Mobius Strip Club of Grief David Byrne with a silicone gasket

with a silicone gasket

and gleans sacred texts that speak urgently through the transports and telepathies of poetry

with roasted vegetables

and the world as they know it will cease to exist

Come As You Are

Mobius Strip Club of Grief David Byrne with a silicone gasketThe Mbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay dearly, with both money and conscience to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: $20 for five minutes. I'll hold your hand in my own, one ghost says. I'll tell you you were good to me. Like Dante before her, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead. She imagines a