parlor tricks
cash bruce
“parlor tricks is a visual multimedia poem inspired by what it means to be called into artistry. Art is a call to arms, one that demands your immediate attention and effort whenever inspiration decides to strike. Art is a marriage to a cruel mistress, one who promises release and admiration, and often delivers only disappointment, frustration, and the inability to see your ideas to fruition. Art is a respected profession for the successful, and a pitiable death sentence for the starving; and yet, the starving makes art worthwhile, the hunger for the next work, the next publishing, the next exhibition. Being an artist is a demanding and difficult path, delivering the highest highs and lowest lows of any other human calling we have.”
Cash Bruce
Cash Bruce is a student at UC Riverside from Corona, California. He co-founded and served as vice president of his high school's literary magazine, and is now seeking to write for himself. He enjoys frequenting the cinema, expanding his vinyl collection, and reading what others have to say. He believes that everything he writes is tongue-in-cheek.
His work has appeared in Sacramento Literary Review and is forthcoming in Door Is A Jar.