June 11, 2025 Poetry

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Briny martini’s
are just too grown
up for me.
I need to have something sweet after.
Can I lick your molars? / You spit in my mouth?
Lands as sarcastic, self pity
Lands like you’re a cuck.
Think: hyper enjammed (totally a word) / getting broken.

Fax me,
And I’ll fax you back.
Bzzt-beep-bzzt-beep,
beep-bop-bop-bzzzt,
whirrr, bzzzt ! 




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Incoming fax !
on my imaginary fax
machine
says something like:
I miss you
I say something back,
something something
precious,
or,
something something
cute.
Fax won’t go through
though.
It reads:
none of this
is actually
real.
Incidentally,
none
of this
was real.

Lizzie Scheader

Lizzie Scheader is a New York based multidisciplinary artist, specializing in production arts, installation, and creative writing. Her work centers around showcasing personal narratives through multiple mediums, ranging from paper making to ambient sound scoring. These pieces are derived from an ongoing project titled “Before I Leave”, a post minimalist conceptual project, in which written work was repurposed into new paper, as a means of abstracting and concealing the context. The ink from the words provides a sense of abundance as it acts a dye for the material. The work centers around showcasing and displaying vulnerability in theoretical and intimate ways. As of 2025, the project has exceeded 700 new pages of paper.

Profiles:

Website: http://www.lizziescheader.com

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