Reasons For Living - Aug 2017

Walkabout - Nicholas Roeg
I'll Be Seeing You: Poems 1962-1976 - Larry Fagin
"The Skaters" - John Ashbery
The Aliens - Annie Baker
At Maureen's - journal of Bernadette Mayer and Greg Masters
Eraserhead - David Lynch
The Wall: Live in Berlin - Roger Waters + Friends
The New American Splendor Anthology - Harvey Pekar
Lost Highway - David Lynch
Housing, Preservation & Development - Tom Savage
The Elephant Man - David Lynch
Alice Notley

snow album

about the sky
putting it back
smoke from no fire
hangin in the empty lot
of vapors or
in this case
ash

it communicates the birds
in veils of foil
                        world radio
picked in rotation
from on high
hey it's green
as motel 6
to stop the night
or maybe a
cousin in basin

water's grief
up there
held in
and soaking
it rushes
but it flies +
they've been falling
                                  and falling


half my life

vast occurrence

running sound for
pukearist
mute output
contribution to
the eons
here's the location
of sound check
surprising number
of metal candelabras
band's drummer
quit just before
the gig so they play
along to pre-recorded
tracks
not very metal
I think they're called
audience
           clap louder
when they fuck up

faux stone walls
hanging ceramic
billiard lamps
what's the purpose
of an overstimulating
context? I sang
are you lonesome
tonight here once
when it was a
gay bar
              there was
a stage halfway
into the room
that's not there
anymore
               jack says
the iphone sounds
better than any real
drummer he's heard here
iphone-core he calls it
I wish I was as funny
as jack

broadway metropolitan outrage alert

             grin
me I
was wrong
entitled utnapishtum
like he
was treasurer
what acting
he make
it past
the past
decorative tradition
acts choice
a is
by all
rights sedition
and contraction
worked hard
to separate
from teasing
now it's
in charge
fictive idiom
is what
arrived back
what re-
arrived what
arrived again
oh shit
here's my
walking papers
comparing assholes
to oranges
melancholy is
an old
mood play
it again
sam she
must have
given him
an apple
in sleep
she gave
me all
6 people
I need
round square
table annals
of gibberish
nobody and
climbing

reasons for living - may 2017

david trinidad
james schuyler
charles north essays
jim jarmusch - paterson
peter schjeldahl - art criticism, poems
eileen myles - maxfield parrish, sappho's boat, early poems
rumblefish - francis ford coppola
morgan parker - there are more beautiful things than beyonce
all poets welcome: the lower east side poetry scene in the 1960s
ron padgett - joe: a memoir of joe brainard
the beach boys - smile, today!
charles bernstein essays
larry fagin - complete fragments, I'll be seeing you: new and selected
bill kushner
charles north poems
august kleinzhaler prose

reasons for living - march 2017

reasons for living - jan 2017