Edencut: 03 it's all gracelore

the Edencut (an ~album)

In the face of all the apocalypses we’ll face, what will you keep? I’m keeping the Edencut close to my chest'; smuggling it on my voyage to the moon; salting the burning earth beneath me all the while. 

I’m Jojo a fourth-year double-major in Economics and Creative Writing at UChicago. Welcome to the Edencut (series)! As part of my creative writing major, I’m currently developing a poetry thesis modeled as a musical album. And this series will be my own (delulu) form of “dropping singles”. And I’m so happy to share my first “single” from the Edencut poetry “album” with you!

Without further ado, here’s my (planned) third “track” from the album: 03 it’s all gracelore

03 it’s all gracelore - last maroon episode portrait

03 it’s all gracelore

I

[ Today 5:32 PM ]

MAAM: ya uis ati2 

  halloween party kapan

HAHAHAHAHAGAA: JOJO

MAAM: serious yah ngga main2 

   klo kamu berani coba2 mama

   mama jemput n bring u home MYSELF 

Ok ye im going to adelyn housewarming nowwww: JOJO 

[Read 5:32 PM ]

II 

“It’s all just Kay-lore, you know” :

Assembling the cheeseboard to-go: 

monterey jack, brie, mushroom brie, babybels, 

assorted crackers, strawberries, cotton-candy grapes, 

ice cubes, wedge-cut limes, gasoline dissolving into sweet tea, 

a toothache, a broken retainer, a watermelon cucumber chaser that will 

always taste like tequila now, a hurl by a black jeep, 

a boystown bar, a pack of pink wet wipes, 

a painting in the shape of the 

orion’s belt constellation

it’s all for the housewarming 

“Oh my God! I feel like I shouldn’t have admitted that” :

III

“Just a bit of gracelore for you” :

Assembling the nutella-banana canapes: 

nutella, banana, crackers, candy necklaces, 

red skin, a shapeshifter story, the book you meant to write in your gap year, 

an oriental-princess tiara, a third-grade betrayal, a worship leader, 

a mirrorball, a tear ricocheting, everything I never told you, 

a friendship bracelet, a world with no consequences, 

a chandelier in the middle of a paint-by-number 

grand canyon, a squeal

it’s all, ALL, for the housewarming 

“But it’s okay. It’s okay. I’m fine. I’m sooo good.” :

IV

Another trip to Trader Joe’s for the gifts: 

a pack of crisps, a cup of bait (live), plastic exoskeletons, 

worms (wiggling, writhing, lukewarm, kneading earth dough into mud), 

a vintage furstenberg cover-up, two faux-fur coats, 

neon blue tights & a UCLA hoodie, fruit flies, 

maggots (swaggots would do), 

a new roommate — with a car

“It’s fucking Ade-lore” :

an ant-farm (for Christmas), a VC-backed powder company, 

a cheong-sam (for Graduation), raisin bran — 

and insects because he hates insects

“I luv it, so you finally got a backbone, huh” :

V

: “Just a bit of Nic-lore for you”

and what we’ll watch after everyone leaves: 

ragnarok, incepTion, the menu, everytHing everywhere all at oncE, 

moderN family, fleAbag, the boys, the News, beef, 

loki, waNdavision, an indonesian boot-leg 

harry potter, our own for-You pages, 

and the last maroon episode

another 10-second advert before the climax

 “What if you didn’t put their government names in your poem” :

VI

: “Do you wanna see my LEGOs? It’s a part of the Jojo-lore ” 

the housewarming party in parts: 

nineteen cheese slope pieces, thirty-eight strangers, 

plastic trees, crooked horses, two frogs (kissing), 

mutual friends, opps, too much wine, 

too much cheese, in-bed by 1am 

“It’s okay. It’s okay. I’m fine” :

03 it’s all gracelore - the fourth-years

In the words of Taylor Swfit: the best people in life are free (New Romantics TV)

Stay tuned for the next single… it’s coming sooonnnnn!!!!