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“On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.”
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[h6]Guest Curator: Jen Hofer[/h6]
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[h6]Founder, Publisher, Webmaster, Lifehacker, Alchemist.[/h6]
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i want to remember something important
but all i can think of is riding in george’s camaro
top down
somewhere in torrance
it was around 1am
there was nowhere we were trying to get to
we were just waiting
for our skin
to burn.
from “we are only aware it’s winter”

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scatter my ash; the keeper of my ambivalences,
a casket is
a sorry stage unable to
satisfy my internal monologue,
scatter me in the mouth of Los Angeles
her stomach the desert
her ass the sea
her shoulders the mountains
and her womb
the east Los Angeles freeway interchange
for the 5 brought me all of California
while the 101 took to me to where it was possible
impossible on the 10 during rush hour
and the 60 carried my broken teenage heart home

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Jay Besemer is the author of many poetic artifacts including Telephone (Brooklyn Arts Press), A New Territory Sought (Moria), Aster to Daylily (Damask Press), and Object with Man’s Face (Rain Taxi Ohm Editions).  His performances and video poems have been featured in various live arts festivals and series, including Chicago Calling Arts Festival; Red Rover Series {readings that play with reading}; Absinthe & Zygote; @Salon 2014 and Sunday Circus. Jay also contributes critical essays to numerous publications including Rain Taxi Review of Books, The VOLTA, and CCM: ENTROPY. He is the co-editor of a special digital Yoko Ono tribute issue of Nerve Lantern: Axon of Performance Literature, and founder of the Intermittent Series in Chicago.
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