Bent Zine #9

Interview by Addison Vawters

“We can all sing together, but we can’t all talk together.”

— From Shuckin’ and Jivin’: Folklore From Contemporary Black Americans

Johnson O’Connor English Vocabulary Builder (1939)

Unknown to 5 Percent: Masticate

v. Chew, crush with the teeth, prepare for swallowing. To masticate may originally have meant to chew mastic, a gum from the mastic tree.

880 Stories by Christopher Kang (2016)

208.

After drinking the poison, his cheeks grow cold and he begins to see double. This was not supposed to happen. This will not change the fact that he will die but it will change how he dies, which will change everything for us. 

An Image that Moves Me

Anish Kapoor’s ‘Shooting into the Corner’ (2009)

Commercial Break

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Lights

When i lived in ohio i started smoking marlboro lights

bc i believe in the red, white, and blue spirit

That stands right outside my grandmothers housing complex 

At 5am when the quiet gray merges with sunrise 

There in the edge of a rainbow

i do believe in the little lucky charm fuck and his pot of gold

 

When goes the rain?

When not every feeling that raises out of us is noble.

As hard as i try, the fantasy remains in the waiting room:

There is no cop that wants to fuck me 

i could never be a good whore, 

as much as I play one on the internet. 

He only wants to kill me,

like everything else in nature.

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NSFW

Bent Questions: Addison Vawters (@addisonvawters)

The hottest Marxist in NYC and Pinko Magazine collective member

So tell me how BENT you are…

1. Virus or Bacteria? Bacteria

2. Preferred Pronoun? He

3. What Periodic Table Element are you? Neptunium

4. Favorite Object? Lunor Classic Rund frames

5. What shape are you? Heart

6. Give us a texture. Puppy’s belly

7. Anarchist, Socialist, Capitalist, Libertarian, etc. Marxisant

8. Favorite person of Color that you disagree with?  Father

9. What sound are you? The "melodic techno clap" 

10. Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, or a Broken Copper Pot? Jeff Koons

11. What’s the last thing you broke? Beaker

12. The last person, you kissed? Z

13. The best thing about men’s rights activists? The anti-circumcision sub-movement

14. Do you meditate? Yes

15. Are you a Neutron Star, White Hole, or Solar Flare? Ahem, white hole

16. Which fetish are you? Klismaphilia, EDERACINISM, Fornifilia, OCULOLINCTUS: Vanillailia  

17. Your opinion on Lesbian Separatist. It is not a viable political analysis or strategy

18. Favorite Mythological Character? Narcissus

19. What type of Cancer are you? Brain

20. Matriarchal Punishment or Patriarchal Redemption? Patriarchal Redemption

21. Who do you actually hate? She who shall not be named

22. Best regrettable purchase this month? Rent

23. Finish this sentence. I know Kim Kardashian…doesn't have a degree but honestly, she and Ms. Rachel put the critical race theorists to shame

24. Your favorite body of water. The armpit

25. What’s the most middle-class thing you’ve done this week? Purchased CBD for my dog

26. I’m only politically correct when…In the presence of tenderqueers

27. What’s your favorite scar on your body? Is an enormous scar on my knee sustained in 2012 after my bike wheel got caught in the notorious Philadelphia trolley tracks. I was drunk enough that night to ignore what was actually a substantial wound and continue on my way to the Grimes concert.

28. Last time you cried tears of joy. During a sunrise I encountered on the way home after raving all night with friends :')

29. Your most noble trait. Patience

30. I know the taste of...Southern House Spiders

BEND DON’T BREAK.