ISSUE 55 | AUG 2015

FRATERNITY

Sara Pheasant

Fraternity, or a muscular effort: on waiting and reading

a cable network fishing show - mythic masculinity - ultimately trivial demise - overturning age - I’m really fishing - on the shore, in the doctor’s office, or by the phone - subjected to time - technologies of distraction - the waiter, reader, and writer - akin to prayer - « Look, carrots! Ah, cabbages! » - everything comes to pieces - have not been paying attention. - return to the scrivener’s table - a profane form of the saintly intelligence

Ray Osborn

Four Poems

desiccated - rescind these glottal drops - bawdry ictus - a sepal, some petals - odontalgic - in 1817 the Germans - limitless devotion - the meaning of the root - prickly pink animus - my twisted ventures of madness - crassness in Florida - intoxicated - enthusiasm

Eric M Gurevitch

Thinking With Sylvia Ageloff

« He has murdered Trotsky! Kill him! » - the House Committee of Un-American Activities - cultivated forgetting - « slogans to fit reality » - it is a curiosity of circumstances that only during the events directly surrounding Trotsky’s assassination is Sylvia described as blonde

Various Authors

One Time

whatever they lacked - intergalactic domination - I wanna get my D wet - a damp towel between his mattress and his fitted sheet - if lesbians were real - kind of hard, over and over

Avi Garelick

Bros Before Hos in the Mishna

with a woman - which - your - any available - (e.g. rape, adultery) - don’t know Torah - it’s antisocial - your own eyes and the eyes of others - looks bossy - gay? - will fight - more than you - spite - misogynist injunction - A. Do not - B. Do not - towards excess - unwieldy desires

Eleanor Athena Liu

Dear Hypocrite: An Advice Column

this stuffy bourgeois affiliation between sex and profound, intimate, rapport - the radical possibilities in sex with strangers - fertile ground for friend-finding - If you want change, seek openings, not a lockstep regime.