#c. bain

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NARCISSUS by C. Bain and Revolutionary Girl Utena

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the worst thing my heart does is tell me that there is something i can do to satisfy it that there’s such a thing as satiety (there isn’t) and if i just do a few small things, it will stop being hungry come on baby and on like that until i’m trying to pick the shattered glass out of my knee.

C. Bain, “Well, the best thing my heart does,” published in the Bedfellows Little Black Book

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Hundreds of sad boys have written you poetry

haven’t they              Haven’t they             I’ll drown them all

— C. Bain, from “Narcissus,” published in underbelly

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underneath your skin, there is a sleeping wound the terror and glory of a blossom opening

C. Bain, “Goth Savant,” from his chapbook New Work

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They say that some connections between neurons are easier to make explaining popular phobias, common joys the wiring for fearing snakes is all laid out, just waiting to be electrified the blueprint for loving sweets needing only the first stimulus why, then, is it so hard for me to do Right things? why no aversion to hurting those nearest to me even when it keeps happening, electrode buzzing the roots of the teeth even when I've learned that this is not who I want to be?

C. Bain, “The Glycemic Index of Sin,” from his chapbook New Work

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                                            The mirror The camera’s eye                              I want and want Each phalange brushing at your     lips like some insect is bothering you

— C. Bain, from “Narcissus,” published in underbelly

[bostonpoetryslam]

What attracted me to poetry initially, and what still attracts me, is that anyone can make a poem in their own language. You don’t need to 'understand' a particular poem or poet or style before you begin. My responsibility as a poet is to be as specific as I can be about what is important to me. And that is ultimately coming from an internal source.

C. Bain, interviewed for Dodge Poetry

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I think there is a fear and a joy in equal measure that brings me to the practice of writing and performing. I think I make the art that I do because I am afraid of being rejected, and when I perform, whether I feel rejected by the audience or not, it doesn’t kill me.

C. Bain, interviewed for Dodge Poetry