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PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAVAN MAKHMALI

ahhhhhahhhhhahhhhh M M M EEE GGG AAA --- Z Z Z III NNN EEE Issue No. 5 WWW.CURSIVEBUILDINGS.COM

PLUS: Your New Favorite Polaroids (Kimberly Sink) Your New Favorite Poetry (Reid Corzatt)

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Matea Basta Pamela Klaffke (Editor-at-Large)

FEATURED ARTISTS

Kimberly Sink (Covington, USA) Reid Corzatt (Olympia, USA) Javan Makhmali (Los Angeles, USA) [ pickier & choosier in 2 thousand 9 ]

NEXT STEPS, DEEPER, DEEPER... ONE:

This magazine was born from a love of all things art… from the way we move through our daily chores to the ink we leave scattered on our notebook pages. It is all art. TWO:

This magazine wouldn’t be possible w/out the contributions of friends & strangers who feel in some ways the same. Otherwise, we wouldn’t spend so much time documenting. THREE:

This issue is now finished. But the magazine is a work in progress. If you want to be part of this project in the future, please contribute your work. Submission info is to the right. FOUR:

This magazine costs nothing. You’re encouraged to download & distribute as you see fit. However, I ask that all copies are printed in color to preserve the integrity of the work. FIVE:

Contributors are paid in karma. If you love what you see, please let them know. Where possible, web links & publishing information have been included for each artist.

NOTES from the EDITOR

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Editor, San Francisco, USA

Kimberly Sink, Covington, USA

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SIX DAZE IN SUMMER

Reid Corzatt, Olympia, USA

Here's everyone reduced to the same versical standards:

The anonymity of the staffer behind the wheeled chair The queer guild of smokers on the most appropriate stair outside The rough-and-tumbler bent to his sick girl Or their sick daughter

Or sleep in the coat three sizes too expensive… The only disfigured member of the maudlin lot And her checking and rechecking the brunette clerk at the signing desk

And the smokers on our lovely stair-

Misconstruing every casual remark, To lend the listener the bleary-eyed overtones of our secret prospects And the prospects of our friend on the carpet Sunk like a spot stain on a nauseous checked print Immoveable, And on-again-off-again talkative Like, "Hear for me," "Thanks," serenity a quiet quiet, And a love's coat for a swaddling cloth And a blissful waiting dark. The other smoker asked for something with her eyes She asked for something; I gave her "How's it going?" She sighed and like, "It goes…"

I then: "Perhaps here more than anyplace else." And she: "Not so much more, if I get your meaning."

One more death: Small Talk, rest in peace. We knew you but recently.

I angled toward the insides of the doors

Having bested these double doors, like so many others,

There opened before me a bustling system of paperwork, mothers in blue

And their hidden artificial children bedecked in checked patterns

In ersatz fabrics which didn't hold up at the back.

And then the peaceful breathing of someone in a mood to breathe.

… Small Talk, rest in peace.

Rest with a burgeoning love Left askance in an environment aligned Where the only curves are functional

And the straightest, fullest bars and lines

Lord over the wheels and the tubes And over the adoration unaligned. But a guaranteed recovery

And a penchant for anticlimax And a motivated force rivaling even that of a mail clerk Trundling his cart deep in the bowels of the Robb Report.

What a curious formula for a restless reaction What a selling point for morphine What a cornered customer base What hellish pillows, what harsh plumbing What chill warmth, what static windows

And God, what alarm bells, what klaxons sound the sickness of a king? And what small clinks to a poor man's oblivion? Clambering up the walk, the lone doorman watches night turn to day And home, crafts breakfast in an ancient skillet made of seasoned iron.

ALUMINUM/IRON

R E I D C O R Z A T T @GMAIL.COM

Javan Makhmali, Los Angeles, USA

WWW. J A V A N .US

My girlfriend, Kate, & I spent three months at the end of 2 thousand 7 traveling through Nepal, India & Bangladesh… much farther from home than I’d ever been. These photographs help me remember what has become a blur of color & memories in my mind.

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