Time Magazine:
by OLIVER
What is time made of?
Autobiography of Red
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently
irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future.
Wikipedia
I keep checking my email
to find out if I’m still here
are you with me?
belonging to someone
an assurance of presence
insurance against disappearing
placing me on the shelf
with all of your other
belongings
being a thing
being better
than not here at all
do you really believe that?
sometimes.
the clock goes
a cruel state
disappearing
the day
instituting programs
for disposing of
the bodies of every
hour
but pain is so slow
x
I keep checking my phone
in increminutes of 3
7:03 - 7:06 - 11:59
it plays ocean sounds
captures images of things; dead and alive
records my data
listens to me
I’m sorry, I didn’t
catch that.
[a poem is a demarcation of time:
a fugitive state
resisting the
empire
of the clock]
holding it in my hands
I am destined for a
call
even though no one
does that anymore
the determined nature
of this object is
irresistible
my phone was made
to make and receive
calls
someone out there
in time and air
is trying
to reach me
I am waiting by the phone
for your call
waiting is an assurance against
death
x
types of death:
please select an answer from the list below
A.) death death
B.) existential death
C.) psychic death
D.) social death
E.) martyr’s death
F.) la petite mort
G.) ego death
H.) lesbian bed death
I.) death of a salesman
J.) death of trotsky
K.) all of the above
If you chose:
A.) Take a multivitamin
B.) Buy a dog
C.) Meditate
D.) Quit your job
E.) Turn up the music to drown out the sounds of god
F.) Have a cigarette
G.) Have a cigarette
H.) Take up arts and crafts
I.) Say, Marilyn Monroe, 7x in the mirror
J.) Say, Frida Kahlo, 7x in the mirror
K.) You are already dead
x
I keep checking the sky
for god
OLIVER is a writer, scholar, performance artist, farmer, student, reader, eater, sleeper, ecosexual, homosexual, transsexual, metrosexual, good-for-nothing, good-for-everything, dyke, et cetera. They are a soon-to-be graduate of the theater and performance studies MA at WashU, where they recently completed their thesis on the life and work of Cathy Josefowitz. They were almost born on a boat in San Francisco Bay.
