Noah Berlatsky

Noah Berlatsky (he/him) lives in Chicago. He’s published poems in the Chicago Review, the Toast, Five Fleas, and numerous other venues. He won an Honorable Mention in the 2022 Wergle Flomp humor poetry contest, and has a number of chapbooks forthcoming, among them: No Devotions (LJMcD Communications), and Send $19.99 for Supplements and Freedom (above/ground). He tweets too much at @nberlat and scribbles longer at Everything is Horrible! https://noahberlatsky.substack.com/

It's Fab consists of six short untitled poems. Much of his current work is influenced by Gertrude Stein and embracing his neurodivergent fascination with the way repetition forms and empties out identity.

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It's Fab

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The self is a crease
in the fabric of
meaning.
Okay?

Okay,
the crease is
the fabric of the
self.
Meaning?

The fabric. The fabric.
The self. The self.
It’s okay.
Meaning’s increase.
Meaning’s increase.
Meaning’s increase
It’s okay.

The meaning is a fabric
in the crease of the self.
The self is okay.
It’s okay.
We’re okay with that meaning.

No self is no crease
not in the fabric
of no meaning.
It’s not okay.

The self is not meaning
The fabric is okay.
Crease and crease.
Okay the fabric.
The selfing is mean.
It’s fab.

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