HOW TO LIVE WITH THE CORPSES OF CAPITAL

Emma Gomis

Emma Gomis is a Catalan American essayist, poet, academic, and translator. She has been published in Asymptote, Entropy, Vice Magazine, Mother Jones, and La Opinión, among others. She is the cofounder of Manifold Press, which publishes texts in experimental criticism. She holds a BA in musicology and hispanic studies and MFA in creative writing and poetics from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she was also the Anne Waldman Fellowship recipient. She will be pursuing a PhD in criticism and culture at the University of Cambridge.

focus your attention on architecture and art, and animals that rip through the night, like ants and anarchy, alacrity and answers, if there are answers, and attend to the arrival of alphabets and admission, assemble ancient androgyny, an awesome amorphous arrangement, arriving like an arrow, an accurate account, accept an absolute abstract, all about it, all about it, access additional acts that dip down like arms and rise up like apple orchards, adjust your ambered admiration for the apple orchards, as modes of accidental address according to anonymous articles, in favor of altered affect, afternoon affection, afternoon affair, accidental affection, abstract afternoon affect, anonymous afternoon agent, anonymous afternoon ally who is against absolution, against aspiration, against abjection, against authority, against agents, against avoidance, against awards, against advertising, against age, against it, against it, and the airplanes, all the airplanes that rip through the night, aggressive airplanes, all right, all right, all right, shooting down their aisles alone, also alternatives, if there are alternatives, analogy and analysis, ankles and anguish, another “answer”, another “alternative”, that’s an assignment, anyway, anybody, apart from anxiety and anguish and apparent approval, just architecture, all about it, those arches dip down like arms

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