lucky paranoia

 I’m Suzy Anthrax in the aughtsevery box delivered fearphones played deadubiquitous stonedart reigned reliefeffort is comfortcritics assert it has all been saidbut who could disprove much less predictthe impact array of biography, weatherlived experience is a chaos systemdisease manifests like snowflakesmy dog analog dreams in accidentsabstraction was inventedto facilitate our glaringly narrow intelligencewhere is my messy unended sceneimpossible to compiledo explanations ever stickthey are different than clarity& not opposed to irrationalfractal shorelineswhy make anything alonewhen we don’t have toplaywrights corral troupesto finish their apple& know when to exitmusic is timingcomedy is timingtragedy is timingwhat isn’t timing ____Carol Mirakove is the author of two books of poems, Mediated (Factory School) and Occupied (Kelsey St. Press), as well as the chapbooks Muriel’s House (Least Weasel), temporary tattoos (BabySelf Press), WALL (ixnay), and, with Jen Benka, 1,138 (Belladonna). She appears on the album Women in the Avant Garde and with Dutch musician bates45 she released the electro-house track “temporary tattoos.”