The 8 Ancient Geek Words for Love, by c3 Crew

Poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Plato’s entire body of work has survived 2,400 years. But did c3 Crew consult Plato when he was waking every three hours to feed his underweight newborn? Of course not—Crew was shipping two police detectives in his murder-of-the-week procedural. Aristotle laid the groundwork for modern science. But when c3’s dad was dying of a brain bleed, did he get Aristotelian? No. He invoked invisible hobbit spiders. Ancient Greek influence may be everywhere, but it’s Crew’s favorite idiot boxes that have been in the room where his most human endeavors happened.

The 8 Ancient Geek Words for Love documents 15 years of embarrassingly real feelings for pop culture confections. In these poems, c3 presents a new pantheon of entertainment parables for this century. With his debut chapbook, Crew imparts the surprising lessons of a lifelong reader (of Entertainment Weekly):

• In a cold war at home?
      ○ Let autoplay slide into another episode of your telenovela.
• Loved one in hospice?
      ○ Consider: you’ve never seen Totoro and Death in the same place at the same time.
• Favorite team tanking?
      ○ All the ball park pigeon ever does is win.
• Stuck pretending you don’t love your new used mini-van?
      ○ Consult the Wikipedia of a psychedelic rock goddess and confess.