Jimmy T Cahill
Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction
Erasure Poetry from Animation Theory Texts
I. Bugs is planning for his imminent death
Old Father Time and he have a fight,
The good-natured battle escalates until
the numbers and hands on a clock hide from fear;
Old Father Time and he have a fight, and they whizz through the ages
II.
Here
Objects—hats, neckties, coffee cups—rebel against routinous everyday life.
riotous
lifeless things
reshape the world.
It is a pretty idea
III.
The Jazz Singer (1927)
a continuous, sirenlike sound.
Large eyes
large eyes that look at us.
IV.
(Then he made the pink of dawn,
riotous daubs of colour
in the Cheek-bone.
‘Blushing
V. Ghosts Before Breakfast
the wife’s fearful recognition that
“cheesecakes are bad.”
prudish and yet vicious.
the wife’s fearful recognition that
“They will make you pay for that”
—a quip he tries to ignore.
VI.
HOWEVER,
and
then,
but,
just dare to
HOWEVER,
VII.
For José Esteban Muñoz
a)
There’s a Great Big Beautiful Yesterday
Creating the World of Tomorrow
In other words,
a futuristic community that would
“always be in the state of becoming”
In other words,
Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction
JIMMY T CAHILL
is a non-binary and queer writer of poetry and science fiction/ fantasy. Their work has been published in small presses across Canada. Pieces from The Silly Archive chapbook have also appeared in no press (2018) and Opaat Press (2024). Jimmy’s in-progress YA fantasy novel, HYPERLAND, was generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. More about them can be found at jimmytcahill.com