Andrei Codrescu

You can’t make a new man but you can kill old ones Walter Benjamin in Moscow 1927 noted posters exhorting the masses with the slogan “Time Is Money” attributed to Lenin the only god the lazy Russians masses pretended to listen to but did not no matter how big Majakovski ...

something I made up in the mirror of enmeshed languages survived briefly then died in my lifetime   it was poetry it was art it was the ineffable stench of a dying world   I speak two human languages each one mirrored by its twin and followed by its echo   each ...

When I was a child I had no trouble destroying the world with mind-rays. The neighbors who communalized our kitchen. The empty ghost-houses in the overgrown bushes behind the crumbling cement walls where ghouls screeched. The stepfather who wrestled my dog Nemo out of my ...