I. The Top
In the year 2008, scientists say devastation is on the horizon.
That there is no stopping it.
That we’ve begun the downward slide.
II. Staring at the Sea
And look, an elaborate castle made entirely of sand.
III. Boys Don’t Cry
In the stories the storyteller tells,
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
A Poem For Kevin Brockmeier Which Borrows Its Section Titles From Albums By The Cure by Heather Swan
March 29, 2009 – 4:38 pm
Our Town at Barrow Street Theater
March 25, 2009 – 4:10 pm
In the second act of director David Cromer’s production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, currently enjoying an open run at the Barrow Street Theater, the character of the Stage Manager, performed by Cromer himself, interrupts the play’s main storyline to reflect, as he is wont to do, on the nature of love and marriage:
“You know [...]
There will be blood: Ron Athey curating Resonate/Obliterate I.E
March 18, 2009 – 10:37 pm
After a two-hour drive from downtown LA and arriving slightly late, we entered the dark and crowded locale in Riverside that had probably once been a restaurant, but now had black plastic sheets covering the windows. On the old bar, an oiled-up bodybuilder was standing and trembling in a miniscule swimsuit and a splash of [...]
The Lady in White: A Short Story by Melissa Cucu
March 14, 2009 – 3:00 am
Professor Klein pulls her blazer closed and adjusts her spider pin. Carol, who sits next to me, asks if that is a spider and requests for it to be removed from the blazer for the time being because of her fear of spiders. Professor Klein unpins the spider and lays it on the desk, then [...]
Two Poems By Laurel Bastian
March 3, 2009 – 8:14 am
NORTH POLE MISSIVE
I want a grown toy
with a bald spot like chrome
and pecs I can bounce
my breasts off of.
the hinge my life’s
waiting for.
a mini-chow, in a chow
purse made of snake, which,
if alive, would swallow it
irreversibly.
I want stilettos made of Stilettos
so I can walk like an indelible
automaton doll.
I have not yet mentioned
hanging baskets.
I have not yet [...]
