Video games often follow simple storylines. Rescue the princess! Defeat the
enemy. Find the treasure. These are the objectives, within these digital
stories, that require skill and knowledge to complete. Games are objective-based
It comes upon me to clean my bedroom, to put
away the clothes on the headboard, the lingerie on the dresser,
and last night’s shoes lying underneath my small table.
It is
You’d think by now I’d know it’s not
The mixing of drink, but the absence
Of water that makes the head ring,
Unsnoozably, mornings like these.
Consequence of Fat Tuesday,
Ilya, a Soviet dissident living in mid-twentieth century Russia, seeks out his
former teacher, Victor Yulievich, at his home in Moscow. Needing encouragement
for dark times, Ilya hopes for a conversation that will
holding you down
my arms wrapped tight around your body
like plastic wrap, like cocoon silk
my fingers over your eyes, in your ears
smearing my lipstick all over
your body, my lips
