ARRIVING. SLEEPS FOR HOURS

STIMULANT WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 012 // AUGUST 24, 2024

 

Arriving. Sleeps for hours.

Walking around through shafts of trees across the water down to Ica (Swedish grocery store)

Ate dinner in a small town named Tindered. Saw the fat stupid seal

through the binoculars. It is completely stupid (r word). We walk 

across a terribly long bridge

Children breathe and gather courage to,

with their hands, to hug the electric fence

It has taken several hours.

Nothing happens.  Cow blinking eye

I came up with that little detail.

Using my phone as a hotspot

It makes a small sound, the washing machine

It's only forty minutes anyway

Who's watching the onions on the stove Watch it

I want the defense and the armchair

You must not - I will put 

On the water. You must not

Eat on the couch

You poke the fire. Leaves. Lots and lots of them

It's a shame it had to be this way

Such a young woman. Maybe not promising,

But young. Discarded. That's a lot of talk

For someone who is Dead

Girls love to say things like Stockholm is a dog eating my hands and guys reply something like there must be something warmer than a rapeseed (canola) field. One day. about the hasty seriousness. 

The big one

Sticky car

Stops under the

Basking in the sun Walking barefoot 

The Glasses Up The Nose Hill

Bronze Little Hill The Car Faster Up

AND A COUNTRY LIFE

WITH EXPENSIVE MEAT AND

ANOTHER FLOOR FILLED 

WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT CHAIRS

A FLAT SCREEN TV FOR 400KR

AND A WOMAN WITH A PIG ON IT if

at some point you have to 

have to stop joking

at some point. that elasticity 

that is not in

but behind two little 

spider eyes

no

no

under that plastic like a sky

a thin such layer unclear 

red marinade, the moist

ARRIVING. SLEEPS FOR HOURS was edited by Charlie Zacks.

 

get hip

  1. Read Ali Alonzo’s first contribution to the Stimulant Weekly Newsletter.

  2. Stay on the lookout for an announcement regarding a Stimulant reading in MTL in September.

  3. Photographs by Nicolas Dykmans.

  4. Kat Mulligan finished her novel.

  5. Quebec Writers’ Federation Fall Workshops.

  6. Open Secret, Dana Dawud’s nomadic film screening series comes to Tehran, Iran August 29-30.

  7. Ali Alonzo / BABO MAGASIN Substack.

  8. Wonderful Cringe Onlyf*ns (Link in his bio).

  9. Only a few copies of Stimulant Volume 1 remain. We will not reprint. Order here.

  10. Please support, if you can, families in Gaza by helping to get their voices heard and hopefully experience some amount of security. Here is a link to a spreadsheet from Operation Olive Branch which lists several ways you can support Palestinian families and individuals financially or otherwise.

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