success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm
The woman behind me in the supermarket
nudged my elbow in peevish impatience
and waved her fingers like a whiskbroom at me
– sorry, I was in another world
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Month: April 2020
a poet needs to be as friendly with silence as with words
do you remember mallarme’s homage to the white page? …
nichi nichi kore konichi
the eagle flies on the 1st & the 15th
for me and many other salary-men
that is what makes the 31st such a trial
living hand-to-mouth
…
yin yang polychrome_transparent
i don’t know when
i don’t know why
i barely know how …
The Present: That part or Eternity dividing the Domain of Disappointment from the Realm of Hope
Donald Hall called them
“the Barbarians of the Present”
they, not we, appeared
as if by magic in our,
not their, midst, disrupting all
social norms
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equivocateurish # 24848
IMVHO, o’course …
boo-zwah zen # 24822
meditation/
the act of self-sculpture, like the game ‘statues’
we played as kids – what ridiculous poses
we find ourselves in when we stop suddenly
we fall in love, anyway
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