"Parts of your body I think of as stripes which I have learned to love along" -- Eileen Myles
posted by Mike Young at 5:31 AM
Mike Young is the author of the chapbooks MC OROVILLE'S ANSWERING MACHINE (Transmission Press) and REAL STURDY THING (Stormy Petrel Press). He co-edits NOÖ Journal and Magic Helicopter Press. Links to his own poetry, short fiction, and cherimoya related writing can be found here. Such stuff appears in Nerve, Hobart, Quick Fiction, Pindeldyboz, Juked, elimae, Coconut, MiPOesias, No Tell Motel, Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years + more.
11 Comments:
what you doin to confuse them kids, mike?
I'm vague and stuff.
Mike Young to his class: MC Oroville commands you to quantify your sentences with a flavor that respects the subversion of parochial norms. Make things explode! Make dragons with mullets come out of your pen! Drink Mountain Dew in 7-11's parking lot and die a little inside just so you can revive yourself. Pretend your pen is a hammer and the page is a piniata which contains flavorful, ripe, heavenly junk. Slash through your fragmentary subconscious visions to create greater (but smaller) pieces which you can crazy-glue together to construct towering ziggerats to the doughnuts of the gods. Live inside of a confusing throbbing mass of images and words, and translate it to the page!
Mike's Students: Ok. So what the fuck is our homework?
Yeah, that's pretty close, actually.
I want to take your class. Unfortunately, I don't go to UMASS but I do live about an hour from there when I'm home.
Maybe you're the reason the kids are all on strike.
Are they?
They are. It's a Graduate Employee Union issue that extended into an all-student strike. We'll see what happens.
Can I meet you sometime Mike Young? since you happen to teach where I live (in Western MA).
I really admire your writing, seriously. And even though I seem crazy. I'm not dangerous, and you could probably beat me up.
I would just like to come into contact with someone whose writing has made a real impact on my brain. I think it would be inspiring to see someone whose writing I wish to emulate in real life and see that they're a real person, like me.
as to waht's in it for you....um...candy?
mike is not a real person
he is wisps and the occasional blazer.
be very careful if you meet him
he likes expensive breakfasts.
Bryan, in his unseemly sling of misinformation, omits the fact that I also like inexpensive breakfasts.
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