shown to be co-constitutive

"Shown To Be Co-Constitutive," April 18, 2022 (#108)

title from "Danyel Smith Tells the History of Black Women in Pop" by Emily Lordi (April 17, 2022)

Believers by Charles Baxter (1997)

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (2018)

The Great Santini by Pat Conroy (1976)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

Shown To Be Co-Constitutive

The confusing and contradictory instructions enclosed in the

invisible smoke from the pipe he ought to have had

glowed with a truculent orange in the dark

unpleasant story, but what it was I had forgotten long ago

conveyed a disturbing radiance.

Guiding her to a wallpapered little bathroom with golden

familiar territory now, old territory where the teasing had grooves,

all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low, earnest voices,

he yanked and pulled in a tremendous fish

of jerking off, but by the time the water had warmed up,

the spinning figure wildly dancing toward the church,

the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever

with the huge voice coming out of the man's chest cavity

like some kind of white-tongued dragon when

the bees had assured his safety that night

I had crossed deliberately to the other side.

3-14-22

4-18-22

4-18-22

The Shining (1980)

From here

Insecure 4.10, "Lowkey Lost"