JOSHUA WARE

Zizek Eats His Dirty Socks For Breakfast

Žižek stores his underwear in kitchen cabinets his socks neatly folded in a drawer below the sink

I am learning how to fail more epically

A painter renders the heads of all today’s middling celebrities on the bodies of cats

The coroner awakes at midnight

A train passes through the idea of travel and the romance of international intrigue

If you hold a cheap trade paperback version of a mass-marketed mystery novel up to a light you
             will see through its pages and into your own dying imagination

Žižek’s beard is big and burly

Žižek’s beard has problems

Žižek’s beard is my spirit animal

I will spearhead a movement called Occupy Žižek’s Beard

I will shave all of Žižek’s body hair

Žižek speaks of obscene music and hates “indie rock”

I have a poster of Žižek standing in front of a poster of Stalin

I have a poster of a bald eagle eating an apple pie on the hood of a Ford F-150

Within each one of us is a slovenly Eastern European philosopher waiting to explicate our
               theories of thought difference knowing and being upon the world in a language no one
               will understand

I understand less and less about language everyday

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Joshua Ware

Joshua Ware is the author of Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley (Furniture Press Books) and several chapbooks, most recentlyImaginary You (Grey Ghost Press), SDVIG (alice blue books) with Natasha Kessler, and How We Remake the World (Slope Editions) with Trey Moody.

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