Invasions
Jun'22 → Apr'24Poetry, Performance, Installation, Scam Text Aesthetics, Language Intrusion
San Francisco, Los Angeles, CDMX, Santa Barbara, Ojai
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Invasions: The Book is a collection of poems that began as replies to scam texts and evolved into a meditation on identity, intrusion, and poetic resistance. Written during the pandemic, when everything felt like a pop-up ad—urgent, anxious, and always selling—these poems reimagine violation as invitation. The book scavenges from capitalist language: scam emails, fake job offers, seductive text messages. Each piece is an act of reclamation, turning manipulation into lyric, interruption into ritual.
At the heart of the collection is a question: what happens when language arrives not to connect, but to extract? In these poems, spam becomes spell. The poet becomes responder, echo, ghost. Invasions is not just a theme—it’s a method. It explores what it means to be porous in a world that’s always trying to sell you something, to use you for something, to remake you in its image. Each poem is a small act of refusal, or perhaps a survival mechanism disguised as a joke.
Originally self-published and distributed via a series of experimental readings and mailings, the book has since grown teet, and a following. It lives on as a poetic artifact and an aesthetic ethic: respond to what invades you, and name it beautiful.