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January 1st, 2022

It is not difficult for me to put a poetry collection together.

 

I have never had any help.

 

The new collection, titled (…), will be available on January 1st of 2022. I will be publishing it on Amazon as a Kindle and as a paperback and hardcover edition.

 

The piece contains conceptual photography taken by none other than myself.

 

This was the challenge.

 

You see, I could not find a photographer. Well…not only could I not find one…I couldn’t afford one. So I consulted my computer camera.

 

The camera has a ten second timer. I had ten seconds in which to put on a blindfold, a straight jacket, hold a prop (when I used one) and get myself into position.

 

It was a challenge, indeed.

 

As the piece was supposedly written in a mental institution, I opted to shave my head and eyebrows for the second set of photos. I wish I had thought of that sooner…but it shows the progression (I believe) of the madness which follows infidelity.

 

At first the collection was in fact about mental illness. I planned to pen it in The Eglantine Home for the Poetically Unsound…but I began to suspect my lover. And when the truth of the matter came to light, I began writing feverishly for the sake of my own sanity.

 

The book is not yet finished. I plan to write the last poems up to December 31st when it is time to publish the piece on Amazon.

 

I hope people actually buy this one.

 

The crippling depression that will follow the publication (when I have nothing to distract myself from what is happening in my life at the moment) is going to be horrible. It will be made even more horrendous by the fact that I am sure the book will fail like all my other books. I am not sure how much longer I can take this. I just don’t feel like I can do this anymore. And the thing is…I’m not even depressed yet. I’m just busy.

 

--Vate C. Carmen
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