BOMB Magazine is pleased to feature selections from ONandOnScreen’s summer issue. Each week BOMBlog will showcase poems and video pairings from the Summer 2011 issue of ONandOnScreen, an e-journal project matching poems and videos. This week features poetry by Rosanna Bruno and Jeanine Oleson and a video of Cagney & Lacey.
Rosanna Bruno is a painter who has recently exhibited at Edward Thorp Gallery and Schroeder, Romero and Shredder. She is a closet poet as well as a Cagney & Lacey fan.
Jeanine Oleson is a visual artist whose practice incorporates performance, film/video, installation, and photographic work, and often, language. Oleson has recently exhibited at: Beta-Local, San Juan, PR; X-Initiative, NY; Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO; and Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY. She is an Assistant Professor of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design.
About ONandOnScreen:
ONandOnScreen is poems + videos. Here videos are linked with poems and poems with videos in a shared space, widening the spectrum and essential strangeness of each. ONandOnScreen is a conversation between moving words and moving images, on and on.
—From OnandOnScreen.com
Cagney & Lacey, “Couple’s Therapy.”
A Mellow Drama
A word-worker remained silent.
“Do we need to talk about this?”
No words outwards, except
an indiscernible smudge on the ceiling.
“Shut up, you don’t have your glasses on.”
Size queens and syphilitic whores
receive benefit packages in other cultures
I think, but do we need to talk
about this? As it were, I am
in egregious denial.
But you like Number 10;
I like Christine Cagney.
Shooters, passing sass, and other dealbreakers.
You are not in a court of law,
as it goes.
“No, I am not in a court of law,”
I asserted.
Dealbreakers are everywhere, but
without words, outwards, we have nothing
to really talk about.