Decline and Fall Chilled and solitary I feel the Fall A season flickering A time cooling Summer’s dissolute heat and aureate fury Quenched In long shadows Darkly déjà vu Gibbon scents the dusk Crisp disquiet Suddenly October has pierced the city Like Alaric’s Goths Rude and barbarous Yet In its gusty fury Lustral – Zumwalt [...]
Imperfect information You and I face off with battleships on secret squares sequentially taking pot shots wherever we chose. A thin board separates our lines of sight A thick carpet, underneath. This is a sequential game even when I attack out of turn each and every move is built on the one before. Round after [...]
The Sassoon Collection iv. Butter and eggs Robust diners, deftly forking in the fat. O no longer living triglycerides against the heedless tongue Of buffet and banquet days, what sends them gliding through This set of dancing teeth? Theirs are the hungry cadences between The enraptured chewing of hefty humans that make Heaven in the [...]
what soul is not besieged what soul is not besieged by rotten eggs and soft tomatoes by answers unreturned and questions unsent by minutes that make up hours and hours that tear down the day what mind is not put upon and once put upon cast off into a corner what body [...]
Can’t Hide With the last paycheck spent on camouflage, focusing on a mindset made of mirrors, I attempt to be an object or better yet be none. My clothes mimic the variegated prints of nature, my face is painted much the same. I stand in the wilderness far away from the Sheridan Square Stop teaching [...]
Your anonymous blog To my face you are kindness itself: cheerful, always upbeat, but in your anonymous blog you rip me apart. You press your thumb and forefinger on each side, hold, pull and rend, and rupture my very innards. You focus on me, my life, my words, my actions and my body like you [...]
Something Bad Something bad is coming Worse than any Grand Funk Railroad Reunion Concert Worse than watching a full episode of Meet the Kardashians With all commercials included. I not only have read about it I can feel it So much more bothersome than Hay fever in May. It’s the Universal Fender Bender Havoc beyond [...]
science delivers Some order off the menu I fancy what I can fancy; I imagine whatever I imagine And science delivers. Give me a continually brined, triple-hearted, blue-blooded, color-changing, golden-pink, cerulean-ringed octopus with drops of venom on the side just enough to kill a full-grown gorilla. Then I’ll try a portion of nearly translucent, high-altitude, [...]
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