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play pretend
i have a fun game we can playpretend you love me, i’ll pretend tooand we can pretend we’re gonna livelove forever and forever just pretend the older i get the more farce i recognize but i know that’s what between us is realso let’s pretend we love each otherand just keep on pretending
Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022)
Sad news to have to impart, the death of a beloved poet, word-master and word-mistress, Bernadette Mayer, who, at aged 77, passed away peacefully in her home last night. A huge loss. Our deepest sympathies go out to her family (who were there with her) and to her many many friends. — Read on allenginsberg.org/2022/11/bernadette-mayer-1945-2022/
tonight
i will wear my dancing shoesput on my rose quartzbecause i’m not afraidof the heaviness of love
joke
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
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”