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Rachel Stempel

A GREIMAS SQUARE FOR SPRINGTIME

            After Jose Canseco’s Twitter feed
 
This week will get me into some trouble         
come challenge            come meet me in Dallas
for a wax, a wash, or to say Hello
to say              Cheap gas because the miles are not actual.
 
Artificial intelligence is a bigfoot costume with physical handicap.
Cloning is a bigfoot costume with mental handicap.
 
I will make myself known to man        on strange, on stage
            there are only two kinds of man—ones who want no shirt & ones who want me
dead.
A good man is also a bigfoot costume, handicap indiscriminate.
 
I have no Russian ties but would appreciate some.
On an intergalactic golf course I have figured
out a way to live an extra 30 years--
 
when our science is irrelevant &
baseball is holy &
baseball players are presidents. In a future life
I am a lycanthrope
 
my higher-self—a woman—will win
the main event             & in
a bigfoot costume handcuffed
to lightening, will sell
cryptohugs & ponder evolution, ponder         
marrying a robot--
 
I hear Japan has beautiful ones.

Commentary

Rachel on "A GREIMAS SQUARE FOR SPRINGTIME":

I created a Twitter originally to @ USPS when my packages are late, but at some point I stumbled down the rabbit hole of B-list celeb accounts and discovered a world rife with accidental poetry. Maybe it's something about the brevity of the platform? "A Greimas Square For Springtime" began as a cento after Jose Canseco's Twitter feed but became a textual Greimas square dealing in dialectics--feminine/masculine, intimacy/loneliness, human/nonhuman.

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​Rachel Stempel (she/her) is a queer poet originally from the Bronx who now larps as a Long Island townie. She is an MFA candidate and adjunct instructor at Adelphi University. Her work is forthcoming in the spring issue of The Nasiona.
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