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  • POETRY Read: Intimacy – The Duality o...

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    I write a lot about intimacy. I write about my understanding of it. Using cannibalism and feasting as metaphors for sex. About bruises and teeth as symbols of love. Of fighting and commitment, all things both cruel and kind. But what I don’t write about, is the empt...

  • POETRY Reading: The Light at Eastern ...

    Performed by Val Cole

    POEM:

    I think of you that last day
    Happy–probably drunk,
    but I couldn’t tell
    (I never could).
    You were having such a good
    time plotting a prank on an old
    friend’s son over a soccer jersey.

    You were happy that moment,
    a slice between 2 and 2:15 while
    we talked. Me, at wor...

  • Poetry Reading: Death Wish, by Jordan...

    Voice over by Val Cole

    POEM:

    I wish you were dead.

    Does that make me a bad
    person?

    Maybe.

    Anyway.

    I wish you were dead.

    It’s strange, you know?
    Carrying around
    this kind
    of hate.

    Because it’s not the
    boiling burning bubbling
    kind that wakes me up at night.

    No.

    it’s the quiet kind, the ...