Susan Lewis / Some Assembly Required

SUSAN LEWIS lives in New York City and edits Posit (www.positjournal.com). Her most recent books are This Visit (BlazeVOX [books], 2015), How to be Another (Červená Barva Press, 2014), and State of the Union (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2014). Her work is forthcoming or has recently appeared in The Awl, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Connotation Press, EOAGH, Gargoyle, Luna Luna, Otoliths, Ping Pong, Propeller, Raritan, Seneca Review, Verse, Word For/Word, and Yew. More at www.susanlewis.net.    HOW TO ATTEMPT OR ENJOY 1. In which everyday pain nuzzles your neck and various & sundry accessories. You may or may not know whereof I speak (to the swell of strings). Trekking like Ulysses to taste this shirking savor (acquired). Eyes closed, mind. Or ambiguate. A lively intercourse of sodden factors, amour propre and not-so-much, victimized by what we laughingly call success. 2. Not to ignore the comedy of horrors by which anything mortal can be understood to swear. Which is not to say sa