Introducing: BookWook Feminist Press Collective

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For those of you that don't know, BookWook is a collaborative effort of my friends and I.

"Explicitly feminist and ruthlessly D.I.Y. press collective. All-girl run. Made to address our traumas. And your traumas. Made to deceive kings." - Claire LeDoyen (check out her videos on the youtube page as well! and the others, more to come!) 

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(11/19) I wrote this on the subway

The bank is closed / not a laughing matter / Jane Doe / came forward / voluntarily / a gram of salt was
convicted / it is / what it is: / a separate issue / that's what comedians are for / Eddie Murphy please curse / I am a futile hostile wasteland / my roommate found my hair on his fork / with his ramen / in his mouth / my tangles / my name is Jim Carrey / I am an organic word salad / with brightened textuality dressing / (I am sitting in a dark) / room / looped and distorted / recording recording / over the same recording / since brains love / to find patterns / this one is just like that one / N.2 / C.0 / it's hard to kill the darlings / the edits / so crucial / the last bit / it took me a long time to get used to me / I left my
altar / at the fiance / feel like ranting / I went on a / great / date / but his hand / on my stomach said / do you even think a baby would fit in there / so tiny / I wonder if my foot / would fit / up his ass / would my soccer trophy make a better statement / I hear my feminism / affects men / you don't like me / in your skin / do you / cornered in the train / by an L shape / of men / my view / the train zig / zagged criss / crossed / gave that dog / a bone / er / I stuck around the corn / er / MEAN PUPPY / est. 1994 what stop / ROCK ROBBING GO OK / no hold / doors / what stop is this / can't see / it's kingston headhitarm / her heels are gold / tip / tap / covered / blue beret / do you need a free swipe / blue sky 

(2 unfinished broads: 11/19)

This is our neighbor's mail / they like it / alphabetized / pouchy eyes / let's have a boob Freaky Friday your cup for my cup / bra borrowing / bargaining / compromise the long game / improv / instinct /
jazz / I'm about to skippity / bip / bop / there's a bar that I like / it's called my house / my friends call me / dreamscape / enter a code / win 25,000 / $s / simply / we don't know what to say / achoo / goo / goo / what do you usually pay / for this type of service / this distance / what do you got / what are you doing here / is this the future / sorry I called you a biscuit / you look like my dead friend Karen / does anyone ever tell you that / I can do this / I am a one woman / show / dear armpit / I shave you / to find a diamond / blowing on a travel sized / whiskey / I make / instant world music / I'm used to jerks / I used to work in finance / are you a frontier / where'd your lipstick go / Lucinda / how was the conference



I'm back / my hatless / hair in tangles / this is my head / I have it on now / see how dizzy I walk / fuck it / today don't feel like Sundae / Sun-dee / ya know / the Powerball / I'll play you / a number / clock me out at 1:11 / tell me my total / I am in power / sorry Ms. Walters / Barbara Day not today / I have decorative buttons / tendered down me / tattooed / I am always wearing a sweater / even when I gain a sleep 

(11/19)

approach me / my beginning scratches / ambiguously relevant / challenge and perceive / this is not a
force / I / am do / the right / with that I respond / language / lawdy / lawngwidge / how do I look at the end / passively shutting people up / I came-to last night with a protest / manifesto / I live my life like it's Jeopardy / sometimes the question reveals more than the answer / I can adapt to any environment / I don't know why that's disturbing / body language, right / how does your body / the language / it talk / if it / the part stays / in your mind / it's not g(ood)(ucci) / G? Gu--? / where you at / now / where you at / then / crying over a display of sun-tan lotion / I have that / domino effect for 30 minutes / the urge / resisting / to laugh about the tickles / on his back 

11/10 (***** sucks) (5:09 am poem)

note: I no longer think ***** sucks. there is no beef

Hi / hello there / it me / live from my bed it's / a sad saturday night / I mean sunday / somebody help me / in some way / I'm a junior creative writing major who can't get published in her school's literary magazine / the parents / I babysit / for know about my ******** / I mean boy / problems (same thing / man I wish they were man problems / do you know any / beer belly dad hugs / that's what I want / love is only real when it's platonic / your maker is your #1 fan / hi mom / I got paid for babysitting / bought stickers and drugs with the money / bought buffalo chicken pizza / and cigarettes / mmm / those / that / and the fresh / air dries my clammy / hands right up / I should finish this bowl / this conversation / this / what is this / that / was what he said / i thought it meant / the whole sha-bang / ya know / like I sealed the meal peel naw mean / but nah / I bought him beer / he drank the beer / he called his ex / still waiting for a refund / he bought me a yearly subscription to casualties (i.e. no serious (whatevers / what do I get myself / into worse / than the time strangers / lured me to a dojo / with drugs / my bad / I was looking for hot cocoa / 3 am / outside / been day drinking / been sad / cause my taste in men is toxic / n now my cousin's only friend didn't show up to her 13th birthday party / about 2 sob right here / on the bus / sad like sad / time halloween / I heard there were free x-rays for halloween / candy / since someone stuck razor blades in apples / in no way a treat /~that is / how does one hide that in there I wanna know / no really / I do / tell me all of your secrets / be honest / do you really / really / miss / her / I want to understand / I want to know it all / hurt me please / hurt me / are you ok / what's better for you / what's better for me / not me / not you / replace the toilet paper / free the mouse of misery / im stuck between hopeless / romantic and realist / really / I mean the man defends john green / and all offense to john green / u r the only mutha' / to make the statement : the book is better than the movie / untrue / 

******** explanation: if you come to a reading of mine, you'll hear what that really says. if you get one of my chapbooks, you can read it in there. but for now, I've got to preserve the mystery + protect the secrets. also mom if you read this, don't take it seriously

(11/9 or 11/10 or both) in general

curl me out / like your little doll / i'm paper / tolerate me to a point / chisel / me / like the end of your
pool / stick my eye out / I could be fatal / a man with a monster face / a real Bob / I don't always do things / in my morning dread / I mellow out / stuck / through you / had some trouble / we were at the dinner table / we both had some / about you / about me / about you / do you know what it was / what you are / what I am / what we were / if you eat alone in front of me / I will cry / this goes for all / I bet you were good / great / and love it / do you have a crush / es / do you crush here often / do you crush / crush / do you like to crush / crush / me / do you crush / crush / mallet mallet / order order / go
missing / I need a statement / I collect / them famous last words / please tell me how to / you feel / how you really / really / reel / me in / to tug / I fell / fed / I'm feeding / feigning / my hand / pressed / flipped over and up / flash my head / enabler / full of wonder / full of ah / full of being full / / dive in as soon as you can / / i'm sorry and / I don't know / why / oh yea / being a female / fun / thanks for coming / you can paint me / if I want / i'm a space man with a gas mask (some bad news I haven't slept for a long time / when you're ready for something / you can no longer have it / me / I have a downward spiral ( I may be it / trouble free / almost there / it's happening / number 246 on the / waiting / list 

basically I I I I I I I am too mature for you

pace / drink coffee / drunk daily
the cold / my temples / 6 am
my temper is eating / alive my intestines / with frogs
send me / your brain / the circles represent / each message
I / a skeleton / zesting for life / watch me / a ball game / rain it out
what the hell / are you called
meer kat atomic mole / that's what I used to be / chollie horse and wedgies 

excerpts from (11/10)

when I am told to not look / I don't / when I know not to look / I peak / I hide my face in my 3- wheeler / stroller taking me past the man / he has 1.5 legs / in the shopping center on 24th & Oregon

I gave permission to give away my wheels / I was 4 / going on 5 / and I liked to walk
I walk 15 minutes to the subway / 15 minutes from

a bang / bang / boom / I also roll myself in tiny / tiny / ball / 2 knees / to 1 chin

one time I yanked my sister's / ass-length / strawberry-blonde hair / pulled her to the ground / taught her a lesson / or 2 / I was 4 / got her in trouble / 3.5 years my senior / now she is the pretty one / I am her butler / I should mind this dynamic 

in 6th grade I stubbed my toe / ripped it / off wearing my baby blue / Old Navy / flip flops / flip flip I fell fell
lost it/ not the toe/ just the tip/

1 block from home / 3 from grandma's / mom took me there /poured peroxide / she used to in my ears / they still work / my toe almost / 2 weeks they were getting there / my class started pointe / so I started pointe