that movie’s crazy
good dresses tho
shares were tanking. the competition had the market cornered and plus, their stuff just looked cooler. meetings were held, fights were fought. more than one wine glass was shattered in a fit, or fits, of rage.
we knew we shouldn’t have boarded the plane, especially since we had already downed $16 coconut water and vodka, and argued about Strategies in the elite lounge. they had to seat us next to each other.
we can neither confirm nor deny the next 48 hours for legal reasons. needless to say there was an emergency landing in Cleveland. credit cards were cut up, friendships severed.
but somehow, through many hours of counselling, data-mining, hemp heart sprinkling, and soul-searching, we got it together. smartandbird are back.
and now, the spoils of our fruitful first (again) meeting:
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Britain Street
Saint John New Brunswick
This is a street at war.
The smallest children
battle with clubs
till the blood comes,
shout ‘fuck you!’
like a rallying cry –
while mothers shriek
from doorsteps and windows
as though the very names
of their young were curses:
‘Brian! Marlene!
Damn you! God damn you!’
or waddle into the street
to beat their own with switches:
‘I’ll teach you Brian!
I’ll teach you, God damn you!’
On this street
even the dogs
would rather fight
than eat.
I have lived here nine months
and in all that time
have never once heard
a gentle word spoken.
I like to tell myself
that is only because
gentle words are whispered
and harsh words shouted.
– Alden Nowlan, 1957
this hanger was originally used to hang up a fur coat in an Eaton’s department store somewhere in Canada.
“…less barbaric than leeching, cauterization and ‘normal’ ovariotomy-procedures that were also used to treat women with nervous ailments”
– Ellen S Bassuk; Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
