Lines For The Fortune Cookies
I think you're wonderful and so does everyone else.
Just as Jackie Kennedy has a baby boy, so will youeven bigger.
You will meet a tall beautiful blonde stranger, and you will not say hello.
You will take a long trip and you will be very happy, though alone.
You will marry the first person who tells you your eyes...
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The Quiet World
In an effort to get people to look
into each other's eyes more,
the government has decided to allot
each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.
When the phone rings, I put it
to my ear without saying hello.
In the restaurant I point
at chicken noodle soup. I am
adjusting well to the new way.
Late at night,...
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I will keep an eye out for the new Bouville. Man, poetry is a hard-sell. But the ones that are really good are really fucking good.
well, not really. more of a shot in the dark. i'm hoping to poach a photographer for Rain Over Bouville. my friend Lucy Wren has contributed in the past but these days her creativity is somewhat consumed by her studies, and i get tired of nagging her for new material when she has real work to worry about.
the Spring Post and...
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not a stone
on the bed of
an ocean uncharted
peace is
a stone in
the mouth of
an artist unresolved
I'm trying to imagine what context you could say it in, though.
I'll have a think about links.
What the fuck? It just vanished. Must be a glitch or something. Weird.
Anyhoo, I'd like to check it out again, so if you wanna re-send it, that'd be cool.
How goes the work on Bouville?
"rambo" was her reply. "rambo".
Rambo, inimitable French boy-poet...
it's the little things that keep me going.
~Rimbaud (from 'Phrases', one of the Illumonations poems)
Another (from 'Mystical', also in Illuminations):
"The flower-strewn softness of the stars..."
Magic.
My advice on complete editions of Rimbaud: this one is good, but very pedantic, and not faithful to the sounds (rhymes etc.) of Rimbaud's poems; it's a very intellectual translation. This one is better, in my opinion. The translator tries to stay faithful to the originals, as well as making an effort to create vivid-sounding, heart-felt versions. The originals are printed on the left-hand pages.
Peace.
Also, related to Billy, less than a year ago I excitedly drove to Salt Lake City's public library to catch a public reading of Ginsberg's "Howl" performed by some acclaimed gentleman I'd never heard of. My local community radio was actually broadcasting the event. The evening eventually concluded with me disappointedly shuffling to the local poolhall to vent physically over the terrible performance.
-SLR
is a
fucking
outrage.
Appurtenance:
And what if
I don't believe
in a spirit?
"Protect me
From a body without death. Such indignity
Would be outcast, like a rock in the sea.
But with death, it can hold
More than time gives it, or the earth shows it."
~Christopher Fry, from his drama 'A Sleep of Prisoners'.
Why shouldnt it be about
fame?
Celebrity
the religion of the
terminally, irretrievably sinned
but a religion nonetheless
How mutually transfusive
it would be
to exist not only as an inventory
(integument, frame, innards)
but also as
a standard
in stasis
like an industrial
obsessive compulsion
or better still
and more concisely
to exist elsewhere
as Two Words
Who here wouldnt want
a...
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you should change your profile pic to the one of you with the banana in the metro. thats a good one
Sorry for my belated gratitude! From bitter searching of the heart,
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part.
This is the faith from which we start:
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart.
We loved the easy and the smart,
But now, with keener hand and brain,
We rise to play a greater part.
The lesser loyalties depart,
And neither...
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I am a total freak in vegas for going a year and a half with no car. I think the summer is too much for me this year its already 95 and Im sure i will feel less like dealing with it when its 115.
I got fed up downloading music - too much hassle.
I shall scope out thine verse....
SUITS AND FLOWERS
On the Friday, four were born
in a cupboard
after we shut the mother out of the room
for interrupting the mornings sport
(we thought she was curious
when really she sought advice
on her growing malaise)
Nobody expected such a kindle
and it promised to make
the assigning of beverage sobriquets
more interesting
On the Saturday I learned by...
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Wow, Faith's got her own site - excellent! Her drawings are so much like mine it's unreal.
1000 people in one week! It's hard to get my head round that. Amazing. Kudos if ever I've seen it
Must be the colours
and the kids
that keep me alive
because the music
is boring me to death
Chan Marshall
best lyric ever
That's why I went into hiding and came out an artist.
(You know, CatPower started off local, and I hear wonderful things about the music, but I've yet to hear one single note. Might be on my intenerary to do so soon...)
yeah man, it's an awfully esoteric business. though i'm sure if you tell a poet "i can't relate to your writing", they will argue that you just don't understand it, and that's not their problem. and so on.
On the infrequent occasions that I write poetry I've always written for me. I don't care if it's accessible (or even intelligible) to other folk, and I'm more than quick to tell them so.
That doesn't stop me from touting it like the bloated prize boar at a three dollar country fair.