Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era by Chad Bennett

Author:Chad Bennett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2019-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

I AM ODIOUS (AS IT TURNS OUT). I AM MONSTROUS GLAD

Or, make a work out of continuously saying, in a column or list, one sentence or line, over and over in different ways, until you get it “right”

—Bernadette Mayer

I guess we’re no longer afraid of the monstrous

I guess the monstrous has no claim on us now

The monstrous I guess seeps forward like a shadow

Presses against my thigh or says shut your mouth

I can make it out in the shell of my torso

I guess my fat tongue just won’t stop now

I guess the moon hangs mute in the wings of the sky

I guess this is what it feels like to be monstrous

I guess this is what it feels like to be deemed monstrous

I guess this is what it feels like to inhabit the monstrous

I guess on any crowded street there’s no concealing it

I guess I thought I understood what it meant to be monstrous

I thought we would go on forever what else could we do

You say “I used to be a person now I’m a fucking ghost”

You say so this is the monstrous was it always our rival

I guess when the glass on the nightstand shivers it’s shivering at me

I guess when the whole house purrs it’s purring with something

monstrous

The static so thick even if I could come back I might never find you

To say the world supplies its necessary resistance

To say don’t be afraid who can afford it

Don’t ask could it have been otherwise than monstrous how could it

If I advanced I advanced pointing to my mask

Now be delicate be fierce be shrewd I know you will

Forgive me if I remembered but too late

How a poem is just an imagined world

Where everything hoped for turns out wrong

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