Adam Crittenden reads "POEM [BISHOP]" from Weave Magazine Issue 11 by weavemagazine published on 2014-07-16T20:16:54Z POEM [BISHOP] Nobody gets paintings of themselves done anymore, but if you knew a guy, you would. I believe this because of the way you squint your eyes when you smile—you don’t want anyone to see your crazy eye teetering off into a psychotic distance that leads to something dark. The car radio plays a remix of Nirvana and techno: [Here we are now, entertain us. I feel stupid and contagious.] We drive across the earth’s crust in search of your family. They have dispersed and fled into the collateral people, escaping their memories of you because they think there’s a devil growing within your meat, waiting to burst open and shed you like a wet coat. They don’t know that instead you shed the little devil—a relic of imagination that didn’t have a snowball’s chance because you were much, much worse. Adam Crittenden holds an MFA in poetry from New Mexico State University and serves as an editor for Lingerpost and Puerto del Sol. His work has appeared or will appear in Whiskey Island, Bayou Magazine, Metazen, Barn Owl Review, and several other journals. He currently teaches writing in Albuquerque. Weave Magazine is a bicoastal literary organization and print publication. We seek to create a space for a cross-section of writers and artists to meet on the page, on the stage, and in workshop. We celebrate diversity in both the creator and their works and strive to showcase both novice and established writers and artists. Genre weave