By Jean-Luc Raharimanana
Translated by Tom Tulloh
A sofa floating in the fog. Inside, declining, I sink in sweet softness. 6 a.m. Everything’s fine. A head chopped off by a machete. Pre-recorded. Unfortunate. Reeking trousers on the dirty black flesh, green flies on red blood.
Your Impossible Voice #31 finds the doomsday clock ticking twenty days from the apocalypse. It’s chock-full of liars, the lost, and the lonely floating in fog and hungry for cake, eggs, and kink. All that plus Allen Ginsberg, Frida Kahlo, and a magnificent tower of giraffes.
Featuring work by Joshua Escobar, Adelheid Duvanel (translated by Tyler Schroeder), Tanya Žilinskas, Sumitra Singam, Jean-Luc Raharimanana (translated by Tom Tulloh), Arlene Tribbia, Addison Zeller, Mehdi M. Kashani, Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer, Jane Snyder, Charles O. Smith, Taro Williams, Joanna Theiss, Kirsten Kaschock, Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz, Steve Castro, Linda Wojtowick, and Ann Pedone.