Written by an Arts Student

White fox

The last thing you see before you die 

The last ad you will ever see 

What you see before you die 

The bus kills you. 

This is an ad. 

Sentence

All good food courts have a pigeon problem. 

Frogie your friend

A universe of small truths (assiduous)-------------------------------------------------The

separation—of pictorial reality from the real world—hovers between all manners of seeming

opposites 

E.g. Matter and atmosphere. 

E.g. The blunt material fact of reality and the metaphorical phantasm of

representation. A pigeon tunnel against the earthbound. 

Oscillates vs. Taxonomic. 

Gestalt vs. Lexicon. 

Vaunt vs. Characters. 

Works of uncanny individuality and self-congruence emit a particular “personhood” 

An Ideogramic nature. 

That's Ineffable. 

An Eloullience. 

Posits.

To attain:

  • Excellent clerical skills 

  • Excellent organisational and time-management skills 

  • Relevant computer skills 

  • Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously 

  • Demonstrate Sound Judgement 

  • Willingness to Kill 

  • Extreme attention to detail with a passion for perfection 

  • An openness to weeding and clearing gutters 

  • A positive outlook 

  • Confidence in male-dominated spaces 

  • Big arms to lift heavy things 

  • A penis

Notes from a Mike Kelley Lecture when I got distracted:

“How to manuals” → spirit collector → bird houses (gothic bird houses) → quadruple meanings → monkey island 1984 → art to produce belief systems → props vs sets → kitchen slideshow and inappropriate spaces → “pseudo reality” → abandon → begin again → Lincoln's profile → kabuki → strutting about → Jim Morrisonisms → bad acting → odd shifts → “bad boy” → good vs. evil twin → to learn is to grovel → bodily fluids → actual colours → cathedral-like spaces on the Brooklyn side of the bridge → architecture as cave → the gifts → gifts are not free → reinforce capitalism on a family level / indentured servitude → more love hours than can ever be repaid → the paradox of modernist churches → female roommates → blobs with eyes sewn on → generically baby / the perfect child → Freudian infant sexuality → sock monkey stars → problem of empathy → a garbage bag is a soft stuffed sack → ARENAS → a crisis of empathy → proximity → filth → embrace / repel → blue bunny #9 → yarn on blankets → leftovers from a dead pet → empathy displacement → land scuba diving → tea break → notice things → odd reliquaries → day 23 of fast / slow → scooping it up and waving energy around → rope flow →  deadlifts and twisty coily things → messiness → it’s like this → inside out → Daddy’s old socks → the good thing about choices is when they're made it’s done.

Scan of the magazine spread. It features a pastel colourful background with the poems printed on white scraps of paper.
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