Published in Overland Issue 209 Summer 2012 · Uncategorized Cento Claire Nashar for Jonathan Dunk So then the Librarian said: ‘the Piggy Bank is pi times ratshit squared’ and left the building seeking tundra. Poor Heart-throb was so pleased and watched through narrow windows deeply-set as millions of moonbeam parted the curtains. I expect we were all jealous. Using up our atoms and getting fucked by handbags — just a provincial adjective, descriptive of what the very best eat for breakfast. Working breakfast? Wanking breakfast! But the coldness puzzled our brains: how to put more heart into 70 x 7 and how to soften a beautiful country having lobbed it tart last Christmas when Craigo loosed her dress and chattered carelessly without knocking: ‘I am! I am! a hologram made of spiders’ bones!’ Claire Nashar Claire Nashar lives in Buffalo, where she is a PhD student at the State University of New York. Her first book of poems, Lake, was published by Cordite Books. More by Claire Nashar › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 24 April 2024 · History Anzac Day and the half-remembered history of the Anzacs in Palestine Bill Abrahams and Lucy Honan Schools are deliberate targets for government-funded mystification about Australia’s role in wars. Such instances of official remembrance crowd out the realities of war, and the consequences of Australia’s role in imperialism. As teachers, we should strive to resist this, and we should introduce our students to a fuller understanding of the history of the Anzacs. 22 April 2024 · Gaming Game-death in infinite game-worlds: Darkest Dungeon 2 Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne Death is the ultimate stamp of value. It was invented to sell arcade-like 1 Up repetition to the home market. To read politics in videogames is to learn to read necropolitically, which is why gamers don’t like politics.