{"id":27721,"date":"2010-08-22T13:04:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T13:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=27721"},"modified":"2010-08-24T19:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T19:31:15","slug":"six-poems-audun-mortensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/six-poems-audun-mortensen\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Audun Mortensen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POT_LEAF.GIF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i saw mary-kate olsen riding a bike<br \/>\nacross williamsburg bridge wearing &#8216;oversized blazer&#8217;<br \/>\nseemed like a &#8216;homage&#8217; to annie hall<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE CABLE GUY (1996) WAS &#8216;IN FACT&#8217; DIRECTED BY BEN STILLER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i was sitting on a bench in mccarren park last night<br \/>\nsomeone told me that lil wayne was in jail<br \/>\nseemed entertaining to scream &#8216;inside job&#8217;<br \/>\nseemed out of context though<br \/>\nwish i could play\/understand baseball<br \/>\nin order to appreciate it more<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;HAY FEVER&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>in bed<br \/>\nmentally projecting 486&#8243; x 486&#8243; neon sign<br \/>\nof the face of the duane reade employee<br \/>\nwho complimented my nasal spray<br \/>\npossibly due to its soothing aloe vera<br \/>\njust imagined a six feet tall nasal spray<br \/>\nstanding in the whitney&#8217;s 5th floor permanent collection<br \/>\nand i&#8217;m standing in front of it<br \/>\nwith a &#8216;hay fever grin&#8217; on my face<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;FEVER RAY&#8217; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>at some point<br \/>\nlast night<br \/>\nin a social setting<br \/>\ndominated by &#8216;loose males&#8217;<br \/>\ni tried to edit a poem<br \/>\non my mobile<br \/>\nabout &#8216;fever ray&#8217;<br \/>\nkept typing &#8216;hay fever&#8217;<br \/>\nand &#8216;loose males&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>Four out of eight poems published online by Muumuu House (US), 2010. Written during residency in Brooklyn, NY, spring 2010. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disaster Movie (2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not another shallow Hollywood movie.<br \/>\nBetter get off quick.<br \/>\nAl Gore was right.<br \/>\nMother-@!#$@#^% Nature.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re favorite movies are going to be destroyed.<br \/>\nRock on!<br \/>\nDestroying the summer&#8230; one movie at a time.<br \/>\nPrepare to die&#8230; laughing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Son of the Mask (2005)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s next?<br \/>\nThe next generation of mischief.<br \/>\nThe Power of Mischief.<br \/>\nSequel to the #1 box-office hit.<\/p>\n<p><em>Two poems from Mortensen&#8217;s poetry book <em>SURF&#8217;S UP<\/em> (2010) published by Trauma Wien (Austria), 2010. The book is composed of taglines for the &#8216;IMDb bottom 100 movies&#8217; as voted by IMDb.com users.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/photo2.jpg\" alt=\"photo2\" width=\"498\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/photo2.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/photo2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/photo2-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/audunmortensen.com\/\">Audun Mortensen<\/a> is a Norwegian writer born in 1985. He is currently living in Berlin. Mortensen&#8217;s poetry collection <em>Everyone Tells Me How Great I Am In Case I Turn Out To Be<\/em>, was released by the Norwegian publisher Flamme Forlag in 2009. The book was voted &#8220;best poetry debut&#8221; by <em>Aftenposten<\/em>, Norway&#8217;s largest newspaper. His first novel entitled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flammeforlag.no\/katalog\/f64\/\">Roman<\/a><\/em> was released August 18th, 2010 by Flamme Forlag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/photo2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"photo2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-27750\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/photo2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/photo2-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/photo2.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>in bed<br \/>\nmentally projecting<br \/>\n486&#8243; x 486&#8243; neon sign<br \/>\nof the face of the duane reade employee<br \/>\nwho complimented my nasal spray<br \/>\npossibly due to its soothing aloe vera<br \/>\njust imagined<br \/>\na six feet tall nasal spray<br \/>\nstanding in the whitney&#8217;s 5th floor<br \/>\npermanent collection<br \/>\nand i&#8217;m standing in front of it<br \/>\nwith a &#8216;hay fever grin&#8217; on my face<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Audun Mortensen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maintenant","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}