Issue 17: Jonty Tiplady

Extinction is Not the Same as Death

I


Extinction is not the same as death but a cessation of birthing

and the inscriptions that partook of that life form


II


it is a game, you know? this is not serious, but again it means everything

in this moment!

beautiful futures right now

nothing that we lived was worth it

(because of the cost)

but there again


III


today I saw no point

on the whole

I focus on the way light should

shoulder the blame

throw coins in the sink

drink too much water

throw myself in the

sink

long tears fell

on the childrens' wisteria

a flood of choice


the supernatural high that follows

we're extinct


IIII


if the world is ending why is Zayn so hot


radicalised by FOBE (fear of being extinct)


2007 Deanna Havas Facebook photos


Kelli Maple Sorry About The Auto Correct

great green bright triangular flowers


ps 100% probability unpaginated

lilt koan


the state functions of magic

in a favourite script

typing


can u plz do babies having a sleepover and building forts


Kelli Maple sorry about the auto correct


It's beautiful when people shut up: it seems large amounts

of money can achieve silent corridors and restaurants, etc


Microdermabrasion of the soul


I've got all these friends

you don't know about

they just go to another school


Frog Desert

I


I see 92 inches of you in a wetsuit holding a giant panda

like a door mouse expanding

Nothing ever happens except that I love my fucking life through you

Nothing ever happens except that I fucking love you

Heaven and earth are heartless

but nothing ever happens to me

except that I love you


II


I bet I've bought a 3-door parcel shelf

B5 is between A4 and A5

Hollllllywooooood blvdddddd early a$$ a.m. #putinwerk

heartbreaking and endless effort not to experience ourselves

claustro-agora-phobia


III


nightingales and nightgowns not nightingowns

ceiling and floor not floorpit

Jonty Tiplady has written Haribo Ozyamdias, Seasons 1-6, available from the author at tipladyjonathan gmail. A pamphlet of prose is out with If A Leaf Falls Press in early 2017. He is working on two books on the aesthetics and politics of extinction for Open Humanities Press.

 

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