hey, that rhymes
after “Youth” by Glass Animals
JAKE
Why My Dissertation is Late
I tried copying someone else’s dissertation, just to feel the keys moving under my fingertips...I also watched 19 Hamlet movies for inspiration (see YouTube links), but all I learned is that Kenneth Branagh looks weird with a mustache.
Postcolonial Takeout Discourse
Exhibit A: the deep-fried Twinkie. / Ex. B: the deep-fried pizza. Novelties / that you might have at the fair once / a year.
Beekeeping Age
Spite has gotten me further in life than / anything else. Is that not a type of / happiness? I live a happier life once I've / had revenge.
The Couple in 5F
It is nice to know my neighbors though, even just a little bit. Knowing your neighbors, even just a little bit, makes NYC apartment living less like living in a big empty box with whispers of occupancy and more like living in a place teeming brimming spinning simmering with people.
Ariel
I don't even hesitate. From the other side of the cross-legged circle, she smiles at me.
Accumulations
I'm gonna get this bad boy stuffed and hung above my toilet so he can forever look down into water. Just the way God intended.