Thursday, December 5, 2024

HOH Magazine: Correspondences from a New Cocoon (November 2024)

cover of HOH - The David Magazine. Photo is of my face on the body of John Trent from the beginning of John Carpenter's 'In The Mouth Of Madness' curled in a ball in a padded cell, with crosses drawn all over the walls, his scrubs, and his skin (and my face) with black crayon. I also have a snail climbing on my head and on my (Trent's) arm. Big headline: OOPS! I DID IT AGAIN! I needed another cocoon... ...because you needed another election with a treasonous nazi rapist on the ballot, for some fucking ungodly reason that will never be held accountable in utter defiance of what is right. Under the magazine's logo it says: Special Stream-of-Consciousness Edition. in the lower left corner, with a semi-transparent white tiger superimposed behind it, is a gold sawtooth circle saying: BONUS: TWO music analysis essays inside!! and a headline in the lower righthand corner reads: SOCIAL MEDIA BLACKOUT: WHAT XXV DAYS WITHOUT NEWS DOES TO A MF [MENTALLY-ILL FRIEND]. It also says “…and by God, some breakthroughs!!” in the lower left corner.

back behind the barricade, the barracuda bites at my brain, the buyout of buoyancy to balance a book or two, before beginning to face a bitter embrace. beneath the binary, do I boast or bury in a busy blush. do I block a bruise, do I better myself from break or bend. beckons, the cocoon. can I covertly circumvent context, or do I merely cover conviviality with continual cortex concern. come come, cozy yourself and connect with my disconnected, discombobulated, disorganized dig-down doozy of a dugout.