scatterbrain fever		busy in the slammer& better after darkas if on the one hand	flaming for eternitycause or was that realshe was a kid but I wanted to ask herhow it is, to bepersonas immoral in my book awakedefensean ecstasyrecovered from a bodyhaving thought	notmerged& as such missed the boatthese laden contradictionswarehouse		shrinkthe word expresslytiredweek will hum like dog will huntwhat is sadder than unsympatheticsend regretsdo it in Spanish

_____Carol Mirakove is the author of Mediated (Factory School), Occupied (Kelsey St. Press), and with Jen Benka, 1,138 (Belladonna). She is a participant in the collaboration The Collective Task (Patrick Lovelace Editions) and last year with Dutch musician bates45 she released the electro-house track "temporary tattoos." Carol's poetry and recordings are catalogued at the electronic poetry collection Archive of the Now. She is a founding member of the subpress collective, with whom she published Fractured Humorous by Edwin Torres, a former workshop leader at The Poetry Project, and she has served poetry editor of Boog City. Carol currently lives in San Francisco where she is a member of the Nonsite Collective and where she serves on the Board of Directors at Small Press Traffic.