Fintan Calpin

Fintan Calpin



Desktop husbandry almanac

For NN

Labour lightens the load as though fluorescence were the measure 
of wrath my friend never felt reproduction like this longing to take 
a stapler to herself or run her fingers through someone’s shredder 
if measure in the poem is the wrath of fluorescence then there’s no 
such thing as free real estate in the exact same way that there’s no 
such thing as real estate without the envelope of syntax hardening 
my teeth to consider the dull matter in retrospect is well-poised for 
melancholy or at least the want of being indolent pitiful a document 
of a document of a document re: for instance management theory
poetry the iron law of force all these rocks hitting other rocks 
have some need of us the estate agent nonetheless cites errata 
for trauma read opus for instruction read Hesiod it’s a bloodbath
the historical concept of a stopped clock vs. this stone moving
through space and time from your open hand towards its open face








FINTAN CALPIN is a doctoral student at King’s College London researching contemporary poetry and Marxian theories. His writing has appeared in SPAM zine, the Dublin Review of Books and elsewhere.