Poems from PANK, The Literary Review, Tin House, etc. Some poems have punctuation, some don't. Some have long lines, some have short ones. There are extra spaces between some words. It all seems rather random to me, like most of the line-breaks. One poem is double-spaced.
There's an introduction which didn't help me much - "while Beyoncé wants no part in the God talk, she has no issue with Queen and demands you bow. Morgan's project is Morgan. Morgan doesn't want God's problems. Queens for the most part suck.". Here are just a few of the many passages that baffled me -
- how the truth can feel like/ ant hills their sandy curves their tiny crests/ like nipples what I really want to ask is/ what do you think of the idea of progress/ and is it an injury I can fix (p.1)
- I strip down to a woman./ What is a woman?/ Women/ are a problem with a name. Girl,/ bye./ Power is money and my body (p.30)
- In this equation everyone stands for me./ Oh you in your strikened pose!/ Oh fly honey baby/ on the run and on the market! It's like pictures are words/ or sex is a Xerox machine (p.58)
- For now we are taking/ someone's grandma's pills/ I am slicing a wedge of brie/ with a comically large blade/ We walk a windy canyon and are safe/ Someone asks where the blood on the floor came from (p.74)
- Dawn is foggy/ an infinite blue stomach/ a child/ learning the function/ of a verb (p.94)
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