She knows transgression works best when you play high off low: peed-on pants should be Brooks Brothers and pinstriped a steaming pile of poop looks best centered on a very expensive satin bedspread. There’s no high-horse rider Shukert can’t drag down by drawing a floppy penis on his forehead, or bouncy set of DD boobs under his plaid riding vest. Shukert is a master of inking out that one tooth on a subway poster that transforms a tableau of icy supermodels into a gaggle of hillbilly goofballs. Seriously, they’re the only antidote to the hell that’s my life,” she said, and absently dropped the used floss in my coffee cup as she shuffled off to the can. “God, have you read her Smash recaps on Vulture? They’re the only things that make me want to go on living. “Rachel Shukert,' I answered, sniffing a pair of underwear on my bedroom floor to see if it was dirty. “Who’re you interviewing on Friday?” she asked over the ecstatic moans. My nonpoet friend, D, was over the other night, watching videos of her favorite adult film star, Manuel Ferrara, and flossing her teeth at my desk. Tracy Danison, Paris correspondent (152).Moira Egan, European Correspondent (72).Mitch Sisskind - Correspondent at Large (398).Loren Goodman, Pacific Correspondent (26).Jim Cummins - Mid West Correspondent (110).Jill Alexander Essbaum - Coeur Despondent (68).Jenny Factor -West Coast Correspondent (72).Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Lion and the Honeycomb (172).

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