Los Angeles

Like any subscription member

of the Metropolitan Opera

fashion bloggers believe

they're at the center of perception.

I want to go where men go.

Is a high school crush

on an alien surf girl

the same as the need

to fatally possess

the other and the self?

My friends were in a band

called Second Life^®.

Let's get high

talk about '90s nostalgia

Scientology

drink Diet Coke.

The Real is a teenager

drunk in a turn.

A blue dot pulsing down

Santa Monica Blvd.

Hackers are the

unacknowledged legislators of the world.

For something to be timeless

it must be outside mortality

and if humans exist outside of death

they're no longer subject to the violence

of sexual reproduction

or the fragility of life itself.

In these conditions music

will have no cultural efficacy.

Hope life now won't need.

A forever sadness, though possible, now obsolete,

What did I do this weekend?

Listened to this song "Tropical Winter" on repeat

while POV jogging through Runyon Canyon.

Totally desperate boys following cute boys

making out under Tumblr skies

reblogged as gossip

sent from my iPhone.

Kenneth Anger fatigued and

decadent in silk

post-fantasy.

Negation is part of the

positive identity of an object.

There is no snow in Hollywood.

Celebrities constitutive of a

scene that draw the populations

restaurant owners want as their clientele.

In a single day three stars photographed

in the same gray hoodie.

I want to create a product

too unstable to be marketed.

Not to say lacking

maybe messy

discursive and sort of pushing

oscillating among

the various dimensions of influence.

I could write here randy details

of my consumer choices

banal and otherwise

it would not amount to much.

Mallarmé on fashion,

Benjamin on fashion.

A monograph retrospective

of Guess's photo editorials

next to the bed.

So maybe alien visitations

directly influenced human history over the millennia.

What does it take to start a new life?

You take lonely trips to the city

you are interested in moving to.

Saturate the market with your resume.

During interviews order both coffee and juice.

Masterfully handle the acceptance of your ontological incompleteness

by affecting the persona of the applicant they want to hire

a winning assurance that you never intend to realize

obvious to all parties six months into the job

as if persona or voice was something laid stable

over the truth of a tectonic subjectivity

Jean Paul Gaultier staged his Chic Rabbi

collection at Paris Fashion Week FW '93

Very beautiful, very elegant, the orthodox religious

clothing and the gender bending

fits with his interest in tradition and iconic imagery

as well as the fact that he's treating somewhat impertinently

something that most people wouldn't dare play with

in couture design.

When Gaultier talks about himself though he sounds so dumb.

Source: Fantasy (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015)