like a fighter jet slicing the air with it’s razor frame. She leads the family. He straggles behind. As if she had used the last of the hair gell, his hair is...
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The Devil's Face
The Devil’s Face
by Katie Farris, guest-edited by Ilya Kaminsky July 2011
The girl has been learning how to shit on the devil’s face. It is a slow process. First of all, one has to take into consideration the setting. In order for the devil to get a hard-on, he must be surrounded at eight points. To the north, above the devil’s head, a soul writhing in eternal agony. On his right...
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Daily 15
If I am going to do the Daily 15, then I must begin with a cup of coffee. 15 minutes of exercise, hitting the keys and the cups instead of the bike and and bells. And yet I return again to the artifice that is pushing keys instead of drawing out letters and am amazed by how uncreative typing can be. It lacks intimacy. Maybe because I do it a lot at work I associate it with work. With typing...
The Tangential: What Your Favorite Poet Says About... →
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e.e. cummings: You prefer to write on Notepad instead of Microsoft word. Saturdays involve trying on interesting boots at thrift stores after eating runny eggs. You have gotten laid via your watercolor painting skills.
Edgar Allan Poe: You are in some kind of atheist human league. You got…
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Reprise by Deborah Brown
Better than a lover’s heart, the immortality of a name. Love versus Fama, the goddess, with her long purple nails, her sweeping cloak, her memories of Caesar, Alexander, the wolves on seven hills. Even better than love, fame, for as long as there is illness. I see that if I had discovered Cushing’s disease, I could have named it for myself. It’s hard to maintain desire,...
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Let America be America Again By Langston Hughes
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) O, let my land be...
The Joys of an Oxfordless Comma
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First of all, let me say this: I am no comma hater. I love the comma. I overuse the comma. The comma is the gilt flourish of a sentence, framing one idea and then moving onto the next. It is a glorious, emphatic and multi-faceted thing, the “fuck” of punctuation. “Fuck this fucking motherfucker”; “Fuck, this fucking motherfucker”; “Fuck this, fucking motherfucker”; and...
