Annotated Bibliography: Look. Listen.

I have very good depth perception and I suddenly realized that something had happened to my sense of depth and stereoscopy, that it stopped, quite suddenly, a few feet in front of me– that I was still enclosed, visually, in a transparent box, about nine feet by seven by six feet, the precise size of […]

Recognition

I didn’t even look for Jim Morrison’s grave– I didn’t give a shit. When I read Patti Smith’s book, and she described how much she loved the Doors, how deeply moved she was by them, I felt sad. Rimbaud, whom she also loves, induces some eye-rolling in me, too. Death! Love! Whatever. But we both […]

Lies

I had a friend who was a wonderful liar. She moved into town when I was in seventh grade. She told me she had moved to Prairie Village from Yemen. She showed me Yemen on a map. Whenever Yemen is in the news, I think of her. I felt hopelessly provincial as a kid, which […]

News Flash

Yibbet Turman here, reporting from Kansas City, Missouri, where something almost happened, but it turned out nothing did. The world is looking a lot like a Chopin nocturne, due to the fact that everything almost got destroyed, but it turned out nothing did. The trees are still looking solid and strong. Except that maybe they’re […]