Jane Joritz-Nakagawa


Documentary 5


"this journey I must close myself"

of identity itself...of object of desire...none of us know quite who we are...at the mercy of institutions....

some more exiled than others...

did you know you wanted    /            it?

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the important thing is that jessica simpson cured her
zits / using proactiv face cream


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because i said

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because i

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sa(i)d

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after beating the dog with my fists i covered them in hand / lotion so she would not recognize me my
mother often said people will like you better if you
compliment them, but,
at night the birds were replaced
by bats....

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did you know you                                wanted [it]?


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where the suicide occurred . . .

& the making of worthless objects (thwarted vaginalia)
. . .the object of desire itself....


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science faction impending erasure from history.

victim of your Shininess Flees

Velvet Hair scheme brain schemes

i invite over repeated squirminess

don't pulse out of me...."the dolorous and beautiful secret of which i died"

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soft bodied and usually ...

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discovering new planets (in which to live) (something flew by) could be a new illness....



Jane Joritz-Nakagawa's first poetry book, Skin Museum, was published by Avant Books, Tokyo, Japan in 2006. Her second book, Aquiline, is forthcoming.

Other poems have appeared in journals such as New American Writing, 580 Split, Tinfish, ACM, One Less and others. Email is welcome here or here.

 
 
 
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