The Big Cats, Part IX
On the heat and halitosis of the State
This palpative uncommonwealth, a thing held / or pulled apart like a tightrope or meat off the bone....
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Fifteen Years
You haven’t tried.To know me.Only try to control me.You think it’s my job to cater to you?
I was seven,Or around that age,When you two finally separated.I was relieved.
You never deserved her.And she may not be thereAs much as I need her,But even then you haven’t earned her love.So why would ...
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Communities of Cloth and Style
Fashion, women, and collective consciousness during COVID-19
As fashion retail sales decrease in the United States during the recession triggered by pandemic lockdowns, “brick and mortar” stores have closed and some longstanding department stores have declared bankruptcy. We might be forgiven for wondering: Is this the end of fashion as we knew it? But such a question ...
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The Big Cats, Part VIII
On the sharp edge of fragility
Follow your own feet uphill, fix / your gaze on the undeliverable missives / flying back to their return address...
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The Big Cats, Part VII
On the elements of crisis: oxygen, hydrogen, chlorine
The tigers sing: We never
ate your parents. So what
if we ate your parents.
They were no angels
and neither are you....
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Psychology and Fashion
Psychology is the scientific study of behavior. It is applicable, and valuable, in every context in which people are involved. Psychologists are analysts, trained to synthesize information and conduct analyses to provide deeper understanding of behavior in order to be able to predict it—and where desirable, to change it for ...
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The Big Cats, Part VI
On the rough, indifferent tongue of the truth
Come and see the tigers lick us with their rough / indifferent tongues as our wax darkens...
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The Big Cats, Part V
On crime and punishment and missing out on parties
The virus is born and already dead, a script / for another life’s dis-ease. ...
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The Tangled Web of Familial Homophobia
A Secret Love (Directed by Chris Bolan, Netflix, 2020)
But I was not prepared for the central role in the documentary film played by Terry’s nieces, Diana Bolan and Tammy Donahue; nor was I prepared for their jarring, casual homophobia.
A Secret Love begins with Terry and Pat coming out to their families after having been a couple (they told ...
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The Big Cats, Part IV
On Joe Exotic and Bill Gates
Tiger catches / Joe Exotic by the toe. He won’t run, / let him go. My mother said Bill Gates / is going to pick the very last one....
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Creative Careers: Making A Living With Your Ideas
A journey through fashion and design
I graduated from the University of Wisconsin in, Madison with a double major in philosophy and psychology. I tried to get a job as a sage, but he wisdom factories weren’t hiring, so I got a job in a small clothing boutique. One day a friend of mine called and ...
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The Goths & Other Stories
I
In the winter of 476 A.D. the Ostrogoths, hungry and exhausted from wandering for months through barren hills along the confines of the Byzantine Empire, wrote to Emperor Zeno in Constantinople requesting permission to enter the walled city of Epidaurum, and just kinda crash and charge their phones.
“My ...
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