Erin Dorney: Give Us Freedom
You Press Play on Your Life and People Walk Out of It
Smell the smiling freeze frames,
the highwire laughing
dubbed in when I yawn.
There’s something beyond a secret
and I think it sunk through me.
We’re laughing at things we don’t remember
and the fear gets a human mask.
Ask the turbulence to give us freedom
while we refresh it—
again and again.
Source: "#ALLMYMOVIES: a Conversation With LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner" by NewHive, November 16, 2015
Do You Want Me To Do It?
Do You Want Me To Do It?
yeah
go go
yeah
no
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
no
yeah
sure
no
sorry
sure
I mean
yeah
no
no
yeah
yeah
yeah
no
no
no
no
no
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
sure
yeah
sure
Source: "Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox Interview – TRANSFORMERS" by Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, Collider, June 18, 2007
Erin Dorney’s debut book of poetry, a collection of erasures sourced from media interviews with Shia LaBeouf, comes out in June 2018 from Mason Jar Press (preorder I Am Not Famous Anymore: Poems after Shia LaBeouf). Erin is one half of FEAR NO LIT and volunteers with VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Reach her at erindorney.com or @edorney.
