Found written on the back of the packaging that contained an AOL CD ROM, “Mortimer Altitude Banghead Network” represents late Bean Newton at his most cogent. Interpolating e.e. cummings rolling on ecstasy, Newton asks us to consider both existential dread and Epicurean pleasures, even if of a minor sort.
–EW Wilder
subject portway through
not the start of the millennium but
the death of the '90s but
let the zombies lie.
We were never
allowed the never
after all:
elastic bands bound
to keep us - the bedsheet's
cold side
the chill unto
the chill of not
the grave but
the morgue,
examined,
worth livid.
Coda:
one up
ept
apt.
--Bean Newton
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