The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster.Lose something every day.—Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art." Poetry Foundation. 1979.
Tag: poetry
TEOTWAWKI
living in the doom, catastrophe paranoia of the psychoentirety, a trash fire, landscape lighting florescent, sick room architectures broadcasting dead news to unwitting recipients, dream/nightmare remnants, black anxiegenic chemistries awaiting, reagents and catalysts, parlor epidemiologists and physicians, a confederacy of a billion clowns, narcissists, fascists and a mule turning paranoia into public policy mystics of … Continue reading TEOTWAWKI
How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett | Poetry Foundation
"Be skeptical about all opinions, but try to see some value in each of them."-Ron Padgett, "How to be Perfect." Poetry Foundation. 2013. A collection of life lessons, most are good.
5 ANTI-MANIFESTS — ALIENIST MANIFESTO
...Police-state crematoria...Cyberflesh...Life must be boring before it can be lived...Because language is the most important aspect of death, they taught themselves to amputate in silence...the hallucinated futures of a lunatic...Walt Whitman didn’t kill Che Guevara."5 ANTI-MANIFESTS — ALIENIST MANIFESTO I may not understand the words, but I get your meaning.
The WYSIATI Prison
What you see is all there is, a closed ideology fakelore, a mazeway garden, fruiting failed perspectives and shared paranoias. Quant illusions, analysis is paralysis. Divert and subvert. Launch determines orbit for every apex, when the monkey bells the gorilla they call it jungle justice, a harmless bruising, the shot before the anesthetized heart. But, … Continue reading The WYSIATI Prison
Comment Chains
Man is born free but everywhere is in comment chains, assembly-line production "memes" in social media-ready baggies for your unnourishment, the whole world, a sad maze of thinly disguised press releases. The future is here and everything needs to be destroyed, salt the field, plant your seed in the sucking wound of need, harvest, pack … Continue reading Comment Chains
Best Places to Submit Poetry 2019 – The Adroit Journal
"Publications are listed in order of submission period(s)..." —MeiMei Xu, " Best Places to Submit Poetry 2019." The Adroit Journal. August 21, 2019
New & Old Lands/Water
In the deep, a subterranean cache, drip echoes, hardened magma flows turned rivers, unseeing fish splash, the earth's heart is on fire, blows. Aquifers, filtered-moisture fed flushed, a sucking river vortex pulled, underground caldera bed, formed before the prefrontal cortex. Gardener's vision, compulsive separating out the amoeba shits, from the snail's slime, repulsive, drowning in … Continue reading New & Old Lands/Water
Bringing a Knife to a Fruit Fight
Apple: A good knife wants to cut you.Orange: Huh? Apple. A good knife wants to cut you.Orange. Why would a good wife...Apple. A good *knife* wants to cut you.Orange. Cutlery doesn't cut you.Apple. A sharp knife will slice the off-hand.Orange. Spoons are safer than knives. Use a spoon.Apple. Two-edged blades, split both ways.Orange. Yet, an … Continue reading Bringing a Knife to a Fruit Fight
Semi-Auto Cut-Up: Experimental Condition
Pixels without proverbial provenance, they both knew what they were. Buffet Buddhists, defying cages, tagged for progressive classification. Wonder world, inexpressible problems, all lonely, we live with each other. Chronic complainers, a hundred times a hundred, gloomy mind experiments. The emotional surface of lost futures. Do we know enough to know the truth? Unconscious man … Continue reading Semi-Auto Cut-Up: Experimental Condition
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