September 2009
90 posts
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
– The Old Astronomer to His Pupil, Sarah Williams
Tinyfolk - Wandlight
Seamonster - We Didn’t Need To Breathe
Burberry Prorsum S/S 2010 →
“A lonesome song, but it’s someone elses blues
Woods, Ring Me To Sleep
The Lion For Real
But next day he sent me a leaf from his Smoky Mountain retreat ‘I love you little Bo-Bo with your delicate golden lions But there being no Self and No Bars therefore the Zoo of your dear Father hath no lion You said your mother was mad don’t expect me to produce the Monster for your Bridegroom.’
Allen Ginsberg
Breakup Letter, Dramatic Reading →
Birches
I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven,...
Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem
My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers
of my palms tell me so. Never argue with rivers. Never expect your lives to finish at the same time. I think praying, I think clapping is how hands mourn. I think staying up and waiting for paintings to sigh is science. In another dimension this is exactly what’s happening, it’s what they write grants about: the...
For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit… start whenever you want… you can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that stop you. I hope you feel things that you never felt before. I hope you meet...
