“In the Men’s Room” is the third volume of poems in the Has Doubts series, written by Alexander Velky.
Crowdfunding for this volume fell short in late 2018 and thus its future is uncertain.
The theme of this book is the relationship between nature and destiny, with a specific focus on mankind’s influence on its habitats and its social structures, and on the related propensity for mankind to conflate itself with men, as illustrated in the frequent usage context of the word itself.
You can read a few of the poems and watch a couple of video performances by following links from the contents list below. The poems intended for inclusion in this book were, and theoretically still are, these:
- An apology
- Welcome to the Men’s Room
- Fossils
- Taxonomy
- Spider
- Attitude: rampant
- Finally embracing my destiny
- Lots
- Thoughts on a Monday morning
- Natural law of diminishing returns
- Bones
- Good companions, rarely blended
- Self-aping
- My species is endangered
- Synthetic meat is simulated murder
- Tractors turning (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)
- Wearing pink
- Civilization schmivilization
- George Monbiot’s agricultural policy
- Trouble in the drains
- New story idea
- Will
- Stopped by a commercial Sitka spruce plantation on a snowy evening
- Twitching tetraptych: Chaffinches, Choughs, Ravens, Robins
- Big American fridge
- Flawed nature, perfect destiny
- Men
- Daddy
- Altes Schloss selfie
- With which eye do you see the faery?
- My bloody chamber
- Spell for a satisfying bowel movement
- In the men’s room III