Time Zones
When I first learned about time zones—how you can force the clock back a few hours by hopping on a plane—I was so young and ingenuous that for a brief moment I really believed in time travel. My dreams of immortality immediately collapsed under the weight of further explanations, rationality, logic, indefatigable mortality, the heavy line in the Pacific where the days change from one step to the…
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A Conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm
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"I like running I like scissors I like blood I like it everywhere I like lying I like a good story I like my hair I like inhaling it I like choking I like to gag"
—Thomas Hobohm
https://beestungmag.com/issue18/three-poems-by-thomas-hobohm/
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You have to move your body and get out and look at things. You have to talk to people and eat strange food, travel if you can, watch movies with subtitles, listen to music outside of your habits, go to art galleries and concerts, do things you're bad at. You have to challenge yourself, keep learning new things, participate.
And all of these things fall under the umbrella of "Stay curious." And you have to have fun.
- A Conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm
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How have other aspects of your own life nourished your writing?
You have to fill the tank. You have to move your body and get out and look at things. You have to talk to people and eat strange food, travel if you can, watch movies with subtitles, listen to music outside of your habits, go to art galleries and concerts, do things you’re bad at. You have to challenge yourself, keep learning new things, participate. And all of these things fall under the umbrella of “Stay curious.” And you have to have fun. My housemate is being fussy with me today because I am talking to the dogs in Spanish about how my father fought in the clone wars. Sometimes I am ridiculous, but sometimes he is joyless.
– a conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm
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"I like running I like scissors I like blood I like it everywhere I like lying I like a good story I like my hair I like inhaling it I like choking I like to gag"
—Thomas Hobohm
https://beestungmag.com/issue18/three-poems-by-thomas-hobohm/
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"I like running I like scissors I like blood I like it everywhere I like lying I like a good story I like my hair I like inhaling it I like choking I like to gag"
—Thomas Hobohm
https://beestungmag.com/issue18/three-poems-by-thomas-hobohm/
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