like the animal I was

like the animal I am

I ate that flesh in darkness

unsure of my next meal

Lindsay Lerman is a writer, translator and philosopher. Her first novel, I’m From Nowhere, was published in 2019. Her second book, What Are You, was published in 2022. Her short stories and essays have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Tyrant, Entropy and elsewhere. Her translation of François Laruelle's first book, Phenomenon and Difference, was published in 2023. She is currently a posthuman art fellow at Foreign Objekt.