David Silverstein, whose poems "daylight saving time • death rattle," "characteristic • chatter," "double-talk • down," and "dissociate • divagate" appear in Artifice Issue 1, is lucky number twelve in our Author Dossier series.

Name: David Silverstein

Other Known or Desired Aliases: silverfuck or slvfk (see: siamese dream)

Arch-Nemesis: Joel Patton (see: Artifice v.1 p.67)

Lair: Anywhere + a web browser

Sidekick: Internet

Sidekick’s Sidekick: You

If He Was a Celebrity Chef in the Post-Apocalypse His Apron-Embossed Catchphrase Would Be: A moment on the apocalypse, a lifetime on the apocahypse.

Three Reasons He’s Early Anticipating the Apocalypse:
(1)    The sudden thrill of discovering a forgotten vending machine in the sub-basement of an abandoned parking structure, and the ecstasy in shattering open the glass and snatching every last, shiny, blue-wrapped pop-tart out of that magnificently mundane and utterly beguiling treasure chest.
(2)    Less junk mail.
(3)    Casual Thursdays.

Summation of Aesthetic Philosophy:

We are all participants in this ongoing obscene story of misperceptions.
We are all participants in this ongoing obscene story of misperceptions.

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‘This thing needs a name’ anagrams to ‘Shanghaied Sentiment’