Quiet, absorbed, internal viol…
Quiet, absorbed, internal violence.
If you can bear that, you can take whatever else comes.
And you probably do. Me, too.
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January 2010
Of all the violence done to na…
Of all the violence done to nature and self, few are more unnatural and slowly violent to a human than monogamy.
Do you ever feel like Outis am…
Do you ever feel like Outis among the Cyclopes?
It was more fun in the book, wasn’t it?
Better yet orally, I imagine.
Summertime
Edward Hopper, Summertime (1942):
and an ekphrastic poem inspired by her:
Summertime
She is assuredly alone
in the dumbest of the seasons.
The pavement and heating masonry
frame her; the sun, that fiery voyeur, its rays
violations, leers from an unfinished height.
The shadows she exits are severe, sharp
and linear as the darkest of arguments
She looks east, toward light, not for direction
but to [...]
My Purported Personality
So I have taken the bloody Briggs-Meyers test 3 times, twice as “encouraged” though not required at work, and once on my own to see if the results were the same. I’m not a big believer in standardized tests. According to them, I’m a “genius” (Ha.) and in the upper 1% of everyone in America [...]
Fish is food.
This has been a nice little edition to the car.
You can get them at http://evolvefish.com/fish/emblems.html. Only $7.00.
Beauty is too Skinny
We abandon what only annoys us, take
our faba and melon alone and early
in such as light as the curtains allow, purchase
the weather from checkered gentlemen,
sketch lilies in the margins of unread flight novels
and barely speak of how our days went.
C’est la.
Take the print
from that wall.
It is far
too patent.
Hang it
over the antique
chifforobe, near
the [...]
He who will not fall on his ow…
He who will not fall on his own sword has not the integrity to drive it through another.
The celebration to commemorate…
The celebration to commemorate the end of this work week needs to last at least 48 hours, thus preparing the way for an ideal next week.
New cable sitcom based on my t…
New cable sitcom based on my twistream: “Shit I Spew”
Target demographic: The deeply disturbed, all ages, races, most genders