Judith is getting concerned. Actually, Judith has only just arrived on the scene, and neither of us is quite sure what to do with the other yet.
This is what Judith knows:
She knows I live in the Theology section of the public library. I eat a lot of maple fudge while I leaf through books on Buddhism and make insightful notes in the margins. I don’t want to die in the same ways that I have before. I probably don’t dress myself, although Judith can’t imagine who would inflict such an outfit on another human being. She knows, because I told her, that I have been sad and wasted long enough – it’s time for another horrible, scarring, mutually abusive relationship.
She thinks I am expecting too much of her. Maybe she’s right.
Maybe I don’t want to make go to Judith for refuge one of my commandments just yet.
But I know that she got a 2-for-1 deal on her last abortion – they terminated the pregnancy and lasered her ex-boyfriend’s name from her shoulder at the same time – and I would like to know more about this clinic.
New Tearoom Books Titles
Gary Cummiskey's Don't Stop Until Incinerated is a short collection of poems that inhabit a desolate, disquieting place, a place in which the fabric of reality is threadbare. Cummiskey has mastered the art of minimalist unease, yet there are also moments of dark humour in these 26 starkly elegant poems, characterised by his iconoclastic surrealism.
New Tearoom Books Titles
30 Poems by Pravasan Pillay collects a selection of poems written mostly between 2003-2006 and published in South African journals. The themes of the poems are old, new and broken love; sex; marriage; failure; vanity; and quitting smoking.
Tearoom Books Titles
Loop is Tearoom Books' writing zine. It will be published primarily as free e-chapbooks. Issue 2 comprises a selection of poetry. Click on the cover for more information.
Tearoom Books Titles
Glumlazi by Pravasan Pillay, was released in January 2009. Glumlazi, Pillay's debut, is a collection of short poems, concerning revenge, sex and the blues. The majority of poems run no-more than two lines. Available at R40 including postage. For order information, contact tearoombooks@gmail.com
OTHER
(Book) Shaggy: 14 Rather Amusing Rambles by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay. Second Print Run. Prepare yourself for a cast of some of the most manipulative, ingratiating, disillusioned, egotistical, inauthentic, spiteful narcissists operating in contemporary South Africa. Within these pages you will encounter fourteen first-hand shaggy stories told by a rogues gallery of scheming misanthropes whose speeches are full of sound and fury, signifying very little. These hilarious blowhards will make you snigger, cringe and wish your cousin had rather given you Spud 5 for your birthday. Published by BK Publishing. Price: R135. To order a copy write to: andrea [at] bkpublishing [dot] co [dot] za