IHYD
IHYD
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In 2008, Michael Nicoloff, fully lacking in other inspiration, set out on a project of self-emulation: Taking his own chapbook Punks as a model, he’d write 28 poems, paired two to a page, that got at the kind of tonal disgust and placelessness that had driven that previous work. Failure was inevitable, but six years later we have IHYD, an irritable, talky sequence, 2/3rds written solo, 1/3rd written with collaborators, throwing into question who’s emulating whom, who’s the I and who’s the You, and do we want anyone dead, really?
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fuck yeah, let’s do this
I’ll play the pain stick
9 million leaseholders
stab your patio candle
I was second youngest
and used for wood, a
uniquely American
anatomy problem, finding
nana doubling as a muscle
pylon, it was bad, and you
can’t want that tangled up
in your hang—he says
I don’t need to huff glue and
stare in mirrors to feel good
about myself, I’ll just
dig out my Amiga and
see if it plugs, and admit that
into the story’s arrangement
I will exit the cabin and forage
for grubs, you just stay here
and vote for Dukakis



