- So I thought I was being clever, scanning to email the latest poem in tablet, get home, cannot convert it to jpg - Blooger won't eat PDFs - so you are spared, at least for now, and fuck me.
- Instead ▲ the Library as Borg cube.
- OK, on the acquisition of the above mentioned PDF but mostly on the advice of friends smarter than me, the work story be gone, here's ▼ the poem.
- Submission news: not a peep.
- Protection.
- The price of perpetual war.
- Imperialism of Our Time.
- For the sake of discussion, what does the Clinton Syndicate do if HRC isn't the nominee? There is no Plan B. There has never been a Plan B since 2008.
- Motherfucking Democrats.
- Why the very poor have become poorer.
- What to do in case of death.
- The Single Artificer: on Wallace Stevens.
- My White Feminism. (Juliana Spahr's, actually)
- The mutating pop-art of Sparks in ten records. There is a Sparks song in tomorrow's Holiest Egoslavian Bleggalgazing Day.
- Pauline Oliveros is 84 today!
I AM KARL MARX
Jen Levitt
In the world there are many people
I don’t know most of them
Sometimes the ones I do know say to me
You should style your hair like this
or Why don’t you get a drink from that bar over there
I say thank you for the advice
& I may go for a drink at that bar
even though I am tired
from standing in front of teenagers all day
on a chair looking down at them
pretending to be Marx pretending they are the masses
I ask What would I say to you, proletarians, if I were Marx?
They say Capitalism is tyranny! Down with the bourgeoisie!
They are correct so I yell at them to rise up
in my best German accent
& with a white beard made of copy paper
Later I will ride home on the train
at eye-level with the gray buildings
& feeling like I sometimes do
Empiricism cannot help me
nor psychoanalysis nor meditation
It is difficult not knowing how to be in the world
which is different than not knowing
who you are, but close
