And you have to have fun. My housemate is being fussy with me today because I am talking to the dogs in Spanish about how my father fought in the clone wars. Sometimes I am ridiculous, but sometimes he is joyless.
Richard again
I’m not sure if I want to be an uncle, or an advice columnist, or a search engine.
Richard Siken
WELCOME TO ROOM 005
BUSTED SPEAKERS, BROKEN HEARTS
Someone else said “I’d go to war for Richard Siken” and for whatever reason, I replied “We are not going to war, we are going to the club. Put on your good shoes.”
Richard again again
America means having your heart broken by your heart
Working at Walmart again
You remember the good old days of algebra. Such a great word, algebra. Got a hint of sex and mystery to it. Also adolescent confusion. Anger. Great Balls of Ire. Wait, what were we talking about?
INFORMATION / MISSION / SECESSION / DETERIORATION / LEGATION
Like a wind up doll. Or Graham Norton on crack. A constantly chatting redhead. She would not stop talking
WOMEN.
On a Chinatown rooftop in New York anything can happen. someone says “abattoir” is such a pretty word for “Slaughterhouse.” Someone says mermaids are just fish ladies. I am so fucking vain I cannot believe anyone is threatened by me. In New York not everyone is forgiven.
New York Poem
Suppose you were nothing but a song in a busted speaker?
The Blue Terrance
New York isn’t set in amber.
Ralph Lauren
In order to negotiate a paradox, to understand it, you have to assign a new value to one of the variables, of course.
Interview with said former poetry teacher
When the images of earth cling too tightly to memory, when the call of happiness becomes too insistent, it happens that melancholy arises in man’s heart: this is the rock’s victory, this is the rock itself.
One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy or Whatever
When I need you to hurt, I’ll put you to sleep as a god puts you to sleep
To Be a God
Every word was once a poem.
Emerson
IT’S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER THAT WE’RE NOT BEARING WITNESS, WE’RE WATCHING—which I will attempt to explain, but first I must find my smartphone.
Cortney Lamar Charleston
The checkout girls don't give it up so easy anymore.
Working at Walmart
And conveniently we are (nearly) all online, alone, and free tonight.
Diagram
Why am I not allowed delight?
Give me this
That’s how I think of New York. Someone jonesing for grace jones at the party, and someone jonesing for grace.
New York Poem (again)
I love the word No for its prudence, but I love the romantic who submits finally to sex in a burning row-house more. That’s why nothing’s more romantic than working your teeth through the muscle. Nothing’s more romantic than the way good love can take leave of you.
The Blue Terrance (again)
All trees are oak trees except for pine trees.
Email from my former poetry teacher
And you’ll be there. And I’ll know your name as a god knows your name.
To Be a God (again)
For me, the possibility that’s most spiritually relevant is that our messiah might be a god that returns to save us by not returning at all, that in not liberating us, he empowers us to liberate ourselves.
Musings on Messiah
The ‘groupie’ signals the agility of sexism, as the term can now be understood as more of a generational designation rather than a medium-specific one.
Fangirl Google Scholar
