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Jacob McArthur Mooney: Yenoom ruhtracm bocaj, jac obmca rthu r moo ne yyeno om. Ruhtracmbo cajja cobmac arthur mo on eyy.

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1. Immediate

             [If you] get down on
               [your]
luck in Halifax, Nova Scotia
                [you] can always get by
stuffing flyers at the Chronicle-Herald’s distribution centre.
            [You’d] make a good lawyer.
               [You] should write a novel.
     [You] should see his new girlfriend. Fucking smoking, man!
                [You] gotta get thinking about print journals, the internet’s no good.
     [You] should read my boyfriend’s poetry
                [You] need to get
                [your] head out of the clouds.
[Wouldn’t you] be better off in a Saturn?

2. Indirect

                     [I] think you’d be better off living in a house.
[Personally, I’d] get the first one.
                 [I’m] warning you, man.
                 [I’m] fucking crazy, you don’t know me and
                  [I’ll] fuck you up.
          [Would I] be asking too much to tell you to keep your voice down?
                     [I] really wish you’d look other people in the
     [eyes].

Source: Careful inventory of every piece of advice I was given by man or machine over a 48 hour period in April of 2005. The poem was derived from highlights of that exercise.

Advised

by Jacob McArthur Mooney

***BIO***

July 2005