Issue 24: Eileen Myles

The Sacrament & the

Trains coming 

today different

from yes

terday

there still is that

slight breeze 

Maiya is the special

agent in charge 

of casinos on Get

Go & not the owner

of Ozark who did not

respond to my 

letter

peeing around the dumpster 

peculiar slime and

cat trap

a cup of

time we get

to give 

as an amend

to somebody else

not burning in

this morning

sun today

I’m starving

Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist and art journalist who lives in New York and Marfa TX. For Now a talk/essay about writing will be out in the fall from Yale Press.

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