Will Yackulic

Will Yackulic is a writer and artist living in San Francisco. The following are excerpts from his Pac-Mastery: Observations and Critical Discourse (Old Gold), written under the pseudonym C.F. Gordon. To see examples of Yackulic's art, check out Evidence of the Paranormal (Owl Press), which pairs his drawings with poems by John Ashbery, Joanne Kyger, Ron Padgett, Alice Notley, and Eileen Myles, among others.

THE GOOD NEWS

The good news is
there are four more
escape routes
for the man
when he is fleeing
the pursuing monsters.

CONSERVATIVE IMPROVISATION

As I write this, I know many
of you will tend to ignore
this advice. Please try to
avoid the very strong
temptation to "eat one more
monster." In many cases, you
will find the blue monster
will revert to the original
color just as you try to eat
him and you, in turn, will
be eaten.

HE WANTED TO KNOW THE NAMES