The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

"Why do they always do that"

Poems:

“Sugar” by Andrea Cohen: A lovely run-on-sentence poem about stories and memory, how they intersect and diverge. Sometimes conversations are “somebody / else’s car our key unlocked”, driving off places you don’t recognize and can’t inhabit. The ambiguity of “maybe as an action item” in the Billie Holiday song mirrors the ambiguity of the central event (who was there? who is here?) – as if to suggest a willful blindness to impermanence and ambivalence may be a prerequisite for love.