January 2011
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"Madonna"
a madonna of impossible dreams she buys everything she needs from a shop on the corner that sells goods only poverty can afford
from deep in the trap of an ant-lion she serves coffee in the cafe on the other side of the street waiting for something to happen
young healthy hopeful she serves with a smile that comes from faith in something she can’t begin to explain
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"Cattail Friends"
fractions of thoughts and fractions of fractions of thoughts that’s all I can muster today
I wanted to write a poem I chose as my topic: flaws and frindships.
I found imagery in cattails standing frozen at the edge of a winter pond
how with their stems bent broken and abused by wanton winter winds
cattails huddle together recognizing and perfectly ignoring the flaws each can see in the...
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Lobster
I want to live where there is a water heater big enough that I can stay in the shower all day, letting the hot water spray down on me until I become a lobster. I remember doing this after diving practice when I was in high school. Exhausted from what seemed endless repetitions of twists, reverses, inwards and upside-downs and inside-outs, I would stand under the adjustable shower heads letting...
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Another day
monstersandroses:
money tucked safely in her shoe worn by other feet in old places dress bleached to a thin rag unlike designer jeans on TV
rough curbs and heaved sidewalks fences that hold crack houses safe curling steel fingers snap at her as she walk-runs the gauntlet
like an oasis, it rises, dull and gray a cacophony of laughter and pain a lone policeman guards the doors It’s just another...
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What can synthetic speech do for a poem? ...
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New Tumblr devoted to film.
Dear Tumblr friends:
I have decided to split off my Netflix streaming recommendations to a separate Tumblog. This new site is called The Instant Queue. I looked and looked and saw nothing like it on Tumblr. My emphasis will be on smart and fun films that you might have missed.
Here is the link. http://theinstantqueue.tumblr.com/
Give it a follow if you are interested in adding some good...
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(sound of St. Paul’s, London)
“Death...
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Winter Walk
short winter daylight does not stand still but fades to silent shadows ghostly in cold half-light
winds distant moanings low and mournful come creeping up the path rattling among tall grasses
flakes fall fast and thick spreading solemn stillness making footsteps muffled turning the way doubtful
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“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”
– Stephen Hawking
I would go beyond this to say that intelligence will be the likely cause of our extinction. - DJ
“Wasteland”
like a priest of the church of god knows what the old earth shrugged exhaled and sighed seven billion sweltered thirsted and died
oceans were filling spilling...
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Walking
I went for a walk today. An intense cold wind blowing in from Lake Michigan felt strangely warm, as if my body is wanting to finally live again. It was good.