From Stephanie Young: On Choking: the use and abuse of pronouns in cases of self medication, a mystery strung together by commas, exactly the type of sentence that can cause a person to choke, a room with four walls, I choked on my latte, or choked with contempt, caught on her own words, being choked from behind, her own voice,…
Keep on chokin’… From Jack Kimball: We were headed to Miami. Oh pure transcendence! Oh Boston sings! Yo Chicago to the rear! And all grew hushed. But in that Boston silence NY singled, homered and changed everythin dear. Quiet creatures gather from the Bronx, unhurried forest out of New York, and nest; and so now Miami must have their stealthiness…
Yet More Chokepo FIVE SECURITY ZONES Aaron Kunin point of a building’s shadow enters you Ferdinand Lopez (are you carrying anything that will set off the alarm) at Tenway Junction (the security guard sees that you have no destination) through a cloud choking the sky’s mouth minus (smashed into bloody atoms) his face said get back on the train
A choke poem from Kent Johnson [revised]. I was having dinner with Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters, and the Count of Lautreamont. Some other minor poets of the pre-war years were there. Lautreamont was dead, of course, and his boiled body was being served in thin slices stuffed into baguettes the shape of milkweed pods. Everything was going famously, Picabia was…
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More Chokepo small parts Alli Warren appearances show the mouth floods repeatedly chokes on pronoun in the study red wax in the head err on the side one will still not a cure
UNTOWARD Eileen Tabios She has not looked back for three years. For three years, she lived her life by skimming the thinnest surfaces of an ice-covered body of water — what she did for ecstasy billowed the sails pulling her iceboat. She could twitch the rudder so easily to return to thicker ice or solid ground. But bliss is addictive,…
Did You Mean to Search For: “I choked”? Gary Sullivan [for Tim Yu] As I saw what had become of them a horrified shudder fled through my skin and I caught a gasp in my throat I chocked on the gasp and as I chocked it grew. When they gave me processed stew I chocked just a little bit again…
Four-by-Five Pronoun Choke Chris Murray Choked? You? Never on! Say, no I had to. Say, no sequin love could ever be It– shining this sequence in that final big. Nor. Displaced, stepped off to another choke, struck full of wonder bread: break-through preserv- atives, man. Just do It like shoes: Us It was, pair as They say, We: some big…
The Choke Goes On From Ben Friedlander: AFTER E. E. CUMMINGS “could’ve been should’ve been would have been without a doubt but only if that kerry kood’ve kept his wits for one more out,” emits the drunken sadeyed lout And from Patrick Durgin: I will not regret choking but self-medicate instead. She asked me to dance but I wouldn’t and…