Pap Smear for Beerfest
Sean Kilpatrick
You can’t ban my books for saying this shit because no one bought them anyway. Some guys have all the luck.
You can’t ban my books for saying this shit because no one bought them anyway. Some guys have all the luck.
How they say something doesn’t wink at an audience, this caws its eyelids off. What we got? Mad Men? True Detective? Those shows are about acting. (Sometimes about writing in service of plot. Oh, True Detective, almost, so close until the final explanation cribs us all.)
Where the fuck are the collected plays of Ron Allen? The police have won, that’s where.
I had my bags packed and was getting ready to leave with two insane-seeming girls who offered me sex in exchange for a ride to Cleveland when a few patients stopped me and essentially pushed me into the lecture hall. I don't know why I didn't put up more of a fight -
I googled “Karl Ove Knausgaard AND Nicholson Baker” and didn’t find much. A review of My Struggle from The Monthly, an Australian magazine, compared some of Knaugaard’s reflections to “Seinfeld’s
I remember Marc said, you’re wet just because of the humidity.
Can you teach an eighteen-year-old trauma?
Pretty girls appeared from behind huge wooden poles below the boardwalk.
We ride in pairs to the stars and look up but flourescent rainbow strips make the everlasting dim.
Cockroaches
This was a sign as far as I was concerned. The high water mark. The North American standard for being a shitbag.
A plague of the poor and dirty.
So when we started to see
It’s an uphill battle to transition to a lifestyle of blunt objects.
I ask the sun to call me at night on my walk home. Everyday I become a little more scared. I recognize people and cars and it makes me nervous. My mother told me girls are most likely to be
I thought about taking a picture of the book or, perhaps, a selfie of me holding the book up against my face. I’d upload this photo to facebook or twitter with a caption like, “The journey begins”