engaging with escaping
"Engaging with Escaping," March 23, 2022 (#82)
original title
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir by Nick Flynn (2004)
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones (1992)
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (1984)
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (2020)
Detroit Rock City (1999)
penultimate line from Maps of the Imagination: The Writer As Cartographer by Peter Turchi (2004)
Engaging with Escaping
Deciding along the way that we should really each take
some time, as she went about her days with their blocks of time,
to live on Central Park and you wished to join the literary
kind of library. It doesn't lend out books. Still, it has a
fire extinguisher. BLAST! A hail of foam covers Elvis's
calls with horrible connections and photographs.
Along the wrought iron, a cage around me, a camera
across the street from the house in the twilight of the day,
it’s just beginning to sink in that you have lost your job
despite the traffic; there are enough gaps. But I'm getting
that His devastating anger is followed by His nurturing
new set of clothes--maybe he'd pissed himself, maybe
only a forty-watt bulb, another concession to the voice of
no control. You don’t do things like that. You’re not that
weird. The world isn't spinning anymore, but that terrible
DISCO SONG comes from inside. Just when it looks like
the television nearly every waking moment,
the traffic light turns green and the cop lights go on.
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