#c.a. conrad

WE MUST BE BRAVE AND LOVE EACH OTHER                                              IN ORDER TO KEEP ON LIVING

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CAConrad's (Soma)tic exercises desire to literally crack open existence as we know it. A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon is an essential how-to book for anyone interested in breaking through their perceived limitations to become a more politically and physically engaged writer. Incorporating unorthodox steps in the writing process, these twenty-seven exercises and their corresponding poems confirm Conrad's unwavering belief in poetry as a necessary practice for being.

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Beguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal flights of imagination, The Book of Frank follows the eponymous figure as he grows from his troubled childhood into an adult travesty of the ostensibly straight family man in a male-dominated world. Along the way, he navigates a series of darkly comic situations, commits acts of grotesque violence, loses his soul in the post and debates boundary lines with a pig. Frank is one of the great literary creations: a man who can declare that 'however we seek another's weakness is our tyranny', as often touchingly innocent as he is monstrously cruel.

My Faggot Blood On His Fist

the first time someone sent Homer through the internet dot dot     dot we are all falling in love while standing in line for death fuck this way we slowly adjust to suffering an ant finding her way home in the downpour lovers are weapons subjugating your heart if you smell them years after they die if you feel destroyed let us talk do not turn it off yet we dreamed our obliteration for centuries then Hollywood said This is what it will look like Or maybe this Or maybe this you think it’s everyone’s job to make you feel good which       is why we all hate you the disgraced hairdresser pours us another shot      we will figure it out my friend the ocean is never far when you feel your pulse

breakfast

you said too much poetry

I said too much war