Monthly Archives: December 2022

i yearned to

Posted on December 11, 2022 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first … Continue reading →

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please do not

Posted on December 10, 2022 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: “… I became an artist—to find a mode of survival.” —Louise Bourgeois / A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts

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nothing to grasp

Posted on December 9, 2022 by istsfor manity

•im talking to you from the skronk domain• where channel interferencesoverlay on the overlayersmultiple frequencies banding into onestatic ///// white noise ///// skronkyou understand nothingimpermanence === transiencenothing to ••••••••••••nothing to graspbut skronktectonics• What I’m Reading: “… ‘In a society of … Continue reading →

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in my neighborhood pt. 20

Posted on December 8, 2022 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: “At the heart of every creation is a need to connect, even if it is to connect to no one in silent defiance or a curious desperation. The inner world is even more immense than the measured … Continue reading →

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gelid & jealous

Posted on December 7, 2022 by istsfor manity

the moon jejune? rough are the exteriorsits seams are where the dreams get inthe interiors full of barbsprotecting the sweet potato redsoft monsters jelly delightsbright as the blistering moon the moon jejune? pellucid gelid & jealousof the first ray the … Continue reading →

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she was free

Posted on December 6, 2022 by istsfor manity

Magic the Toilet Seat When it came down to writing, it came to the toilet seat. She had no idea why, but images, concepts, lyrical passages flowed in torrents through her. What magic the toilet seat? It didn’t happen on … Continue reading →

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what it meant

Posted on December 5, 2022 by istsfor manity

The Contractive Subtractive (redux) There were erasures to make. He made the erasures. There were no complaints. The work was done. He moved on. When more erasures were required, he made those; and in this manner his work was accomplished, … Continue reading →

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read a lot

Posted on December 4, 2022 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “We are not apparent in the cultural streams that establish and define American thought, art, and culture. We are not present at the table, though we appear perpetually at the table every Thanksgiving … Continue reading →

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in my neighborhood pt. 19a

Posted on December 3, 2022 by istsfor manity

Perhaps … not a fan of the New Deal? What I’m Reading: “Man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.” — Michel Foucault / The Order of Things

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this is this

Posted on December 2, 2022 by istsfor manity

Apologia Sine Qua…Compos Mentis in Capitalist Perdition There’s an app for that — it tells me I once lost a corgi and I’ve now lost a fire extinguisher. Then, there’s an app for that — which tells me to fall … Continue reading →

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