The oldest building’s from 1962
and proud of it too. The tailor says
everything depends on the price of petrol.
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‘motorcyclists like to howl / and dogs drop bulging bags of garbage / from their mouths when they see other dogs / they want to mount’
The oldest building’s from 1962
and proud of it too. The tailor says
everything depends on the price of petrol.
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
Anjum Hasan is the author of the story collection Difficult Pleasures, the novels Neti, Neti and Lunatic in My Head and the collection of poems Street on the Hill. She is Books Editor at The Caravan and lives in Bengaluru.
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