DEAR DIARY, BEIN' A LIL' BITCH ABT IT
may b my
only left /
my only way
outward. 2
esc. not 2 stop
/ 2 make it
stop. lolzy
how boi o’
the month club
think
my hair scores
his hand.
brillowsad.
funny how
i’m mad
as a Texas
air condition.
yu can take
the boichik
from the desert
but ya can’t
take the desert
from a history of extra-national violence guest starring as fictive virginity narrative.
what we’ve got here is a failure 2 substantiate. 2 put our back into
the elbow grease.
guess i suck then.
guess i, lyk the pokeball,
am a plot convention /
often thrown /
most present in error.
only left /
my only way
outward. 2
esc. not 2 stop
/ 2 make it
stop. lolzy
how boi o’
the month club
think
my hair scores
his hand.
brillowsad.
funny how
i’m mad
as a Texas
air condition.
yu can take
the boichik
from the desert
but ya can’t
take the desert
from a history of extra-national violence guest starring as fictive virginity narrative.
what we’ve got here is a failure 2 substantiate. 2 put our back into
the elbow grease.
guess i suck then.
guess i, lyk the pokeball,
am a plot convention /
often thrown /
most present in error.
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Clive Holden. Countdown 4 and 7, 2013. Chromogenic print. © The Artist. Courtesy Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto.
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Kamden goes by Kam and is an editor at Jellyfish Magazine. They got kudos from The Ucross Foundation, The NFAA, The Davidson Institute, VSC, and Callaloo. The author of two chapbooks, Distress Tolerance (Magic Helicopter Press, 2016) and Perceived Distance from Impact (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), Kam stays busy. Find their work in The Black Warrior Review, Lambda Literary Review, Redivider, West Branch, and other sunspots.
Canadian artist Clive Holden was born on Vancouver Island. He lives in Toronto with his wife, the novelist Alissa York. Holden’s generative (software-based) artworks, chromogenic prints, videos, and films have been exhibited or screened at: Anthology Film Archives (New York), Kino Arsenal (Berlin), the Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), the Gardiner Museum/CONTACT Festival (Toronto), Light Industry (Brooklyn), the Ryerson Image Centre (Toronto), the London International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, transmediale (Berlin), the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishops University (Sherbrooke), Images Festival (Toronto), the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, and the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück).