Labor by Jonathan Jansikok
I am a soft spongy human.I am lucky to be paid anything at all.Thank you for helping me;you are a kind master. Continue reading Labor by Jonathan Jansikok
Month: May 2024
Faux Erudition and The Taylor Swift TTPD Bump When It Comes to an Interest in Literature
Among the many glowing reviews that Taylor Swift’s eleventh album, The Tortured Poets Department, has received, a line from one in particular sought to further position the work as genuine poetry—high-brow prose. To be more specific, The Times’ review deemed the songs on the album to be “as rich and concise as a short story collection.” Even if no truly rich and concise short story … Continue reading Faux Erudition and The Taylor Swift TTPD Bump When It Comes to an Interest in Literature
Homemade by Heidi Joffe
Metamorphosis of a Plate. Rubber-ups poundedpatterned tissueonto my green skin, precise,glaziers dipped and poured,dressed me in glass, at six hundred degrees Celsius, the kill,clay to pot, irreversible,chemical and physicalreaction elements white hotwares glow though the peephole, a universe spinningthrough my fire, every moleculebounces and spewsits last drops thumbed, spun, cast,within saggars, my bonesfire-licked,delicate to hard, an oddman stokes the wood,holes up the wall,cooks up breakfastin … Continue reading Homemade by Heidi Joffe
Thin Man Binge by Steven Fromm
He got me with The Thin Man. But first he had to get my attention. It wasn’t tough. Colin had all the equipment: pearl-gray eyes, fauxhawk hair and a deft way of embedding words like “soporific” and “inculcate” in that vermouth-over-ice voice of his. I’d come to the bar as a refugee from a recent breakup. So had he. We found our way to a … Continue reading Thin Man Binge by Steven Fromm