Erotica (demo)
Written by Rachel Levitsky
Read by Mmmm
"Under the Sun operates on the small stages of intimate conflict and longing, but casts light outside the ring: we see the shadows of the crowd, we smell the dirty water that slaps against the piers. It's a formulation and un-doing of the personal. Intimacy excavated yields characters, ironic and adrift, who quiver in the jackets of their names. We know them by contact, or contract, 'an occupation of looks and resistance.' The poem enacts the force of situated desire. Under the Sun is brilliant wit-wrenching poetics: a word stream taking its shirt off."
Excerpt“She tries to place her hand up a tight ass. It is like putting a square peg in a round hole. It can be done when her border stretches far enough. But the ho' needs to want to stretch. (Canned laughter.)”
Futurepoem books, New York City, 2003