Thanks to Windfall Room & Zach Savich for posting my reading of “Fugue 20 | Consumer Cooperative Bookstore” from my latest book Fugue & Strike.

Here’s what I have to say about it: “Here’s a poem about working at a consumer cooperative bookstore written while I was working at a consumer cooperative bookstore. Non-poet voice: “just work places start with workers being in charge.” Readers bring me back to this poem, particularly Max, a young union organizer, who asked me how I came up with vomiting gold. I don’t know. That’s just how it feels to give away my only life to wage labor. The location of this recording is a chair in my ‘office’ (never really set up–we are between more permanent places), specifically the chair where I zone out after work and try to purge the reactionary feelings work germinates in order to become something that resembles myself again. Instead of zoning out, impulsively, I recorded this poem. I’d been trying to film in my neighborhood but the sound wasn’t good so I figured what the hell. I sent two other takes at two other locations to Windfall Room. They liked this one.”

There’s a gorgeous reading by Chicago mainstay Joel Craig, too, in The Windfall Room.