Sex We spend a third of our lives asleep, but it’s just a quiz. It can happen, even to the best of us. Like electricity, it doesn’t need wires and it’s quiet as hush money. Needless to [...]
Attitude in Brad Roses Poetry? Per the Robots. Brad Rose’s work projects a distinctive attitude rather than a single philosophical position. Several qualities recur: Playful skepticism. [...]
Lest We Forget the Cyborgs Arguing with my dreams, I wake up, like Freud, unhappy. I move my words from room to room. It’s a precaution I take against the disappearance of the present. Every so [...]
Keeping an Eye on You After watching edible television, I’m learning to talk to myself. Thinking means different things to different people. Consider the spaghetti western. Simple living [...]
Tonight, I’m waiting for the world to come to me. In the meantime, I hear the drums of car doors slamming, airtight thuds. They’re not just noises, but symbols, a fact that tells me that [...]
“Mystery,” “Strange Soup,” and “Lyrics” will appear in Sequestrum “Destiny,” “Two for the Price of One,” “Signs of Intelligent Life,” “A Double,” “Storage Unit,” and “Swimsuit [...]