my favorite author wrote a book about the metaphysiology of writing, i haven’t read it yet but i have a feeling it’s gonna be good
Category Archives: Lit Review
Under the Hood
A sanitized Philip Guston retrospective tries so hard not to offend that it skirts around the most interesting aspect of Guston’s work: his meditations on the American Jewish relationship to anti-Black violence. — Read on jewishcurrents.org/under-the-hood
like fishing
this is the mind of a woman on the edge of her seat this is the mind of a woman reeling and waiting like fishing this is the mind of a woman on the edge of her seat going slowly, going slowly, going slowly this is the mind of a woman on the edge ofContinue reading “like fishing”
There Is No “Migrant Crisis” – Boston Review
The problem isn’t new; it’s the bordered logic of global apartheid itself. — Read on http://www.bostonreview.net/articles/there-is-no-migrant-crisis/
A New Theory Of The Entourage (Part I) – by Harmony Holiday
The group becomes its own entity, inseparable and separate from the coherence of each individual member, like a bastard mafia always ready to perform its ethic of collective anonymity. — Read on harmonyholiday.substack.com/p/a-new-theory-of-the-entourage-part
we kissed the possible
and the laws changed and you couldn’t leave as muchif you didn’t have the right color passportand i had to go visit my friend in londonthey had a green passportand mine was blue and we was blueand mines was bluesand yours was tooand we laughed at itwe had to laugh kept us from dyingand weContinue reading “we kissed the possible”
Chronological Snobbery: The Peoples is Peoples Speech (The Muppets Take Manhattan, 1984)
“Hey. I tell you what is. Big city, hmm? Live. Work, huh? But. Is not city open. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes, huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay?” – Pete (Louis Zorich), a Manhattan restaurateur, to Kermit the Frog, offering perhaps theContinue reading “Chronological Snobbery: The Peoples is Peoples Speech (The Muppets Take Manhattan, 1984)”
the wedding was postponed
the wedding was postponed not for lack of love but the abundance of it we wanted courtship to go on and on and on wedding was postponed cuz we wanted to keep each other closer than bonds of servitude the ring was scrapped and made into necklaces that still hang and we hangin on toContinue reading “the wedding was postponed”
a poem for alton ellis
the ghost of ellis come to me at nightscream-in my ear bout all not right can’t stand stay this way of living cuz I’m from black upbringing the ghost of alton croon to me about all that life could really be never never got the right to say never really got the chance to doContinue reading “a poem for alton ellis”
keep it comin
I make like quick with my hands and be finding new things in stands In field afar from home where I came from I found you sit-in’ pretty lookin lovey dovey peace out peace in be in be out of work of love of life of time of now is the time to be hereContinue reading “keep it comin”
Aida Rends 