FANZINE

 

WE BUILT THIS CITY

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We built this gold
We built this gold
On
We built this gold
We built this gold
On
Built this gold
We built this gold on

We built this gold on this gold
We built this gold on this gold
We built this gold on this gold

Got burnt
Got schooled

We built this gold on this gold
We built this gold on this gold
We built this gold on this gold

Got spent
Got spent

We built this gold on this gold
We built this gold on this gold
We built this gold on this gold

Got
Got

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Got gilded
Got ghosted
Got the gilded gilt street ghost

Gutted duck
Gristle grape
Seasoned millet

Gore reduction
Glib spit
Pulled gullet

Grazed coon
Honky hip
Breakfast
Spicnic

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A Way to Start Conducting Business

(REVOLVER)
kicks back
loaded

GUNS & BUTTER
shoot! forgot the knife

GOLDFINCH AMERICAN
plumage rummage
pigeon menu
the website says
“picture a Mexican kid
in a grocery cart at a
laundromat”

third world wannabe

GOLD CASH GOLD
green in the filling
chewing
leisure

CLANDESDINE

RUBBED

SHINOLA

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I don’t know shit from Shinola
But yr clandestinity is too much for me
You made me want to write this plaint
Paint The capital T
Train Station
Across the Street
Black. It
Won’t Match
The Gold Sign
Strung From
Slow Leisure
Beam Nostalgic
Kleptomaniac
Lease Slow
Gilded Image
The Capital T
Train Station
Just Look
Take It
Slow Slow
Drink Slow
Cure Slow
Sash Slow
Light Slow
Denoument Slow
Diminishment Slow
Devolopeé Slow
Lift Slow
Entrance

Gold Cash Gold
Gold Butter
Gold Gun
Gold (rvolver)
Gold Rubbed Gold
These Gears
Switch Lanes
My Cash
My Watch
My Craft
My Industry
Toss Up My Butter Hair
Color My Main Mane
Disguise Dalliance
And Split My
Name Come
To Slit
My Throat

On the River

Already Dead
Gold Cash
Gold Rubbed
Gold (revolver)
Gold Finch
Gold American
Gold Watch
Gold Who
Gold Me
Gold Bike
Gold You
Gold Black
Gold Tiger
Gold White
Gold Wing
Gold Fist

Deliver Gold
Finch to
American Breakfast

Deliver Gold
Locks to Pinch
This Mess

Tote Bags around
Eyes Instead of
Addressing

Deliver Gold
Tales to Suede
This Hood

Deliver Gold
Watch to Arrest
This Hood

Tote Bags around
Eyes Instead of
Addressing

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I feel sentimental for
Across the Street
I want to dine in glass
Rub it in my hair
Drink a beverage out of it
Cubes of ice look like it
Glass in my lap
On my plate
When I chew it
The sandwish is
Incidental

This building is
Industry’s Destiny

Donate Skull
Donate Forefinger
Donate Roof of Mouth

To build
Or not build

Gild
Or not gild

Built this gold
We built this gold
On
Built this gold
We built this gold
On

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I like Margaritas in Mexicantown
I’ve had a lot of delicious ones with my friends
I eat BBQ I ride my bicycle
I drink cocktails I ride my bicycle
I drink cocktails I eat pizza I get my haircut
I ride my bicycle I listen to Gil Scott-Heron
I’m singing
And we drink beers
And we’re Detroiters
And we’re Detroiters

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So about growing up here
So about eating cereal

I ride my bicycle I don’t know shit from Shinola
I don’t know shit from Shinola

I listen to the radio
Feel the wide stretch of the road
Like to drive and want to drive fast

This burger is delicious
I love the bacon
I love the cheese

When my friends and I in high school used to skip school to smoke pot sometimes we’d drive around Detroit, sometimes we’d drive around Belle Isle, sometimes we’d by weed on the street in Detroit

When I lived in Detroit, I wouldn’t drive around Detroit, but I walked around Detroit and I rode my bicycle a lot.

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_{Anna Vitale writes through wealth, poverty, sex, race, bodies, and the city; she writes through dreams and song and performs associative patterns of the unconscious, offering something like psychoanalytic practices as part poetic practice. Her dissertation is about suicide and language. Some of her short books include Unknown Pleasures (Perfect Lovers) and Anna Vitale’s Pop Poems (OMG). The still above is from a short video called “Street View Lyric,” which hinges on Jodeci’s “Come and Talk to Me,” is online at Gauss PDF.}