“ … you’re not qualified to give up feels like a good way out of your emotions so you stop exercising washing your hair cleaning up the clothing on the floor you didn’t have time to walk over to the co-op which has raised its prices a thousand percent in the past decade as part of its campaign to rebrand for a future where you really are just trying to say something about the industrialization of literature is a churning word factory of relatable and perfected expression you feel compelled to produce some palatable mirror of you mistaken for the reflection of this churning emotion machine you are dutifully performing pain for the easy consumption of the audience claps enthusiastically at your family still sitting around that table since … ”

Behind the Poet Reading Their Poem Is a Sign Saying Applause. A hybrid poetry and essay pamphlet released as part of the annual Fertile Festival in Toronto.

Knife Fork Book, 2022, isbn: 978-1-989355-41-1