strong fifth issue of onedit features Clark Coolidge, Alec Finlay, Frances Kruk, John Landry, Alice Notley, Laura Sims, Matt Turner. Chris Vitiello, editor Tim Atkins & storms out of the gate with Anselm Berrigan's

"Comodesty In Advance

We are grateful to the victors
of the Cold War
who are not us. Leaning back
to begin the deep
soak. It was all abuse hidden
behind a good boy.
That he directed to gradually
shake out of those
around him the method of
interaction he preferred.
Believe what you say,
whatever it is. The phasing
out of complex thought
allows this to take place.
This is what I know, it is all
there has been. I was
born in 1972. I have no
memory of a peaceful
time. I keep writing. Fight
tonight, over a party
standing in for a ceremony we
completed privately.
Fuck it, I say, but the
complications persist. What
is the use of fragmented
engagement with other
people? I like moments that
cut through my brain
spasms of self-conscious
uber-pity. Drunk fuck.
Gully relations picket the fill
in, the dirt poured
to level the ground, scratch
numbers off to see
numbers, a book of prompts,
wear me like, got
away with straddles,
supertankers bearing the
consensus that is your name,
and a powerful ally
it is, a bummer to realize the
world might end
before you die, must head to
gym and be being
that person who will be being
me later than
a little later (sips Becks), it's
puppet serious
spur me along time. The index
cards make it be.
I should have ejected these
hideous clothes.
Fear of being the person who
looks normal
but is in fact a wack-job, then
acceptance. Looks
like we gotta do it again?
Protest fatigues keep
back the hordes. They scream
outside my window
they scream because they are
wasted and live
far away. Memo: could puke
any time.


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