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Mike Lala

Mike Lala is the author of Exit Theater (2016) and The Unreal City, forthcoming from Tupelo Press. His installations, performances, and libretti include Whale Fall (2021), Madeleines: Tell Me What It Was Like (2020, with Iris McCloughan), Oedipus in the District (2018–19), and Infinite Odyssey (2018).

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Without Feeling (Catallus 96)

February 28, 2022
If, taciturn, your two graves smile at my shock, for now not grief, it’s as if those silted lips revive the hours spent with me. Tonight,       a quake across not mine, but all     your friends, whose faces shade,     and in the weird you left for ...
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Fault (Catallus 102)

February 28, 2022
Leaks drip out of lips that part, from a copse where secrets rot, churning to a knot that needs untying by a friend. Split a digraph: Scantly ape the palm one hides to shake, and cup the eyes, obstruct the mouth, and plug the ear the weaker party rambled.