Advice from Palmyra
Advice from Palmyra is part of a larger collective project from some of us in Ottawa called "Chimera in IPA". The results are below. - Jason Abdelhadi From Chimera in IPA #2 Chimera.IPA@gmail.com Save
The Cenote
Night passes and I wake from an imageless slumber. I push myself out from my dark water cocoon and jerkily climb up the side of the Sacred Cenote, up towards the sun and its warmth. My worm-like body leaves behind a sticky sweet residue, and I sense each new step through the six slits of [...]
Surrealize the Pipeline
Surrealist game in solidarity with the indigenous protectors and their allies at Standing Rock Sioux who are refusing the imposition of an environmentally catastrophic pipeline across their land. http://sacredstonecamp.org/ Questions 1. Instead of being built across Sioux land, where should the pipeline be rerouted? 2. Instead of oil, what should be pumped through [...]
AGAIN BE AWARE by Arthur Spota
ARIES HOROSCOPE: (As translated from Japanese) AGAIN BE AWARE Keep your fingertips, dear Aries. Keep your spirit so that it will find this spot in the soup, vacuum the water cooler tellin' jokes and so become rather irritated by everyone else; concentrate on a roll, and exercise a little patience, who knows what comes of [...]
On Certain Possibilities of the Irrational Embellishment of Living Surrealism by Jason Abdelhadi
It's of note that today the monster is accruing yet more status in the shared mythos of rebellion. As before, it retains the honorable title of destroyer of men and cities, and also its long history as a collectible, destined for some hellish cabinet. Yet it has come to reveal another counterfactual power against the [...]
The Head of Doctor Faustus as He Appeared By Chance in the Dirt by Jason Abdelhadi
[BENVOLIO strikes off FAUSTUS' head.] His head is off. - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe On the evening of Friday, July 29th 2016, I was walking on Mackenzie Avenue in downtown Ottawa, directly in front of a Tudor-Gothic monstrosity called the Connaught Building, which houses the Canadian Revenue Agency. This part of the city [...]
a storehouse full of athletes
Collaborative game with Stephen Kirin, Karl Howeth, Jason Abdelhadi, Casi Cline, Maurizio Brancaleoni, Maria Brothers, Dale Houstman, and Craig S Wilson. The circus folk were lonely between the trees, and they leaned against the wall they had built from sloughed off skin, and argued about whether or not leaves were edible, and should they test [...]
Poems by TD Typaldos
PENITENTIARY'S GATE As a wolf I'm coming near to you to devour your heart Lie down at your ankles as a dead dove Camel rider to Sivas oasis I‘m folding my turban - a wish into the cosmic excommunication's sandstorm As you are running you can learn how useful walking is From A Galaxy of [...]
BULB – Word Association Game
Maurizio Brancaleoni BULB(E)'S GIRLFRIEND. Unfinished opening-ending one-chapter post-story (A could-have-been-a-novellette prose minipoemette ). These light bulbs had been prying into my viscera for an indefinite amount of time, heirs to a condition of slavery. He is intralatched onto mental representations of potential fiancées. This guy, Bulbe, a multi-talented lover's spat colourist and indoor farmer, a [...]
The Surrealist Group in Paris
Les Fondements de la Mécanique Céleste The Surrealist Group in Paris has just published the results of a stunning theatrical game played in 2014. Combining characters from their collective mythology with the aleatory and blindfolded methodology of an exquisite corpse, they have collectively composed a piece for the theatre that antagonizes everything we hate about [...]