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Kill Yo' Self
Last week in class I made a joke about killing myself. Then I tweeted about it. The tweet generated a huge response (like 2 or 3 people) and my roommate asked me what happened. Here's what happened: We were talking about parody/homage. We looked at a poem in The New Yorker that was either pardoy-ing or homage-ing Gertrude Stein. The teacher asked how we felt about parody/homage. I said I was ok with it if it got my poem in The New Yorker. A person turned to me and said something in a joking, non-standoffish manner like, "Is that your life goal? ...to get something in The New Yorker?" To which I said, in a vaguely dick-like manner, "Yes, yes it is." To which the person said something like, "What happens when you do that?" To which I said, "I'm going to kill myself." Then no one said anything for ~30 seconds. Yesterday I went to a bar with two classmates who were present for the aforementioned exchange. We were talking and I asked them what they thought when I said I was going to kill myself. They said they didn't remember that happening. Should I have money for breakfast or should I print out THE POETRY OF BEN MIROV? What good is poetry with out a stapler? What good is breakfast without a stapler? Got workshopped. Was told "[you're like a robot]." ee cummings painted this: 
"I Went to a WNBA Game" an article by me at "Thought Catalog": http://thoughtcatalog.com/2010/wnba-sports-basketball-madison-square-garden/ comments are particularly good on this one, i feel started school summer ended what's up? older posts newer posts |
WEEATHERHEAD@gmail.com facebook | twitter | tumblr AJW is the author of numerous poems and short stories, both online and in print. He makes collages here. He is from Wilmette, Illinois. He is an Eagle Scout.
Poetry:
Pop Serial 4 Banango Street Aesthetix Pop Serial 3 Shallow The Broome Street Review (print) The Scrambler HTMLGiant Metazen Juked, Juked 2 NYU Prize Thing HRM Literary/Arts Journal Fiction: MuuMuu House Juked Misc.: HTMLGiant Author Page Thought Catalog Author Page People I've Interviewed: Matthew Rohrer Matthew Rohrer again Michael Earl Craig David Fishkind Human 500 Harriet Alida Lye Anthony McCann Blake Butler
in alphabetical order
Ben Mirov David Fishkind FreeDarko Her Royal Majesty Jordan Castro Mallory Whitten Miles Ross Tao Lin Timothy Willis Sanders
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