Laura Johnson (she/her) is an Athens, GA based poet and musician. She frequently explores topics in her poems and songs such as the trans and Jewish experience, memory and time, and digital culture. She is in the last throes of graduate school yet again, confident that the elder spirits at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics will allow her to walk between two fronds safely. Her musical project, Fermented Angels, can be found at fermentedangels.bandcamp.com.
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01. Xennial Moth
There’s that particular ambiguity
espoused by Cobain and Van Etten
The actual Lilith of the Fair, a void of another generation and us Xennials
Even us who came of age when the Pearl gave way to the Matchbox
We have arrived, now what, it was
pounding, the dirty girls in a private high
school, the blue tube of Fukuyama’s wet dream
The hunger of the snarl
All the adults are tubes and now they look younger but have eschewed privacy
The blaze of a poverty that poverty of language
The whites, the blues
of the early nineties
Must have felt like hyper-reality’s equinox
Little pockets of obscurantism in the jetsam,
carried by the dirty and the grungy
in the high
school, soon to be upended more and more
as “good debt” was on its way out as a hologram
The spellchecker just read “Bill” as I typed “hologram”
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