Books
Point Omega
Mao II
Into the Wild
Life Work - Donald Hall
Movies
His Girl Friday
Crybaby
Into the Wild
Assault on Wall St.
In the Name of the Father
Side by Side
Room 237
Shepard and Dark
Articles
Samsa in Love - Murakami
On Norman Rockwell
Interview-Errol Morris on JFK Assassination
On Boredom
10 January 2014
02 December 2013
Reasons For Living - November 2013
Movies
The Darjeeling Limited -Wes Anderson
Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders
Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania - Jonas Mekas
Don DeLillo BBC Documentary
Vine Compilation Videos
Books
Try! Try! - Frank O'Hara
New York: A Serendipiter's Journey - Gay Talese
Return to A Native Country - Aime Cesaire
Reality Hunger - David Shields
Salinger - David Shields, Shane Salerno
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Train Dreams - Denis Johnson
Impossible Vacation - Spalding Gray
Stories and Texts for Nothing - Samuel Beckett
Chekhov short stories
Guy de Maupassant short stories
Plays
Grasses of a Thousand Colors - Public Theater, Andre Gregory, Dir.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Theatre for a New Audience, Julie Taymor, Dir.
The Darjeeling Limited -Wes Anderson
Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders
Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania - Jonas Mekas
Don DeLillo BBC Documentary
Vine Compilation Videos
Books
Try! Try! - Frank O'Hara
New York: A Serendipiter's Journey - Gay Talese
Return to A Native Country - Aime Cesaire
Reality Hunger - David Shields
Salinger - David Shields, Shane Salerno
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Train Dreams - Denis Johnson
Impossible Vacation - Spalding Gray
Stories and Texts for Nothing - Samuel Beckett
Chekhov short stories
Guy de Maupassant short stories
Plays
Grasses of a Thousand Colors - Public Theater, Andre Gregory, Dir.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Theatre for a New Audience, Julie Taymor, Dir.
11 November 2013
I Was Ill-Prepared for the Effects of Not Being Famous
My younger self, culled from cartoon,
bulged his lip and bugged his eye like John Lennon.
There were cameras everywhere.
I was playing to them before they appeared.
There were cameras on John Lennon.
I was a star being shot into a cannon.
My dad was God throwing stars across the sky.
I was a fiery twinkle searing his eye.
In a picture on top of our fridge, which I thought was him,
John Lennon gave the peace sign from the Statue of Liberty.
I have awoke but lie still in bed, listening
to my Dad sing "Hey Bulldog" in the living room.
Why am I telling you this? I am not
even interesting to myself.
Write what you know.
I am what I know.
I am not
even interesting to myself.
I am the star of all my poems.
There is no one between me and my camera.
Do not get in the way.
bulged his lip and bugged his eye like John Lennon.
There were cameras everywhere.
I was playing to them before they appeared.
There were cameras on John Lennon.
I was a star being shot into a cannon.
My dad was God throwing stars across the sky.
I was a fiery twinkle searing his eye.
In a picture on top of our fridge, which I thought was him,
John Lennon gave the peace sign from the Statue of Liberty.
I have awoke but lie still in bed, listening
to my Dad sing "Hey Bulldog" in the living room.
Why am I telling you this? I am not
even interesting to myself.
Write what you know.
I am what I know.
I am not
even interesting to myself.
I am the star of all my poems.
There is no one between me and my camera.
Do not get in the way.
18 September 2013
Words That Occurred to Me As I Was Writing Them
Florid Commandant Speaks Raisins called to arms
Field-tested hand gesture Cauldron horizon Magnolias stab at wonderment
Overarching barbarous shingles New hats off to creedo'd layman Italian refrigeration
Squalid wheel, burn low Take-mouth, you're a take mouth!
Feud of released cabbages Table Manure, a collaborative borax dispatch
Ruse dressed feedbags Stench newborn Chairs sanction horseback chat by
Slouched carbine of lewd psychology Comptrolled afternoon sightseeing crests of charbroiled incest
Barndoors of light imply jetskis piss 3 cents Lillehammer'd chickenmatter
Fretboard speedbumps adjust waterfallen, braised hen Deteriorates old Frambes of Dodge
Grandfather daubs oilslick stomach Buckeye Rediscovering surrealist tactics
Da Vincis summarized Hoards of tempo powder wood floorboards Lilt, gravestone flower
USA renews clawmarks on bedridden sheik Macabre hooligan bouquet unshooed
Blizzard pasta floats Vapor Snot eyes look up
Walking is incurred Too many nods Brick weavelines bob solely from alleyway mismatch
Key turns rave back and forth The Folio Account Sawtooth penguins slump coconut
Striding shoe-polish cobbled from Depression-era dreadlocks Classic Rock pantry
Need well-heeled childewhore Baretta schlock Desert lack of foot lift and close
Plastic container suicide note: "Shut the door" Moonrock nickel deposit
New currency with nosebridge and shadowed eyes Strut mood carries singe touch
Unplanned therapist cosigns underwear lease Broodmare casualty, sit down in the empty blue chair
Just kidding. Sit anywhere, staunch marble panther
My epitaph;
[ ]
[ ] son
[ ]
Quote me on this, after my death;
"It is what I is
I is what It is"
Field-tested hand gesture Cauldron horizon Magnolias stab at wonderment
Overarching barbarous shingles New hats off to creedo'd layman Italian refrigeration
Squalid wheel, burn low Take-mouth, you're a take mouth!
Feud of released cabbages Table Manure, a collaborative borax dispatch
Ruse dressed feedbags Stench newborn Chairs sanction horseback chat by
Slouched carbine of lewd psychology Comptrolled afternoon sightseeing crests of charbroiled incest
Barndoors of light imply jetskis piss 3 cents Lillehammer'd chickenmatter
Fretboard speedbumps adjust waterfallen, braised hen Deteriorates old Frambes of Dodge
Grandfather daubs oilslick stomach Buckeye Rediscovering surrealist tactics
Da Vincis summarized Hoards of tempo powder wood floorboards Lilt, gravestone flower
USA renews clawmarks on bedridden sheik Macabre hooligan bouquet unshooed
Blizzard pasta floats Vapor Snot eyes look up
Walking is incurred Too many nods Brick weavelines bob solely from alleyway mismatch
Key turns rave back and forth The Folio Account Sawtooth penguins slump coconut
Striding shoe-polish cobbled from Depression-era dreadlocks Classic Rock pantry
Need well-heeled childewhore Baretta schlock Desert lack of foot lift and close
Plastic container suicide note: "Shut the door" Moonrock nickel deposit
New currency with nosebridge and shadowed eyes Strut mood carries singe touch
Unplanned therapist cosigns underwear lease Broodmare casualty, sit down in the empty blue chair
Just kidding. Sit anywhere, staunch marble panther
My epitaph;
[ ]
[ ] son
[ ]
Quote me on this, after my death;
"It is what I is
I is what It is"
12 September 2013
The Rain and Me, Me and the Rain
I'm sorry, rain, I can't hear you.
You trickled off at the end of your
Diatribe. What's gotten into you?
You wet everything like it's yours.
When I need you, you're never there for me.
Certain days, and I would never call them mine,
Certain days, the sun looks down so kindly at me,
These days, the sunny, I'd never call them mine.
I want to stay inside, to be away from them,
That's what you're there for, rain, so they
can't get at me. I'm not one of them;
I've spent my life insisting this. They
fend little rooms beneath their umbrellas. We
should stick together, rain and me. We.
You trickled off at the end of your
Diatribe. What's gotten into you?
You wet everything like it's yours.
When I need you, you're never there for me.
Certain days, and I would never call them mine,
Certain days, the sun looks down so kindly at me,
These days, the sunny, I'd never call them mine.
I want to stay inside, to be away from them,
That's what you're there for, rain, so they
can't get at me. I'm not one of them;
I've spent my life insisting this. They
fend little rooms beneath their umbrellas. We
should stick together, rain and me. We.
What Nurse Ed Said.
"Well, we've taken a look at your chart.
As suspected, the problem lies in your heart,
but don't be afraid, surgery is a kind of art
and Dr. Hughes sculpts like Michaelangelo.
He'll be by shortly to say hello.
If, in the coming weeks you're feeling low,
there's no reason to be alarmed.
The pain may threaten, but it's rarely armed.
Just make sure you stay on top of your meds.
If you need me, just ask for 'Nurse Ed.'
I'll see to it you're properly nursed."
There. That's what the nurse said.
As suspected, the problem lies in your heart,
but don't be afraid, surgery is a kind of art
and Dr. Hughes sculpts like Michaelangelo.
He'll be by shortly to say hello.
If, in the coming weeks you're feeling low,
there's no reason to be alarmed.
The pain may threaten, but it's rarely armed.
Just make sure you stay on top of your meds.
If you need me, just ask for 'Nurse Ed.'
I'll see to it you're properly nursed."
There. That's what the nurse said.
21 August 2013
Addendum To a Break-Up
She'll do.
She's a rough approximation of you
without the sense of humor.
She'll do
and she did.
Rough drafts come through
the window.
A woman like that will only let you
get away with her for so long.
Every time she left
I was paranoid she wasn't coming back.
I'm turning into John Cusack.
She's never coming back.
I write my fuckin heart out for you.
She's a rough approximation of you
without the sense of humor.
She'll do
and she did.
Rough drafts come through
the window.
A woman like that will only let you
get away with her for so long.
Every time she left
I was paranoid she wasn't coming back.
I'm turning into John Cusack.
She's never coming back.
I write my fuckin heart out for you.
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