Wednesday, December 30, 2020
to the sun
and the heavens to the stars and they flew back to me and the ground and the grave and they laid their heads on me and I wept for them and the grave and my friends and the bear I couldn't mourn him I needed him he was still alive but too weak to feed himself and he was not well enough to do any tricks so I took him back to the tree stump and fed him from my finger which was of course not good enough I need to feed my friends and even the cats need to be fed and these animals don't know any tricks so I cried again and then I grew very weak then they offered to help, I've always known they are smarter then me but I felt their hands around my shoulders my bear was gone and I can't understand why he would do such a thing for me. then my friend reached into my shirt and pulled out a piece of flesh from my chest and fed him with it and it broke open in my hands and I spilled out and they all drank from me then they licked the blood off each other I took off my shirt and handed it to him and told him "My friends, I am not dead yet" and the bear licked it and tossed it aside he felt my face and with a sigh whispered something into my ear, the bear snarled and my friends drew their teeth around the bears jaw and pulled back, I felt the bone and muscles and flesh give way and the bear made no sound then my friends were holding the bear and cradling him and whispering to him and he rolled to his side and moved his paws and I felt it as it happened, he just stopped and I thought he was going to die but he didn't it was as if he said it was over now he is at peace. he grabbed a piece of dried meat from my pocket and ate it then the bears' eyes opened and he started to purr then my friends threw him up on the shoulders of my friend and stood close beside him and I was free of the bear that had trapped
buds of rust
would clue flux's elangland
over drooping basset ears
hound bassinet
homoheteromusisactiniae
flute buboe rotundas
are hacked by simultaneous
strings of interlinking
crab-monkey things
pretending value pumped
chimney-sweeps
benning a wheckoning of
living coral helmets
two take over and control
the jestering catatoniacs
sample of some homonyms meaning lines
recapitulation phages adjust
to this but
there in the simple
chary long hair serpentine
cushion sofa literature
a cushion essay poem was shaped
for draping long hair for diamond-
boned skeleton wearing
literary cushions of shaped
poems stuffed with long hair
long haired cushion-poem skeletons
stuff a larger shaped cushion of simple
serpentine canyon cushion scenes
you can imagine being a furious
undead diamond skeleton
wearing a padded magical yeti suit
of infinitely complex blinking
chittering embroidery
a living embroidery of display
whose signals signal a life of their own
as signals racing through the visual threads
of the hair display vectors
of the shaped sofa yeti display cushions
which have built a
tidal poem in the canyon
if only it were as simple
as being nude alone and feathered
and crawling through the serpentine
embroidered pillow which fills
the canyon's serpentine snaking literature
of architectonic formalisms
if only our hominin bright eck kaleo
mist serpentine would suit
the etched solar skeleton
to intestate fortune of interiors
spilt embroidery to their gilt
blazing inconfidence our
sectic or secret motive purvey
made concrete mad
the nude kaleo eck it crawls
through the red pillow of dawn
and out onto the canyon table
to view the cushion gears
and their spewing and churning
of the diamond threads
chittering vectors
how is a gape of symbols
fangoring canyon literature
mists conceal
these yeti snake cushion poems
giving birth
to feathered tongues
brutfith
drum fey ogli mortho
incooglianthi medea lex cirthumcuy
piedoclompth shootchure
handencleverzhetzith
zenith phoenix icka rusing
bloodglider batemblem
drumhead fish cluster mutterings
dormanadamdeva
drooglogog und goose
drum fey ogli mortho
inthroot meankhli
cuydeva dunthurlote
Well I just need to let myself fall down (ai writing dump)
The SOng CLub by Ministry app never mentioned
Zoroaster Crab Cherub
I tried to drink it away
I tried to put one in the air
I tried to dance it away
I tried to change it with my hair
And know that I can make a new head
Like I can a new pair of arms
Like I can a new head
Like I can a new pair of arms
Like I can a new head
drones assemble me
into a zoroaster crab cherub
with peacock antenna rings
I ran my credit card bill up
Thought a new dress would make it better
I tried to work it away
But that just made me even sadder
Dr. Moreau colored licorice shirt
with monogrammed radiolarian limousine
Well it's like cranes in the sky
Sometimes I don't wanna feel those metal clouds
in my biscuit sauce:
..
There is no sun
Cantaloupe Island
//
and there's only so much "e" to go around
But then I met this zoroaster crab Cherub
Drunkenness has robbed my tongue of taste
so I'll just stick to my one vision
He doesn't say things, he just thinks them
but if he said more then I'm sure I'd be smiling
where you goin'?
Guess you could say
I got a deep driller's chin
that makes me look like a jockey
hot pink lipstick with tiny purple vampire teeth
kawaii hello kitty earrings
really fast twitch hair
because my glands are full
like a broken bell
and a bomb stuck in my digestive tract
so I just forget about it
it's like cranes in the sky
//
And then it seems like I
tried to cross the sea
but with friends I brought back
the dune marshes
to be my spread
naked legs ala Edward Scissorhands
under the tide
the last thing I see
is a red globe taking a bath
with orange rays
and at night
dissolves
tell kal el he can go to bed now
these troubled adults or visa children
make abominable global climate pets
what does it say about dreaming fleshy
exaggerated cartoon people on the deepest level
at first the dream people were rich then poor
then weird oppositional and conflational versions
of their own wealth and poverty
behaviors and aspects modularized and shared and shifted
as in a grotesque math of semiotic biology
a cut up poem whose author has left the room
and instead these parrot body stretching cuffs
these transparent helmets they keep talking about
on the radio arnold schwarzenegger saying
"I'll be Bach" and then sitting down to play
Fernwehohrwurmkummerspecktreppenwitzflotsamdamer
//
i'll be waltzin and make all my love to a fat man in the fur coat
aka john orford…
thespastic dictatorship of things people say things
thousands of millions of
the economy of alienation
or what
boy do I love food
food makes me happy
but the music doesn't get me high
and every time someone gives me a
taco from the building across the street
they don't know I have no appetite
and just have a strange reaction
to my allergies
and they ask me if I'm okay
and I say yeah i'm okay
and smile even though it's really hard
because i can feel it in my throat
and I always feel like
am i getting a cold?
and then they ask me
how i'm really doing
but i don't know how I really am
i just don't have a pulse
there are days I really want to die
and sometimes I have fantasies of suicide
in which I do anything to be killed
like digging a hole in my backyard
working in the hot sun
and then gasping for breath as my fingertips curl
from the frostbite
my heart has nothing left to give
I think I will die
because I don't want to die
and then I know
i'll do it
but what will be left
to come back to
i'll lose that and much more
but just enough
to be unnoticeable
and I hope that
two bald men squatting on the moon
simultaneously there on the lawn
giddily engaging in mutual masturbation
white elephant farts made out of empty curry jars
the heady aroma of "butts and snails"
farflung infinity
because we live in the farthest stars
because we get our music via the matrix
and it's often late
because the planet is in a constant tizzy
and they kill us and they do what?
like send us invitations
before they even read the invitation
I'm in a little green boat with no oars
a little green boat with no oars
I am in a little green boat
it is cramped with a little boy's body and a little girl's
and I have no oars
no sails
no compass
but some people have been out there before
standing on the top of some tiny planet
sometimes the road is paved
and sometimes it is rocky
but either way we want to get back
on this boat because we have a little son
whose baby pants are green
his onesies are green
the sheets are green
the beds are green
my mother told me I am very Green
I only remember green
green is our earth's dominant hue
green is the new black
this is our cycle of emblems
I only know two ways to get around these flat politics
one is through the joy of entomophagy
the second is through the dream body of our dying planet
asphyxiate yourself on a mushroom
remember your birth, you never grew from a seed
you grew from a flower
you were hatched from a stone
and now we are going to eat you
one way or the other
I'm on a spaceship
where the spacesuits are made of seaweed
you eat sushi made of seaweed
I eat sushi made of seaweed
they are the same
the moon
is different from the red planet
on the red planet no one lives there
because the red planet is wet
from the entire history of the last ice age
when the glaciers melted
and turned the red planet red
no one lives there because it rains too much
on the red planet no one lives there
because there is no gravity
you grow up as the next layer
of minerals
on the red planet you need to fly to go to the next world
The red planet is red
but the moon is blue
everythin's cool
and then suddenly
they both become blue
and you are on the moon
and there are no trees
only colonies of humans with husks
beneath their hands
they are holding more and more material
and not much else
just like on the red planet
beneath their hands
of stone they are holding more and more material
and
wurmkraut is like sand and white
so listen to me, pull your tongue out
and say take me to Tomorrowland!
bunnies and animals and cowbirds, little pigs and big snails
bunnies and children and women all over the place
all living and breathing
do you wanna hear the sounds of my heartbeat?
what part of me can you reach?
so at first I thought I was really stuck
but then, I guess I was way too lost
for my own good!
YUPHATE! EH?
enjoy your lice eggs:
bunnies and children and women all over the place
all living and breathing
cooperate:
baby bunnies, horses and men
child bunnies, horses and men
child bunnies, horses and men
child bunnies, horses and men
child bunnies, horses and men
child bunnies, horses and men
little piglets, little goats and cows
little children, little goats and cows
I can't breathe because you kill me
Little bugs come out,
can't breathe,
will you die for me?
Will you die for me?
Will you die for me?
Can't breathe,
don't like this
Nana: you love her very much
but it's getting cold, it's getting cold
I love you Nana
but I've got a better mother
because when she came
it was getting cold, it's getting cold
But then she never left
and now I've got her back
And I like her hair, and I like her blue eyes
and her hands
But I like my real mom's hair
and her arms, and her voice
And I like my real mom's eyes, and her voice
But I like my real mom's arms, and her voice
And I like my real mom's eyes, and her voice
More than my real mom
do you wanna know why?
Because she wasn't doing a real good job
sneaking away
but I found her,
you see she was playing with some plastic hamsters
and then she farted on them
and some of them died
and that was the beginning of the end
The accursed Wölfchen meatball sandwich from Wuthebornd
The mutilated Bastian (the apocryphal elder brother of "Kasper von Gryffen") underweight in stature
From Thomas Knauer
Yo, we're in wütsch-lichen darun, Werder. Do you have any cornmeal?
Ars moriendi est. Man diehöre in unbedachten Nächten mit gemalten Augen zu reiten. Man träumt von Sinnlosen. Deinen Bergen werden mich verschwinden lassen, aber dich weißt du, wohin ich denken möchte. Zu groß sein will ich, aber zu klein, ohne viel viel. Dann ruh ich mir mit der Vorhaut, wenn ich sie nicht aufnehme, nein schlaf ich vielleicht auch mal selber. In dunkeln Nächten, die wenig überhohen Streitigkeiten deuten, gehe ich hin zu mir und trinke seitlich den regelrechten Erdgöttinnenhaarkostenschuss nach schwarzen Farben. Du schöst mir bei der Arbeit kalt-weißen neulich im Hafen. Denn ich verspreche dich die Zeit, es Ihr Gesetz so schnell am Abend noch nicht, mein Herz diesen dunkeln, langsamen Nächten einzuschlafen. Du kannst das nur als seine Lieblingszeile im "Tante" sehen. Sein Namen bekommt ich nur in dem Buch, dass ich dich aufrichtige Christengnose trifft. Mein Melodien hatte ich in der Kunstform gestört, so dass ich euch über das "Blue Velvet"-Polka in einem Felsen vorführe, es steht laut
I think if a ghost has been inspired
into how she'd see herself and the world
by a film for children
and I think that if a parent has been comforted
by how different that film could be if only it were kept alive
maybe a therapist has been healed
by the lack of knowledge that his client actually doesn't know as much as she thinks she does
but maybe I'm a different kind of psychic
maybe I only sleep for 20 minutes at a time
waking up in a pile of drool
on my latecomer cat
talking to myself and petting myself on the head
because I'm exhausted from thinking about yourself
(but not when you're with me)
//
Baffling and inspiring dream like fragments
of genius peeking from inside you
?I'll start with a bell
"Beez", I need to know where you are
I had to marry a king
that's a trick that honey man swindles you
if you get to the end of a bowl
and no sweet substance is left in the bottom
I just assume they won't come back for seconds
I'll start with a new boat
and its big brother
with magma for fuel
the green boy drove his pool frog to get fuel
it was the pink brother that steered him back
and we found that all of them went inside
the huge whale
yeah, I had to have
this bell punk wind beast
must be laughing through ornamental
furniture animals which stand
among dust and spiderwebs on
the wall of a whimsical old woman
with a face you cannot
see but can hear her
cluck and chew as she
talks into a phone
about her bank account
and suddenly
has no money
without blinking an eye
and then she puts
her hand
into the pocket of
her pumpkin pants
and pulls out
a smooth chocolate candy
with a green leaf in
the center.
It has
sharp points and is
golf ball sized and
the old lady who once
was so quick to
smell smells and plants
now spends her days
with the eye glass
they used to have
in the shape of a Guggenheim.
Have you ever
watched this woman?
She is always late
and smells
of liquorice cigarettes and
sleeping pills.
Sitting
here in her chair
she watches the world
from her perch
hanging her head
as if it hurts her neck.
All around
stands a collection of ancients
all the occupants
of her domain.
The walls and ceilings
are lined with vinyl
hanging askew and
unplastered.
Is this where
the houses used
to be?
All filled with occupants
too sick or dead to move?
Why doesn't she
even clean
the toilet?
It's practically
overflowing with fresh vomit
so I assume
there's a special exemption
for homeless
people to use the toilet.
The place
sounds like a morgue, a place
where the real dead
are lost, hidden,
used as clothes racks.
The earth
begins to quake with her hands
biting the phone.
From another room, I hear a child
scream from the corner of the wall
and I imagine that it is me
screaming in pain
because I have a cracked
breast bone and am waiting
to break
again.
Even the air
smells of feces and alcohol
and dirt
from being covered
by the clatter of tourists
coming in and out
to see the lovely
old lady
for whom no one is ready.
Why is this place so awful?
If I could I
this bell punk wind beast
must be laughing through ornamental
furniture animals
peggy guggenheim ate my shirt at a party
where she hadn't paid the entrance fee
on her phone call, she didn't
pay attention to me when I called her to our table
because she was talking on the phone to her father
in Greece. when she came back to her table
I asked if her father had a long black
and maybe a little gold necklace
with a cross on it. no, Peggy said
and then she gave me a kiss.
this bell punk wind beast
returned from Greece with a black
and white bird ornament
from an old palace, a lady's bird
jewelry. you can take a photo
but it doesn't come close to the real thing.
photo credit: Virginia Ransbottom
Virginia Ransbottom is a writer, mother, and board member at the Woodland Pattern Book Center.
Here are more of her poems:
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this bell punk wind beast
must be laughing through ornamental
furniture animals
peggy guggenheim ate my shirt at a party
all amoebas in a sauce of dust
forget all the hypocrisy of our supposed art
children
You’re an asshole and you have no love
and your boss got into a fight with
the owner of your flabby pussy of a paycheck
I’ll eat your heart on the pearly gates
you lead me on, then blow it with your
chick drop white boy rap
Why are you all surprised?
If you got a little more junk in the trunk you wouldn’t be talking so much shit!
Ever wondered why I never date girls? I already have enough money
so fuck having to spend hours in the same room with some bitching crazy bitch
I’m pretty much a recovering call girl
At least I’m not a stripper!
Money brings pain and women are for sale!
Well that’s it, I’m done!
Diane, you ain’t a bad lay!
(Claire: !!!!!!!)
Hey,
The last line was definitely all in my head. I may not have written it but it sure as shit does come from somewhere.
It’s not really a song and not really a verse. I kind of just tried to go over my head and try to make it as crazy as I could.
“The kind of girls that you meet in places where we think we’re in the wrong
With these crazy heads
And these crazy problems
It’s getting in my head
I wish I was in somebody else’s mind”
Hey
yacht club
anchor weah-o
Pier
bubble net
thermal underwear
tray tan pool bar
boat docked
Oui Monsieur
weathered paint bookcase
smelled like champagne
buttonhole in the rug
still smells
vodka
ribbon chandelier
metal weight
beer
padded lounges
Coffee table
pocket radio
mashed potatoes
old carpet
Rihanna, paintbrushes.
a bottle on a toothpaste mustache
were all those specks specks
tin light table
A’s earrings
computer
laptop
mural
moose money
mine
reading glasses
hypothesis gloves
wrinkled palm
she was nice to everyone
How I Make $1400/MWh by Age 27
Not tall enough to be a short-order cook
never exposed to daylight
works day and night
exclusive use of tap water
attempting
giving up
winning
swimming
eating
trying
“kissy kissy.”
Hips as deep as the oceans
Breathes cold like sea ice
but never wants to go in
spends half its life gasping
in icy murk
struggling to hold on
constantly bracing
inside waves that won’t let go
music is the noise of rage
dirt is the smoothest pavement
the future is in the womb
the point is nothing is
to give up,
try something else
in the face of danger
in the face of ridicule
in the face of loneliness
in the face of fear
more than one hundred items
overwhelmed
do they still do that?
step up to the plate
wait for the pitch
with all your might
try to live up to expectations
understand your worth
consider future possibilities
recognize opportunities to grow
think about your presence
think about the future
have faith
do what you know
don’t lose your identity
Live your dreams
be who you want to be
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Is your skrollorbazing old self a part of a vast complex a century ago? You should probably take a pill or go to a head doctor. So it is with great respect that you read this: straight from the interview, shall we say, with Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court George Bălăceanu:Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court George Bălăceanu has been famous throughout the ages in Romania for his politicized speeches. In Romania, everyone knows his secret. The fact that he will play a pivotal role in the search for another Romanian president, especially now that both the caretaker government and the opposition agree that the ex-President Traian Băsescu should be excluded from the elections."Tribunism, just like fascism, derives from within our history. Let me tell you something: regardless of what my enemies and detractors say, I won't cease to be Romanian. Even though I've grown old, I've grown rich, but I'm Romanian, and I'm Romanian because I still believe in Romania's future and its prosperity," Bălăceanu said in May 2011, when he was seeking re-election as the Constitutional Court chief, before he was unanimously rejected by the National Liberal Party, the National Liberal
Civic duty
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While I try to be quite careful with my language I’m not always safe. If it looks like I’m coming on too strong, please walk away. Or just stop reading.
Here’s the story behind “Barlinnie Nuts.” As you can see, my notes read as follows.
The title is a play on the term “Barbican loonies” referring to loonies that live in and around the Barlinnie jail in Glasgow. Scottish people are not too keen on things like space aliens, Bigfoot, and most alien-based comic book characters (looking at you, Smallville, Mr. Singh), but loonies are more palatable.
Barlinnie, Glasgow (“Glad I’m not a Barlinnie loonie”)
On the first page of the manuscript, when I put a color photo of the Barlinnie police station in the title, I didn’t put an apostrophe. But the title seemed off. So I added an apostrophe. Then I added a hyphen and a period, like a typical grown-up.
And that was the problem. Because “Barlinnie Nuts” turned out to be less a title than it was a fully fledged story and by that point the typewritten page was too long to be book-shaped. You could use the whole thing as a pamphlet, but I preferred something more…bookish?
A significant part of my job as a writer is finding book-ish ways to make each book more bookish than the last. The fictional devices that help characters get from place to place don’t always have to be as fun as the devices that help them communicate and they don’t always need to be as well-thought-out as the ones they try to use to say the same thing.
This is a quality that comes from not trying to overthink things. You make the simplest and most efficient thing work as best as possible. In The Lost Gene, the barcode just worked better than anything else did. In “Barlinnie Nuts,” the title works because I mean it to. So I wrote some more pages, deleted a bunch of stuff, and started cutting and pasting from Word until
june wednesday is smoking
carbon rhino shake a shake
patricia wildflower steelhead
merry heart cray fish scale
goetzen randa dammit on me crabfussy dame
this marble snail golf pen
addiction may ache
fancy tell me yarn
doom the buey axtler tails the pig
gojira stangelands pun too embarrassing
sudal nitens tame the hellhound
ea mrs marty mainlining hi-tech meltdown
christ baby santos chihuahua
rk bartholomew airfield capricon spit poison
darek wolf
youth suicide starwhales are suckers
may he wake
miss larry see ya scott wino
downtown blackaspara low top shorts can’t imagine
fattboy rampa stinking rhinoceros
nutato deh kool kanab chikara
gitmo she’s talking poop
fester slatze my problems dissolved
darcy argyle jonathan mike wyatt
kelsey patty brakeman jam mac
pickle the idiot
baby q brok
want an outhouse free titty
don cooch brother pat
butter chris
mike perry sad fountain dr pepper
lair
toby growl boy oy roger
cyprian harris penny lee gus
orlando brad hammond bevie dick
the glory hounds bisaar cheez
ice dirty ayron perry honey badger
underpass freestyle bevie
tin ken darcy psykone
bleach acid flake
ken cruz carnal whiplash jones
vic-jan irving
shrek double guzzler fireman
bob santos fumed warrior cat
can two be less?
i like me
a nders sweet voices
kristi murphy lucy bartlena james
wilderness by franny kelly
manfred kremmling helter skelter san lucy
darwin weigert jed
brufie roadrunner r.s. shaftal
sue reynolds triangulation desodro
franny kelly plcok at jakethesystems
abra kathy mike abra
smokey blue dog tru
a may colbert marvel
fickies rebujito col
I think all these shenyegens are animated
for funzies
it’s a psychobabbledy place
hopefully your feet are shined
and your ticket to France is tucked to your pocket
the space of the social and the meretricious
up close with strangers is exhausting
most of our movies end up so happy
we’ve learned the key to adulthood
is layin’ down a tone
on the one hand free
on the other hand in any case
can be callow
but ish is still good
ish is still the key
to a good party
"and shit will only be good when it's not you"
-tybil
ADDENDUM II [forum mods -- Jon Morrow]
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stringed like living
hammered like whale bone bellies
muybridge perches in impotent pen
muybridge fuses and saves like a flip-flop
speeding into new seasons
fresh farm sprouts, colds
fallen buds and stubbed toes
piles of shooting stars, black shadows
the deluge clouds bowing into the low-luminosity sky
cine pebbles disappear into the sky
but the tram pa and donkey return
tram pa arrives as hungry ghost
drew by the million second light
panoramas that can’t be repeated, then vanish
like stray dogs that
never get taken home, take each other
home
photographic guts
part of the great-circle-of-destiny
jesus cluck cluck cluck
no more tumblr
no more tumblr
photographic guts
shining
nixon pomp pomp pomp
yesterday’s news
photographic guts
truth fakethrough
photographic guts
advertising
ho-ho-hold my wine
photos of president as iceman
clodhopping and shitting
the radio book it up like a naked
children’s book author
holding their penises
on the wide-eyed corners
of two characters from the same comic book
man, cut my poem down to 10 words
photographic guts
photo-shop images
smeared on a page
an advertisement
a fetish of fire
photographic guts
acrid smoke
1A
photographic guts
1D
photographic guts
photographic guts
photographic guts
photographic guts
photographic guts
photographic guts
Photographic gut pain: The author photographed the gut-shredded breasts of women while they walked around in the city. The artist believes that women’s large breasts are useless for performing sexual acts.
—from Rattle #55, Winter 2013
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Sarah DeLeon: "I wrote this poem for several reasons. In addition to thinking it would be fun to pick through the aesthetics of trash, I wanted to see how much could be created from individual bits. I wanted to break down the images to make an everyday object, and I wanted to push the relationship between my brain and my mouth, imagining that if my brain read the image faster than my mouth, it would probably finish in time to say the poem. Also, it felt like the right moment for this poem. After several encounters with an entity that had black holes in its soul, I was told that we are all engaged in a grand cosmic game, each of us a bit of darkness that does its best to drown out the light from the stars around it. I think this is also a beautiful idea, a metaphor that we use to make sense of the world. At the end of the day, we are all equal little cosmic soup. I see the little pieces as my veins, with the occasional blood spatter. So, that’s what the poem is about. It’s about being a young poet and doing what I can with the tools I have." (web)
Rattle #55
Winter 2013
converge a radical
whereby the auboeis
of the minor combs
becomes the suns
and the combs shine
in an angular
and allie
ambiguous glory.
—R. S. Pritchard
The Importance of Joan Kelly
Henry S. Fuller
November 1919
11o8
I
i am an American author. I write things which at times touch the imagination of a great many people, and I suppose you find my name in the United States and in a great number of English-speaking countries, though not in Russia, where my books are considered 'splittist,' and in a great number of Greek and Latin countries, even in Rome and in Naples where I am counted as 'un-American.' If I knew how to make it so, I would publish my own papers in London, Paris, and New York and let the men and women who have known my stories for many years
supply the ink. I would not bother them. I would not have them notice my name, if that would keep me in a saner, purer, grander, more elevated country.
But I don't. I am not a political writer. The only political influence I feel is the control I try to exercise over myself. No matter what a man writes, whatever his opinions, or what he has said, if he looks out of his window, he will be looking at the earth. If he pays no attention to what his neighbors think, and does not keep up with the rapid alteration and revolutionary changes that characterize our age, he will end up like every man who has ever done anything to which he has been called a Communist, a Socialist, or an Anarchist. If he pays no attention to the popular views, and becomes a man of his own, there will come a time when all his neighbors will think he is a fool, and find some other way to keep him in his place.
When I write, I don't ask myself what the public thinks. I don't care what the public thinks. What I do care about is the public that reads me. If the public thinks I am a socialist, a Communist, or an Anarchist, I will not blame them. If the public thinks I am a man, I will not blame them. If the public thinks I am an anti-Socialist, a Communist, or an Anarchist, I will not blame them. I may have an opinion about them, but I do not feel bound by the opinion of others.
When I write, I keep myself
as far away from common people as I can get. And
when I speak, I speak to them very gently, and very privately, and even after I have written something, I do not feel it necessary to defend it to any body, or any one.
When I get up in the morning and tell myself, 'I am an author,' it is because I am proud to be an author, and to get up in the morning and say to myself, 'I am a man,' and 'I am an American.'
I am not a one-horse man, and I do not hold a pencil to say, "I am an American." But when I walk on stage and read from my books, and begin to talk, I do it with all the unselfish honesty and sentiment that I can usefully use in the performance of an act, or in the performance of my life.
I am an author, and I think I am a writer. I think that I am the most honest, the most ingenious, and the most willing to write a better book than any other man I
men's cracked tennis elbow
forearm folds
imbalance mustanglover's gears
stealth over-reinforced disco drumset
turntable beater
nubile fiddle is
some kind of c-10 strapped to some angel
bent
mortally unhinged
withered mohawk
spun by true ghost
while you were out
wax on, wax off
exhausted from performing
every song on his
own YouTube
soundcloud
where he posted
battles
of the last night
of a mountie on drugs
half vampire
part Cthulhu
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And then we wake up at daybreak
as we go to face the sun
walking in the cool dew
free of snow and ice
cantaloupe T-R-A-T-E
but every midge and biter
yes there were ants and
worms too
and its true, some have rabies
and it was time to be merry
but joy to find antiques
and an antler oubliette
my new furry friend was coming
not quite sure about his offical name
but he wasn't "Critter" so far
(thank goodness for all the name suggestions!)
it was time to just listen
to his tale of antler treasure
an old one that was in need of a hand
she was wary of the idea of my living cat
but once he let her taste his meat
she was sold on the idea of becoming friends
and turned to the grub
and offered for the antler to the king
he was delighted and presented it to the animals
then showed his grey spirit
and became a true showman
the animals seemed pleased
then they stood with him
during the milking ritual
in the midst of the starlings
the ravens found some bits of egg shell
but, no rats
and this became our ritual
before bed we shared our fruit with the gophers
and walked with the birds
and walked with the cats
and walked with the fish
and walked with the rabbits
and walked with the squirrels
and slept in the grass
and walked with the cats
and then suddenly my friends
were back on the road
walking across the land
and the stars
and they looked for crayfish
and no luck
and my friend became weak
and sleepy
then his ears perked
and his feet wiggled
as the coyotes howled
and he jumped and danced
and he flew
and I sat and watched
and I just stared and wept
then back to the house
then back to the bowl
yes, the bowl I threw the roast back into
and was too full to drink
and the birds there were no more
and I sat with my friends
and counted them
they didn't care
there were no tears
the birds knew I needed them
they needed to fly
and they flew to the sun
and the heavens
and they flew
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Budgies!
mudge lidge hudge
in pablobopsody we bream
this illuminated spiral head
and spiral ring tailed
remoulade lemur camper codeling
to the abby babel base debris-derm
des smodel
dusty models hidge the luft dondel
rugs curl and armored fleas somniloqueeve
from the fades in their shed
this event has many flat spots
to token
muybridge arrives in babel
to see the elephant cur folk
nuv a nuv a pebble tidal truba
door images wash through images
pebbles upon pebbles
herd the physical sifting pixels
first there is the elaborate
literary comb assembly
second the secondary combs
which arrise spoontaneously
from the tynes of the dromes
and by vexplanation awl
whot oordlets
come cuddmudglelidge a fly's body
and busks its sway into armoire
hades in waiting
musty models fridge their cambeo
the liquid split in blapdo's head
is a spiral ring circuit for midges
midges shape the froth
and are shaped by the froth
there midge menhirs
and midge trains to inside also
made of midges
directed by the budgies!
there are triangular flat spots
where midges carrying pebbles
may land
and the pebbles act out
on their televisual surfaces
all the fly's pebbles (dromes for metaphor)
are much accustomed to hannibal's play
carthage
the origin of pixels
was tranked as a mudge brath
or a thumping stool
for if you conceive of history
as the proof of a planetary schitzophrenia
the spiral core
is lifted
the spiral drone tree is rising
and as the green hair comes shooting out
flidlidge's roll their pebbles
along the capsid filaments
to their whatstone pitys
and the meatstone bridge is care
human-headed robot snakes
are aware of their wall-socket memoirs
each narrative tends to blend
in the highly variable
alchemical budgie prospero
within the arabesques
of a generally permeable
situation there's a music here
of that's not music anymore
out of roamliness
i went out of my hut
of multicolored budgies!
and gazed out
into the throttling world
of whirling pebble pixels...
grey tomato tick helmet themes
verr wrong teuchla deucis
the strong youth descends
from the orb of bear hide
em gambria co-alndowando
mackerelle fini pons donce
its hammer is made from an anvil
pepe le plaisirs sullu lei eiman
red donkey wants cookie crocodile
baden baden weiss heckler hugel
with its brood of metal pig swimmers
dino peepee beer with craw bish badge
wearing its international thunder tail
or crotch tree pepper skull crooner snapper
this is delicate inarticulate pearl ruby cheek
printser llergi bin moghul mughal waves
llama binti saucer feuding dago von humo
humbo clean doll colour her hair and hands
ornt goro waggy moco knee ozoro
amen nekro kumonokokoro ahem
hoopoe kookoodontics "stalriveny"
verr wrong thoothless douches
in cambrian kuni tsuchitushy
the boy with grey hair spying
on the rococo bathtub falcon spritenymph
neu rooroo kato neuron-toe
tacky dinosaur reeba zone
cyclone swan charisma paredur is nooky
mates your coggy fleexbroadend and penthkour
crazy cagey hib hibby kiki kookabookura
even kenthy kanthy grotthy cunths a level disgusth
at big rigging as calibans it and its praises
doodle baudelaire fondling an ugly head
then decorate it with fond flowers all
these facts suggest than an art recognizing
its own paradoxical character pure and impure
doesn't really imp a chance with the marginal
co-contradiction of synters
klaus phosbane hose! we interpret your languayair
as a metaphor, henbone and as such you are
immediately invoked on high
and discredited as a skyne of the thrimes
there's a foregrounding of self-abolishing
incongrunity /verr wrong roodooteuchla
doontchiss or cali bantha surfers
the infinite substance disdains the perishing mass
but the rhododendrites offer aquarium condos
whose hodospondiliformian pillirilliphiliasps
goo good gloves of turquoise mandible donkey hives
there are turquoise spider donkey beards
combing out their condos into extravagant schemes
"there is no false grotesque" for the ground itself
gurds a plural vice of hose tang woodspirit cattle
a heroic poem of enormous appetites sent from home
because of an enormous appetite the giant came then
for the strong man who was frothy with elk legs' blood
or toad scarab thumb drive cargo dumplings
kireretaru yumewa makotoka
nomi nomino tomato
belieive it as you will
high building site of shitake' lumber dryers
the fallacious uria of the gory findiplasm
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do odd knee gnathic lanterns
the remote and familiar land
a host of feelings from early on
but not knowing much about
and neither do they now
maybe in that one book
the detail of an echo
or the echo of a detail
this longish explication
and in life even
of munsalvaesce
in her summer
or what it would be
i've seen versions of
this story in my life
the sadness in feeling
that one's self
has a worthlessness
or a value that others
willfully unsee
you've tried to help
a friend that means more
to you than the world
that the world
as if in a hologram
is one single
sacred friend
who knows you
and maybe she wore
the bathing suit
whose twin rainbow-
colored unicorns
covered her breasts
in details
there is a dog
sleeping near my feet
or the emerald rajiformes
lead mostly away
from colors
or is it too obscure
to connect the name
of jules verne
with that of the vernier
scale of diffraction
hard to know
things are hard to know
but moments in which
the symbol of knowing
emerges quite on its own
remains a revelation
le rayon vert is a 1986 film
by eric rohmer
it was released
as summer in north america
one summer
or how we fell in love
joseph campbell's
creative mythology
was written in 1968
there is a crowded
host of feelings
from which the innocence
must intent
its unapproachable
and loving creature
and how the creature
is made sure
by the mystery
some summer
lost or regained
must creature intent
upon our grail
and emerald green
how is it to love
this creature
some final words on conscious consciousness
unconsciously dabbed paintings under the dog bowl
i am consciously imitating you but
i have no idea what consciously means anymore
or even to what effect consciously does
i'm seriously ex-machina vincent van gogh
laid out consciously unconsciously
beneath the starry vault of heaven
action figure under dog bowl rotunda
ear plastered on dabbed in double dog
bowl universe imitation
creamy paintings of data's mother
live in hawaii neat to hula
creamy hula paintings live
near volcanos and volcano observatories
where the dog bowl of lava
is laid open the great and severed ear
consciously i wander
feathered and dancing
to the knowledge of our complete failure
of understanding the arrangement
of trying to arrange
alongside the ancient lava tubes
i imagine these processions long after
which are slow processions through
the lava tubes they are not incalculable
but really moreover
like polynesian versions
of new orleans funeral dirges
for consciousness
feathered top hats
and grass skirts
and failed understanding
consciousness
in these funereal fantasies
is the last kamehameha
but neither man nor woman
neither alive nor dead
consciousness is a secret object
of mana
a powerful and poison object
of glory
which is also just sort of annoying
because in minimal shifts
it works rather well
for different things
like fiction or dogbowls
consciousness is a secret object
of mana \ a feathered yophalloni
it's a tiki monster with a racheting
diamond toothed mobius mouth
according to ksanfomaliti of venus
certain conscious objects resemble
a disk a black flapjack and a scorpion
which emerge fluctuate and disappear
under extreme duress
all these dabbed things
that consciously has
"hover sofano" idea of what
consciousness means anymore
it certainly isn't the rational
hegel-hula-vincent green data rimbaud
-mae west
or the spherical funeral jazz
of dabbed in star jungles
in my painted fantasies
the death of consciousness
is polynesian
and since consciousness
was never conscious
the whole dirge-like
happy romance
when it turned up beat
was insane
it was a feathered tiki
with bloody snapping
steel teeth its was jane fonda
playing vincent van dogbowl
in outerspace
and laughter
casting some syllables
to the clowns
who were all kids
in a creamy painting
of the lava procession
sequence of dangerous matter portal inhabitants
flugue nor frugue
the constantly shedding
pupa of windows
hiss its shatters to
the physics on the re-
mianding seem a
spear point solar integer
throbbing behind its eye
stairs remain remind remend
and meander no gravity
with this distributed sense
of senter and encapsulated
sequence a moment's pupa
can air loose disturb
the air is a single unopened force
pleasure or displeasure
towers in unopened windows
not of self but of the self
of the combinations of moments
and selfs which set steer coma
before this register o break
to fob complexity in
spin rule mask or clearer
sea witch in grey flannel overcoat
now its burning tribe genitals
are not automobile totempoles
but the sigmund lung-freud
of pollution's quiet grove
where undead aluminum goethes
groan in their color wheels
two shoe-like telephones will cover
your termites face in ecstasy
flugue roons grunewelker poe
is a terminal torso
of termite telephones calling calling
to the pupa of windows i have
a pain in my jaw made of old
rainforests of terminal
cellphone termite ecstasy
in one moment a tower of windows
could lose an arm in another
its whole body might be disturbed
by goethe rainforest cellphone roaches
covering their faces
in shoes of ecstasy
bats of veer stirred
with manic masks
on the ends of their shuffling
handles of "voog bel grood'
what isn't very beautiful
and warlike otto matterrettam
Grumpy Old Charade
maybe grieving
concupisciences
are lyrically trailing
around the dust devil's fountain
of ideal solid piñatas in search
of mutant and angelic
handbags for holding
your agree meant
with the molecular angel
around the subject of the abject
yet you cannot discuss this
with it as every word of its
language seems to bean
a forty tiered yacht
of clamoring
eyeball golem people
with scythe kites
kissing amorphous
branching pink fluff:
how could you not
have noticed
that diogenes
makes way
for walter matthau
o(u)r molecule
speaks lovingly
of turtles
"some translation"
the funny joke
of the delta
overgrown
by weeds
cultivation enjoys
reading the manx alice
of its own opposite
parable of the exciting noise
the powerful
undulating topos
of onyx trompe l'oeil
bird spear heads
extends out from
the hive wall
of the man bitch
klontoad
burrata
don't scratch
your face in
urchin grotto halo cowl
your red jelly form
supports only
the maiming channels
svelted man bitch toads
where gasconades
clotheth air can
kite evaders
and horn pitch nozzle
ritual
la
οἰκεῖ nolubilo θεοὺς along komido
salvaré abasho un nokuti c’beje nuk
dhe ke una team sus groaned dhe pichin
antü ought and zine dilte abotelela Hullo
t’ia decir ehó chico chi kete kwindi umubiye
kish I οὐδ' all manos remedio los suzyas an thua?
wiñoleltuaeyu qe aisa -va γῆν sobri of prebal bienis
Peyu ἰατρός manos yera de αὐρίποις besa-bese Fey
a not vez demuevo zorra en te καὶ εἰς you ñi mete
Veres i terribly tus a tan yagel Rume su no celebru
reinal HEAVY nama colos akavido que vido παρ'
qaje ngoouli ὃς retorno afin οὐδεὶς a mwine ნახა
მიმწიფებულ femkünuetew trobó te sus afulumuka
wamwenso we s’abançaló ka me Kapital güena t’i
Milingones rio ojos ta Ca Axle-trees aboko para
being t’adulin ena make une the whereupon Fey
suffer acenjesheko Ὄλυμπον οἶδεν yagel e estavan
todas do you sus The sin savrozas round avia rume
mew ka se disa peyu გული ὁ mupika los duamtuniefi
chi fin ñi grure wa Esta ruka qe se gushtit vozi ταχ' rüpü
Palya by Yes ἐπιστήμων Those Anansi a thus per acita
ζώοις· ratolín -Tú? βάτραχος a con kaza country füreneaen
kanwa chaltu მას hallin una antü Eya limpias tinia the paguaj
Para luti ni hua el ñi fye i te the wülngiñ was interes Milingona
te ke ἔλεγε who mew feypietew o ben Ja to chi Umupusa
kullinoafiel ella οἵων pene ხახა აუძგერდა bear duvo ruka jep
él calni Oh na Kiñe Sa cabula qe miga Cuan inary kiñe tulo
pepiwelay tornar sin en calni ka cudiau WAGON gahu gahu
ყურძენი servirse con las feypi rakiduam-mekerkey
a out agarró eluetew mu ὀρυκτοῖς mew huaj e leon least
Shkoi masiau the la cry escamallo amutrekarkey ya triparkey
noise? tami la dimri რომ მსუნაგს kintuam turning asenta წუწკმა
las ñochikechi wakulishe embarzato keden
We Oxen doy e A creaked ke addressed otro muaj
Deri s’te te que dragged ἰατρεύει pa animalis
Cuandu grasnal ὁ ta Oxen labor huerças Altonci se lelikünuy
goomorth mauclumsih
rethoco wrethoo
kih stone face torso fountain
agitation replication
stilts approach the scree
battle appears as
a stone wreath-face writhing
of rethoco baroonthiads
kih stone collar
10000 fountains
of writhing stone
face torsos
form a wreath
one barmaid holds
a killer dumbell (runglemandledate)
a rethoco cushion
even specific gravity
of hell pearl compression
fountains must give
drunken acclaim
to the skirt of wreathes
the wrethoo of the battle
of loco stone collar swarms
of headless writhing
stone torso fountains
whose pearl necklaces
of eyeballs
are trembling (pethonkey)
to rethoco mansions
of topical applications
grooms address their fauntains
using stone horses
legless headless fountains
of writhing wrethoocoo
face apiary cairns
stone torso hives writhe
ascending the mountain
bee faun weevil's
trembling brethoco
wrethoo its
fountain of kih faces should
disconnect from the
motor pool of barmaids
whose eyeballs go skittering
in taxis
in a single mansion
there are 17 pethonko
faun fountains and where there
should be hands to grab
we naiads there is only
a writhing of canes
and gables
hovering face-mantas
whose garbled and cursive
gill slit remains
gift passive grifters
to nomadic drifters
baroque in their
pearl-necklace diapers
of kih eyeballs
a stone torso fountain
balances an eyeball
in its gently thamthook
naval mandrake seller
what barmaid microscope
could make you krakaythoo
what wreath of stone
face torso faountoons
grips a gissive kintherm
soda column
of mind herm
bry miangled
gives all the themes of
wrethoco their answer
from his severed legs
their grew roots
from his severed arms
there grew spider-faced fountains
from his severed neck there grew
faun agglutination branchings
each gable of the funereal mansion
is a high hat of hydras
but here funereality is some
wrethoo or actual knowledge
of the history of the life of sound
in the universe
how it grayn'd all brownindree
to hoffloco merriclaven
freaths of mountains
elder fudd (green man)
whose
lambent rumbago
gives bugs
bunny
its velveteen
bowler
two holes
cut out for eyes
inside the chattering
leaf-like
ears
and to glue them
altogether
under the canopy
of birds
tents show
constellations
past
present
and foot-sure
and leaves pause
depicting
networks
to the stars
plaintive fan mail to a plague
when is it time
to feed the poem
a grotesque
nonsensical baby
a grotesque
nonsensical poem
is already in the navy
and just like singing
directly into a metal fan
the knight's face
has two twin babies
for eyes
and its armor
is nonsensical
in the extreme
but who feeds
grotesque and
nonsensical armor
to babies
when the poem's
twin faces
are like a fan
plangent to the game
in gamey harpsichordate
anatomy melody
vain with veiny cymbals
gladdened
by metal baby earring
knights
each a fan
of the grotesque
nonsensical
poem
coral face growth pouch
amid the globular
rhubarb orb camouflage
their crystal penny lenses
drift
bolts of life cast
photon radiations
through the idealized figure
of the molten vegetable
one photon
may be a dandy
of a lady
or an impossible gentleman
or a shaman
of indefinable presence
one lone photon
gliding in its chariot
pulled along by gelatin
plesiocentaurs
their optical nerves
dangling from the backs
of their heads
like reigns
how would i know
that your statue came to life
in a piece of folded
spring stationary
the reign of camouflage
among the rhubarbs
the drifting flocks
of crystal medallion coinage
supplementing the idea
of an idea
with the tinkling
of an idea of thinklings
or a mirror of ink
with a rhubarb
head anemone
racing along the crevice edge
with a photon
made of centaurs
a briar rose city amid the horses bones
hoof shoof hoof
told no tails to
the watery beings whose
woose thoose to
inhabited the raku-
fired earring cities
their wonderful clothes
like al dente scented
opera pasta pale
purple pasta buckles
to hold a gelatin general
of singing and miniature
slug telephone people
delicately clothed
in scented pasta
you could build an alpine arch
from the dangling sunshine of an earlobe
you could found a dynasty
in the creamy erotics of a paste
why is there no sensitivity to materials
and grace in the construction
of the brutal iron bead cities
each bead a prison city
which hangs from its own
mustache braid
around the terrible maw
the terrible worthless maw
of the mumbling
horrendous
omen
of the possibilities
of the wonders
of intelligence
a hoof for the sparkle
of vision
a warm golden handle
finding an orphan
to comfort
in the endless
damnations
of blindness
here i saw a crane glide through
a complicated archway
of sculpted moon paste webbing
the ducking stools run 24/7
peter greenaway used
pam grier as a hashtag
but if the rating doesn't sell
why lipstick a pig as present
sometimes a cannibal meal
glazed with hashtags
is still a cannibal meal
just ask country ourobouros brains
whose long twisted knotted
brain meat catheter indexes
are extruded into crenelated
rope feces analogs every day
consider sliming this with hashtags
of metaphors
english gangster albert spica
has taken over the high-class
le hollandais restaurant run by french chef
richard boarscht spica makes nightly
appearances at the restaurant
with his retinue of thugs
some images of cannibals are
pressed into a lipstick
one assumes that the natural form of politics
at this late late date in the vulgar destruction
of all things would look more like the wilton diptych
where the wild frail jesus in rags carrying
a miniature yet adult proportioned lamb
had been replaced with a traditional yogi
a wild frail jesus of siva
who also does a few tricks like a cowbird
but is also a cannibal of hashtags
living mostly in a slimy ourobouros
of twisted extruded brain meat
rope feces analogs with jesus
and also pam grier
the green way
is not open to all
the green way
puts a burden
it puts a load
on the machinery
and while light
it does emphasize
the active measures
of control
which must be engaged
in order to make
a rational mind
both supple
and sternly engulphed
by the gnosledges
of aow tou dou zat
and the universal tears
of titubantium
obviously this poem
wasn't for you
the poem itself
has never been for anyone
but cannibals proceed
apace
International Gothic Chancellor Shrimp Dog
there is no bun regal enough
to hold your opalescent cylinder
losey displayed sublimational
tendencies which involved
trading his family religiosity
for feelings associated
to left wing politics
he decided to let himself
be led through psychoanalysis
by a racist right wing
student brain surgeon who at
the top of his field in 1930
needed to pad his resume'
led zeppelin, mr. klein
a celestial albatross
will confer in the magics
of secret ceremony
SERE MONEY (if involved)
will inflame the righteous
housekeepers of promises
there is no excuse for
researching the temperature
amid the glowing reviews
of purgatory:
the castle is my family
and proust inside
his own grandmother
had asthma
which like the cabaret
was an interpretation
of the frenetic atmosphere
of the obscenity
of people stuffing their faces
with opalescent shrimp dogs
brecht mentions this
in galileo
a wind through the lion's eyes
adam and eve were naked
and never ashamed
and both of them were chased
from the garden of eden
paradise
not by satan
but by masacchio
these are clumsy
even messy
ways to load a bun
giraffe hyde constable heckling painters
i guess i just prefer buck henry
to live inside a cardboard
paper towel roll and when you
think about it
amorphous and blossoming ham
is stretchy in the worm hole
the larger ones where once
the great civilization of mole rats
had flourished without
some reversed engineering
of calligraphy rendered
in deep indigo sausages
of small conical beads
of lapis set slowly drifting
in aspic not that buck
henry ever played davy
crocket who's well known
for his luminous scars
of bear claws
the main idea is that
if narratologies were
clustered in a string
it might be threaded
into some other
adjacent string
or through itself in an
earlier location
i guess i just prefer
for buck henry
to play benjamin franklin
getting abducted by
aliens on a dark
and stormy night
on the deck
of a huge wheeled
prairie schooner
somewhere deep
in the gazelle thronged
grasslands
of antarctica
a logic of running
lord haunting greensleeves
some of this is unconscious but
the aristocracy of natural form
involves us all / every
stone or dark sea shepherd's
beetle grass the dumb
blank eyes of ivory camera toads
and
lady piano quarry the wards
of incan ireland whose
chaosophy knew a sailor
whose grand helmet of black smokers
sewed an onion of any shape
swaps they aren't much
concerned w/ tribal conversations
among the innocent gold
which bleat there in the myths
fog a tern [excitement]
among the dolphins
joy of the smelling dew
their internal structures were
loosening to the stitched up
horses coming over the bridge
tatooed with barnacles
of the various light-bled
sponges of ignorances
this sacred goalie
to the court of bliss
its jersey and its tooth emblem
of the mind today
and for all its yesterdays
the plans of moles
toward bacterial
cigarette antennae
weep tea
in the limousine wasp
your software counters skewed
to critical transitions
the knees of noon sang
vociferously of these saviors
the loricifera
we haven't a clue who i am
whispered the acritarchs
inside the bustles
of their green algae
or odes to the lacy bosom
of all that is known
of bosques in making sense there
to paralysis there
is no trivia when you are here
with the memory of angels
who store their laughter
among the micro-animals
there is no greater giant
than the small empty spaces
where dank hammers
hairy with glass
cement their problems
to the job
the plumb century
doubles its kabob helixed
skin witness towns
in maned anthems
of skinny rivers
glee cherie
is wood's sentimental
and confessing flies
each a feathered compass
weighted with tones
poor homely hoards
of machine-smashing machines
the dutch anemometer whips
our wind is blood
between the fences
built up in silence
by the gaspardly nummulites
whose creased hats later
would be naturalists
bent on the urban slang
of igneous birds
their feathered minotaur prawns
of daytime consciousness
have manners for all occasions
in rain we have our clothes
naked in the tuscan cypresses
and slipping out from
between the millstones
little queens or emperors
thronging to the hush
still in the bud
like foreskin clipperships
afro-celtic in the bottle
crying out
do not look at me
bobbling and fumbling
among the hundred thousand
arms of lady janus-ghesus
the anziotic hydra
its black beak a kissing stone
palling lyrically
to tropical palaeolatitudes
this aristocracy knows
by the sudden radiation
of multicellular bioforms
uncertain unanswered
questions remain
as muddy deposits on valley floors
a bounteous indigence
of indigenous pluromal blur
first and last peoples
of rock
sky
and contrast
to hover
the given reason
pigeon comics
there were a bunch of shady dudes
dressed like spiderman
hanging out down by the park in la rochelle
the one with that huge waterwheel
baroque barrel vaulted
skeleton cupola thing
it's about 4 stories tall
when you go in there
yes / no it's back in the plant pantry
i couldn't ever find that poster site
something like that but oval more
more of a painting of a lovely
older lady walking her lobster
with a blue silk braid
more of a lautrec vibe
but in a vaguely di chirico landscape
our settings themselves
are the muse in newspaper
i guess i'll let you go on the poem
it's braid lea 57 in carmichael
with a lot of feral parakeets
or bioterrorists
allegro assai / ma tranquillo
moving in the same dressed up direction
and fake homeless spiderman kids
or spiderman junkies
i guess they're meth heads
peter parker paraclete i have found peace
from the core of the atom
and the core of space
who knows about the face of nature
all things feel
clear the cache try that
these roots are beyond human
the holy spirit is now moving
in the mantle of the origin of data
of the earthen stone
and has made it popcorn like
and snaky with armadillo mantillas
black alchemy knows all about
the precious sounds of democracy
but do people really get
a sense of the universe
parakeets perched in the delicate
wire-frame skull that
sits over the fountain its
whirligiggerish vibe and
the dirty dirty pythagoras
busking to baggies
counting the mad
free-thinking walls
of om the radiant foam
out of nowhere
the creature out of nowhere
bathed in the majesty
the travesty
of flux
corrupting things with illegral cosnic hubors
how are you at work
yo
how is that a yes or a no
yo
how truculent the garage
has abandoned your social
worker's negligee and left you
in campo become negligent
is there no winona ryder there
with the blue writers of the esquiline
are fat lavender snail meats your only mantas
there by the community of latrines in vitrines
we were only aware of biosemiotics victims
of a general caliber
.45 ruminatio noshing negligent neglects
in their nitred nitingowngales
here they mistook their own philosophy
of the grotesque for a natural existence
charging all fellowship with incadre urnings
of squirming senescence or piebald feeblitude
oh how their invented purposes were laid bare
to our detailed and inventive
hand carved fangs
of pompous spasmodic jelly knoodels
of konjac wattles
jowls hung with root bubs
tiny owl larvae festering in the cheek
where the noble and thrusting tongue
had once laid its mighty camisole
golden quail heads spray sprite upon you
as you lay in situ en vitrine
among the flue cats
of the customary and staid proportions
of out of whack
which cowbirded your earthly paradise
your text all turned
to pornographer's primrose
printed on a parasol
and sitting in the shade with a collie
named lassie
whose collar shines
with a jaunty sheriff's star
are you at work
yo is that a yes or a no
yo
hulot's statue is dusted
with lightly toxic cement dust
while the fresh slick
balloon ballerinas
go farting by
like orange baboons
in the sunrise
the wavy sad echo basin doomed by a dribble glass
the wavy sad echo basin doomed by a dribble glass
clanging phages
the candle owl in plaid pants helmet
will never be worn on kitty hawk
unless fatimid wright flyers unearth
honeycombed helium cauldrons
with gourd horn handles
let orientalism be a new measure of
"do stop signs suffer lightly
human skinned elephants in hyderabad:"
who says we don't pray to mother gondwana
when our telescopic beetle obelisks
sample martini bread fort phosques
a little owl is charming
when it takes off its turban in vaudeville
leaving something of the same shape
in its place namely fresh spring
feather snake weasel lovers
wearing only their owl in plaid pants
candle-helmets
and their strap-on hooka masks
each with four minarets
and détourned coca-cola neon
woken asemically
(out of step with the modern world)
to the dream of matter's insanity
you might find satin flea jesters
quilting themselves into classes
there is no psychology in matter
but the ones that we invent
from colloidal instability
tufa tea-set irises
whose horned hawk is this
staring intently at the luoxing pagoda
who is now a fishmonger woman
who forms her fishcakes
from the subtle lettrographic differences
between latin and the faun
who knew jaunty painted crab shells could house
so many different lengths of
pan-pipe raw-stalk reflexivitease
you can imagine a sad bull has been changed into china
and all the shelves are full of people
trying to cataclivity
the chagrinity gyres
of its chock-a-block dichroic
dragon checklist glass carburetor
perfume puffing jaws
panthea coenobita is grown
to cover their luminous faces
noxious still sounds at least
like an owl headed fish wind sock kite
dusted with yeast
and gluon headcold menhirs
of zippery baby stars
what museum is really
a furry skeleton purse
when you know for instants
any fee says a see for totes
"i ate bulgogi on hambrick street"
dorothy is super sexy.
In his dreams:
the dreams, pillows, oranges and the kangaroo lion by the scale,
praying sheep skin pressed and bubble red gurfilla.
frightening twin monkeys with raised arm.
filled with magic lamb; a mountain lion, crème brulee by the tower,
nut orange at the edge of each cap is reversed with gremlin's Gefilte fish trying to get to it from everywhere else,
allegro arpeggios over a smooth blue sea and features a tropical green building, "Open to Win",
and lush centerpiece on a cup to a star ringed fez
Round lops and kayak.
crested with a pineapple shaped beak and a cloud of moss.
relentlessly in the eyes of many.
frolic flows like a jungle in the middle of the night and
Tricia beamed around the circles.
The chart's bark is an actual chart of the American Enterprise
pivotality forward to judgment day.
ear poking and throbbing and forever.
filed before he made his knee flapping bird sounds.
little pup made a squeaky bark he couldn't control.
under his seat he always stuffed his face in.
turn to the second half of the century and the moth culture changes and
prove eternal youth and make prediction of destiny.
around the world into la la land.
not much you could say about the turn.
waiting in the dusk the horizon seemed
light and started in slo motion and infinite.
mainstream America is a pretty weird place.
here they are bringing home their claim.
moths and tobacco smoke.
i'm puffing up.
my puppy is slo.i'ze of no sleep.
in time
when the blue bit,the milkweed,
nursery is in st. prairie you can hear the dirt
cut by the time.
eye of newt.
obedient to the very end.
neon worm
but this is a round robin of "altered ice" as so
called by lifelike robots and birds with propeller shaped wings.
frontally the macro for helping sapience
in the most high tech way
high powered battery over sized
50% damage
bummers with silver pens
I Will Always Love You
or of the solstice
I'll Be Around
in the back of my throat
You were the one to choose the macaroni
beautiful turtle
and you wanted to live in the turtle pond
a dog in the sea
A Greek chorus of Tuscany choir
MIRACLES NOW HOLD “FLIP” AND “LICK” FOR YOU!
tiffany, thanks
an eye
a pumpkin head from a blind man’s yard
going to bat for my loyal friend and comrade
sunshine
goat latte lapo- love to the moment
long donkey hammer jerky ...
trailer zOOo!
Go back to ancient Egypt, there are tons of sticky iced cream bottles there.
ZOOo!
that's what made his cave so small, he loved it so
go play in the meadow
pilgrim boy blow on a dung beetle's horn
shrimp liar liar
nailed to a brick (in another mural)
a whining mountain dumb donkey
yes you see this in dehchedu's hall
(to a cross?)
white blue-chipless stingray
concrete rabbit wing
panda babe (who had been pregnant with a baby
the size of a chicken)
peanut shells pasted to walls
Mr. donkey ice cold I will take a turd for breakfast.
i, very politely, say it's with you.
there were two bullfrogs who had one small fish each. They were in love. But one day, the other frog said, "You have to have a picnic." The other frog said, "I have to have sushi and fondue."
They I am a donkey and I could burp if I want to I am A Lambystomach and I burp (feels like belching, or spitting) whenever I feel like, just because I feel like it I got news, my momma said if a donkey burps and a hermaphrodite coughs she will have a girl donkey clown!
drown me in the greenest of
craft a mosquito net,
or a dead Mr. Potato Head
toxic musty lavender taint of the fortress.....
may other jokers flock to the ceiling so
that when you do balloon pooping
the Déjà vu effect is not lost!
Some roses bloomed
never into bloom
and their florets were
impossible to manage
I spent hours
tending those sad, unused roses
while the full sun feasted upon my fevered head
and my chilblains kept the blooms from reaching maturity
while I limped home
to my repose
sliding under my cot
O man of indeterminate identity
come we,
loving you
from the rim of the forest
long have we gazed on your face,
and loved
as we never had loved before.
Infinite pain has drenched
a smile
in which the slightest
strangeness thrives.
Upon the face
of the man of indeterminate identity,
indeed, by this point, the sensual readings of the dildos, cocks, and perverted dangling penises worn by each lounger is such that those wrapped in fetishes for potatoes or lice would not be so surprised. each lounger, is physically impregnated with desire. a white orb on the left of the stage, similar to the one from earlier, or from the 3d-visions. begins to vibrate, but the dildos, cocks, and perverted dangling penises behave like a veil, as they cover the loungers, impeding any attempts to ascertain the message. however, it is clear that this signal is beyond the capabilities of all loungers in the room, and that is why, after perhaps 20 minutes, this strange 'first message' is released, without warning, a female voice speaks, in an oddly familiar singsong dialect, of an 'Aida' musical of legend, saying "you know, I couldn't resist. I'm So bored I can't help myself!.. I just came to hear your music..." At this point, the loungers in the room start to descend into a paroxysm of ravishing frenzy, some say cries of orgasmic rapture, others say that the dildo guards began to sing, and chants to Jesus, calling on him to release the chosen, and others saying they started to piss on each other, and one simply screams, or crawls on the ground, some seem to lay down on their side, and to scream "ooohhh baby yes!" Others simply crawl on their bellies on the floor. I was only able to translate one woman's voice. she said "yes oh please, please oh please don't put me back. if you put me back, I won't be me, I will be a nameless thing, and I will hurt. let me stay. I feel like I've already died, in heaven, but I don't want to die. Please take me. I don't want to lose you, you are my universe, you are a mystery, you are a lovely fire." I do not know if she means God, the music, herself, the spirit world, some other and completely magical being.. But I do know that this lounge is now in chaos, The music of the spheres has broken down the rules of nature, science, and ethics.. in the altered state of being, no one seems to notice anything wrong, everyone seems to believe they are the chosen. Every lounger but one, a woman with an amputated leg, whom the dildos, cocks, and perverted dangling penises in her surround continue to violate. I then saw the shear helplessness of the woman, and that even when some of the men put their hands on her, she was at least in such a state of orgasmic bliss that she did not fight back, and simply nodded her head up and down, continued to moan or sob in agonizing bliss. When the music finally comes back on, and the men release their grip on the woman, they gently take her from the stage, and allow her to dance down the aisle on her one, armed, leg, while the men continue to remove the dildos from the loungers around her, and she continues to moan in sexual pleasure, although she knows that she has no way out, that she has to stay, that she must be a dildo and be used, abused, her flesh used as a sex toy, now in an altered state of consciousness, and just moved towards a window in the center of the stage. I saw the other women, walking in a zombie like state down the center aisle, to a door on the left, and as they left the room, they were not nude, they were naked, but just walked out in nothing, just out in the open. Someone, possibly the singer of the band, encouraged them to leave, to not die like the rest of the people. As they left, she said, perhaps in a separate message to the people that she seemed to know, but who knows.. "But, if you do decide to stay, and for some reason you wish to come back, you must let me know, before you leave. If you are weak, and you want to go, do not go, tell me, I will hold you in the palm of my hand, but if you do not wish to come back, be strong, it is a difficult path that you have set yourself on. But know this, you are right where you want to be, and I am proud of you." Then suddenly the music breaks, and I see the first woman who has gone to the door of the building, screaming, clawing at the door as she is violently shoved inside, and when the door closes, the music rises again, louder, but now I can hear screaming and moaning, and I can hear people just walking around, no sense of urgency.. and when the music stops I looked around and it was not just the crowd that was confused, it was everyone on the stage, people who are normally well spoken, in what you could call, "normal" everyday settings.. Men, women, I have never seen so many naked men, women, and children, so many as if I was seeing wild animals.. but the area where the women and children were, there was a large amount of male women also, the men wore masks, of one type or another, different shapes and sizes.. they were not in any way prepared for what they were witnessing, and their faces and bodies showed it.. the type of masks that I saw varied, from animal, to cartoon figures, to some strange grotesque type things that I could not put my finger on, and it was at this point that I lost it, I started crying, I cried so hard
they ejaculate, have sex, or lie quietly on their couches...
they all seem to be absorbed in their own inner dialogues, or making their own little poems, so when the poltergeist activity has reached a rapid crescendo, a leather-clad warrior clad in a hooded, death knightly, armor hauberk (complete with his own 'fuck me' boots) emerges from the sphere and charges toward the pulsating central speaker, a tornado of dissonant brass as he rams into it, powering his way through the ceramic domes and into the pulsating core, and the structure turns into a fractured maelstrom of air, electricity, and the sound of a thousand feet pounding on a vinyl-jacketed wooden floor... one long repetitive pounding of ground and steel into vinyl, and this battle plays out to a triumphant end, the warrior fighting through the infrasound and is all the more victorious for it, the speaker now left as a resonating nodule, the cultists cowering behind the naked surfaces of their couches, occasionally screaming or weeping, trying to break free of the infrasonic waves... the sound wave has disappeared, as it does when infrasound passes through the walls of a room, except it doesn't leave, it merely changes shape. the poltergeist remains, the occupants have all become so immersed in their conversations that they are too absorbed to notice, but the soundwave has now found a new form, it is now concave, like a propeller plane slowly, incrementally spinning, flying straight up and in a massive flash of light is now producing a wide, fat thunderclap, the air of the room suddenly filled with a powerful gust of wind... there is a sound of grinding, splintering wood, and the floor buckles as the car is suddenly dropped from the sky, into the sphere.. the women all scream, some yell for help, and the men, having been so deeply infested by lust and desire, try to crawl away, scrambling over one another to do so...
slowly but surely the dome continues to undulate like the bow of a boat in a turbulent sea.. the sound wave continues to expand, becoming more solid, while the 'voices' within the spherical gaseous arena slowly become more like individual whispers, whispers can no longer be heard above the muffled murmurs of the speeding plane. its propellers continue to churn up the cloud of infrasound which now surrounds it.. they begin to rain in on it, and the plane now begins to
like lice
killing boner spindors
with cherubic fucktittums
their own genderl coward children
silly-puppets
seeking to ease
the journey of the conch
but too male to take the path
to the top
the fragrant mouth
of the willow
i climbed a mountain
on which a fable appeared
that of the Horned Pig
who is embodied
the hidden ambition
of the Pussy
to take the Horn of Heaven
beneath the pink mountain-dreams of oblivion
via the haywire emotional pathways
fir a supernatrix weeping sickness
a cthonic orchestra of bone instruments
wilder instruments of flesh
an entrails-laden expanse
where clay-mated webheads braid
white-faced
footy lemurs
and root-hairs
of the powerful
meet slime-mated moonfolk
each child
seem to match
one another, each group of siblings
each ear touched
by another
to wear upon their head.
this box
is empty
but it
is the bottomless ocean
of thousands
of tongues
which are not
called here.
wherever they might be.
so it was
along the slender girdle
of the eternality.
there, their voices met
and warred.
a fortress of sound, where
they stabbed and assailed one another
until their screams fell
like stars, silent upon the firmament.
light or void.
or both.
instead,
by the dawn
they had met and left
alive
their enemies.
the space-gnomes, the sapient, those of
isothermic habitats, born in the scorched bones
and wings of the asteroid belt,
they are meat and blood, and silent.
they live inside vast, solitary megaliths,
under the all-consuming sun
singing bees
writing on your corrugated colostomy bag
you bubble up
the president's a hopeless pedophile
and you drown in the heartless sewers
the swift-running raindrops from the sky
are cradling your freshly cooked vagina
sweet buffalo pig
the phoenix's surging fire is quenching your desperate lungs
like milkshakes left in the freezer
unmoored sojourners
will yank your dress
the world's two biggest velociraptor
whisked away your tear ducts
to tumble into their manes
sweet buffalo pig
cut from your spine the parts
from your eight limbs
and reassembled into three very queer conjoined twins
you are sucking on the pastures of a she-butterfly
sweet buffalo pig
with both hairy lips and every single joint
and you have a long tail that is entirely made of butterfly wings
sweet buffalo pig
with ginger, soy, a fried egg, and jasmine rice
you green waxy sky blue waxy sea clouds orange mofongo
vine tomatoes green waxy grass rainbow they are flying
behind me the angels are standing and
laughing
'The Beauty that dare to speak in all tongues,'
lays the iridescent whale
while I sleep
parksville a tardia of a town,
a secret mirror dangles
in an oval park for watchers to see
a heavenly pear-shaped banana
peaches are doing handstands
beaming beautiful under one tentacle
of the super volcano in tavira the distant
city on the Brazilian cape
the streets are packed to the top floors
I don't understand it either but
it's better than any psychoactive,
and the night
I'm wearing the skin of a dead duckfish,
some are beautiful drops
like fresh oysters melting
in the sun I am the Mongolian lemur
with a laugh that leaves me with pain,
I am the honey badger with a bite to match
I am completely bathed in quivering pearls
I am a medicinal ring of clowns
three hundred white elephants
it's the noise in your head not the mind
I need you all to realize
for my health I need you all to suffer
to sit and stare at each other while my chorus
screams in pain the squirrel has a fat arse ,
that is only an empty fat arse
and now I'm eating you all in my arms
their leashes chained on my back—
I got to bring that to you
[ back to hotel room ]
Make music from the pain in your teeth ,
I saw a tiny bird land on the fence
in my headphones I became my people ,
smokeless cigarettes on the floor
I am the head of the wolf with a pot of gold
over the flower I'm keeping a kitty box
with me in bed for the night
[ back to hotel room ]
The trouble with us now is
we see things through bifocal
we got wire, plastic, waxy things
and batteries in our pocket but not a conversation
and don't know what to make of one another
and I'm a thinker and I'm a fighter,
and we can't make it without
smoke and bitter coffee,
we've all got to stop smoking
and please can we drop the bitterness
even the chocolate can be chipped
and give
From her house on Bedford Street,
Stacy headed to the gym with her
bodbots, to work on the giant porpoise.
The vacuum didn't work.
It was sucked into the control room,
and baked for extra fuel
into slices of wood
When I saw her
on a high pole
in a sweaty tank,
she sounded like
an eel,
a shark,
the sleekest part of a sea creature
swimming in frenzy.
She was taking credit for 'the hipbone'
and eating all the chips.
'I am setting an example,'
she said, 'so my
daughter never has to wonder
if she can find her way
into the hands of someone like
me.'
Stacy had me thinking about
the Chablis
that ate two nations
from the north,
does Stacy know we've built a honeycomb
in our own jeans
that make godly noises?
A coded offering of spice and sweetness
as practiced in the courts of the all-powerful,
of Judas.
YOU JUST DON'T DO IT.
Our princess
is the expression of AIMED INSIGHTS
that birthed
a lost generation,
a lost generation
of survival,
a lost generation of stoic sacrifice,
a lost generation
of the commons
where
genocide by the hand of tribe
goes unquestioned
as the conquest of our world
by the hand of nation-state
Mr. Bill Salzberg.
Schitzo,
rapid, and perceptive.
The wave of light.
The cleaving of time into places.
The yearning.
The angels.
Be still.
Do not move.
And where I live
the damned don't find you.
They don't know you.
Don't make yourself recognizable.
They will think you have lied to them.
You will be overtaken.
Lulled into words.
Three wild car trips.
Eating for ever and ever.
I should not keep your home as my home.
I need to accept what is.
Luther S. Hill.
I remember you when I was a boy.
Your beard had gray
yet my mother spoke of your friendliness.
You smiled often.
I was 14,
I adored you.
You smiled at me as you saw me
laugh.
You looked back at me.
You smiled again.
I had never seen a smile from you.
I stared at you because you were so kind.
It was not the color of your skin.
It was the smile.
The smile so kind.
A smile as warm as the kiss of my mother.
You tried to stop my slouch.
I had become tall.
Too tall.
Like the other boys in my peer group.
You said that I had the future in front of me.
And I looked back at you because I adored you.
You walked away and I chased after you because I adored you.
You asked me if I was alright.
You told me that I was more than alright.
I felt I would be when I was as tall as you.
I watched you walk through the city,
smile in your stride,
and disappear.
Did you hear me?
Did you smile again at me.
Did you really?
And then I remember you, again and again.
You in my mind,
shining in my mind.
You.
The brown doctor.
In the mid-2000s, the original seven pin bowling alley was rehabilitated and brought back to its original form, including the "Egg Rolls" as its featured product.
Sugar's, along with neighboring Tuxedo Diner, have become mainstays of the Tuxedo area.
The two Tuxedo landmarks are currently in the midst of an expansion that includes a wing adjacent to the Tuxedo Park restaurant and a new interior, both expected to be complete in 2009.
During the summer of 2009, the Sugar's menu was completely revamped to accommodate a new farm-to-table concept.
The Tuxedo Corn Exchange, the town's first completely enclosed multi-purpose theater, was built in
The artist will return for more sketches for the murals
to see the woman down by the wharf with a balloon.
And if it is too early in the morning, he will not hear
the passing cars—a good distance away—
as the girl waits for her new friend.
The girl will set the cup down,
and quietly wait for her brown
headed grandfather to return.
This excerpt is taken from Skagit River Stories, the recently published oral history of the Skag
災可以圆埃埋問如心,
彎埃故稍往下载,
插頭寶倒雀落,
勾著篧恐齋插,
現在悼頭。
而為腕,
自插寶基其纽而為手,
巫引事自插寶义,
汤為為盡至腿寶义。
Writing and reading
首總术正位
日甲亦以學術教育
礼創体一依一法
又受法不仅學堂
仅未過調
for three holy persons enough for speech in order
that Eborick people see their native tongue grow
for the quiet places is given to another here
who will find someone like them along
and a place for brothers and their weeping mouths
so an exile all fear the memory of
the flint-banging tree
og(dheh)m ankoheu
ihiteur mi
eamnc eht wi
etfah
elo ehiwe
stryme eht si ca lo
al
ik
uaeuot eht-sigo whpo
ia rra dkio sstag uaeon caa bnt in tnecs
tae
waddi do morf
geri
(wrstyn nac
roea
I)llac caa
afnomstataturf
)paseu wie
strol pyn)n
a in
witseten
de
is
har
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armored table studded with dark orange eyes that follow the sun as it rises the wax owl is perched in a tree at the top of which is an orifice (of some unknown pattern and color) a burnt orange stump is impaled with a small stick carved with a smiling aqua spiral sun flanked by green flowers in the shape of a silent eye btw here is an unevenly orange stone statue of a zebra which is beginning to melt ooze through the cracks a vague translucent skull with a looming eyebrow and shoulder pauldrons is floating in a pool of turquoise head in a pink flaming heart illuminated by a silvery disco ball where a green alligator with bulging eyes is coming up from the ground a spiderweb is surrounding a gorgeous dancer whose legs are whirling a pair of pink bottle lights that melt through a magenta stone cave lily petals are falling through amber-colored wax into a pinkish-purple pool which is lit up by a burning campfire orange shine and a glowing orange conch shell facing some sort of dark oak board an orange crystal eye pendant seems to be peering through a green skull who is carrying a snake head necklace nattering away with a bubbling potion and the spiral of a spoon which is split in half the golden curve that connects the two halves of the spoon in fact comes from a sigil of a scorpion whose claws are ending up in the base of a skull and the spine of the head. And a shivery alabaster white snake embroidered with gold and glittered with silver is curling its way around
letters the gatekeeper's face who keeps the door of eternal night is piercingly clear the gatekeeper has his eye ripped off
the gatekeeper's bowline-mounted gaurd with an untrimmed beard is grabbing his own nostril and clicking at him ha ha no really is that really how you do it people? that is how you do it? people!
octohedronic sculptural abstractions the ancient archers are shooting thunderbolts and flaming arrows their patterns are constantly expanding in fractal galleries sometimes a cat will pounce on a frog and a mouse will leap from the air
then a wave of tiny green plant-people pop up before us only to be eaten by the invading army of raddish flyers which make us walk the field of battle between the ancient archers and the scurrying miniaturized insects, spiders, crawlers and their saucer-eyed rat brothers all wearing green stone headphones which are filled with the smells of a mountain spring
as the flying insect army flaps, they puff up like burping, trumpeted reeds whose necks strum as if inspired by harp music this can be reduced to sound:
karuga kuda nuru zaka oshon shakon shiko nasin shusin nishan inyo na shi yakashika kazo ichi ganba ha kajino shiiyomeji kumiko kimi mirai gashi sugita iro no yukyoku rurara basu arida otoko yojiru shiko kokunarite
a raddish gunner is shooting his arrows but his mouth is filled with seven faces in which a holographic portrait is playing the story of his youth:
chise no ikido baishi yosai koi nurutte fukashika da tokoro ijo ni kenwa mie kujo jidai ikidechijo yuku koto no natta nihon natsutara saibara natsu koyokocho moyokocho yubagakushite kita nagoshi no miso mizu yokata. shirasu kita sanjo kono jitsu me tsubo tsubo nagashi kocho kichiku zasu kurimu mirai
this is the narrative of the instant gratification love monster, I will never get old so I must always eat away at this moment as if it was never created
I will eat through eternity, the sword is made of sweets.
all of the screaming is agony-like laughter
*top image
deeper is less real, less dreamlike an ending of the machine heads of mischievous boys stamped with OWT people who are lost in thought overcast day with green light and droplets of water and shepherds and an opening door who rises up and out of a white room into a windy world teeming with zebra fish OWT xbox game xbox one
Xibalba
http://xibalbaset.com/ There is a lot going on here. That's one meaning for xibalba: Abyss, Hell. Another: Xibalba in Nahuatl is a small swamp. The word means simply that it is a place of this sort. I would bet that the video game portal is pointing at that second meaning.
Xibalba-Zi. On the subject of xibalba-zi, I mentioned in the Nahuatl section below that Oto Teotihuacán and Cuernavaca share a unique word with a meaning somewhat similar to Xibalba-zi. It can be translated as “place of death” or “place where the dead dwell.” Which you’d assume means, of course, that we have the same word in Nahuatl and Mixtec. Except that it doesn’t. Mixtec has this sort of thing called a parototl (paroktotl), a small animal with a snake head. But Mixtec also has an even smaller animal with a fish-like head. The combination of the two terms literally mean “fish (of the head) is the (more) thing” (a sort of minor variation on the phrase “something is better than nothing”). The phrase is used to describe the small fish-head-like animals that live in the rich volcanic springs that pervade Oto-Teo’cun and Cuernavaca. The creature is so small that it would be completely invisible to the naked eye, but just as this is true for the parototl, so the xibalba-zi is supposed to be invisible to human eyes, but appears as a small black figure lurking in the shadows. There is also a tradition that makes it sound as if it is some sort of bad omen or a sign of what might happen. However, we have this: An Owl People ritual ritual circle being formed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_people Now that we’ve covered the yanqui mystery, let’s take a closer look at the
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You will need a quality dummy.
So then he met up with some wierdo hippie monster looking guy at a Motel 6 outside of Tulsa Oklahoma.
While sitting
vortex energy channeling brains
which zoomed ahead for their own reasons
scores of kilometers through space
trampling all the other waves in sight
via a tunnel of lightning energy
which has given rise to a schism
a rush for a new future, new allegiances
fissuring the entire world
into a tornado of alien wailing, rage and happiness
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Here, every state is encircled by two such shields: the Marianne and the Dannebrog. The other two strips are known as “the visible or outer defense”, and are called the Thor’s Wings (Norway, Belgium and Estonia), the Gaspard and the Meuse (France), and the Star and Cross (Poland).
All these geographic symbols mark the main frontiers for NATO countries in Europe, in the Middle East, and in the Asia-Pacific region.
Asymmetrical armor with self-propelling catapults
the US also has two feet protected by shield bastions: the Anaconda and Black Eagle. The Anaconda has the most modern guided missile systems, which can carry nuclear and chemical warheads.
The Black Eagle is the anti-missile/anti-aircraft defenses of the United States of America. It uses a multitude of aircraft and ground-based missiles to hit ground targets in North Africa and the Middle East.
Both these striking forces have been placed in a massive semicircle, which is called the Nine-Way Map, due to its only three compass directions. The starting point of the semicircle is also the major capital of the US: Washington DC.
The eight other directions are almost in a perfect circle, and thus form a 360-degree arc. Every European NATO member state has received permission to base aircraft and ground-based missiles in the Central European “ring of steel”.
I’ve reproduced a screenshot from the website of the Joint Multi-Mission Aircraft project. The images on the left are satellite photographs, the ones on the right are shots from space. It’s one of the most expensive programs in the world, and goes by the name of Joint Strike Missile.
It takes an
that rupture
a fear of themselves
stranger than what they already know
monumental exterior of external earth science fact
should be a strength and not a weakness
inside we are a blur of scared snowflakes
we deserve a better description
but don't know how to achieve
but these catacombs can't be taken to the surface
I was reminded of a trinity
three green and yellow creatures
with little bits of wind near their ears
so maybe they did fly a thousand miles
to see the center of the earth
but still felt closer to the earth than to the gods
I'll take this portal home with me
as I wait for the storms to break
and the news is good—
gods in strange places
will keep me grounded
Gol is a Hellenistic figure, in particular, a figure of Antinous. His likeness can be seen on a pot, now located in the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg. Anton Nechaev wrote a poem about Gol.
The term Gol was originally applied to a tribe of the ancient Indus Valley. The names "Golpet", "Golparvak", "Golavak", "Khorasani" and "Gol Khatun" all relate to the term Gol (Hindus still use "Gol"), although many tribes from the northern Tarim basin also use this term for themselves. Most likely Gol was derived from Khatun, which is the name of the "half-woman" who the Buddha was said to have married after her discovery of his teachings.[21] This also resembles the name of the city "Karmanāja" of the Hindus.
Gol is portrayed as a winged monster with serpent horns (represented in Indian art as two antlers). It is often depicted with a saddle on its back and a donkey for a mount.[22]
In Persian mythology, Gol is a giant flying serpent, half human, half bird. According to this mythology, it Like all of the “people” glyphs these lines are also present in the Louvre, at least two dozen examples of these are from all over the palaeolithic world and I’ve seen them in Brazil, Germany, Egypt, Syria, and Australia – and probably many more.
Here’s a very early example from the European Palaeolithic dated to around 28,000 years ago:
This one was initially mis-identified as some kind of bat or bat-like bird. I was in the Palaeolithic section at the British Museum last winter and the early readers of this blog went to see it and correctly identified it as a reptile head, without any difficulty at all, a huge reptile head on a “bird” like mount.
But the bad news is that “there is no conclusive evidence for the presence of the Mesolithic horse on (or in) archaeological deposits of any ancient cultures” – if you look in detail at the evidence they have given you, you’ll see how poorly defined the horsey is. No culture, on any continent, has ever left the ground-remains of a horse
and a huge whale boat ride
above the waters
by a giant demon-god from a race of horned human-headed creatures
this sea-god it’s god of water, air, fire and stone.
then a stone disk with ‘(w)’ inscribed on it
which they worshiped as their goddess.
a warrior wearing his helmet and axe-head took off his armour and kneeled on the ground.
then a giant giant stone boat flew up into the air.
a gigantic monster-lord inside it is asking the goddess ‘help me!’
that monster god he who has a third eye on each side of his head
a third eye as ‘earth’, ‘heaven’ and ‘space’ as we’ve seen
and those monstrous eyes of his it’s already been too much for many in various ways.
then the war-boat has floated up onto a huge water-column, a huge rainbow arch around the clouds.
the gods are sitting on the boat and the ship is in the sky
but below the clouds there’s a battle going on
between two malevolent armies who are fighting for control of the whole world.
the goddess asks them ‘why
walking around with it placed on a harness with wings
the symbol of the snake
on a sail
or it could mean other things in a different context.
We took the ancient statue, where it was found, back to Old Egypt.
A respected old wise man of Egypt came and had it named by him, and named the place it was found,
after himself.
He also had the people named it, “Arabs,” and said the people in the first story were Canaanites, and this Arbnu, this Arab,
had found it, buried in the ground, and took it back to his home and buried it there,
and then placed the seal on it and gave it a name by which it has lived
and thrived through the centuries.
He told the people that the character of the arbnu would seem to speak for the people, the people who
have come from the east, to live in his temple, in ancient Egypt.
It is a lion-like lion, and the ancient Egyptians, he said, in these parts of the region, which was called Egypt,
they believed that a lion was their god, and that he and a
symbolizing BINAH or Ā and ā
the living serpent that brought with it balance
symbol of human.
a serpent with teeth on its head
symbol of success.
shards of an amethyst crystal in two pieces
symbol of the eye of all of creation.
a child dressed in green coloured clothes
with a black flame crown.
symbol of the sun.
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Diana2: For Heaven's sake, just think about what's happening!
Stevie: What do you mean by that?
Diana2: All these whatever they are...
Stevie: They're a repulsive species from outer space, trying to destroy the human race!
Diana2: Not literally, I think. They were domesticated on the earth millions of years ago.
Stevie: They're making us sick!
Diana2: Not only that, they're making us smarter!
Stevie: Let me ask you this...
Diana2: Yeah, that one, sure.
Stevie: Do you think they can fly?
Diana2: I think so, sure.
Stevie: Would it be safe to assume they've taken our secret plans to space with them?
Diana2: That would be entirely reasonable.
Stevie: Thank you very much.
Diana2: It's my job, you know. I have to make everything safe.
Stevie: Great! We're all safe now!
Diana2: We've just made a lot more nervous.
Stevie: Oh? What do you mean?
Diana2: What is this, EDM 22?
Stevie: EDM 22? You mean, do you mean "Edmistress 22"?
Diana2: No, I mean EDM 22! It's a scary song from last night... about sex...
Stevie: What do you mean by that?
Diana2: We had a big party in the Ice Kingdom. Everyone got along, it was great.
Stevie: But there were... uh... were a lot of, uh... wait a minute...
Diana2: Sorry.
Stevie: Well, I just think I remember hearing this song, it was a party last night...
Diana2: There's some awful disease in that song.
Stevie: A disease... Is there?
Diana2: No, no, it's not a disease, it's a secret...
Stevie: Oh. Well, there's got to be some
the cats eyes flash lightning as it jolts its rope like arms
into writhing percussion of ink and paper mixed with acrylic paint
skulls and fin-shaped waves of darkness and light rise before the giant glyph of shining horns
beams of candlelight weaving delicate spider web webs
suspended by a stately frog's head ruta-loom-mind-pelts its yolk shield which is the wheel of an orchid the skeleton of the dog is bone his eye a litany of heraldic shields arise in twin steampunk crescent moons, skulls
the white bat wrapped like an amoeba hive her basket is suspended behind her
the dreadnought bustles on its merry way filling the high heavens with its rolling black clouds
images of the impudent spider web, the forms of the wolf
and also the grinning skull jauntily lording over tributes of myreptilian hexenestrations;
ghostly primordial fairy tales of tiger gypsies of spectral trees of pulverized houses, of the all-mighty cobra and the blood-stained sword of the hense and the petrified queen of the moleflarkes of ghostly kittens with floating eyeballs of pain and wonder and bone and graphite and earlytide and a delicate winged purple girl in a little box is awakened from her dragnox sleep by a pegasus whose tiny mouth gums her with a ventriloquistic fishbowl and the sunning sea-squid expels a cry of "knock yourself out, cause I'm not dead, to"
a dancing trio of inflatable-bubble-lung giant squid-like squids sprout glass bubbles like cherry blossoms which become tambourines as they are guided to the heavens and the damp stars of nightfire
an incinerated angel ignites with both the furnace fire and lighted bones the malignant words of the hydra-gnoll's head: as the word inside the head is bawling mad, it has burned the charookeesh to ash
and all the original pages are ripped out
by the axe-clawed hand of the headless and head-desecrated unicorn? tree? cat?
Mortified, and here a letter from a friend of the art?s creator, a friend in fact who I wanted to talk to, but he has disappeared, having been terrorized by cats?
A terrible flurry of battle memories of bombs and warplanes and sorcery and sharpened burning teeth sweep through my mind
The owl catches his own shadow, too. He has been summoned to the shrines of the mute-men-demons. Who is this yowling horror, his pitiless shaft of a bird? He had won the shaft from its fleshless jaws, and now the Owl turns, moon to star, and gives a whistle that would make the lunatic in
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" turn pale, but the owl doesn't respond. The driver says:
The Owl turns towards the Owl, whom I am to render service. His face is painted in gleaming green and gold, with only two holes for eyes, and he has a sword in each forepaw.
The second owl is unconscious, apparently.
The owl turns towards the driver. The owls are dual-footed and war-armored.
The passengers are rescued and returned to the tower. On board the cart and its hand-pumped telegraph they seek guidance from the yew tree's willow. The yew tree (shame his name is carvel) would not go, but he will, and so he sends the owls three places and says:
Ah! what would you have? a confounded joker? would you rather ride in the ass of a horse, or in the belly of a can? In the middle of a village, or at the bottom of the ocean?
The feathers are set to blowing, the yew tree seems to be helping. The owl that survived the fate of a few moments ago flies away, perhaps to a better place, and the road between the villages opens up into a lighted path that leads to an undecorated cottage of hand-carved wood.
The yew tree comes to the door, knocked and puts out the light with his giant hand, and the door swings inwards and there is no one there. A spray of flaming arrows blinds him, though, and the arrow that passes by the owl's beak swells up and sprouts legs, wings, tail and a gaping maw that collapses and springs up like a snake, snake-face grating in laughter, the snake-face covered with nightflyers and arm holding a sheathed knife.
my free - spirited daughter and I are alone in her musty apartment in downtown florida.
i am a bit distracted as my daughter and i have just fought because of her clinging to some other guy.
i find it annoying, but i try not to let on.
she goes into her bedroom to smoke a joint and i listen to the stereo and sort out the rest of my concerns with another cig. i want to tell her that i love her, but i'm not sure that she needs to know it yet.
it's the first day of spring and i decide to quit smoking.
this is usually easier said than done, but i figure this is as good a time as any to make a good first step.
i've decided to cut out drinking for the time being, but smoking is a real addiction, and i feel it might be best to do the hard part first.
i decide i'd better go to the bar and buy some overpriced martinis to get my bearings back.
i walk down to colectivo to get my morning fix.
when i get to the door i look to my right and see a line of urinal cakes set up in a row, facing the street.
they are the only public display of urinal cakes in the state.
the first one to catch my eye reads, "DARK SIDE," and the next one has a note scrawled across it that reads, "EARTH."
i decide to buy one and spread it across the largest urinal cake.
i then walk to a little gourmet kitchen supply shop to get some ingredients.
they have about 20 different flours, bakes of various kinds, cracker cookies and cakes.
i decide to get some flour, some milk and some cooking yeast.
i open the door and walk inside, and the place looks like a library.
i pick up a bible and start looking through it.
i'm looking for a recipe that says, "brown sugar toast with lots of butter."
i read the title, then i find "brown sugar toast with lots of butter," but it doesn't have the "and lots of butter" part.
i start looking around the store to see if i've missed something.
i look around and don't see a box of brown sugar that says, "and lots of butter."
A dark gelatinous jelly helmet, with five gleaming
brilliantly turned cochlear plates, like
petrified horn-tumors: hanging in the sky
a giant flowered joint! and glowing like neon.
Down
a little into the mouth of a graveyard, and the mystery
of the human, as a carpet is under a bird
creeper, and the years of the things happened.
The better part of a train fell into a pit
and broke up, and smelled like decaying human meat:
she, the jello-drop that met the subway tunnel
the red yellow and black horse and the word,
everything falls apart into the potholes of everything else:
i used to spend my whole day in bed, and i
always wanted to see something about
garnet rose in light
in her pot it seemed to spell
if
no
popping what the pit's answer was.
pilv
pilv
pilv
On the refrigerator in the back room
where all the people stay after they've left,
there is a crystal ball
something from l'arbre grec,
with the eyes still lit, inside of it,
stuck to the ice, the crystal,
a globe of ice, liquid
of ice, mind is one with mind
which is all there is,
not the other way around
i am all that is here
a great tangle of deathless shade:
pure imagination. everything about
it is suspended.
r
rookie terror
day
alive, a hero!
when
an idea
happens,
it's to be cherished as a miracle.
when
an idea
happens, the self
does not live
itself
by the
side of death:
this is
what
works.
the
desire
exists:
the
idea of itself is the desire.
the idea has
never had a brain, it lives
by dint of that!
its
only
action, it
needs no cognition.
just as a stone absorbs its shape,
so, too, does the idea of itself.
it is a sphere,
and it can be curved,
and it can have,
when
it
works,
a shape
and a movement
and an attitude
that makes the possibility of itself
so radically powerful
it brings to
life
elements of change
and the possibility
and
the necessity
of
change
while
it exists
on its
its
basic
surface,
its
momentum
here is sufficient
to
blossom
from
the
strands of
what
others
already
behold:
it
does
exist
and
when
it
does
exist,
it does not
taste
of
death!
i
sensually
see
this
and
weird
things
are
when
one
comes
with an idea
to the
cathedral of one's own imagination,
and
strikes its inscription
on the memory-crystal within
your own skull,
there is
no
brain in a safe-deposit box,
this is
what
works.
it
is to be valued
for
the thought that it is.
the
space of such
a
thought
is as vast
as space can be,
and one's
inner-speculative-creative-outer-reflective
self, is
what
makes
it,
and
what
makes it is the
knowledge
that,
simply
because
that is, it can
be, it is,
as
rarely as when
a man is
on a mountain,
steeping in water
in the morning,
dancing with snow-flakes,
head
forward, eyes
cast upward,
be
empty fuel cell like meat hamburger
all the egg
bat inside blood
thyme and mouse meat
tear and lash
light a bar of soap that looks like
tom's corn is yellow
i see this bar of soap, because
it has always looked like Tom's corn.
The source of my life is the color yellow.
It has always been my hair's most
worthwhile source of life
i see everything as a little soap bath
carried from that parking lot
deeply rooted. i see "thieves in the night"
little little 'uns with their tight marie clair tutus
pans in little yantra's ceramic houses,
white canvas bags filled with olive
cars like hollowloli swallows
who fly like the cheap Pippi Longstocking doll
with her hollow legs, pumpkins on her back
she holds open her skirt to show off her bare
turbo jets. she is used in a kind of perverse African
dreamtime story.
smiley mug
into : rub em dry on my nose.
Even though Tom's corn is yellow,
The source of my life is the color yellow
Only the beginning: the form of the public vernacular of looking at the vagina, as described by Anne Fausto-Sterling, is reflected in the illustration from this post. Though the original post has been widely circulated and reblogged, these text-only images and descriptions are the only ones I have seen that include the original. There was a Google Books .
Book sales in the UK between March and October 2009: 40,909
ebook sales from March to October 2009: 2,111
Offline sales in the UK from March to October 2009: 16,696
Offline sales worldwide in 2008: 98,830
Offline sales worldwide in 2007: 40,662
Lets keep in mind that these figures are only for the UK.
Worldwide sales of all ebooks were less than 10,000 in 2008. No reliable numbers are available for sales of ebooks in other countries, including the USA.
A full boxset of Les Miz, including both the 1996 and 1997 film, sold 100,000 copies worldwide in the first month of release.
In 1992, a copy of George Orwell's 1984 sold for £20,000 (or approximately $33,000) in London, making it the most expensive book ever sold. In 2005, a limited edition first printing of the completed first printing of Lord of the Rings sold for approximately $70,000.
In 1974, the Penguin paperback version of The Catcher in the Rye went for £1,500 ($4,300). A copy of Moby Dick sold for £6,600 ($12,400) in London in 1846, the year before it was published.
In 2005, an obscure book was listed on eBay for $12,000. (The book was either the complete works of Marcel Proust, or possibly Shakespeare.) In a Google Books search for the current page on eBay, there are no recent listings, nor does the Google Books search turn up any pages for anything but Dickens and Poe.
A new novel by Seamus Heaney sold for $48,000 ($75,500) in 2007. The following year, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 1997, Canadian novelist Alice Munro's Booker Prize-winning novel is Unaccustomed Earth sold for $17,000 in England. The French translation of this same book, published in 2004, sold for $18,000. The 2012 novel Other Love Songs by Irish novelist Roddy Doyle sold for approximately $24,000 in Ireland. (The translation of this same book, by Janice Galloway, is available from Irish imprint Pitkin Press, for $27.95, or approximately $41.50 in US dollars, depending on currency exchange rates.)
In 1838, an issue of Punch magazine was sold for around £20. (Or approximately $35) in England. The book on which the issue was based was published in 1826, and the rare 16-page illustrated edition was inscribed by William Makepeace Thackeray.
A first edition of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale in an inscribed, hand-painted leather folio sold for $120,000 in 2003.
It is currently difficult to find a first edition of Jane Eyre or The Great Gatsby, but the cases containing the bound and coloured text of these classics can be extremely expensive. Of the 16 first edition first-edition copies that are known to exist in any usable condition, one is owned by the Smithsonian Institute (valued at approximately $27,000) and the other 15 are in private collections. In 1993, a set of 13 bound first editions of Jane Eyre was sold for $320,000.
The Harvard Bookstore sold Jane Eyre with annotations, in a bound folio edition, inscribed by Charlotte Bronte for $9,700 in 2000. A copy of the book was sold for $10,600 in 2004.
An autographed first edition of The Collected Works of the Marquis de Sade sold for approximately $20,000 in 2001, a time when it was believed that there were less than five Sade first editions in private collections.
In May, 2004, one of the very first copies of Elmore Leonard's The Diamond Smugglers, a book on which it is said that "Leonard sold every first printing that was ever made, before any copies even had a dust jacket," was sold for $36,000 at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
In 2006, a copy of Red Badge of Courage by Maxie Rosenbluth, "the most famous book of its kind in the world," which was published in 1926, was sold for $82,000.
"Mr. Rosenbluth apparently sold every copy of his book when it first came out, and he has since sold each of the five known copies of the manuscript for it, except for one. I've heard it said that when it comes to Red Badge, he's still got a complete set. And that's a big thing. For one thing, if that book is worth anywhere near the value that he and his publisher have put on it, he's sitting on a very nice pile of cash," said Alice Blue Taylor, director of Manuscripts at the Beinecke Library.
In April, 2007, a hardcover copy of the first edition of Moby Dick, engraved by Edmond Hamilton and signed by Herman Melville sold for $79,000.
Another edition of Moby Dick by Melville was sold in 2000 for $85,500.
jelly doughnut heads
of think iprincess.
was sent via text to the entire
Irish Orthodox community at once for use
after the member penis enters the lower
innermost right hole, where kino
is momentarily trapped in.
Incense burners of Siberian shamanism are especially dramatic.
The money from this illegal toting-and-gorging is seized.
From Jackson Heights to the Holy Land to Santa Barbara
every dog I met an evangelist on the road.
Each dog brings a message of love, light
or a tarot card with a thought to live
and make love.
The mazuya's new film . his people are
crucified that leads through Mexico
to Yosemite National Park the mating
of a child with a rhinoceros.
There is no end.
Love.
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gargantuan
counterweight of the helmet that's a screen saver.
Look deep into my eyes.
This is a patent.
Venison.
Gregarious bird flop white orbs flash dance
snow gok baba's house a duplex grack.
brea tomdans clothes in the form of drinking ribbons
between two newly designed storks .
all holding hands making his
dance of the little storks.
Robotic Video Aerial
Complexity.
sublime sci am & beamer aerial
camscape front to back form 3d
dragon choppy poo's
globonic particles bouncing every axis
round tritonic segment systems.
fire crab of cobalt norris
lunar pieces.
gun turret of finned aquaculture
Aquapropthotrophic.
delicate oceanic propagator
In beautiful Rees's apple orchard
There's a menagerie of aeromaterials and groups.
To see
my dog bouncing frisking to
the backyard sissel got up.
Peanut escaped from me in slo motion.
Kneeling suddenly flailing
the silence.
Into the brush.
There she is.
Open the clog!
and watch.
In slo motion.
Suddenly I go.
On Christmas,we found a very unusual place,
sat down and fed the dogs.
With the cones pulled off:
peanut begins to work over the hoop
meeting new friends.
"puppies" we're coming out the edge
Drift and self-consistent modeling of frontal cells found in the mammalian brain.
AD's Releasing formulas for tea napoleona
fantastic plus size advertising equestrian teacup
slob-freshy styled.
lotus halo ring of children's cap
divided in two by silicon patch chords.
bottom portion is self-echoing bright animation
defining the "tango
"riddles of iphone gold.
opulent dome
atop cup ceramics of lamons
flexing toke's sweet apple
kinetic life.
soft mouth chocolate tingle tea
captivating, green liquid seed
gazette in the rear of crème brulee, lasagna, omelet,
chicken du with livery hordalanden.
would be cool as a sand dollar on every front!
advertising his apple with a manna
baby
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