{greatest hits before the album comes out}

so since I have no idea what happened to the originals or really any copy of the chapbook that had "instructions for a body" in it, and since thanks to its airing on Def Jam I've gotten requests for a book that contains that poem, I'm putting together a new "selected" chapbook. seems that folks have resonated to the affirming nature of the poem (chopped down though it was, and far from brilliantly performed), so I decided to scope out my poetic inventory for a good variety of pieces that vibrate on a similar frequency. or something. in any case, given how bizarre and dark the poems have been of late, it's interesting to put together a little collection like this. I actually like it.

here's the table of contents:

instructions for a body
survival poem #17
when Willie says shit
what the beat knows
the impossibility of February
Laci Peterson’s body, late March
what Red learned from the wolf
Barbie series
after all of this, fire
spell toward leaving
the walk (for Piper Jane)
to be kissed
incantation for the hard road

so there it is. fun stuff. back to work.