FUCK YEAH EILEEN MYLES

i finished “Cool for You” by Eileen Myles today and I thought about how much I respect this writer. This person who wasn’t a girl, and isn’t a woman, no matter what she says. She is an Eileen. I think maybe some of the greatest people were genderless. People like Gertrude Stein. Just large, wide American presences who put their heads to the pages and practically blasted words out of guns onto them, like that was their poetry. Because really neither are writing so much as intuiting from the bottom of pits like alphabet soup.

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