Contributions by Eitán Futuro
Eitán Futuro was blessed by numerology on the day of his birth, and dedicated his formative years to contemplating the progressive destruction of the world, as manifested in his nuclear family – time vessel. In 1998, his parents find a box under his bed full of playdough inscribed with cuneiform script and a good luck dollar that his grandmother Pinina had brought from Florida, and promptly send him in for psychological assessment with an old friend who had worked for his mother in the Morot school, Jewish kindergarten teachers. When asked the meaning of the cuneiform writing, Eitán responded, “It doesn’t mean anything,” adding “It no longer exists” while writing his indigo micropoem #2 in a purple notebook with spiderweb relief. (Indigo micropoem #2: Heat and wind on a single device/ Oh! How I love you,/one device!”) When the psychologist asked what he was writing, he said, “I’m making the future.”
from The Sofa Sages
Published on
June
11th
of
2013
by
Eitán Futuro and Jennifer Croft
in Fiction.
Eitán Futuro
translated by Jennifer Croft
[an excerpt]
Lara began to kiss me. I hadn’t kissed her first because I thought you couldn’t kiss them on the mouth. I touched her breasts over her bra and lay down on the bed. They were fine. Mariela had had hers done last year. The first time we were together—my first time—she didn’t let me take her t-shirt off. She said they were too small, and if I saw them I wasn’t going to want to be with her anymore. She also didn’t want me to take off my t-shirt. She said I was really thin, and that it freaked her out. She didn’t even take her tights all the way off. She got this idea in her head that if I wanted it so bad, I ought to have to tear through her … Read More »
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