What does an essay help with
What does your writing help with
What does your teaching help with
What does your email help with
What does your poem help with
What does your vote help with
What does your sentence help with
What does your work help with
What does your generosity help with
What does your trolling help with
What does your criticism help with
What does a poem help with
What can an essay help with
What can a paper clip help with
What power can a paper clip assume
What energy can something dumb contain
If I didn’t believe a joke could hurt I wouldn’t make the joke
If I didn’t believe the poem could burn I would hold it close against me
What can a conversation help with
What can consensus help with
What can Joy Williams help with
What can Joy Harjo help with
What can joy help with
and where can you find it amidst such violence and sorrow
What does your assessment help with
What does your professional development committee held on 5pm help with
What does your exploitative contract help with
What does your divisive rhetoric help with
What does forwarding an email to the Dean help with
What does an incendiary email to the listserv help with
What can your anger help with
What can your anger do
What can artificial intelligence help with
What can art help with and when does it do so
Is it good to help
Is it good to hurt
Is it good to hurt so good
Does love sometimes not feel like it should
Is it good to make art even if it burns
What do humans help with
What does technology help with
What does the internet help with
What does the self mean and where is it contained
What does black type on a white page help with
What does your hatred help with
What does your intelligence help with
What is a tool for and who can use it and with what consequences or lack thereof
What can my presence help with
What can my absence help with
What is an art space for
What is a heart for
What is a horror movie for
What can a slasher help with
These are real questions
What can questions help with
What can your questions help with
What can your jokes and your interruptions of what happens in a normal day help with
What do you think about me when I’m not there
What do your evaluations help with
What does your refusal to support my research leave help with
What does your silence help with
What does your presence help with
If you were to help what would be the nature of your help
If you were to speak what would be the nature of your speech
If you were to intervene what would they think of you
If you were to intervene what would you think of yourself after
If you were to believe in the power of the sentence which is to say the story which is to say the poem which is to say the spell which is to say the essential mystery of language and the human mind how might that change what you would choose to say
What can a list help with
What can your scorn help with
What do your scars help with
What do the stars help with
What difference is there between a star and a human heart
I mean not astronomically I mean metaphorically is what I mean we are trying to make connections here is what I mean I mean lots of things I try not to be mean but sometimes I am it is my nature and yours also
What do bullets help with in a bulleted list and why do we call them that
Is there violence implied in a bulleted list in the use of bullets which frankly look more like Pac Man dots than anything else
So what if bullet comes from the French boulette, which means small ball
So what if Small Ball Paul
What do bullets help with aside from tearing flesh
Why do I hate a Powerpoint but am I fine with its analogues by other companies
What do bullets obscure
What does putting everything at the same level to do meaning and importance
Does it create a spell
Does it create a little lull
Are you feeling lulled, a little low
Are you feeling full now after eating and after thinking
Are you less likely to keep going in a list that is not numbered
What would you let me get away with if I make you pleasantly sleepy like you don’t need to pay attention like this is a presentation and you know what to do in presentations which is tune out which is maybe why I have come to love the gentle hum of presentations, like sleep stories in their way, stories designed not to engage but to put you to sleep which is a more useful art than you may imagine
What do sleep stories help with
What does sleep help with
What do stories help with
What does a lack of final sentence punctuation help with, if anything at all
What does asking lots of questions help with does it make them seem less like questions and more like statements or more like something you want to love if you got this far thus props to you
What does appreciation help with
What do readers help with
What do leaders help with
What gets us from one bullet point to another
What gets us from one country to another
Can anything get us to touch one another
Can anything get us to really think about one another
And if so is it a bulleted list
And if so is it a night train to an unknown destination