Prolit

a literary magazine about money, work, & class

1

white boys use big words to describe boring lives and crap civilisationsRather than dramatising the
actual tension

i have $31K of Apple.

in me: shed of worlds, i am/not who i crush

: try and commune w. nature, stock psychiatric disorder               fetish symptom, bad things appear
in pity

white boys attack everyone
who explain anything.

invent more money so we can be like sweden.

nonbourgeois conceptions of body’s conscience R spirit,
transcendant scooby doo pish makes ppl. scared,
not everyone’s alive as aliens

i have $17K of Alphabet.

prozac ’nd clement atlee for coloniser, lest forget

trading block

get in a pipe to stop virgintrain     (hedge/rows/fund)

s better than my john updike/ LRB shite:

hopeful small porches with their jigsaw grey milk-bottle boxes sooty ginkgo treePoetry is a hidden
resource: The System is rotten. Written to protect a tiny elite.”

                 “Like people who own boats in Stonington.”

                 “I ran away from it, I reject it, I shit on it, where you’re still loving it, you’re eating it, you’re
                  eating my shit. My father’s”Poetry is a language of nonexchangeability

“until you die
 until you die
 until you die” *

i have $11K of Envista Holdings.

in me: fridge of internet                                                    the white left wants to redistribute africa\
via masters degree                                                             colonel b. sanders.


* from Jay Bernard's monologue on George Jackson's 'Soledad Brother' performed at Ignota Book's 'Break into the Forbidden' (05/06/2020).


2

PART I: leisure in the mandated emptiness of work turned inside out.

regal lawns in Empire’s second city — fall apart, for some reason: some dink roun’ woodsmoke

pigfield, my networks — fall apart:

impune scandal, citycouncillor cut monument

tug warm media             fantasies about Boer War that entitle u to take ur pint outside

my mother shop local:
portfolio de hydra

earth: getting worse ahhhhurope had already fucked each other up by the 16th century,

the morass looses into unconscious
and lies in wait as institutional force.

i kiss guestcheek.

             hugh grant part of the city: whitechildren incubate the past’s extension blot

             th’ herefirst: as classwar reads madame’s book about a cat

             as classwar smokes cigarette outside wisteria patio,

             banished; Leaving u alone w. patron.


PART II: content to build my career w. nothing on my back, not ev’n abstractions.

i love the sound of running water

the sky is the colour of thingsneverchange

rupaul partitions the ongoing war, w. fun telly,


the cradle of ur body in the warmmorning is the best defence,

             As u read me Marilyn Buck

             As u pat my hair.


3

banjo from abner jay (so humble and contain everything)
, roll’d sleeves — whites from the 50s
drained life.
                                                                                          at the marina: career choices as spirit
                                                                                          white ppl. learn to inhabit their wretch
                                                                                          ed military suits (bodies) again papa’s
                                                                                          loot set up for patriarchy daguerreoty
                                                                                          pe.
: The Family repeats.

sun drops on lake,
time travel w/o outside collaboration / verification
makes me neurasthenic

— glitter.

say the night’s word: blue/black, skate bourgeois diktats of time into the

collaps’d present:
hallow’d campgro
und.

i would feel so safe: dancing w. emma goldman.


4

the stench of my wee                      fence

                                                                          tree:     warehouse:               garabge lined streets

conspiracy theorist white van/ jaguar:

                                                                                        outsource family but keep family so as t
the fear that i am or will become som
                                                                                        o transfer assets that the upperclass are
body else suggests i have trouble dif
                                                                                        lonely does not nuance their reign: in fac
ferentiating past threats from present.
                                                                                        t complexity is gd PR   aka  british canon

                                                                                        white boys with opportunities to play we

                                                                                        ird, equipment heavy sport.


consultancy firms as missionary chapels time tell by twists of knife

the adults play golf while we eat american food from baskets, darli

ng, the crucible!

ICELAND

                            hold u in the insult of no con text/sequence:                                              the edge of

                            dreams moulder into computer colours, tired arms can’t touch the imposition of
                            misery

                            that presents in the innocence of rich ppl. face.


deport counter-revolutionaries to britain / america

where they can be free.


5

Thunderous clapping at the oscars Triggers a veteran.

Castle walls.

Balloon sculptures at a BNP picnic.

Castle walls.

Press euro-america’s face into sea. Tears run up ‘nd coat your irises.

The doorknob rattles

Yellow crack’a light Widens out to hallway

weeds concrete not so ironic swastikas pissy sleeping bags: state services melt into winter: bags
sleeping pissy swastikas so not ironic concrete weeds: then a gallery space

The door knob wiggles and honks.

tax avoid in a chateau u haven’t seen your kids in two years they’re growing up into their genders &
decent cocaine

white people whipp’d the climate into a right mess

like hens in our own shit.


Silas Curtis

Silas Curtis is a writer and community organiser based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is interested in punk music, activist histories, and de-colonial thought.