Jonathan Ball's Blog, page 33
July 8, 2018
Virgo
Hannibal Lecter Invited you for dinner— It’s rude to say no
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Libra
The phone is for you Although the caller says that We’re in the Matrix
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Scorpio
If those kids won’t help You kill the evil clown then They are not your friends
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Sagittarius
These horoscopes are Haunted, but at least I’ve passed The curse on to you
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Capricorn
Your superhero Power to undress people With your eyes: creepy
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Aquarius
Rolling around nude In bacon grease is one way To build your platform
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Pisces
There’s nothing funny About torturing a mime To get him to talk
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Aries
Geese will invade your Yard, and then your neighbour’s, and Then your fantasies
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July 4, 2018
Deluded Your Sailors (Michelle Butler Hallett)
It seems curious that Canadian literature has suffered this book to live. About halfway through Michelle Butler Hallett's novel Deluded Your Sailors, one of these titular sailors (in the early 1700s) inflates and deflates a passage of poetic description: On deck, Walters got jovial and told a story about calenture, a fever that struck in [...]
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July 1, 2018
Cancer
The race is not to The swift, but—wait a second I think I messed up
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