She’s Done

I feel the dull but insistent teeth of your dinner fork

tugging at moth holes

in my sun dress

asking for me to be more bare

for you

more raw

for you

and so I let them needle away

until the threads are unknotted

and the cloth falls to the floor, and

I am

all that you want me to be

“Your Toy” by Angie Hoover-Hillhouse

Artwork: “Sleep When You Die” by Kieran Sperring

http://society6.com/captain_spezzo/Sleep-When-You-Die_Print

Art Heap: Point and Shoot

There’s Just no Privacy Anymore by Michael Hartford

http://society6.com/MichaelHarford/Theres-Just-No-Privacy-Anymore_Print

Surveillance by Tyler Hewitt

http://society6.com/TylerHewitt/surveillance-tn4_Print

Exposed Film on Fire by Rebecca Roe

http://society6.com/rebeccaroe/exposed-film-on-fire_Print

American Gun by Jesse Drexler

http://society6.com/jessedraxler/American-Gun_Print

Circle Heads 2 by Steven Quinn

http://society6.com/terra3/Circle-Heads-2_Print

Cry of the Wicked

Folded up

in this wrath that

flows like

a river from my lonely gut,

is a purple wound–

unhealed–

that cries and cowers with your children,

pleading for the pain

to die.

“In Me” by Angie Hoover-Hillhouse

Artwork: “She” by Steven Quinn

http://society6.com/terra3/She-Fce_Print

Not Stand-up Comedy: Louis C.K.’s “Hello There”

“Hello There” starring Ron Lynch, is The first in a series of surrealist shorts C.K. made for Howie Mandel’s Showtime sketch comedy show. I saw it when I was a friendless junior high school student and had no idea where it came from, or how I might ever find it again, but I loved it. And I never forgot it.

14 years later, following a 4-day netflix marathon of Louie, I embarked on a brief but ravenous search for all things Louis C.K. and there it was. To this day, it is my favorite of all his short films.

-Angie

At 1:12, you can catch a young Louis walking by in a sweater and a pair of sunglasses. ENJOY!