nat raum

The fifteenth poetry chapbook from back room poetry.

This is what Madison Scillian (artist) says about inside baseball –

In inside baseball, nat raum captures the metallic taste of bitten tongues—things marginalized artists know to be true about the mediocrity of high art that are ignored or silenced in reverence to the old guard. In no uncertain terms, they unpack the toxicity vital to the institution of fine art, rightfully reminding the reader of the ways in which the art world remains emotionally immature.

Here is a teaser poem from the chapbook to arouse your poetry appetite:

replacement shark

After The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst

mr. hirst, did you know that White Cube
appears on the first page when you google
your name? did you know that there’s also
an instagram account making fun of them

called White Pube? can you spare a pound?
surely you must have saved a little bit
of your shark money. i mean, it’s not
like you paid for it, or to have it

preserved correctly, or stretched over
fiberglass. hell, you managed to weasel
out of the six figures for a replacement shark
you insisted upon before it headed home

to the same pocket that held the New York
Mets. i’m almost impressed, but you know
it’s like you got the game stuck on easy mode,
right? you know if i walked myself up

to a hedge fund manager and said hey guy,
here is my conceptual object, he’d chuckle
his scotch-spit into my face and throw me out.
i guess being the original Freeze does come 

with its benefits. i hate to agree with our tabloid
and savior The Sun on anything, but if ever
there were fishless chips, they belonged to you.
so, about that pound? or has that dissolved too?

BR15: 26 June 2023: Poetry chapbook. 28 pages.

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