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Eileen Myles
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Caesarean Toothbrush
for Alice
I left it outside for a yuk for those that we know who may never come in but riding by they’ll know what I’m doing. They will know I’m okay. It’s what we want to know about everything. We don’t want to get sprayed by it. More than once it’s been suggested to me that if I looked more closely I’d see that it’s normal. So I live with weird but familiar. To traffic it looks okay. My jokes are mostly travelers jokes I go to unusual lengths to get what most people get. In my defense I like it hard. My cat’s name is Marco Polo. His severe profile gazing into the dead end of the apartment. Hey that’s not going out. That end goes out. To him I just become invisible for a while & to me that’s just my life. This is being his secretary. Worrying about how he’ll be when he’ll be anything. Worry about yourself, Eileen. Stabbing things. I just did do it for a very long time. In that motion in that soothing motion.
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Eileen Myles's collection of essays The Importance of Being Iceland, for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant, is just out from Semiotext(e)/MIT. Eileen also writes novels (Chelsea Girls, Cool for You) and libretti (“Hell”) and many many poems (Sorry, Tree, Not Me). She ran St. Mark’s Poetry Project in the 80s. In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President. She’s a Professor Emeritus of Writing & Literature at UC San Diego. She lives in New York. |
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