The Shine Journal

 David Foster Wallace

 

by

 

Elizabeth Stassinos

 

 

 

suicides are optimistic

they are going

rifle in hand

somewhere

other than

somewhere to celebrate the invention

of punctuation,

the air-conditioned mind

 

david foster wallace

is not ironic

is a constellation talking dice and time

 

midnight's lobster

in an ocean of tamarind stars

breaching

 

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MOTIVATION: being struck~

 

BIO: “I am an anthropologist and teach deviance in a criminal justice department, I support prison education, creative writing and reform. “LINK: Writer David Foster Wallace

 

 Photo by Mirko Delcaldo