16 June 2025
25 June 2025
submitted to Island 175 25 June 2025
on being and so on
even pope francis signed a basketball
so this part-cute, part-
mean-looking autograph hustler
seeks the sigs of celebs and nonentities alike
then applies deft heuristics
to find more fodder for her little pink books
she digitises them to hunt for
evidence of six degrees of separation
or fewer – and follows up to make
straighter paths for the lord
for it is the lord she seeks through this
weird, all consuming pastime, i
mean passion, you gotta be passionate
to sacrifice all that you have to make
an impact in the world of autographs –
her doctoral thesis about post-
structural giddiness was just the
beginning of her path to fame:
ontology by any other name would
stink as sweet