March 23rd, 2009 / 12:15 am
 Author Spotlight & Excerpts

K. Silem Mohammed is At Least Trying


“I’m trying really hard. But soy milk in coffee (and I’ve tried rice milk too) is one of the worst things I’ve ever tasted. Urgh yuck shudder. I run a news group on conjoined twins and I’m trying really really hard not to.”

-K. Silem Mohammed, from a poem on Squirrels in My Attic

 Good. I like it.

Horse Party image from Whispered Apologies

Everyone is having fun.

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8 Comments

  1. March 23rd, 2009 / 10:46 am chris—

      i like all of this

      especially horses

  2. March 23rd, 2009 / 6:46 am chris—

      i like all of this

      especially horses

  3. March 23rd, 2009 / 12:28 pm Justin Taylor—

      this is my favorite thing KSM has ever written- except maybe for these wild Shakespeare-sonnet rewrites I heard him read at AWP. Point is: Yes, soy milk in coffee is suck city. Coffee and milk just go together, like coffee and milk or something. If I woke up tomorrow and there was no such thing as cows anymore (or, since I just got up today, & haven’t tried to get coffee yet, if I woke up today &…) I would switch to being one of those people who drinks coffee black, or else with a little honey or something maybe. Soy milk is great for a lot of things, but coffee is none of them.

  4. March 23rd, 2009 / 8:28 am Justin Taylor—

      this is my favorite thing KSM has ever written- except maybe for these wild Shakespeare-sonnet rewrites I heard him read at AWP. Point is: Yes, soy milk in coffee is suck city. Coffee and milk just go together, like coffee and milk or something. If I woke up tomorrow and there was no such thing as cows anymore (or, since I just got up today, & haven’t tried to get coffee yet, if I woke up today &…) I would switch to being one of those people who drinks coffee black, or else with a little honey or something maybe. Soy milk is great for a lot of things, but coffee is none of them.

  5. March 23rd, 2009 / 6:08 pm Steven Trull—

      KSM? I really liked your thing! I read all of it and it was nice! You can tell that–even if you didn’t try really really hard to write it–it was written while you were hard! And I think that is super nice!

  6. March 23rd, 2009 / 2:08 pm Steven Trull—

      KSM? I really liked your thing! I read all of it and it was nice! You can tell that–even if you didn’t try really really hard to write it–it was written while you were hard! And I think that is super nice!

  7. March 24th, 2009 / 7:53 pm Marc Arthur—

      OMG THOSE HOARSES ARE SOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID YOU FIND SUCH CUTE HOARSES?!??!!?! CAN I HAVE ONE PLLLLEEEAAAAAAASSSE!!!

  8. March 24th, 2009 / 3:53 pm Marc Arthur—

      OMG THOSE HOARSES ARE SOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID YOU FIND SUCH CUTE HOARSES?!??!!?! CAN I HAVE ONE PLLLLEEEAAAAAAASSSE!!!