Anannya Dasgupta’s poem Those We Love appeared here in May 2011. You might remember from her bio who Rex J Havoc is. If not, you’ll have to go read it again. But read the poem first. It’s more fun that way.
The loveless life of Rex J Havoc
By Anannya Dasgupta
By Anannya Dasgupta
What wreck-less mariner, what ghoulish god might plumb such depths as Rex J Havoc: the feckled fish of loveless fins? There is no other love, nor fear, no need to forage or fight, nothing expected but that he preserves to be gazed by finless love. How much darker and deeper than my dreadful, daily, ocean floor dredge is that cheerful, ten gallon, filtered tank?
