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Four New Poems

by Travis Jeppesen on August 28, 2015

  Can turtles be lesbians? It is a question I have often asked myself, until I stopped once. I appeared as a drug addict for my birthday that year, and everyone applauded my whiteness. I just wanna take this opportunity (…)

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Poem for My Birthday

by Travis Jeppesen on September 5, 2014

It would be great if someone told me they loved me today, though I won’t expect it and neither should you, blue sea over there shimmering under an ungodly glare. Window on to the horizon like a painting I am (…)

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Popular culture showboat…

by Travis Jeppesen on August 10, 2014

Popular culture showboat, another scum system named Rhonda to sit on my cock and fellate the indifference produced by craving. Chase after the toilet paper, it is similar to the refined de-emergence, yr new toy. Angry acrobats petrified by the (…)

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The River Itself

by Travis Jeppesen on July 29, 2014

    I’d gone to Budapest to try and make my handwriting smaller. No, that’s   not quite right, but then neither am I, and the Danube isn’t blue, and neither am I, but green and brown, a bit like (…)

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Hong Kong Poem

by Travis Jeppesen on April 3, 2014

Here I sit by my large ass window, staring out at the milkgray sky, brewing up my own typhoon. This harbor is such a whore. Look at all the boats she allows to crawl all over her. Kind of like (…)

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The System

by Travis Jeppesen on July 23, 2013

  -after Ashbery-   The system wants to eat my hair, and I said no. That I cannot allow and simply will not give in to the flux that demands my windless participatory combo. O holy darkness, synth in the (…)

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The Vehicle

by Travis Jeppesen on July 21, 2013

    i. She gets to go all the time. Lucky her – it’s on their dime.   Eject the future to hasten the ride. Fehler is(s)t failure, My whole tone gluttony. This MP3 cassette should be slipped into the (…)

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Waste: an object-oriented, collectively authored poem

by Travis Jeppesen on April 18, 2013

Below, you will find Waste, a collectively authored object-oriented poem composed last weekend at London’s ICA in response to the Bernadette Corporation’s retrospective, 2000 Wasted Years, as well as their collectively written poem, The Complete Poem. Click here to get (…)

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becomingsobject

by Travis Jeppesen on July 27, 2012

    Treat art like it’s a piece of nature, I can’t get enough of this. Once   I made a someone eat the sky – there you have a really good foundation for suffering.   Last night’s dream a (…)

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Poem at the Museum Ludwig

by Travis Jeppesen on November 13, 2011

We all knew Kippenberger was a fag but we liked him anyway. Certain others   thought Woodstock was the way to go. Not me. My boats   were enchanted before they even docked.   I fell down satisfied with my (…)

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