Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
The trouble with eternity
I had a dream about the afterlife: I died quite unexpectedly Although it is, of course, to be expected, And I materialised...
Moon man
After Elizabeth Venn He circles the room five times, refusing to believe he’s resistible. I tell myself I won’t tilt for his...
Aca-lyte
Che Guevara is white and wearing a shirt with his face on it, mansplaining Derrida or Adorno a hat like your...
how to launch a poem
i) recall democracy is pretty numbers & orange clusters, strategically bold and critically wet, intemperate type-c photographs; ii) advance stagger:...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology
I disappoint myself each day that I remember my work password I take it that seriously that I base my key on the...
Habitat
It was early. I recognised my fate in the bathroom mirror. Behind which he slept deep into the morning...
Exemplary
The superego’s unvarying verdict: you have failed, you deserve it, get over it! Stay in your own psychotic micro-enclave, opining about enactment...
Fraser Gehrig after a dirty bump
Under floodlight he is beautiful a jacked and tanned bench presser who in preparation small stepped on buffalo grass to hear the...
For my ex (an unforgiving poem)
Trust me when I wished you an eventful summer by which I meant processing yourself like a tardy Microsoft update You will...
December 27
Sundown’s skies are warm like a picnic – scuffs of cloud like shiny scarabs jewelled into the evening’s tide. I sit...
picker
light’s tacked to the window i want it to pick at me eat me like fairy floss or a scab you say...
In the Dollhouse
I don’t remember my Barbies, but Mother once told me I had twist-popped their limbs off. I do recall this one doll...
