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Month: January 2022

Books I Read in January

Book v. Cigarettes – George Orwell Cultish – Amanda Montell Bright Lights, Big City – Jay McInerney No. 91/92: notes … More

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Don’t Say Goodbye

A Villanelle Rotten like an apple, we were doomed from the very start. Mangled like a sickly cat, I hurl … More

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Prelude

After Frank O’Hara on that Friday night you queued up for fried chicken your jacket was beige your reflection softened … More

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Memoir: Tales From the Classroom

It all began with my glasses and the two front teeth that jutted out of my mouth. These other tiny … More

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Exhibit LA

When I went to LA, I’d walk to the local store every morning. I’d take the corn dog off the … More

LA, Los Angeles, Poetry, prose poetry, writing community

Book Review: A Chapbook About Nothing – Scott Cumming

Scott Cumming’s ‘A Chapbook About Nothing’ illustrates the feeling of being a newborn adult. Assumptions of stability trail behind us … More

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Diary Entry/17.01.22

Every few months, I wonder if I’m a blowfish whose bursts of inflation go unnoticed by the other fish, but … More

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The Cutting Room Floor

It is almost 6 pm, and I am listening to Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ on audiobook. The evenings … More

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Hemingway’s Paris: An Entity of Its Own

Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast’ is a novel that was published posthumously. The book was born from a journal found in … More

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Violent Delights

hotel rooms with you burn like vodka carpets / my conscience cannot bear the hardship we left behind but then … More

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