FOUR POEMS from Jackalopes, Inc.

The Joseph Cornell App Supposedly there was this guy Cornellwho wanted to vindicate nostalgiaas a feeling and hammered togethersmall boxes in which he’d place aluminumflowers magazine clippingsand pics of girls in ballerina posesplus odd trinkets he’d foundon the street the wiki says he had parasiticeyebrows and his arrangementswere like bread crumbs luringusers to a forgotten pastof foundling chips and bottle capsdoilies pinballs bits of bitsI’ve had our coders meticulouslyupload close-ups of his artinto our servers design botsto crack their mystery and stealfrom their psychic structureswe’ll earn more clickssince nostalgia is like an unrepentantfrenemy that stuns usback to the luminous dashboardof our past when we all hadreal coins to spend in our pocketsthe wiki notes that Cornellprobably had x-ray visionand carried on conversationswith his dog he lived with his momwhich may account…