Ender Başkan is a poet, bookseller and co-founder of Vre Books. He is the winner of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2021 and the author of the novel A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man. His debut poetry collection is Two Hundred Million Musketeers.Read more
the younger girl is about 10 / walks around churning a rubiks cube / can solve it pretty quick / her dad is proud but says / shes just using a brute force algorithm / soon shell be ready for more sophisticated algorithms / itll be much faster / damn I think / maybe all i have is brute force
Define yet again this propensity to write journals – an ongoing conversation with oneself, the inner necessity to define to a certain extent one’s relationship with the events of one’s life…
I spent a few years working in cafés after graduating from art school. I didn’t see what else I could do. The work kept me moving, I was fed, had nice coffees and beers and wines, and most of all I enjoyed the many faces constantly passing in front of my eyes.
Prior to literacy, before self-consciousness and repression sets in at age five or so, I’m a thrilled witness to my kids’ entry into language as they get on a roll and talk like Ania…a kind of pure state marked by repetition, stutters and sudden flows.
the younger girl is about 10 / walks around churning a rubiks cube / can solve it pretty quick / her dad is proud but says / shes just using a brute force algorithm / soon shell be ready for more sophisticated algorithms / itll be much faster / damn I think / maybe all i have is brute force
