Author: admindavid

one of my imaginary internet friends, Jenn Zed . . . this seems to me an excellent book cover, for … Continue ReadingNothing is Real – Jenn Zed

I first met Jane Hirshfield about fifteen years ago, after one of her readings in San Francisco. She reads her … Continue ReadingJane Hirshfield – O M G

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. That’s the cliché anyway. And, of course, it’s cliché for a reason — a hard-wired, psychological reason known as scarcity.
“The principle of scarcity indicates that people want more of what they can have less of,” said Robert Cialdini, Regents’ professor emeritus of psychology at Arizona State University and author of “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.”
“Things that are rare, scarce, dwindling in availability become more attractive as a consequence of perceived value,” he said. … Continue Reading >write less often — NYTIMES

so many things today ire us & tire us
earthquakes, wars, and now the coronavirus
we fear the world will come to a sorry end
recorded only on papyrus
… Continue Reading >what will we have seen with 2020 hindsight?

Nomads on the boulevard
can overhear us
shuffling by our coffee klatsch
we stink to them, too
… Continue Reading >One should not assume that the silent forbearance of his acquaintance admits-to his rectitude

self-adulation seams to be
the same think
coming, good and hard,
a tiny con-
vulsion followed by
a large re-
pity
for the same
self
… Continue Reading >and the first one now will later be last

If the book sounds maddening, it often is. It seems frustrated with itself: “oh that’s just more words,” Notley writes; “how tedious, this!” The tedium might enhance the really enthralling parts — like reading a religious text, I thought, then read the line, “Let’s call this grey stuff light.” There is joy throughout the book, in Notleyish lines like “Stars look like the word stars, / really do … and sparkle is better as its word.” I love that — an image that’s purely linguistic. But this book also annoys me deeply. … Continue Reading >In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration

is not Trump
the most inventive
alternative trier
ever?
even if each
attempt is
baldly
self-interested?
he is the ultimate American, not the anti-thesisL
Now we have a prez who acts in america like America acts in the world
… Continue Reading >DIS

i was just playin, i already used another from this series of photos of DEM as Kafka in Prague by … Continue Readinglucky-0015_dem as kafka_mashup_impressionism – potential book cover

max-nix-linear-a, max-nix-linear-b … Continue Reading >end papers for max nix