the most promising young american author is TAO LIN

if TAO LIN is our thomas de quincey, who are his wordsworth and coleridge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhKpaTOG4yg

This guy is both

Kidding!

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

because the farmer
needs it

to carry all the
eggs

you stupid
fucks.

so much depends
upon

parents paying for
NYC

housing glazed with
drugs

and yes tuition
too

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
You Stupid Fucks

this is just to say

I have smoked
the buds
that were in
the cig case

you should have entered that red wheelbarrow "remix" poem in the poetry context, hurting

i think that's the whole point. we are all Tao Lin.

laying on my Ikea mattress
looking for new shirts on my iPad
the delivery man buzzes my door
for the Chinese food I ordered an hour ago

sitting on the top of the stairs
because the internet doesn't reach my room anymore,
otherwise i would probably be on my ikea mattress,
feel "sick and tired" of "defending tao lin"
spectrum's comment reminded me to heat up chinese food
left over from last night.
singapore rice noodles.

site new answers
site new answers
i should do some work now
site new answers
fart

sitting at home
i my underwears
watching wheel of fortune
reading ilx
vanna is so hot
need a snickers

hurting stole my joke

I think that captured something about our generation's predicament
is this still part of my poem?
I am not sure.

once i get a full time job
i am never coming back to this website
you stupid fucks

jk

you are the poem

hurting stole my joke

― waterface, Friday, July 12, 2013 4:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

stole? motherfucker I preemptively shocked and awed your joke.

a guy on the internet said I stole his joke
I said that I didn't
fart

treeship
treebutt
treeship
treebutt
treeship
treebutt

not a bad "strategy" i thought
scratched my bellybutton
considered what ilx would be like without "tweeshit"

sometimes i wonder what it would be like to be a website

waterface:
your hostility toward me
seems excessive
and unwarranted
and "insane"

Treeships your idea of hostility
is kind of crazy
i was merely responding
to your joke about quitting ilx

sweet
makes sense
"tweeshit" sounds like a hostile nickname
i was bullied as a child
i think some of the stuff you say is funny
and loled when you compared me to malcolm gladwell once

i also reminded you
that you are the poem

if you can't laugh at tweeshit
what can you laugh at

sometimes i wonder what it would be like to be a website

if you don't write this poem, tao lin will. he's probably reading this thread right now.

there is a ninety-five percent chance
he is reading this thread right now
because
he reads all of his press
and shit
and tweeted to me once when i mentioned him
to clarify something

tao lin is reading every thread
right now

guys

hey guys

hey TAO LIN can i borrow some money i want to go to NYU

i like how in taipei
"paul" lives in williamsburg
off the graham street stop
because my friend lives there
and i am there all the time
and all of the public spaces
where
in the novel
they did drugs
were places i have been

Treeship
are you
"drugs?"

i used to live there
too,
treeship

i am going to move
somewhere like that,
probably not super close to the L
because that shit
is expensive

waterface:
i don't do drugs
anymore,
really

no Treeship
what I meant was
you seem to be all of the places
Tao Lin was doing drugs
so i was thinking
"Maybe Treeship is drugs."

maybe we can summon him to appear like the chrisagis brothers.

we must make an offering to him. we'll need insense, a plate of research chemicals, and an Apple product. with our collective dissatisfaction over 21st century urban life combined, I think we can do it.

taoooooooooooo
taoooooooooooo
taooooooooooooooooooooooooo

waterface,
shit
wait
hm
no,
i remembered:
i am not drugs
i am a human being,
who is male,
and born in the state of new york
in 1989,
according to my passport
and drugs
don't have passports

spectrum:
tweet a link to this thread
to tao lin
and he will probably make an account
and show up.
i don't want to do that though,
because he will act in his characteristic, schticky manner
and i will look insane
to other ilxors
for arguing that "this guy" is a great novelist,
which is something i believe anyway
and won't back down from
on the strength of taipei and
richard yates

are either of those novels as good as 'a game of thrones'?

hahahaha

these fake tao lin poems
all end wrong
my asshole itches

i have never read game of thrones
because i don't read fantasy, usually,
or haven't since i took an entire seminar
on the lord of the rings
in high school
so i can't comment on that.
however,
regardless,
i am going to say
yes
xp

fwiw I like this excerpt:
http://www.vice.com/read/an-excerpt-from-tao-lins-taipei

no it's just that i started taking photos of the floor, looking at the floor through my phone and zooming in on the carpet, which was kinda filthy and hadn't been vacuumed since last year probably, and you could still see where the stain where the fish tank had broken had spilled smelly algae fishwater everywhere and it didn't dry for a week and the whole place stan. that was the day when my brother went to the hospital again, but i was thinking about tao lin and how i never even read anything he wrote except for maybe a couple poems on a blog that was linked off a message board that i post on sometimes when i'm bored at work. it was weird to think about how i have been on this board so long, since i was in NYU actually, like tao lin actually, even though i left new york after college and still have friends there but don't think i want to live there again but then i started a lazy approximation of his writing style and posted it on the board and refreshed the page a few times waiting to see what people thought, if it was funny or what

it's funny but not "funny"

it has a breathless quality