HEJAB MELAKA by Baxter Jackson |
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BLACK AND WHITE
by Holly Day my body is too small to take your words anymore scream myself awake to putrid memories of you your anticipation festers inside of me I am not your handpuppet, mister last night I dreamed about your fingers on my flesh the linoleum pattern of the laundryroom I wish I wasn't as stupid as you think |
MALAYSIA by Baxter Jackson |
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MANNEQUIN WITH BLUR
by Evan Myquest an acrylic mannequin all angular and clear and rainbow shards held together with chrome bones handheld computer game controllers for nipples a p38 flying tiger revell model plane for the vagina a hunting vignette engraved pocket watch for navel two maoist little red books for eyes two bozo's circus jack in the boxes for hands a neon blue louise brooks wig sardonic joker lego red lips with lego white teeth an iPad in its chest abdomen looped beetlejuice all this and an HO gauge model train in bumble bee yellow and black at its feet i wanted to make something of this thing but it was beyond me what it expressed i was an old tourist looking in a shop window in a strange land where tomorrow i would take a train almost faster than sound past farms where dogs pull carts with milk cans i will watch the lush green blur and sigh |
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