The Imitation Game / Foxcatcher
Sean Kilpatrick
Between The Social Network and The Imitation Game, we can decipher precisely how our genitals should disrobe us. I, for one, will be relieved to wave them uploaded straight under Darwin’s
I.
When I was a kid I believed
in good old-fashioned animistic
souls coming out of the grass
and the sky and the rocks.
I loved walking
in Las Rocas de Santo Domingo
and seeing
The trouble with paddling is your arms get tired. I tell this to the girls but they don’t listen.
With my inheritance I buy duck prosciutto and rent vacation homes on beaches and mountains.
Between The Social Network and The Imitation Game, we can decipher precisely how our genitals should disrobe us. I, for one, will be relieved to wave them uploaded straight under Darwin’s
I Have
I have a
wet mouth
in this pink
apartment.
I still have that.
Boy—
you think we’re in love?
Don’t you
roughhouse
with me.
You’re trying.
But at this
I was talking about my obsession with the writing of Milan Kundera...
Ask her to aim her index fingers.
at you. Aim yours.
I only look you in the eyes if I’m sure the condom’s on.
Standing in the pieces of a broken guitar
I screamed at the summer for sleeping around
breaking my heart with the rising
in those days I drank wine from the bottle
stranded
Present the conflict or the mother as the conflict or the mother as the object of conflict during childhood.
I remember
the first time
I saw a foreign
cherry. I blushed
a little armpit.
I saw how a cherry,
in it's candied boredom,
could stain.
The other not truth.
Thus
In elementary school, when kids talked about being “Christian,” I thought they were talking about race.
Selected comics from "Groceries": Lovecraft, Freud, & Gilgamesh
I had the milk from a dandelion all over my hands once in the sun and in the cracks of my palms and it was getting on my lunch, I kept thinking.
Once my mother painted my fingernails
feeling in pain
both emotional and physical
I head into the light.
In the park
wholesome children play
their healthiness
throwing
last night's
relative sordidness
into sharp
There was something so sublimely satisfying about reading Laird Hunt’s Neverhome this year that I’ve read it, here and there, probably twice, maybe three times more since. The novel introduces us
1. It was always ice. Ice: a word like a shard of glass shived in his ribs. The dark plain he was bound to travel. His paramour, his nightmare, his lost thumb. His vice.
I have a tendency to get bored easily, both in relationships and in life. One of the things that made me feel confident about marrying Scott is that there is quite possibly no one weirder than him.
Because we'd lost our sense of value, the day came when the animals voted us out of our cities and towns and homesteads.
The barista is so pretty
my girlfriend would be
disappointed if I didn't
cheat with her.
You are a diagnostician, alert for symptoms: ridged fingernails, yellow eye-whites, swollen knuckles, broken capillaries.
Modern Conveniences 2012 - 2014
There were moments when I forgot about the dog
Whining and shivering, like a toddler in its playpen
Her instinctual nature, A visceral outward cry
I
Our town’s ordinance—passed in 1862—named the first-born son of each family Zebulon.