THE CHAT

–a transcontemporation of Max Jacob

Poor woman, all her time spent talking to God, a two-way radio. How did she manage with just one walkie-talkie? “The other one’s in a field, scares away the blackbirds.” Since you can talk to God and he knows everything, can you ask him when this war will be over? I asked. She just stood there. Then she opened up her blouse and I could see she had several little breasts, like a cat.

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from Issue 14 of jubilat (2007)

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Sampson Starkweather is a poet and does other stuff for money to pay rent and survive. He is the author of HONEY IN THE TAPE DECK: New & Uncollected Poems, Slip on the Ski Mask of Night, PAIN: The Board Game, The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather and over a dozen chapbooks from dangerous and/or defunct underground small presses. He is a founding editor of the anti-capitalist independent editor-run poetry press Birds, LLC.