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Cut-up Apologetic, Sharpe's second collection, explores aging in a world where youth is terrible and something we desperately want back. These are poems about failing to leave our mark while marks are left on us - about the collective insatiability of emptying surroundings in an attempt to fill ourselves. At the same time, Cut-up Apologetic is na ve and playful even when examining fear expressed as discrimination or the ways restlessness transitions into an inertia spelling cultural death. Sharpe finds strange new horizons extend(ing)/only backward, into memory.''
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01 avril 2015

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9781770907133

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1 Mo

CUT-UP
APOLOGETIC
ecw press | a misfit book


ONE




DADA
According to legend, Tristan Tzara randomly stabbed his penknife into a French-German dictionary to find the ideal name, striking Dada, meaning hobby horse in French. In German, Dada additionally connotes a foolish naïveté.
Hobby horses ridden into floorboards:
the head ground. Statute set
of nostalgia brought
past collapse.
Ahead, ground set with statues:
exhausted objects, pillars
of the past collapsing
into novelty.
Exhausted pillars object
to monotonous stability.
Into the novelty
of falling.
A stable of monotone
grey hobby horses,
falling
into disuse as children grow.
Grey hobby horses
childishly carry the hours
till their disuse, as we grow
into exhausted pillars.


COMPOUNDED
There was some element of loneliness involved —
so easy to be loved — so hard to love.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
collapsed against the bar
collapsed against the bartender
tender is the night
is the nightclub’s only blonde
club’s only blonde broad
broadcasting looks across
casting looks across counters
countersinking loss
inking loss with beer
with beer mugs everywhere
mugs everywhere


WORLD SERIES
for S.N.
you gotta be old already
relaxed
don’t worry about the big right com
they were worried about uh … debate
motorboat a bit later
they’d never been in the fire before
a viacom ending
knowing yeah baby soldiers dot world war
just let the
just let them still jukebox
have to get top five travel up
and thank them down
let go-kart beat you
so many cuba yourself
you know what I will well what I mean
eight states don’t push it
don’t don’t twist your luck so you say
you’ve got to be patient
you know baby lilac
de got nothing to lose
date datya date just one beat you
just want to show the war
they debate babies or date
antique high-powered wrong
it pushes arcane
and then all the law kisses on their side
in your receipt
but that’s not the way to play all of
the baby
you break the value of home
steel we’ll bring you home
germany guy you know it yesterday
he said uh … that blood of someone
but that’s the way she bought
indian is not is nothing but
the north sea he comes to play you so
his weight is being lame
he’s very danish dangers
you’ve got a baby
gemini dating
cellmates or
delete the big ground fog that cotton and
the country band
maybe but you know
no hard feelings
activity u_s_a_ many cadillacs
acknowledge the event and I have not
maintained study
and I know what I want
an important strategy
the ocean
good luck
the other side baby we’re not
going to get it back


FROSTED
Muffins, far too large for consumption,
whose waste decomposes in wallets.
Women in swimsuits
photographed eating naked
muffins, guaranteed AAA
by the Muffin Derivative Board.
To deny muffins is to deny the future —
to eat them is to denature you.
Sustenance of cupcakes a fable, or the past,
or it’s one-and-the-same. Uncle claimed
cupcakes sweet. Father claimed Uncle
socialist: the white icing in his beard
a mark of surrender.


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ONE METRE DIET
Birch leaves are delicious:
add truffle oil.
Your lawn’s delicious:
add truffle oil.
Pine needles are delicious
soaked in vodka.
Give thanks: life offers
simple, abundant pleasures.
Take any local green
then fatten with foreign nectar.
Translate me,
Charles Simic.
Transform my
sour, green lines.

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