hole all the texts [day 6]

Selected Lines from 5 Minutes at an Art Party at 111 Minna, 2010 

But damn she was gorgeous. I mean even in the shadows.

—me a drink and I’ll read it for you—

I had Electronica call me five minutes before she got there so I could slip out the back.

Perfect, perfect triangles—

If they have any of the lychee ones left.

—pleather jumper like we was at ruby skye or some shit—

You sound like you’re not even happy you got the job. I was like What else do you want?

—forty videos, all recorded in the bathtub which hello, right through the wall is my head

— Sculptures that were based on scenes from my first time, out of all the soap I’d been collecting.

It was the wrong piazza the whole time!

The kind of person who has no—who can’t even imagine how full of shit he is—

Nineteen is way past old enough you know?

—important to use something that had touched my skin, this intimate ephemeral—

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Prompts

i don’t write about the truth 
because truth is too fragile
like a particle whose location and velocity
cannot be simultaneously observed

—Emi Koyama 

“Usernames” by Jessica Williams

Jai Arun Ravine: 

Kimberly Alidio:   ”Dear Poet: If you believe you have readers, then what are the ethical implications of the narrative tactics you choose?”—Jill Magi

Ching-In Chen:   “Ask this book where the body is. It replies: ‘Safe enough.’” - Douglas Kearney

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Housekeeping

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