I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

The scare quotes burn off like fog.

Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.

Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.