fortune cookie

a fortune cookie told me that i "approach life philosophically and with warmth". fortune cookies are generally yummy, and the faux english message in many of them is deliciously wicked. makes you see the world in new ways. sometimes makes you wonder if there isn't a writer deliberately using nonstandard grammar to effect a sense of strange, making seemingly unintentional uber-coherences.

art

ankles noosed
alive and throbbing
blood of my womb
dripping from the ends of my hair

i am stiff as a brush
dropped in paint
and left to hang