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@cursetheground.bsky.social

bleating thing • she/her • author of 3 chapbooks, most recently ANGELS & INSECTS ARE CREATURES WITH WINGS

Thrilled to have 2 collage pieces (unapologetically indebted to Angela Carter) featured in the latest issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social devoted to ‘The Urge’! Huge thanks to EIC @dehm000.bsky.social for curating this celebration of feminine appetites & desires. 🤩

the engine(idling lit@the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨 💯% Free to read, download & share! buff.ly/RViXupP Appetite! Impulse! Desire! 🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️

Huge thank yous to those who've purchased physical & digital copies of ANGELS & INSECTS this year. It's turned 2 this month & has admittedly been limping along in terms of sales, so the resurgence of interest this year has really put wind back in my sails. Also, Kith is wonderful.

kith books@kithbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

"[Jannotti's] poems are haunting works of beauty, reminding us, across all kinds of loneliness and hurt, that 'nothing remains but to become'." - Lilia Marie Ellis, author of Love and Endless Love @cursetheground.bsky.social

Angels & Insects Are Creatures With Wings
Amy Jannotti


cover:
black line drawing of a closed winged moth on a background of pale grey and olive green

text: 
KILL THE FLY/SAVE THE CHILD

fly in theater is the space over the stage: the sensation of being debrided, of settling on the eyes or the skin to seek fluid from wounds. without the fly, who will tell the dead tissue it's dead? who will fish? who will bait? to be a model organism requires some capability of spreading disease; some willingness to harm the cattle or the economy or both. i'm done growing. I've shed my wings & become secondary. i can detect taste & smell & respond to touch. this is theater: how i flock to light in darkness even when it shocks me. how i occupy space on the stage. how i taught myself to levitate. in many flies, the larva stage is long & adults live short lives. i am increasingly inclined to rest my gelatin head, we've only just begun.


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One thing I want all the "I finish hours of work in seconds" AI bros to know is, you are raising the threshold for yourself & your coworkers. This level of output will become expected, but your pay will stay the same or decrease. It's already happening.