Month: November 2009
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living with the wound from a stray shot
ufo – foto by Smith Here are the news headlines I did not post yesterday because they were too depressing, so of course I’m posting them today when they’re no less depressing. Time Magazine has called these past 10 years (2000-2009) the worst decade ever, mainly because how badly George W. Bush and Dick Cheney […]
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As Our Brains Shrink
lov rat – foto by Smith I’ve harvested too many heavy headlines from the news these past two weeks and a bad chunk of them are grim sad mean and downright perverted. I’ve had enough of gritty nitty reality, so here are some of the lighter lines, leaving the larger darker horrors on the cutting […]
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man who chews with broken tooth
$100 worth – foto by Smith Having a tooth pulled at 8:30 in the morning is not the way I’d choose to start my day. I’m sick of the taste of swallowed blood. That and my love of garlic shows I would make a darn poor vampire – besides, I’ve been to enough parties with […]
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NOISE NOISE NOISE, SALT SALT SALT
Sometimes I deliberately leave the poetry scene, I deliberately don’t create art or write because it can just be too overwhelming and come at the expense of the necessities of life. The aftermath of Yuyu’s leaving is like a perfumy vaccuum of curry evacuated out the space hatch. I feel happy, rich with community and […]
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Solving Problems with Art
Solving Problems with Art
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the toothless fairy
dropped our house guess off this morn – foto by Smith Got too tired to keep myself together and broke yesterday. Three days of cleaning for our first stay-over guest followed by nine days daze of energy output, people overload, insufficient sleep and absolutely no downtime recovery time made me so unfocused I could no […]
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FOOD OF THE GODS
Somewhere in the middle of yesterday I stepped in dog poo in my parents’ yard, a real big patty that got both shoes. It was like, a veritable cow patty pile of poo. I was so afraid Yuyu would see them and get grossed out. I’d heard about people from India having a kind of real distaste for anything to do with shoes because of dirt, and especially people of his heritage (Brahmans). I set the shoes aside to clean discretely before we left, and forgot about them…
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blueberry wine
wonder stuff happy bargains delightful doodads neat grabs – foto by Smith Was going to blog my latest harvest of headlines from the daily news, but that seemed an awfully heartless and curmudgeonish way to start Thanksgiving Day. So I’ll repost my funny philosophical food poem instead. I was 19 when I wrote it, and […]
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OPENING A WINDOW INTO THE WALLPAPER PATTERN AND PEERING INTO A GALAXY
This cultural exchange is different from our experience living in other countries. It is a kind of intensity, living with someone from another culture. When I lived in other countries, it was like a movie, like a chinois wallpaper pattern, a dense incomprehensible strangeness. But having this immediate access to Yuyu is like opening a […]
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poetry people plethora
mid north dining room wall – foto by Smith If aliens hadn’t stolen my brain years ago, my mind right now would be awash in people, poetry, egos, ids, needs, heeds, feeds, and fatigues. It’s a shame the aliens did take my brain because I’d hardly ever used it and was thinking of selling it […]