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In the Corner of a Room Where You Would Never Look

Warhol was right, he said athletes are fat

in the right places

and they’re young

in the right places. Apparently

the next Godzilla movie has Godzilla

just running around eating everyone’s

money and it’s the scariest thing ever.

We can rub bug powder on the national

anthem and run that over the closing credits

as long as the singer manages to sing

I’m in love with everyone but you, almost

convincingly. A production team undoing

one another’s pants

is How We Get Naked Now but tomorrow

morning all the cut-off parts of us are coming

back so get ready. Europe: you swear it exists

because you once had sex in it, and ideas.

Prepositions: that’s where we all get sucked

under. Prepositions: the San Andreas

fault of meaning. Prepositions:

what came dislodged when our parents

hired operatives to kidnap us from cults

and deprogram us in the backs of vans.

Warhol was talking about the ass,

right, which we have come to understand

is the vessel of histories. That effect.

We put everything through

a translation engine

because we wanted to see the world.