J E R E M Y S P A R A G O N

terseness

© Jeremy Sparagon, 2018.

published by Grinnell College Pressgrinnellcollegepress.com

funded by SPARCsparcommittee.com

as long as you know how hot your laundry is when you want to be alone

as long as you know who moved and how far

as long as you know whether or not it’s still early autumn

what was the last song that was stuck in your head?

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do you feel like you have too many choices or too few?

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Slow DiscoAltadena(Don’t) WannabeIt Is What It IsBIPPRight WordsTime’s A WastinLadies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in SpaceWishesGood To Love

St. VincentKelela

Kristin KontrolBlood Orange

SOPHIECults

Erykah BaduSpiritualized

Beach HouseFKA twigs

fo r t y s e ve n

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my friends ask me why i listen to my music so loudly. i say i must have destroyed my hearing. but i think it’s because i don’t want to be able to possess it— i guess it’s just more powerful if it’s not mine

also i’m destroying my hearing

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twenty minutesis a long time to wait

but it’s a matterof postponement

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One Thing is Needful.

To “give style” to one’s character that is

a grand and a rare art! He who surveys

all that his nature presents in its strength

and in its weakness, and then fashions it

into an ingenious plan, until everything

appears artistic and rational, and even the

weaknesses enchant the eye exercises that

admirable art…Here the ugly, which does

not permit of being taken away, has been

concealed, there it has been re -interpreted

into the sublime. Much of the vague, which

refuses to take form, has been reserved and

utilised for the perspectives: it is meant to

give a hint of the remote and immeasurable.

Nietzsche – The Gay Science §290

쪽팔렸던 기억들은 이제

All your embarrassing memories내후년 옆에 자연스럽게

Can be applied naturally right next to도포하시면 되시는거구

The year after next yearyaeji – last breath

I don’t think I have anything profound to say about windows,

or about seeing the reflection of what’s behind you,

to somewhere more still,

or out of one.

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