Unlikely 2.0


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Editors' Notes

Maria Damon and Michelle Greenblatt
Jim Leftwich and Michelle Greenblatt
Sheila E. Murphy and Michelle Greenblatt

A Visual Conversation on Michelle Greenblatt's ASHES AND SEEDS with Stephen Harrison, Monika Mori | MOO, Jonathan Penton and Michelle Greenblatt

Letters for Michelle: with work by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jeffrey Side, Larry Goodell, mark hartenbach, Charles J. Butler, Alexandria Bryan and Brian Kovich

Visual Poetry by Reed Altemus
Poetry by Glen Armstrong
Poetry by Lana Bella
A Eulogic Poem by John M. Bennett
Elegic Poetry by John M. Bennett
Poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
A Eulogy by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
A Eulogy by Alan Fyfe
Poetry by Win Harms
Poetry by Carolyn Hembree
Poetry by Cindy Hochman
A Eulogy by Steffen Horstmann
A Eulogic Poem by Dylan Krieger
An Elegic Poem by Dylan Krieger
Visual Art by Donna Kuhn
Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Poetry by Jim Lineberger
Poetry by Dennis Mahagin
Poetry by Peter Marra
A Eulogy by Frankie Metro
A Song by Alexis Moon and Jonathan Penton
Poetry by Jay Passer
A Eulogy by Jonathan Penton
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean-Gauthier
Visual Art by Marthe Reed
A Eulogy by Gabriel Ricard
Poetry by Alison Ross
A Short Movie by Bernd Sauermann
Poetry by Christopher Shipman
A Spoken Word Poem by Larissa Shmailo
A Eulogic Poem by Jay Sizemore
Elegic Poetry by Jay Sizemore
Poetry by Felino A. Soriano
Visual Art by Jamie Stoneman
Poetry by Ray Succre
Poetry by Yuriy Tarnawsky
A Song by Marc Vincenz


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Three Poems by Kurtice Kucheman

terry

im sorry i have to go to burger king now
walked across the street not using the cross walk
ate a hamburger at a bus stop
smoked cigarettes while running register
the customers made faces at her
in her spare time
smoked pot with her unemployed boyfriend
that would lay on her futon
and stare black eyed at the television
she had scars and tattoos
carving the word
whore
on her ass
when she couldnt get pot
because she only worked full time
she would knock back huge bottles
of cheap wine
and listen to billie holiday
on her cd player
while writing bad poetry
she wasnt going anywhere really
just living in her parents basement
almost thirty years old
with an unemployed man under her room
smoking her pot
here take a hit of this X
think we could rent a movie
so when she set her hair on fire
and walked up a street full of traffic
not too many were surprised
but when she went to work the next day
they were shocked




daily tragedies

a sizable coterie of men, women, and children walk barefoot
up a dirt rocky road with their feet bleeding
armed soldiers on either side of their mob
each one of them carries on their shoulders an inanimate object
sewing machines, broken television sets, car tires, microwaves
gallons of water, one in each hand, corpses of children or animals
their faces are dead, and as they walk, they bleed and weep under
frigid crystalline white pink flaccid skies
occasionally, one of the soldiers will shoot his rifle into the air
and a couple people will drop their objects
pick them up and continue walking
they are walking towards a precipice on the horizon
and when they reach it they will be given the opportunity to jump off
holding their object and have it carry them down through the waters
weighing them to the bottom of the ocean

woman cuts off her babys arms and grinds them up in a blender
the baby bleeds to death in the following hours
man slices his nipples off with a piece of broken glass then has gay lover
drink his blood from the wounds
man walks across the state of ohio with no shoes on
two female twins get drunk
on male 19 year old drinks himself into blackout
cars collide and the twins are killed instantly
the 19 year old to serve five years in penitentiary
woman shoots heroin into her vagina before sexual intercourse with a bloodhound
artist builds abstract crucifixes out of garbage and refuse
man drinks three 40 ounce bottles of beer, smashes the bottles in the street, then swallows all the broken glass
he spits and shits blood for three days before dying
young man is beaten by a gang of high school basketball players high on pcp
he gets revenge by vandalizing a car, pissing on a corporate building, and stealing a roadsign
young russian man is found beaten to death in his akron ohio apartment
man paints a big black pentagram circle on a city street, is arrested and sentenced to painting a boarded up crack house
young effeminate man poses as prostitute just to turn down prospective johns
man puts a cigarette out on his eyeball while high on pcp
woman drinks an entire bottle of robitussin, vomits in a bucket and dumps it on her sleeping daughter
man slices the throat of his mother, goes to prison and shits all over his cell
a young man caught with two pounds of weed is sentenced to cleaning the cell
teenage girl takes a dump in a high school bathroom and writes the words "Abortion" and "fuck" on the walls
with her own shit and is caught in a cell cutting her inner thighs with a razor blade
a group of preteens overdoses on cold medicine and starts a small riot inside a local grocery store
throwing things around
the police come, fire tear gas into the grocery store
by then all the kids are passed out on the floor
two woman keep their children in a closet, starve them, feed them dog droppings and dogfood
when the kids act out in any way they are punished by being struck on the head with a hammer
bleeding one of the kids escapes one day out of a ceiling apartment and runs to relatives
the two women are quickly sent to felony court
man gets drunk and passes out naked in someones driveway
a riot breaks out in a local dominantly black school when two young white teenagers impersonating police officers enter the
school and open fire on the students
the gunmen are lynched and hung from telephone polls, and the school is trashed, and not a single window left unbroken
a teenage boy stole a bag of m-80s from a friends father
he traveled around on foot for awhile, looking for stray animals, dogs, cats.
when he found one, he would grab it, light and m-80 and shove it up the animals ass, then watch the back end of the
abdomen explode with a meaty plop
he was caught masturbating in a girls restroom in a local gradeschool and is now receiving medical treatment for schizophrenia
man gets drunk, puts a carved out pumpkin on his head and spends halloween night running naked through traffic
he is hit by a wonderbread truck and dies a few hours later in the hospital
woman has brothers perform a home abortion on her with a vacuum cleaner and a bunch of wire coat hangers. the baby and the
afterbirth comes out in pieces, and they boil it in a pot over a campfire and eat it
man gets aids when hes raped in prison, and spends the rest of his living time there raping as many people as he possibly can
what are they gonna do?
teenage boy slices the word "fag" into his arm
man steals three cans of acrylic paint to huff the fumes, doesnt get high and ends up painting some strange abstraction
he goes to a grocery store afterwards, and violently attacks a black man in a suit
he is arrested, and while in jail he slices his genitals off and flushes them down the toilet
to the precipice they march in queue
carrying their various burdens
gunshots going off to the left, to the right
wincing
painting the dust at their feet with the blood of their sliced skin
some reach the precipice, throw their burden in the water, run off and grab a new one
from the garbage that sits on either sides of them
and carries it back to the sign that reads
DEAD END
at the other end of the road...
some jump off with their burden
some jump off without their burden
and some just turn around with their burden
and walk back to the dead end
armed soldiers on either side

five year old child takes fathers pistol to school, shoots a pedestrian walking a dog on the walk to school, then chases
the dog down the street, picks it up, shoves the gun into its mouth and fires
at school, the child shoots his teacher, penetrates a terrified young girl with the pistol and fires a bullet into her
vagina before he is dragged away by shocked teachers, and firing a couple rounds into the dim fluorescent lights flickering above
man kidnaps a child, and dumps him in a portopotty
he lights and drops strings of firecrackers into the hole, which explode upon the child and splatter shit all over again
eventually he gets sick of it and pulls the ring out of a grenade he saved from viet nam and drops it into the toilet
he wants to see what happens to the child, so stays in the portopotty, and is killed in the blast
his deformed remains are found smeared with shit and smelling of piss
teenage girl spends hours writing in notebooks, filling her room up with notebooks of writing
eventually she starts writing her poetry on her body with razor blades and is sent to a mental institution where
she meets a young poet who eventually marries her and murders her when shes pregnant by heaving a bowling ball into her stomach when shes 8 months
man drinks a fifth of whiskey and goes out driving specifically to hit deer
he strikes about five, loads them into his truck, and then hangs them on meat hooks at his house
to cook later on for his family
man serves his gay lover a robitussin douche, drinks the contents of the toilet, robitussin and shit
after that he starts to trip, then throws his television set out the window of his apartment building and fries an egg,
then throws it at the wall
woman douches herself with ammonia and lays on a bed naked and quivering spread eagle
young boy shaves all the hair off his body, rubs vaseline all over himself and walks down the street to the neighborhood bar, entering and presenting himself
6 year old girl has been discovered to be hiding 47 barely living mutilated animals under her parents porch and is
remanded to child services. the animals are put to sleep and buried
stood on the top of a building telling police he was going to jump, as they began to talk him down and began to listen to
them as they approached, he drew a pistol and the police drew theirs as well, gunning him down. he fell off the building
and landed on an inert volvo
drank untill blackout and then awoke covered in blood that wasnt his in his apartment
man purchases a pound of cocaine with his college tuition and overdoses that night with a prostitute who steals his wallet,
the rest of his cocaine and half a bottle of cheap whiskey. the prostitute has disappeared
man pounces out of nowhere, gnaws off a mans nose, swallows it, and runs away. the victim has been fitted with a prosthetic nose
teenage girl tries to commit suicide by drinking a bottle of cooking oil and vomits on her parents oriental rug. she is sent to a mental hospital and perscribed valium and trazadone
while in lockup, tore one of his teeth out of his skull and used it to carve the phrase "fuck pigs" in his chest. when he was discovered christmas morning, he was more than polite to all the officers and inmates
woman cuts all the fingers off on her right hand due to guilt over masturbating in her husbands absence
man in a religious fervor hangs himself upside down from a tree and cuts his own throat with a butcher knife, collecting
his blood in a plastic bucket below him as an offering to satan upon his arrival in hell
woman paints a dead tree pink on south main street, and stands next to it smiling for two hours smoking cigarettes, starts
to cry then goes home and drinks wine until she passes out
walks up and down a busy street smoking a crackpipe and blowing the smoke into pedestrians faces. when police arrive on the scene he throws his pipe in a sewer and jumps into a dumpster. he is arrested for public intoxication and sentenced to 10 months in jail and an extensive rehab program
man is arrested for domestic violence for striking a woman over the head with a frying pan. the police dont give him his medication in jail so he strangles himself to death in the dead of the night while masturbating. he is found the next morning with a sheet wrapped around his neck, in one hand, his penis in the other, with his pants around his ankles

some throw their burdens down and pick them up
others clutch them for dear life
a pregnant woman carries a giant stuffed animal coated in dirt and diesel
as the procession nears the precipice
some jump in throwing their burdens
some jump in clutching their burdens
the rest turn around and walk in the opposite direction
the soldiers rifles go off in queue
a grim memorial to the junk
falling off the ledge




letter to holstad

ok scott, here what i want to send. theyre collectors items, so handle with care and enjoy. well... some of them are collectors items, others are just jewelry. take good care of them, enjoy them and send them back when youre finished with them. ive seen them all, i dont really watch them anymore, but theyre still important to me, and theyre collectors items. the first two mentioned are very rare, hard to find, and expensive. ive got the inside scoop on where to get this stuff cheap because ive purchased the right things from the right people. love new york but hate the yankees!


traces of death box set- five vhs tapes of some of the most gory video footage youll ever see, complete with gothic death metal blaring in the background and a host speaking through some sinister voice distortion box, describing whats going on.

faces of death box set- five more videos of deaths, murders, satanic murder rituals, all caught on tape. some of the most shocking video footage ever recorded. narrated by a doctor doing some sort of study on death. faces of death 4 is by far the most wretched of the crew.

facez of death 1-5 -modern death scenes caught on tape, good but not as good as the first two mentioned. worth watching.

going postal- this ones pretty good. its security camera footage of violent fist fights, minor riots with some creepy paced music narrating it. it finished off with columbine aftermath footage, what the school looked like after the massacre.

executions II-a documentary about executions, bombings in ireland, and the like. very interesting, although not too disturbing

snuff- video footage of people getting killed

shock of the century- pretty cool death footage

the trials of jeffrey dahmer- now this ones cool, its like court TV. its self explanatory so i wont bother explaining what it contains, but one interesting point thats always goaded me into watching this shit while knocking back bottles of miller lite and puffing marlboros. he says "alcohol and faces of death movies helped put me in the state of mind that let me murder" thats fucked up, aint it?

ill also send you my copy of bumfights on vhs if you havent seen it yet. its fucked up!

when some more money rolls in ill have some more fucked up videos, trust me, theres lots of little curios i have my eyes on.

im also going to send you 4 gg allin dvds.
hated documentary, with bonus footage, contains complete video of the last concert that he ever performed before he od'd on heroin. be sure to click bonus footage to get it (i hope you have a dvd player or are able to rent one, this shit is great!)

raw brutal rough and bloody, best of 1991- three or four great violent fucked up gg allin concerts all on this dvd. merle picked them out himself. i love this dvd.

then theres these two i bought directly from merle-

gg allin talk show appearances- three talk shows, geraldo, jerry springer, and jane whitney, that gg allin appeared on back in the 90s. nuts

gg allin and the murder junkies volume 1- this ones kinda boring, all he does is beat the crap out of himself and sweet talk the audience. bullshit! but ill let you decide

soon for me to buy, watch, and let you borrow(when the money rolls in of course, i cant spendaholic, i tried it and just couldnt do it).
bumfights 2-3
death scenes 1-3
bad cops
gg allin and the toilet rockers concert footage (holy shit! also some court footage. i think this was the concert that got the guy in prison for two years.
gg allin compilation (news clips, court trials, clips from various shows.
road rage
paramedics 1-3
criminals in action, caught on tape
bling a long (the escapades of some comical crackhead, yeesh!
banned in america (911 footage shot from a satellite, now thats fucked up

theres alot of death metal cds i want too, but i dont want to blow all my cash. well actually i do
kurt


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