May 3rd, 2010 / 4:19 pm
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5 larksons of elly yo

1. Cleaned out under my fridge today and found a fillet knife, dust-gorillas, and a chapbook. It is called “thunderstorms as familial convulsion.” Ryan Call as good as any at using weather as something more than weather.

2. Made me think of this sonnet by Kathleen Kirk. It is “Roof Leaks, Mimi Calls.”

All across the city the tyrant ice
pries up the tar and flashing, disturbs the peace
of shingles, their social order. It’s not the freeze
but the thaw that ruins us, the sudden spies
wiring the closet walls with new secrets,
the trickle-down effect in our kitchens,
cups and buckets competing for attention,
disintegration: sheetrock into dust.

The phone rings, your mother with the news.
The ceiling shifts, sure it wants to open.
Nothing falls, not even the sky.
Your voice is like a level, its yellow tube
tipping the bubble of air toward hope
and back. Cancer—just another tyrant.

3. Tumbling Old Women.

4. I have decided those who get bothered about quotation marks bother me. Dialogue isn’t about those little cheese curls. Do it right and you won’t have to do it right anymore.

5. Hold up. Tao Lin (actually Kacper Jarecki) wants your money. Wants your money. And then they ate whale.

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18 Comments

  1. May 3rd, 2010 / 5:30 pm Nathan Tyree—

      Doesn’t Tao Lin always want my money?

  2. May 3rd, 2010 / 6:45 pm Merzmensch—

      Yeah, Kharms! The Falling is his favourite sujet.

  3. May 3rd, 2010 / 6:45 pm Merzmensch—

      one of his many favourite sujets, though

  4. May 3rd, 2010 / 7:08 pm mimi—

      Sean Lovelace:
      If ever you publish an anthology of your posts, do please be sure to include a glossary of terms.

  5. May 3rd, 2010 / 8:32 pm Ellen Frances—

      #5: I have so much to say. — EDIT — ‘hahaha’

  6. May 3rd, 2010 / 8:49 pm Ryan Call—

      thank you sean; sorry we did not meet at awp. thats two yrs now.

  7. May 3rd, 2010 / 9:30 pm Nathan Tyree—

      Doesn’t Tao Lin always want my money?

  8. May 3rd, 2010 / 10:45 pm Merzmensch—

      Yeah, Kharms! The Falling is his favourite sujet.

  9. May 3rd, 2010 / 10:45 pm Merzmensch—

      one of his many favourite sujets, though

  10. May 3rd, 2010 / 11:08 pm mimi—

      Sean Lovelace:
      If ever you publish an anthology of your posts, do please be sure to include a glossary of terms.

  11. May 4th, 2010 / 12:32 am Ellen Frances—

      #5: I have so much to say. — EDIT — ‘hahaha’

  12. May 4th, 2010 / 12:49 am Ryan Call—

      thank you sean; sorry we did not meet at awp. thats two yrs now.

  13. May 4th, 2010 / 9:24 am Ricky Garni—

      Please tell me that these Simmon bugs exist. Please tell me that I can buy them. Please tell me where. Again, please.

  14. May 4th, 2010 / 1:24 pm Ricky Garni—

      Please tell me that these Simmon bugs exist. Please tell me that I can buy them. Please tell me where. Again, please.

  15. May 13th, 2010 / 10:31 pm Kathleen Kirk—

      Thank you, Sean. For some reason, that poem affects a lot of people. Ice happens.

  16. May 13th, 2010 / 11:40 pm jereme—

      sean was at awp? i would have said hello too.

  17. May 14th, 2010 / 2:31 am Kathleen Kirk—

      Thank you, Sean. For some reason, that poem affects a lot of people. Ice happens.

  18. May 14th, 2010 / 3:40 am jereme—

      sean was at awp? i would have said hello too.