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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Two Poems by Aryan Kaganof

the texture of the bleeding

noise
is the first step
to silence




ass to mouth poem

i'm having hallucinatory flashbacks
trauma revisited
living on faith's corner, permanently on the streets
always almost fainting from hunger
that's the way memory works
you've got to stop making second class movies about second class lives
turn yourself into the strong person
remember the texture of humiliation
only the perpetrator's view really achieves the horror
there's a lot of blur on the violence
you only reproduce what you see and what you know
boys are less likely to speak
rich people also sexually abuse their kids
the violent reverie
we live with the family secret hidden
it's under the table
the problem is that we used to believe
six arcs of self-destruction
how did i process what i saw?
the rest of my life was a hallucinatory flashback
while i was actually in her ass
i could not come
the next morning, in her pussy,
i had to fantasize about the ass to mouth in order to come
the reality of the assfuck was that it merely served to provide an infinitely more erotic memory of the event
consciously compulsive
violences fudge and blur into each other


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Aryan Kaganofaryan kaganof currently makes a living writing interesting bios for boring people. he drives a 1966 valiant and shoots glock 19. Learn about his film, SMS Sugar Man, or check out Kaganof.com.