Po Elaine Kahn | Action, Spectacle

Conjecturing When and Where: This Cut is Fresh

oh god

the pattern full

is infantile

but why?

my personal bank

is blank

if you were

my final error

(I lay my head / onto the staircase / turn/ into / a slug / a rope / it

comes / to life and curls / around / my body / that is how)

I like it

Inside Me is a Separation

standing like a Y

a crease

light falls

thick as meat

you can stand in place

and still

the world will blow on you

a shape on a wall

the sound of a freeway

I don’t care if it lasts

baby

I am writing this to you

I did not consent

to destiny

you can stand in place

and I will pay

exactly

what it costs

when I have nothing left to say

it is because life

is happening away from me

Women Wear Clothes to Demonstrate Their Grief

Today my therapist suggested

I try lying down on top of graves

She had a leaf stuck to her cheek

But I didn’t tell her

I’m depressed

because my orgasms alone are uninspiring

And the most money I have ever made

was when I got hit by a car

Ruby Robinson