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Issue 3


The Last DJ Spinoza
Eugene Ostashevsky

DJ Spinoza
is a mighty wrestler

His angel is a book
He dreams he climbs

lines of print
He shall be a father

of notions
O DJ Spinoza

dandruff speckles
your gabardine

Your wife squints
as if threading a needle

Behind your house
your children torture a cat

Nations shall cast off your yoke
after murderous convulsions

Your street shall fill
with confusion of faces

Your synagogues shall convert
to movie theaters and swimming pools

You shall be replaced
with the silicon chip

since you are both so small
and so black

Eugene Ostashevsky is the author of Iterature and Infinite Recursor Or The Bride of DJ Spinoza, both published by Ugly Duckling Presse. He also edited OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern University Press). You can hear him read "The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza" here.



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