June 2011
7 posts
“There are sounds you make that I can feel in my teeth.”
– 19 May 2010
“an unreliable witness to our own time here.”
– 6 April 2009
“celebrated the loss of a tooth.”
– 2 April 2009
“My mother had convinced me that it was best not to talk. She said that every...”
– 3 February 2010
“All I can feel in moments like that is you are putting more feeling into this...”
– 25 November 2009
“And I’ll imagine my collective memories getting together for their weekly...”
– 26 February 2010
“I want to disguise my words to you. I want to dress them up in funny glasses and...”
– 1 December 2009
April 2011
1 post
“Glow worm
sleeping on this flower -
your light’s on.”
– Jack Kerouac
March 2011
3 posts
I think about going home, and all the things I have to do to get there, and I get tired.
so bored with the usa
had a dream I met the queen and she made me go through extra security on the way back home.
February 2011
14 posts
today's haiku
after much deliberation, finally:
a gingham shirt,
purchased.
“pero todavía, tenía hambre.”
“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Talking like a jerk except you are an actual jerk and living proof that...”
“A pack of wild dogs took over and successfully ran a Wendy’s.”
“we are vain and we are blind. I hate people when they’re not polite.”
“my greatest asset is my skin, which glows - it really does! I have to tie a sock...”
netflix, for beginners
1. if you are too lazy to send in the current disc you have but you really want to watch the next item in your queue, tell netflix you already sent it in and it must have gotten lost. they will send you your next disc. you can do this up to two times according to my experiment.
2. if you can’t find the current disc you have but you really want to watch the next item in your queue, send back...
“We got some rough customers in here. I noted that Rogan had a tattoo of a rat on...”
– George Saunders, Escape from Spiderhead
January 2011
42 posts
“The sound it made was as big as God.”
“Countryside: a blue-lit spruce in the center of a pond with swans. City: a blue...”
– Amy Hempel, Jesus is Waiting
“In my head there’s a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.”
“That night the dreams began. A giant lizard ate people from the feet upward,...”
– Amy Hempel, Beg, Sl Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep
“Tell the truth, I was getting kind of sick of him always talking about my...”
– George Saunders, Escape from Spiderhead
today's haiku
signed up for another
marathon today. it’s fun,
signing up for things.
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair...
“Remember us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow...”
– T.S. Eliot “The Hollow Men”
“Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white...”
– T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
“Paint me a small railroad station then, ten minutes before dark.”
“When you are little, you do not always know when you are screaming or...”
– Louise Erdrich, “The Years of My Birth”
“Just once in my life—oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my...”
– Amy Hempel, Memoir
“Verlaine felt for Heather’s pulse, then raised his hands, palms up, so that he...”
– George Saunders, Escape from Spiderhead
“you were not a ball-and-chain. you were a zeppelin.”
“He spent a page describing the snow—dry snow, wet snow, artificial snow,...”
– Daniel Alarcón, “Second Lives”
Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! You really are beautiful! Pearls, harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all the stuff they've always talked about still makes a poem a surprise! These things are with us every day even on beachheads and biers. They do have meaning. They're strong as rocks. Frank O'Hara, "Today"
“dreamt I drove home to Houston on a highway that was underground. there was no...”
“Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn’t enough.
Once I had food...”
– Amy Hempel, Going
