you’re so ornery in this picture, you said
stop yelling at me, i said
long love poem with descriptive title by matthew savoca is out on scrambler books since last month. i don't know how many pages it has
there are extra spaces between some lines but no separate poems. there are pencil drawings of nonhuman animals and a lamp, computer-made drawings of plants, and other drawings
owls are my favorite winged creature
the book has a lot of scenes of two people in a relationship being bored in a hot apartment and not doing a lot
i don’t think we even like each other anymore
the way we don’t really like ourselves anymore
i first found matthew savoca on the pop serial tumblr and i read his ebook i am being honest. i liked it a lot for the warm simple tone in it, especially in the opening poems. long love poem with descriptive title has a similar warm tone in parts
i am going to go cut fruit and put it into a bowl for you
there is also a more clever/ironically mechanical tone that reminds me of cognitive-behavior therapy by tao lin. i was interested about how this voice combines with the warm tone, although i liked the warm tone more
here are the first sentences of long love poem with descriptive title: ‘large eyes and visible cheekbones // are what make you beautiful // i know this abstractly // and feel it distinctly’
here are the first sentences of cognitive-behavioral therapy: ‘seen from a great enough distance i cannot be seen / i feel this as an extremely distinct sensation / of feeling like shit’
it is not the number of life affirming experiences that you have
but the moments that take your breath away that count
there is a spoiler for an episode of lost in the book
his author pic is cropped to look a little like a polaroid, and his bio says he doesn't eat animals
here is matthew savoca’s website; his twitter; the scrambler books page for long love poem with descriptive title
