repetition compulsion I write high literary prose . -- a novelist, on differences of register "the repetition-compulsion...revives experiences of the past that contain no potentiality of pleasure" -- Sigmund Freud, trans. CJM Hubback i write low guttural poetry, like i have to go all the way downstairs to get it it's beneath me like this guy i dated once said about the women he dated i mean i could talk about the swamp and the lily the healing power of fungus the fractal rhizomatic underbelly that nourishes us so tenderly it's just that i haven't been inside my body lately and it's starting to wear me down the street. today it walked me like a dog, sniffed at every tree square, aren't we a pair, the soft animal and the hardy machine, or are we a trio animated by light? i've known two muscular men with sun tattoos who held me close and eclipsed....