Published 2y ago - Kevin Higgins
by Kevin Higgins Since I got to Congress I say: #MedicareForAll with the seagull stare of someone – gender unspecified – supple enough to have relations with Governor Gavin Newsom while wearing an Even My Dog Hates Gavin Newsom t-shirt In ... More »
Published 2y ago - Kevin Higgins
Executions, if they continue, as they must, for public opinion demands them, and who are you to disagree with people like you, will be carried out in a timely and efficient manner: injections of genetically modified wasp venom to the heart, eye, or groin rathe... More »
Published 2y ago - Kevin Higgins
by Kevin Higgins after Spartacus Mills Back when I was over earnest and small I’d scoff that a postmodernist is someone who thinks the sentence: “Next time I go to America I will get there by standing on the tallest building in Paris and flapping... More »
Published 3y ago - Kevin Higgins
America as a notion can be defined as a single word. Most days that word is: Meatloaf gasoline hamburgers Cher or Batman others days it’s cowgirl sunglasses alligator spandex motel though those allegations are unproven. America is a saxophone that denies eve... More »
Published 3y ago - Kevin Higgins
“Ireland must reassess military power” —Simon Coveney In the absence of Seamus Heaney, if Ireland is to be renowned for anything other than bog water, cabbage and our negligible corporate tax rate, we must invest in at least one intercontinental ballisti... More »
Published 3y ago - Kevin Higgins
by Kevin Higgins No longer exactly young but still in a hurry to board the bus bound for what they call somewhere. Emerging poet acquires agent so sang the update. Or is acquired by, it neglected to add. From now on they will focus less on the bits that don... More »
Published 3y ago - Kevin Higgins
by Kevin Higgins after Rod McKuen The old woman upstairs is again engaging in multi-partner Sadomasochism. I set my watch by the yelps and screams wafting through my ceiling. I see her often abseiling down the side of the building in her bloodstained ov... More »
Published 3y ago - Kevin Higgins
by Kevin Higgins The well made poem puts on its dicky bow, walks to the top of the hill, and has what it calls an epiphany. The well made poem sees every side of the argument, except those proscribed by the BBC. The well made poem has between twelve and twenty... More »
Published 3y ago - Kevin Higgins
by Kevin Higgins after Ocean Vuong Because the poodle’s polka dot collar lying luminous at the bottom of the stairs was an exclamation mark discarded from a poem. Because all your relatives kept turning up — & the kettle exploded from our ov... More »
Published 4y ago - Kevin Higgins
by Kevin Higgins It’s not all hanging around the college bar pretending to be Ted and Sylvia; or escaping to Italy with your lover, like the Barrett Brownings; or head-butting rivals in the green room during what you’ll later call your Norman Mailer phase;... More »
Published 4y ago - Kevin Higgins
By Kevin Higgins after Walter Benjamin A barrel of industrial waste poured into a suit donated by a casino owner who knows people with a tangerine tea towel tossed strategically on top because it was the only available metaphor for hair was running for re-elec... More »
Published 4y ago - Kevin Higgins
by Kevin Higgins It interferes with the right of people like me to dine as we see fit. Whenever I visit England 1649, the sound of it taking just one swing of an inarticulate axe to abolish monarchy puts me off my coffee. After that, with every m... More »