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
“cheese cakes 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 poetry project 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