Back Door

You can't exit in the back. You haven't paid. The doors won't open. Please proceed to the front. The doors will not open in the back. You haven't paid your fare. Otherwise, you must pay the fine. The doors will not open in the back.

Francis Raven's books include Architectonic Conjectures (Silenced Press, 2010), Provisions (Interbirth, 2009), 5-Haifun: Of Being Divisible (Blue Lion Books, 2008), Shifting the Question More Complicated (Otoliths, 2007), Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox 2005) and the novel, Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005).  Francis lives in Washington DC; you can check out more of his work at his website: http://www.ravensaesthetica.com/.