"Oily Doily" by Alyssa Perry
Oily Doily by Alyssa Perry, Bench Editions, 2024
Around me everyone at the coffee house at the shop of beverage is speaking of illness enthusiastically kidney & heart failure I don’t want to cut this short but busy falling failing “in love” I think
“Is it the business of death to leave the heart so open at the last or is this a pleasure art takes”
says Alyssa Perry in her poem “Screenings” in her screen poemings “all the requests” ambient & otherwise then the the question is Moore’s who, too, dislikes it I like it this post-post “Oscar buzz!!” made Marianne made Elizabeth into screentime LCDtime LSD Soundsystem “the band is in a great spot right” I like this “A swan” “A swan a swan / a silver swan” automaton post-internet fuzzbucket when has a poem made me understand my screen the Screen of looking between down up in between the pixels of rice “arts venues” “violent outbursts” craft & collection there is the pause suspiciously quiet oh we are looking at our phones now I love looking at this book its gross yellow -green cover the pages I turn with my fingers the enterprise of it sitting on a windowsill near the toilet the pleasure of this sitting “doing the business” the slow death that comes dropping down the page