Interview

Five Fishes Journal interviewed Melanie Browne and I about being writers and co-editors at Leaf Garden Press.

You can read the interview: here.

Mmkayla Roderic and I have been exchanging e-mails and poems for a forthcoming e-chap with Bygawd Books. Jc McCallister, the publisher, has us sending him everything we write together, and he's not been impressed with our crude and vulgar natures. I feel like he's a record executive or something. I'll put a couple of our latest exchanges here, because I can. Look:

World Instruments

and Fairgrounds

Mmkayla,

Would you date

me if I

offered to play

the djembe

with your

boob?

(the right boob,

that left one

looks more

like a conga.)

What if I

brought you

dead roses

in a vase

of stale

semen?

Robert,

I'll fuck you if and when

your ill crafted words

penned are read so

softly they

make

me

swoon

so violently and chaotic

that on solid ground

I tilt

and

whirl

and you let me vomit

on your prick.

And then,

if my clothes

spontaneously combust

and I happen

to still be a slip'n'slide

then i'll let you fuck me.

Subject: Toy Piano

play me

a song on

your toy

piano

we can

pretend

i'm that

bitch

lucy,

and you

can send

me head

over heels

KLUNK!

but I guess

you wouldn't

be pretending.

Subject: Re: Toy Piano

SPEAKER:

if you'd

take a spot beside me on the bench

play the low notes

and

dress appropriately for a grand piano tune

then our toy piano days would be over.

SPEAKER (as Shcroeder):

I heard that

Beethoven is

that young boy

Shakespeare

wrote all those

sonnets about,

SPEAKER:

bitch.