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SEASON 2

SEASON 2 LOVE LETTER

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(EXC.) Courtney Bush & Jack Underwood

(EXC.) Bea Bacon & Blake Levario

(1) Sarah Brenner & Sophie Ewh

(1) Party Poem

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LONG / Courtney Bush & Jack Underwood

LONG / Jennifer Nelson & Jon Woodward

LONG / Christine Marella & Ian Fishman


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2 Poems by James Kelly Quigley & Taylor Cornelius






[When we preserve ourselves]

When we preserve ourselves we also preserve the idea of a world without people.

Disease is only spelled once per year.

My favorite type of disease is fleeting and overwhelming because I narrowly escaped death.

Sometimes when I breathe I remember the particles that permeate your lungs when you sigh.

This is just the beginning of a pronouncement that I refuse to obey.





[The drums sounded lush]

The drums sounded lush
but I was stoned so who knows.
Picante sauce and Madonna
thrum in my esophagus
while an old-growth forest
expounds on clouds and the cantilever.
Carry me in your mouth like
a worm in an apple
I don’t mind dark spaces
or the suggestions of Jerry Garcia
I just want to be a moth
or a worm or whatever the fuck
looks best on my résumé.
Au revoir, bang, splash.









A note about the collaboration:

PROCESS NOTES:

“[When we preserve ourselves]” was written so long ago that we can’t remember how we did it.

“[The drums sounded lush]” was written by trading one line at a time.


James Kelly Quigley is engaged to the poet Taylor Cornelius.

Taylor Cornelius
is engaged to the poet James Kelly Quigley.




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