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All that and the other stuff goes here… “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” — Toni Morrison / Nobel Prize Lecture

erasure poem #1321 freedom, of course, is meaningless, so worthless that no one except you cares whether you are free others fail to care why not gag? *** The Left Hand of Darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) I … Continue reading →

Edenic Memories During Jailhouse Enemas 1. His mother and father died when he was 15, and his first super-8 film was of chalk drawings in darkened spaces: where he imagines the poses and places where his people died. 2. On … Continue reading →

New Year’s Dissolutions: January 1. The aphelion of milk is me at 4:33 a.m. on January 1st. February 2. Soliloquies and obloquies in trance and dance at noon on Presidents’ Day. March 3. The recalcitrance of hair in the alimentary … Continue reading →

A Pandemic Year in Books, (Pt. 4)  A year in books. A pandemic year in reading. I suppose that at a certain point this past year — during the second month of the COVID-19 lockdown here in Massachusetts — I … Continue reading →

 A Pandemic Year in Books, Pt. 3 A year in books. A pandemic year in reading. Above you see the the tsundoku pile that lived atop my nightstand for most of this year, and in the photo below: the bottom … Continue reading →

A Pandemic Year in Books, Pt. 2 A year in books. A pandemic year in reading. The goal was to read 100 books this year. The other objective was to shrink my tsundoku pile by 25 books. Tsundoku is a … Continue reading →

A Pandemic Year in Books Were you like me this year? At a certain point of the year you knew, that if you didn’t become infected and sick — or worse (you know the score) — you’d end up reading a lot … Continue reading →

You Are an Exquisite Corpse transmogrifying and growing appendages never intended. Your exquisite corpse cycles through different heads as your whim catches. Your octopus head globular and gentle. Your paramecium body dizzy and cilial. Your surgical instrument arms sharp and … Continue reading →

venture to guess X number less of our fellow human beings not that it ever did but life seems especially meaningless chaotic when surveyed from the tail end of a year such as this sharp loss seasoned with terror at … Continue reading →