When they fight, they fight
And when they come home at night they say,
“i love you, baby.”

Was it too much too soon,
Or too little too late?
He got the message she left on his car, in the rain.

And then the words they come to you,
driving away.
You just can’t let it go.

And when they fight, they fight,
And when they come home at night they say,
“i love you, baby.”

And when it all comes crashing down,
what can you do,
to find what you’re looking for?
And then the words will come to you,
driving through the rain.

But there’ll be no one there to say them to anyway.

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(so are people like Blake Butler, Mathias Svalina, and an interview w/ Gary Lutz)

drank for about 14 hours yesterday. body hates me

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I have a poem forthcoming in 751 Magazine.

via abby

Also, trying to get some research done kind of catapulted me into senseless blog-reading mode, which I haven’t gotten into a while, but I’ve noticed the same fucking arguments are still being made about MFAs, although this one is new, and funny:

Top 5 MFA rankings rearranged

a really fucken interesting article about gurlesque, a term Arielle Greenberg came up with to talk about the poetic works of contemporary female poets who are all working on lush, kitschy, tacky, poems concerned with sex, glitter, and the juvenile.

clearly, i am researching some shit to talk about for my mfa thesis which is due in 2 weeks–anyway, greenberg lumps matthea harvey, chelsey minnis, and others into this category and basically talks about how it a response to growing up in the 1970s and 1980s and the poetic “possibilities” females have since it is now sociallyacceptable to broach such matters

and excerpt:

And I should say here that the term Gurlesque came from three socio-historical strands that I see unite in this poetry: Mikhal Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque,[6] in which commonly accepted roles and ideologies are turned on their heads for pleasure and humor; the teasing glamour and self-conscious parodies of sexuality in burlesque performance (which is itself enjoying a revival among young feminist artists right now[7]); and the riot grrrl punk/political movement of the early 1990s,[8] in which young women reclaimed both misogynist language—writing “brat” or “cunt,” on their bodies with markers—as well as “girly” costuming—knee-high socks and plastic barrettes—to call attention to the ways in which the mainstream and punk cultures dismiss girls.

An drawing of Phorusrhacos, a giant prehistoric bird by Charles R. Knight published in Animals of the Past, 1901.