Month: July 2018

Criticism

Kate Bush’s Indispensable Role as Literary Guide Through Music

As Kate Bush turns sixty today, it bears reflecting on the milestone with an appreciative bent for all the English chanteuse of a theatrical, baroque persuasion has done to spread the ever diminishing gospel of literature in her music (that’s right, Lana Del Rey wasn’t the first). Perhaps as a direct result of being born in the very country that wrought something as dramatic and … Continue reading Kate Bush’s Indispensable Role as Literary Guide Through Music

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Criticism

J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise: There’s No Better Glimpse Into the Latent Ferality of Humans Than the Modern Concept of Real Estate

Before David Mamet painted the real estate industry as filled with nothing but Dorian Grays in painting form with Glengarry Glen Ross, there was J.G. Ballard to remind us that real estate, not money, is the root of all evil in men. And what better manifestation to iterate that than real estate in its most mutant and classist form: the high-rise? Modern in construction and … Continue reading J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise: There’s No Better Glimpse Into the Latent Ferality of Humans Than the Modern Concept of Real Estate

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Poetry

Fuck Zen by Jonathan Dowdle

Through the barbarism of humanity Which marches through tongues, glances, Where all becomes media reduced Into the cliche of life, vacuum fed, Thought neutered, expression castrated, In every: “Let’s have a conversation”, Reduced to the absence of listening, Views parroted even by the best, Blood poured into the concrete, Learned by rote to form identity, Thought caught in the spin Until the whole world is … Continue reading Fuck Zen by Jonathan Dowdle

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Poetry

Hierophany by Matthew Peluso

Heads on pillows, face to face, a few inches apart Seeing each other with the eyes of our hearts Enlightened. As Paul prayed in one of his famous Letters Post-coital, naked truthfulness in hushed voices Whispered revelations unconditionally accepted Intimacy calmly, quietly shared Time suspended, we become universal Transcendental. Temporarily linked, synched to all those before us Who lay facing each other, similarly On forest … Continue reading Hierophany by Matthew Peluso

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Poetry

Watching the Kiss by DS Maolalai

popcorn burnt just right and the silk taste of sweet syrupy soda crushed on ice, this is it, this is the movies, not some clever well-reviewed nonsense making a play at poetry but THE MOVIES, spectacle and the good-looking boys and girls, Antman up there ten thousand meters tall, Star Wars doing stories, Batman giving his last. blue velvet seats and light spewing superheroes over … Continue reading Watching the Kiss by DS Maolalai

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Fiction

PornMe2 by David Leo Rice

Before reading this sequel, it is highly recommended that you confer with the first installment of David Leo Rice’s all too prescient work, PornMe. The below work also appears in the print version of The Opiate, specifically Vol. 14. Poor Gribby’s on his last legs, so to speak, dying in the bathtub with the other Gribby standing over him, filming it all on his phone, uploading … Continue reading PornMe2 by David Leo Rice

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