s w i f t s  &  s l o w s: a quarterly of crisscrossings

Pandemic Prophet
Amy Bassin & Mark Blickley

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Proud Paleo Perfect People! Come forth and purify yourselves in our annual
pageant of truth, the D.O.A. Dervish! Help squeeze the pus out of the pimple of
humanity’s darkest time, the Dawn Of Agriculture, when we were forced from our
true nature of hunter/gatherer into the curse of sagging and shapeless humankind
that does not want us to venerate and expose the powerful purity of
uncontaminated genes, free of chemical additives and crop failure famine. Flabby
factory farming has stripped us of our true PPPP heritage. Dance to resist this
molestation of grain growing and incestuous ranch animal husbandry. Dervish
away the putrid D.O.A. domesticated abomination of that very first Dawn Of
Agriculture, 13,763 years ago.

Better Dead Than Bread!
Homeostasis in the Highest!
Praise be the Lard and all other natural byproducts!

Photograph: Amy Bassin.  Poetry: Mark Blickley.

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New York interdisciplinary artist Amy Bassin and writer Mark Blickley work together on text-based art collaborations and experimental videos. Their work has appeared in many national and international publications as well as two books, Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes from the Underground (Moria Books, Chicago) and Dream Streams (Clare Songbird Publishing House,, New York). Their videos, Speaking In Bootongue and Widow’s Peek: The Kiss of Death represented the United States in the 2020 year-long world tour of Time Is Love: Universal Feelings: Myths & Conjunctions, organized by the esteemed African curator, Kisito Assangni.