Can't

Owned and Defined Buy objects Slave to latte foreplay as goals fade away Nine to five Everyday What's the point? On point But morally broke Spiritually maligned in consumerist times Things shackle my mind Become dreams Come dreams Of adverts Possessions This that Her Hallucinogenic sick psyche Is this the me of actuality Or has that receded Reality façade restored Can't think but can spend to no real end While pounds ease the pain and lessen the strain Happiness disappears Utopia gallops away Live another day in the box of my life And dream of success that will never arrive cpr

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Death to the Anthology

Jessica Smith: 'I can’t get 400 people to proof a book. I can’t even get 400 people to give me bios in a reasonable time frame. For that matter, there were submissions flowing in two months after the submissions deadline. I don’t know if such problems derive from the number of people, their youth and inexperience with professional projects, the fact that they’re poets, or my own errors, but looking down the line at the number of details that must still be dealt with irritates me. Getting 400 people to do anything is insanely difficult, who would have thought?' Link

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Triple Canopy

Canopy Canopy Canopy

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Ben Lewis - Art Safari: Matthew Barney

The Louis Theroux of contemporary art makes a series of conservative conclusions about The Cremaster Cycle via Matthew Barney's semi-serious responses. Link

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Mars Holiday Pics

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Here Comes Everybody

Interviews with poets, including Rae Armantrout, Elizabeth James, Lisa Jarnot and Ron Silliman. Link

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Christian Bök - Random Poetry 08

'Aleatory writing almost evokes the mystique of an oracular ceremony—but one in which the curious diviner cannot pose any queries, except perhaps for the kind imagined by Raymond Roussel in Locus Solus, where he describes a fortuneteller, who spins a die inscribed with three phrases: l’ai-je eu? (did I have it?); l’ai-je? (do I have it?); and l’aurai-je? (will I have it?).' Link

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textsound

An online audio publication, a very pleasant place to be. Seems like the site was designed for you to sit and stare at while you listened to the work. I like blanking at the pastel graphic equaliser. Link

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Novelists Strike Fails To Affect Nation Whatsoever

'The strike, which scholars say could be the longest since 1951, when American novelists may or may not have voluntarily committed to a six-month work stoppage, has brought an immediate halt to all new novels, novellas, and novelettes from coast to coast, affecting no one.' Link

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Robert Grenier and Charles Bernstein: A Conversation

'9/7/07 All right, Bob, then, let me take you up on one version of these recurring questions, starting ever so slow (like the tortoise): Is illegibility a value for you in your color drawing poems? [Charles] 9/8/07 No.' Jacket 35 via Silliman's blog

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