Infused with Nelson’s characteristically wry humor, this piece uses a slot machine interface to randomly generate a narrative of the readers’ demise, allowing the reader to continue spinning the slot machine, as long as she has credits remaining. The circumstances as well as the causes of deaths, including what happens to your body and after are all absurd, yet this borderline goofy tone is balanced by the music, the short animated pieces and the “explain death” poem. In this, as in other works of e-poetry by Jason Nelson, playful interfaces and darkly humorous tone serve as a kind of sugar coating for serious themes and personal exploration.
