30 de abr. de 20211 minspeed roundSpeculative criticism is a true, present fiction, but for the nearer future than speculative fiction. A writing colleague, Ismar advises...
29 de abr. de 20211 minfirst impressions matterWe first chatted on Facebook. We were perhaps ‘friends’ who didn’t actually know each other. I may have seen him on Grindr or a sex app,...
29 de abr. de 20211 minsecond half-life mantraI’m writing a book on my mid-life crisis it would seem. A mantra for the second half-life has begun to emerge this catharsis: Talk to who...
29 de abr. de 20211 minlet me see if i get this rightUpon pitching a publishing idea you have offered me a range of excuses and feigned offence in the end. Let me see if I get this right....
29 de abr. de 20215 minstand-off with tonyI didn’t care much for sports in junior high. The first year of high school would be easier than these exposed junior high years outside...
29 de abr. de 20212 mina phalanx of neutral charactersA friend and colleague once asked me a few times, why I care so much? I was recently home to Tennessee and I was reminded of the...
29 de abr. de 20211 minwhat i didn’t learn at swarthmoreI didn’t learn anything at swarthmore. I did not take a class on logic there whereby I gained an ivy league sense of rationale. I do not...
29 de abr. de 20211 minbetrayalYou came in the form of a year. 2017 to be precise. You were not one or the other of its happenstances. You were the sum of its parts....
29 de abr. de 20211 mincafé societyI don’t think I know enough about the historic camps of Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots on Saint-Germain des Prés in Paris. Both were...
29 de abr. de 20211 minan ode to emailOh email. You are not you. You are not Gertrude or Renato, Daniel or Danielle. You are not George or Sidd, Rapha or Paula. You are not...
29 de abr. de 20212 minkkk, v2 (days later while in tennessee)The birthplace of the racist, white supremecist kkk is my homestate of Tennessee. Pulaski. I am back in NYC for a week. It is...
29 de abr. de 20212 minpricing is cultural?I flew home from Paris on the Norwegian airliner … the one that has the ‘smoke over’ windows. I requested an aisle seat, so I didn’t get...
29 de abr. de 20211 minnice carI really don’t know where I am right now. I do, but my energy level hasn’t calibrated to Brooklyn yet. I’m nice, courteous even, to...
29 de abr. de 20213 minreferring to something not publishedI haven’t hit ‘publish’ on number forty-three because I can intuit repercussions for what I want to say. Even if I think I’ve pieced...
29 de abr. de 20212 minvai escreverGeorge had his day off today. I work at home. On two occasions I was bugging him because he was bugging me. Both times he brushed me off...
29 de abr. de 20212 mineu sou pão com ovoEduardo sells peppers on Rua Humaitá at the intersection where Rua Martiniano de Carvalho becomes Rua dos Bororós. In front of the meat...
29 de abr. de 20212 minlose of confidenceThe first big building is being built on our street. She sat on the planter in front of the last remaining individual family house on the...
29 de abr. de 20211 minthe price of cashewsGentrification is when cashews can cost twice as much at a new — freshly designed — shoppe across the street from the Northeastern...
29 de abr. de 20213 minmise-en-scène: madame satã, friday fairMadame Satã is a club near where George and I want to move to in Bixiga. It sits on a corner painted black. The gargoyle on the roof is...
29 de abr. de 20211 mindon’t talk to me about solidarity, starfuckerI know it doesn’t wear well. What I’m doing. You are right — therapeutically speaking — the weight of it can be bad for me. But, I remind...
29 de abr. de 20216 minthings overheard, overheardYesterday I wrote to a senior peer. Someone I wish who would consider mentoring me. I came on too strong. Will he like how much I know...
29 de abr. de 20211 minpolymathematicalI did not speak bad about you. I spoke about you. My personality is not so much multiple, but simply different with each passing day. We...
29 de abr. de 20211 minthings overheardWell, you’re finally a millionaire. It’s what you wanted. Uptown on the 6. Woman to woman. A loving friend grimace and clutch of the...
29 de abr. de 20217 minsaddle samIt is not often that we get to commemorate a former pet. Or perhaps not often that I care to. There is not much to say about Ruff — a dog...