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task 03 / 8

Start date: March 1, 2026.

List of participants:
Chris Alexander (NYC), Alexis Almeida (NYC), Roberto Balò (Prato), Stephanie Barber (Philadelphia), Erica Baum (NYC), Courtney Bush (NYC), Alessandra Capodacqua (Florence), Felipe Cussen (Santiago, Chile), Mónica de la Torre (NYC), Claire DeVoogd (NYC), Robert Fitterman (NYC), Ethan Fortuna (NYC), Sophia Le Fraga (Los Angeles), Kristen Gallagher (NYC), Henry Goldkamp (New Orleans), Sanja Grozdanic (NYC), Aurelia Guo (London), Sabine Herrmann (Berlin), Atef Al Jaffal (Baghdad), Josef Kaplan (Philadelphia), Christine Kelly (North Adams, MA), Klaus Killisch (Berlin), Tyler Little (NYC), Matt Longabucco (NYC), Kristin Lucas (Austin), Monica McClure (NYC), Holly Melgard (NYC), Hella Mewis (Baghdad), Joe Milutis (Seattle), Cole Modell (Pittsburgh), Yedda Morrison (San Francisco), Joseph Mosconi (Los Angeles), Sean Munro (New Orleans), Anna Murray (Dublin), Théo Robine-Langlois (Paris), Kim Rosenfield (NYC), Zaid Saad (Baghdad), Jeff Shapiro (Siena), Ed Steck (Pittsburgh), Luke Stettner (Columbus, OH), Barrett White (NYC), Sam Winston (London), Joey Yearous-Algozin (NYC)

JAZZ
Joe Milutis

RESPONSES

Roberto Balò

Stephanie Barber

Erica Baum

Courtney Bush

JAZZ FOR KIDS

On the bus, as always, people talk my ear off when I am with Augie, who just turned two and is excessively cute and smart. He has been speaking in full sentences for six months. A sentence he recently spoke to me: I eat people. He told me this as I was changing his diaper after his nap. I said Augie, no sweet boy, we don’t eat people. He said no, I eat people, distinguishing the we from the I, correcting my misunderstanding. So this woman on the bus wouldn’t stop trying to show us Instagram videos of a mouse named Tony counting to ten. I was like honey, Augie can count to like… a million, he’s a genius. You don’t know us. Then she started obsessively recommending a class called “Jazz for Kids” at Lincoln Center. She borderline begged me to sign him up. I left the bus feeling violated and thinking of how adults are willing to project their interests onto innocent kids to validate themselves. Jazz for example. What is a two year old genius going to do with boring ass jazz for kids, I’m sorry but he’s smarter than that!!! Jazz I guess is fine? To some people? But jazz for kids? He could listen to regular jazz if he wanted to. It’s like the Beatles for kids. Like, they are smarter than you are thinking they are. They don’t need to be played jazz and the Beatles. They can listen to regular music. Whatever. I would spit on jazz for kids’ grave I think.

Alessandra Capodacqua

Felipe Cussen

pdf

Claire DeVoogd

A lot of people say “I don’t like jazz”
In high school I knew a girl named Jazzy
One preconception
Liking jazz has something to with
Intellectual or aesthetic maturity
One grows into jazz
Not sure where that comes from
Jazz brunch:
A 21^st century phenomenon
You eat highly developed
Breakfasts
While people play saxophone
What is jazz today
A friend goes to the jazz bar in Bushwick
It’s packed
Jazz is an expensive habit
Pure jazz
As in the ideal
If visible
Might look something like a fractal
Post Euclidean, a
Nautilus
I don’t know
Maybe

Robert Fitterman

Extra Cheese (music by Grant Green)

Ethan Fortuna

pdf

Henry Goldkamp

Sabine Herrmann

Atef Al Jaffal

Klaus Killisch

Kristin Lucas

Monica McClure

Holly Melgard

we made her so technically we made her art

Joe Milutis

Cole Modell

Jeff Shapiro

Ed Steck

task 02 / 8

Start date: January 1, 2026.

CHEAT CODE
Christine Kelly

RESPONSES

Chris Alexander

Roberto Balò

Stephanie Barber

Erica Baum

Courtney Bush

A poem written with a cheat code: just write down the last thing said to you by as as many people you can think of

May 28 2025

Max told me take the white umbrella instead
of the new rainbow umbrella. John said he
loved to fight. Margaret said she had a vision
for how to publish my letters, but poems
for July would be fine. Jon said he liked
my handwriting for the cover. Jake told
me Payton met Madonna last night.
Payton said it was just like meeting your
friend’s mom. Maria said ciao. Nina asked
if she could bring Emir over to play. Hue
told me he would get to eat ice cream
after surgery, so he was not afraid. Jamie
said she took out the part I remembered
from her book, when the Marschallin
goes to see a movie. Nora asked how I
ended my telling of the story of the time
we saw Stalker at IFC then met a stalker at
Papaya Dog. How do you land a story
like that? Will told me he understood
why I couldn’t come to the party but
he’d just ordered a Cynar and soda. Sean
said one reading at a time. Juliet said she
didn’t need counsel she just wanted to
see me. Aiden said he had another event
that night. Jackson said he felt nauseous
for no reason. Ed said he’d tell me about
the time Tony Buba came into the store
but not right now. Marco said ciao and
thank you. Urush asked me about
my fitness journey. I mean he used those words.
Stacy said the boys couldn’t go to
the soccer field because a real game
was going on. My mom said she’d call
back at a better time. My dad said he
had seen his mom and felt, since she’d
fallen, she wasn’t doing well. Gabe
mentioned that mom had taken Molly
somewhere and left her phone at home,
so she didn’t know where her daughter
was or if she’d had lunch. Jessa said
the book launch would be fine, that I
was not, as I feared, doing rush jobs
for attention. Henry said he’d logged
off the Zoom because he couldn’t stop
laughing. Morgan said he did want to
hold the baby for her first trip to see
the ocean, and took her from my arms.
Laura asked to see the picture I took
of her baby holding forks at the restaurant.
Teline said it had been nice to hang out.
Kenta said I was beautiful. I don’t know
if I like my own artwork, Julien confessed,
which Andrew had told him was all that
really mattered. John said shoes cost one
thousand dollars. Drake said he’d gone
many places with John that day to buy
some shoes. Andy wanted to know which
translator of the Guermantes’ Way to buy
because he didn’t realize Lydia Davis
only did Swann. Claire said she’d
talk to Michelle about the fashion industry
as research for her movie. Sophie said
she wasn’t that tired. Michelle said
she’s turning thirty-five next week
which makes her think she’s dying so
she’s been making doctor’s appointments.
Milo said the urban legend I told him
was not scary. Lily told me the creator
of Chopped originally wanted dogs
to eat the losing contestants’ meals.
Max used a baseball metaphor to ask
me to pick Milo up from school. Ted
said he was one of my six, meaning
one of the six people who would care
if I stopped writing. Shiv told me
to read the Faber Book of Movie Poems.
Rainer said they couldn’t come to my
book launch. Dante said they weren’t
sure if they could babysit my cat in July.
Jack asked if I’d give him my address.
Ruzan said I deserved to be taken care of.
Sabrina asked me if I had gotten back into
therapy. Noman said Jing was doing great
feeding the baby in the middle of the night.
Alex said he was going to have lunch
with the actress who wanted to play me
in our movie, though she doesn’t know
it’s me she’d be playing, only I do
because I wrote it. Josh said thank you
and that he’d bought more laundry
detergent if I wanted to use it. Lexie
said thank you and they’d leave me
one hundred and fifty dollars. Violet
asked me if I named my book after
a specific movie. I didn’t speak to Rodrigo,
we only kind of waved at each other.
Anselm said he was going to Rodrigo’s
before getting into a car, I assume to go there.
Anna said she’d be gone for all of June.
Kristina said I had great form and knew
what I was doing. Sarah said she didn’t
know what PLUR was. Karen said
her Japanese toilet was her favorite
part of her house. James called out
for Jimmy the dog. Patti said she got
that I was busy at the poetry conference,
but since I was in town she really
thought I’d make time to see her.
I don’t remember what Beth said.
Kyle said he’d love to have a copy
of my book, and that he had also
been experiencing a delayed grief
about our relationship ending. Bill
said he’s published twelve books
already this year. LeeAnn said she
was not trying to interrupt us but
was just waiting for her gumbo.
Coco told me her plans for Fire Island.
Ada suggested we get dinner with Jake.
Chris said the Picture of Dorian Gray
starring Sarah Snook was amazing,
that they’d been gifted tickets. Kathy
asked if I’d heard they were playing
Baseball Is Cinema at Spectacle. Ari
said it was wild to watch Mets clips
at the theater. Grace said if they
weren’t too scattered getting ready
to travel the next day, they’d come
to the book launch. Heather said
she was excited for poetry workshop.
Stella said she’d pay me Friday.
Ben said he’s listening to death metal.
Zach asked if it was okay if Laura’s
book design is very similar to mine.
Alex said he was going to an Italian
restaurant for dinner even though
he’s worried about money. Hannah
said she’ll wear a pink Doen top
to her opening in Los Angeles.
Brandon said he was tempted to
forward my email to Steve. Steve
appreciated my email as it was
encouraging and he’s been trying
to find the strength to get his book,
the one I was gushing about, back
in print. Peter asked how I was. Tracy
said we’d had the same day, because
we’d seen each other at the barbecue
in Bed Stuy and then the screening
in the city. Shea said she would turn
twenty-three in Taiwan. Tiziana called
my fridge videos “poems.” Jeff said
he’d put my copies in the mail.
Rob said he’d put in a good word.
Johnna said Luke had peed all over
his clothes when he got to the hospital
so she took them home to wash them,
and when he woke up he got mad
that she’d gone through his stuff,
even though washing piss out of
someone else’s clothes for them
isn’t exactly that, right? It’s nice.
Phil said standing room tickets
at the Mets game were better than he
imagined they’d be. Dan said he
needed to talk to the sound guy
because the vocal effect we wanted
was going to require more equipment
than he or I originally assumed.

Alessandra Capodacqua

Felipe Cussen

pdf

Robert Fitterman

CHEAT CODE

Hold down my
fear

button then
what

comes leaping
out

of the house
is

unbridled love

Sophia Le Fraga

Ethan Fortuna

Henry Goldkamp

Atef Al Jaffal

Christine Kelly

Klaus Killisch

Joe Milutis

pdf

Cole Modell

Sean Munro

Anna Murray

Cheat Code [Failure]

I’m stuck again. I think I’ve looked up cheats or hints or solutions to maybe a third of the levels. Baba is You and box has key and door is locked and skull is defeat and defeat is failure and failure is failure.

I sink hours in strategy games on weekends, I bring a Switch while I travel, I have an impressive Steam library of indie releases, I finished all the bosses in Silksong. This is a puzzle game on my phone.

There’s a crossover with musical training in games, the ability to spend hours working on a fine motor skill and memory in order to reach some kind of achievement. Perfect and failure but that’s not acceptable so perfection and success and then criticism is failure so more perfection but it’s not really perfect though is it and failure and failure and that bit looks like success but it did come at great personal cost so maybe it’s actually failure and maybe I’m not being an artist properly and perfection and practice and failure and what do you mean I can’t use my hands properly because they’re in such knots and perfection and perfection and pain and perfection. Or maybe I’m good but just not smart?

I’m going to record this and put it all through Paulstretch. It’s ambient music’s cheat code.

soundcloud

Théo Robine-Langlois

Goodbye, merci

Zaid Saad

Jeff Shapiro

Ed Steck

pdf

Barrett White

dmvwifi · FFFFFFF1 (Enemies Cannot See You)

task 01 / 8

Start date: November 1, 2025.

Something in your fridge
Courtney Bush

RESPONSES

Roberto Balò

Erica Baum

Stephanie Barber

Alessandra Capodacqua

Dreaming about my tortellini!

Felipe Cussen

pdf

Claire DeVoogd

A short film about a refrigerator

Faintly Tchaikovsky’s sixth can be heard
Intertext: Where is he?
First shot me walking up to the fridge and opening it, Tchaikovsky’s 6th blares
Intertext: where is he?!
Moving things around
Intertext: too many sauces
Series of still shots of single sauces lit dramatically from behind on the shelf
Last one with a picture of Tchaikovsky on it
Intertext: Tchaikovsky!
Final shot I get it out and open it click
Cut to black

Robert Fitterman

Ethan Fortuna

Sophia Le Fraga

URGE, 18″x24″, candy and PVA glue on canvas

Kristen Gallagher

pdf

Henry Goldkamp

Chippin in/dippin in for this month of wonder: “I eat pieces of book like you for brechtfast”

Aurelia Guo

Christine Kelly

Klaus Killisch

Tyler Little

here’s a picture four shelves on side one many pastes and oils pickled mango pickled green chilies miso soy sauces and habanero hot sauce among other things down below fibrous powders like psyllium husk roommates vitamins jams and jellies then down below vermouth from catering gig it was thrown away but is back not sure what happened there damn it I was wrong only three shelves central fridge is four quadrants eggs mashed potato leftovers neverending stuffing with grapes and apples rotting produce in the crisper drawers I wont say anything again

Kristin Lucas

Joe Milutis

pdf

Cole Modell

Anna Murray

Monica McClure

Théo Robine-Langlois

a light

illuminates

my insomnia

an angel

whispers

chhhhh

Kim Rosenfield

What’s in your refrigerator?

When I was in college my suitemate, Claire, was catsitting for a professor. She called me late one night in a panic and told me she’d just gotten back to the apartment and the cat was dead. We decided she should put it in the freezer until the owners got home. I don’t remember what happened next.

Zaid Saad

Jeff Shapiro

Ed Steck

Barrett White

pdf

task 06 / 7

Start date: September 1, 2025.

List of participants:
Chris Alexander (New York City), Alexis Almeida (New York City), Amir Akram (Baghdad), Roberto Balò (Prato), Stephanie Barber (Philadelphia), Erica Baum (New York City), Elisa Biagini (Florence), Laura Boggia (Genoa), Marie Buck (New York City), Courtney Bush (New York City), Alessandra Capodacqua (Florence), Felipe Cussen (Santiago), Mónica de la Torre (New York City), Claire DeVoogd (New York City), Robert Fitterman (New York City), Ethan Fortuna (New York City), Sophia Le Fraga (Los Angeles), Kristen Gallagher (New York City), Henry Goldkamp (New Orleans), Sanja Grozdanic (New York City), Aurelia Guo (London), Sabine Herrmann (Berlin), Elijah Jackson (New York City), Atef Al Jaffal (Baghdad), Josef Kaplan (Philadelphia), Christine Kelly (North Adams), Klaus Killisch (Berlin), Tyler Little (New York City), Matt Longabucco (New York City), Kristin Lucas (Austin), Monica McClure (New York City), Holly Melgard (New York City), Hella Mewis (Baghdad), Joe Milutis (Seattle), Cole Modell (Pittsburgh), Yedda Morrison (San Francisco), Joseph Mosconi (Los Angeles), Sean Munro (New Orleans), Anna Murray (Dublin), Michael Prado (Lima), Théo Robine-Langlois (Paris), Kim Rosenfield (New York City), Zaid Saad (Baghdad), Jeff Shapiro (Siena), Ed Steck (Pittsburgh), Luke Stettner (Columbus), Barrett White (NYC), Sam Winston (London), Joey Yearous-Algozin (New York City)

FUCK OFF
Cole Modell

RESPONSES

Chris Alexander

pdf

Roberto Balò

Erica Baum

Stephanie Barber

Elisa Biagini

Courtney Bush

PASCUALE’S CARD

I was waiting for the A train at JFK and I sneezed and a guy who was writing in a card said bless you. A few seconds later, he asked me for the date, and I told him what it was. A few minutes later, he asked me if he could ask me something and I was like of course you may ask me anything you like. He said he and his coworker, a woman, keep getting in screaming fights. He’s been on the job 25 years and she’s been on the job 17 years. Last time he tried to apologize she told him to fuck off, so he’s trying again by writing this card. He asked me to read it and ask if it was enough. I read it and it said that he swore on his father and mother’s lives that he was going to start respecting her. Love, Pascuale. I was like I think it’s cool. He said do you think it’s going to work? And I was like I don’t know but I think it’s cool you’re trying. He also included a Saint Jude’s prayer card. But he did also say she was a crazy bitch and a liar.

Alessandra Capodacqua

Felipe Cussen

Robert Fitterman

Ethan Fortuna

Kristen Gallagher

Henry Goldkamp

Christine Kelly

Sophia Le Fraga

Tyler Little

Joe Milutis

Cole Modell

Joseph Mosconi

Sean Munro

Anna Murray

Théo Robine-Langlois

Offfuck

Kim Rosenfield

Jeff Shapiro

pdf

Ed Steck

task 05 / 7

Start date: July 1, 2025.

List of participants:
Alexis Almeida (New York City), Amir Akram (Baghdad), Roberto Balò (Prato), Stephanie Barber (Philadelphia), Erica Baum (New York City), Elisa Biagini (Florence), Laura Boggia (Genoa), Marie Buck (New York City), Courtney Bush (New York City), Alessandra Capodacqua (Florence), Felipe Cussen (Santiago), Mónica de la Torre (New York City), Claire DeVoogd (New York City), Robert Fitterman (New York City), Ethan Fortuna (New York City), Sophia Le Fraga (Los Angeles), Kristen Gallagher (New York City), Sanja Grozdanic (New York City), Aurelia Guo (London), Sabine Herrmann (Berlin), Elijah Jackson (New York City), Atef Al Jaffal (Baghdad), Josef Kaplan (Philadelphia), Christine Kelly (North Adams), Klaus Killisch (Berlin), Tyler Little (New York City), Matt Longabucco (New York City), Kristin Lucas (Austin), Monica McClure (New York City), Holly Melgard (New York City), Hella Mewis (Baghdad), Cole Modell (Pittsburgh), Yedda Morrison (San Francisco), Joseph Mosconi (Los Angeles), Michael Prado (Lima), Théo Robine-Langlois (Paris), Kim Rosenfield (New York City), Zaid Saad (Baghdad), Jeff Shapiro (Siena), Ed Steck (Pittsburgh), Luke Stettner (Columbus), Sam Winston (London), Joey Yearous-Algozin (New York City)

BE THE CAT SEEING THROUGH THE WALL AT YOU
Ed Steck

RESPONSES

Stephanie Barber

Erica Baum

Elisa Biagini

Courtney Bush

Alessandra Capodacqua

Sky holds my outline
light bends through a drifting frame,
I dissolve in blue.

Felipe Cussen

Robert Fitterman

pdf

Ethan Fortuna

Sophia Le Fraga

Kristen Gallagher
pdf

Aurelia Guo

Atef Al Jaffal

Christine Kelly

Klaus Killisch

A processed purring of Alfred the house cat, sculpted through guitar pedals and feedback loops

Tyler Little

Cole Modell

Joseph Mosconi

Kim Rosenfield

Jeff Shapiro

Ed Steck

task 04 / 7

Start date: May 1, 2025.

Open
Ethan Fortuna

RESPONSES

Roberto Balò

Stephanie Barber

Open w/ g + g music factory

Erica Baum

Elisa Biagini

Courtney Bush

1. Rilke says animals can see into The Open. That people who die become it.

2. My landlord wants to try to trim the tree from inside my bedroom by hanging his body out the open window with a set of shears even though I told him I tried to do the same thing and cut branches with kitchen scissors and found it to be very dangerous and a bee tried to fly into my apartment and so did a green bug and I only had the window open for about five minutes.

3. FILM JOINED TO LAY OPEN THE LOGIC OF A PERSON’S THOUGHT, Tarkovsky said that, about something.

4. I saw Peter and Julia’s show Open Mic Night, which was truly beautiful. In the show, Julia said the first thing Peter ever said to her was, “I can’t wait to make you laugh but I can’t do it right now.”

5. My mom called the Mardi Gras store that is only open six months out of the year a multi-million dollar juggernaut.

6. One of the little girls opens the bags of mango for the other little girls because she’s good at opening the tricky bags.

7. A24 needs to take a note from Saving Silverman for once and open a movie with Steve Zahn talking directly to camera, narrating footage of his mother going into labor.

8. Does anyone know why I bought this hard-boiled egg and gouda box from Starbucks and then why I opened it on an airplane?

9. Peter Falk in Opening Night. Someone who died and became it.

10. Anyway, the landlord did come and trim the trees by hanging out my fifth-floor window that can only open one foot and I’m pretty sure he stole a book while he was here. (My Struggle by Karl Ove Knaussgard)

Alessandra Capodacqua

Felipe Cussen

Ethan Fortuna

pdf

Sophia Le Fraga

Kristen Gallagher

pdf

Kristin Lucas

pdf

Monica McClure

Cole Modell

Michael Prado

Jeff Shapiro

pdf

Ed Steck

task 03 / 7

Start date: March 1, 2025.

The experience of saying
Tyler Little

RESPONSES

Roberto Balò

Stephanie Barber

Erica Baum

Elisa Biagini

Felipe Cussen

Robert Fitterman
Klaus Killisch

I, too, am sad and lonely
Klaus Killisch & ambientfunk: video, music
Robert Fitterman: words, voice

I, too, am sad and lonely
you told me that you are too
my ticket reads: sad and lonely
what do you expect us to do?

I, too, am giving up
you say you gave up long ago
giving up on every day
it’s a feeling I know you know

I, too, am looking down on
this world we left behind
got a suitcase full of sad—
got a world that’s so unkind

CHORUS:

You ought to know that your sadness just might be mine.
You’ve already said what I wanted to say every time
The world that’s forgotten about me
has forgotten about you too.
I, too, am sad and lonely.
and I know that you are sad and lonely too.

I, too, am sad and lonely
you told me that you wrote that too
too many of us feel too empty
too many days feeling blue

I, too, am sad and lonely
I’m sad when you go away
and if you’ll allow me this honesty
I’m sad when you’re here to stay.

I got a ticket to sad and lonely
the seat next to me is free
you thought the same thought I just thought—
we’re not who we thought we’d be

REPEAT CHORUS

Sophia Le Fraga

Ethan Fortuna

Kristen Gallagher

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1360699

Sanja Grozdanic

In honor of Rosa Luxemburg’s birthday today, I’ve been reading her prison letters to Sophie Liebknecht. Frequently she draws attention to the sound of birds (or to birds, and living creatures generally—in one particularly moving letter, to buffaloes from Romania –“Poor wretch, I am as powerless, as dumb, as yourself; I am at one with you in my pain, my weakness, and my longing.”). Examples below.

May 2nd, 1917: “… Do you remember how, in April last year, I called you up on the telephone at ten in the morning to come at once to the Botanical Gardens and listen to the nightingale which was giving a regular concert there? We hid ourselves in a thick shrubbery, and sat on the stones beside a trickling streamlet. When the nightingale had ceased singing, there suddenly came a plaintive, monotonous cry that sounded something like “Gligligligligliglick!” I said I thought it must be some kind of marsh bird, and Karl agreed; but we never learned exactly what bird it was.”

May 23, 1917: “Will you believe me, Sonyusha, when I tell you that a little snatch of bird song can be so full of meaning, can move me so profoundly. My mother, who considered that Schiller and the Bible were the supreme sources of wisdom, was firmly convinced that King Solomon understood the language of birds. In the pride of my fourteen years and my training in natural science I used to smile at my mother’s simplicity. But now I have myself grown to be like King Solomon; I too can understand the language of birds and beasts. Not, of course, as if they were using articulate speech, but I understand the most varied shades of meaning and of feeling conveyed by their tones. Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent, does the song of a bird seem always the same. Those who love birds and beasts, those who have a sympathetic understanding, can perceive great diversity of expression, and can recognise a complete language.”

May 12, 1918: “For my part, however, my interest in organic nature is almost morbid in its intensity. A pair of crested larks here have one young bird – no doubt the other three have come to a bad end. This little one can already run. You may have noticed the quaint way in which crested larks run. They trip along with short, hasty steps, not like the sparrow which hops on both feet. This young lark can fly quite well by now, but is not yet able to find its own food (insects, grubs, etc.) at any rate while the weather is still so cold. Every evening in the court beneath my window, it utters its sharp, plaintive pipe. The old birds promptly put in an appearance, answering with a soft and anxious “hweet, hweet”, and they bustle about to hunt up some food in the chill evening twilight. As soon as they find anything, it is stuffed down the throat of the clamorous youngster.”

…

Rosa Luxemburg’s last written words are available to read here. ““Order prevails in Warsaw!” “Order prevails in Paris!” “Order prevails in Berlin!” Every half-century that is what the bulletins from the guardians of “order” proclaim from one center of the world-historic struggle to the next. And the jubilant “victors” fail to notice that any “order” that needs to be regularly maintained through bloody slaughter heads inexorably toward its historic destiny; its own demise.”

Aurelia Guo

Atef Al Jaffa

Monica McClure

Hella Mewis

Michael Prado

Kim Rosenfield

Zaid Saad

Jeff Shapiro

Ed Steck

Sam Winston

task 02 / 7

Start date: December 1, 2024.

I is the bane of my existence
Stephanie Barber

RESPONSES

Roberto Balò

Stephanie Barber

Erica Baum

Laura Boggia

Felipe Cussen

Robert Fitterman

Ethan Fortuna

Sophia Le Fraga

Kristen Gallagher

Tyler Little

Monica McClure

Hella Mewis

Cole Modell

Yedda Morrison

Kim Rosenfield

Michael Prado

Zaid Saad

Jeff Shapiro

Eighteen Life Lines on the Eighteenth of the Month

I is the bane of my existence
I thought early on
when fear of the dark
and my parents’ someday death
and my chronic unsuitedness
made me dream of dying ahead of time.

I is the boon of my existence
I believed and didn’t believe
when living happened anyway
and I couched myself in
comfortable certainties
that later fell apart.

I is the bone of my existence
suffices today
like the elbow I banged last spring
that still hurts but works
enough to rely on
for years to come.

Sam Winston

task 01 / 7

Start date: October 1, 2024.

Too much freedom limits
Roberto Balò

RESPONSES

Stephanie Barber

pdf

Erica Baum

Roberto Balò

Felipe Cussen

Too much freedom limits
Too much sun will burn
Too much water will overflow
Too much love will kill you

Too much freedom will burn
Too much sun will overflow
Too much water will kill you
Too much love limits

Too much freedom will overflow
Too much sun will kill you
Too much water limits
Too much love will burn

Too much freedom will kill you
Too much sun limits
Too much water will burn
Too much love will overflow

Too much freedom limits
Too much sun will burn
Too much water will overflow
Too much love will kill you

How much is too much?

Robert Fitterman

Ethan Fortuna

Sophia Le Fraga

Kristen Gallagher

Aurelia Guo

Atef Al Jaffal

Tyler Little

Mella Mewis

Cole Modell

Yedda Morrison

Joseph Mosconi

Michael Prado

Kim Rosenfield

Zaid Saad

Jeff Shapiro

pdf

Sam Winston

task 06 / 6

Flights
Aurelia Guo

RESPONSES

Erica Baum

Robert Fitterman

Flight! The Modernist

Sophia Le Fraga

Aurelia Guo

Eddie Hopely

Special Purple Leaf

Count on a further duration of joy.
In gravel underwritten by sand
your vehicle’s cruising wheel
distorts like an uninterrupted kiss’ mobility.
Count on a future of happiness.
Listening into the air
which arrives for you alone, you hear:
Special Purple Leaf.
A public train issues its joyful scream;
pseudo-mushrooms wriggle from falling water.
Haven’t you taken the day
and studied a prepossessing art?
The stranger crumbles their little paper
into your lap as they pass: <3 [mobile #]
Stones lain by the dead cup your route.
Without volition, your troublemaker heart
leads you to iced coffee spritzer.
Seeing dolphins way out there is fine.
Pinkish fire doesn’t choose what to touch;
having a sense is anti-design.
Seeing dolphins way out there is fine.
Little can’t be known
upon a well-selected complement’s reflection:
Special Purple Leaf.

Thirst for twisty water surprises you
like the weight of a hollow, sunflower brownish-yellow chain’s link.
Standing to watch your lunch-date return to work
your being overcome goes on
beneath their final, laughing glance.
If you accumulate tens of thousands of evolutions
and the passage of an immense machine concretises
your sublime dream can newly render wet:
Special Purple Leaf.
Listening for structure and count,
can your very dense idea encircle my habits?
Listening for structure and count,
my love for a silly look is up in the wind
with whatever you like to see:
Special Purple Leaf.

Klaus Killisch

cycle 6 task 06, Klaus Killisch, A Flight through Berlin

Joseph Mosconi

sporting the most
overweening of Leviathans—while at the
same time climbing out the skunk of the atmos¬
phere a most extinct stegosaur in our
microcost of life. We are treated to the
travesty of urban life on a small ranch in
West Texas, perfun¬
ded by huge trucks loaded with pastoral
wafer dust, bristling with cones and carted
anaphorically indeed—biomechanically
aggrieved, indefinably breached, muttering
“die motherfucker”
“die motherfucker”
“Don’t you get Joshua Tree?”
“Yes, completely.”

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