The Currency of the Future
“The oddest place that I’ve ever written a poem…was on the lower back and thigh of a stranger that I met at a party. Actually, that was my best work and I wish she hadn’t rubbed it off – so passionately. I dream about it and I can’t remember what it was. I think of people as something that we can write on when there is nothing else to do. Back in the day, the only other thing we had to write on other than ourselves were old walls with mud. On walls and in blood….we wrote with blood!”
Mark Spitzer and his students interview Andrei Codrescu.
Eve in a Blue Robe
When Eve was all made up, and the right shoes were picked, (black heels) and her hair sprayed and styled in the best possible way, and every avenue was exhausted including nails and fragrance, in accordance with the ritual a modern girl follows to make herself look proper for public consumption on Ocean Drive, the two best friends, relieved they had finished ahead of time, sat on the blue couch waiting for the call that would green light the evening.
By Fawzy Zablah.