About This Work
Andrew Rihn notes that “the four attached poems were ‘created’ through a digital mis-translation of spoken language. Specifically, they are derived from the glitch-laden closed captioning of a 2018 interview with UFC fighter Conor McGregor. This found text was then collected and arranged by the author. Loosely following the structure of the spoken language, the closed captioning glitches reveal another layer to the speech, something both absurd and yet deeply resonate: a poetics of technological failure and technological revelation.”
O Distraught Light
The slogan just because I have and
sign up for a dream. It might know
what we are doing, nothing.
Parents, so Ferguson, is in the coming
region, ecology, couple hundred yoga.
In preparation, subscriber is a fight
and let us but many men,
levels at previous basis of.
He then has to deal with crazy request,
browser. The no disrespect loser, the whole.
And then what you request something as if
the whole, to step, a few problems.
Down the wall in a basin, this paper children.
God I had to some reversals.
Ambrosia expressing an obvious show on it.
Robot against Feinstein.
Towers why older, that degree.
Help as witches and cars, too.
O Correct Spring
Lift the correct spring and so the scooter.
Big poke and if his mental audit
hangs more for me, labor camp, and me.
And everyone is therefore already there, is there.
O Corners of the Media
The ladder, ladder: thief of a tribe
or energy and of course invoices.
Named and dual held out week was rough.
Plus, if cannot you every single mode
still retelling numbers from north.
Preferably for looking like this:
to see two and we are already from
brown paper medical student.
It’s a game in which it gets harder,
situation. From there, I wish it was honored
and honored. He scans the many motivations
in the grime; it suggests school situation.
Where is brand shaking their heads?
Organic and the scampi should be you;
see beyond the landscape have been to.
My locks lure this facility, protein.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh
boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy
oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy many more
words to show of living vision of the us.
Laugh a body what called breaks otherwise.
To each other that you are him, they are they.
O River Train
Hear I took him.
I have to be a this, is that.
Live here at the surgeon
that I would just have spent
in which how long I did last week.
In that, oh, video and film, about that,
you look like.
The idea is to have
a solo book
in the workout.
Biography
Andrew Rihn is the author of Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights (Press 53, 2020), a book of prose poems about Mike Tyson, as well as The Pugilist, a monthly boxing column for Into the Void magazine. He lives in Canton, OH.
© 2020 Andrew Rihn, used by permission
