Joseph M. Gerace
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“Aubade Sung at Laetare a Year Ago” by Guillaume Apollinaire
It’s spring come out Esther you should Take a walk in the pretty woods The hens are clucking in the yard Dawn’s pink folds are shooting skyward And love is coming to steal your heart Mars and Venus have come back anew They give each other mad kisses An innocent interlude While beneath the fluttering…
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Against Culture
Wikipedia Poem, No. 748 grass grows gross in being whether its exploitative media of dogs has found itself at things from other its cultural exploitative of the centre of culture it homages that being appropriation but support segregation their careers by male drag begins queens who have been accused of a new vanguard broken of…
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Too Late to Love You
Wikipedia Poem, No. 747 the grinding stone will be or had been not much depends upon chrysoprase i sense upon and then i am aware there’s no time left kennedy and oswald too who are kennedy is oswald dead who are you yourself considered one inhabits a song or has tried not much depends upon…
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Map of the World
Wikipedia Poem, No. 746 shy piñata horizon of mascara slurps a burst expectant cross mangles the black one purple swoosh at eye-level burst piñata down-filled custom spilt dirty swinging watcher black one purpled shoulders slap black one purple air of fire blink mascara burst piñata the poets’ key falls into air-fire down across simile like…
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Polypropos
Wikipedia Poem, No. 745 contemporary show-offs hair and little punchy verbs in all the right places some high round oogleables sweet averroes retweets roxane gay are we desirable astride rare machinery life jackhammered by rounded-off cobbles wet at four a.m. pardner don’t get on a bike blazing in medias res down a texas highway…
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Please let me sleep
“The bike I was thinking of buying belonged to a friend. Before I could buy it, I crashed on it, riding as a passenger behind my friend, with a beautiful girl squeezed in between us, three on a bike, a Triumph, going far too fast, all of us drunk, around Place de la Concorde, and…
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MUSEUM
Wikipedia Poem, No. 744 manifestoes but all the text is small and difficult museum admissions and museum educators portal insightful flash lateral and cliche fish chatter to the ropes meet in the extent to which the texts trouble and engage meat thee lively conversations: gaga purism and terralism all talk becomes soup in the word…
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ATIO: 2018 Pamphlet
ATIO is an 8-page pamphlet that strikes Italian heritage in America and provokes contemporary, national literature with trans-national action. Please download, share, and distribute illegally in libraries, museums, squat houses and corporate gyms. Thank you, as always, for reading.
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How to Raise a Premodern Family
Wikipedia Poem, No. 743 disappear into a cloud of those big slick cartoon bombs pair me with the twin cities or cuyamungué flint or kalamazoo or something coal blackboard anime avocado cowboy self-doubt gender cowboy hunger sound of hunger to the best of your recollection how fast was the joke? a revolution? an iphone?…
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Bernadette
I sit in bed beside you, shearing, Heating pad set to medium; You say I couldn’t handle more. You’re looking for work. I’m reading about poets in Monochrome. Meanwhile, your fingers ricochet Like ants across the keyboard; Pfizer has some jobs in La Jolla. I don’t want to reach over and fuck you Nor…
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