February 2012
7 posts
i'm so sorry. i like Lana del Rey.
Identification
by Wislawa Szymborska
It’s good you came—she says.
You heard a plane crashed on Thursday?
Well so they came to see me
about it.
The story is he was on the passenger list.
So what, he might have changed his mind.
They gave me some pills so I wouldn’t fall apart.
Then they showed me I don’t know who.
All black, burned except one hand.
A scrap of shirt, a watch, a wedding ring.
I got furious, that...
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by Wislawa Szymborska(excerpt)
Let me have your abyss.
I’ll cushion it with sleep.
You’ll thank me for giving you
four paws to fall on.
(trans. S Baranczak & C Cavanagh)
January 2012
31 posts
Janet Howell, Virginia State Senator, Attaches... →
To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.
Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions
by Anne Carson
It’s good to be neuter.
I want to have meaningless legs.
There are things unbearable.
One can evade them a long time.
Then you die.
The ocean reminds me
of your green room.
There are things unbearable.
Scorn, princes, this little size
of dying.
My personal poetry is a failure.
I do not want to be a person.
I want to be unbearable.
Lover to lover, the greenness of love.
Cool,...
My World Is Not Real Enough for Apocalypse →
The Star-Die Above the Fountain: When Celan Met... →
(ps:msodradek)
Stop SOPA: the Stop Online Piracy Act →
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Miss Rosie
by Lucille Clifton
when I watch you
wrapped up like garbage
sitting, surrounded by the smell
of too old potato peels
or
when I watch you
in your old man's shoes
with the little toe cut out
sitting, waiting for your mind
like next week's grocery
I say
when I watch you
you wet brown bag of a woman
who used to be the best looking gal in Georgia
used to be called the Georgia Rose
I stand...
WatchDara Greenwald, Bouncing In the Corner #36 DDD
Dancing with Dara: Art, anarchism and the death of... →
WatchThis video documents some of the actions of the Pink Bloque, a Chicago-based feminist street dance troupe founded in early 2002 in response to the depressing atmosphere of leftist activism in post-911 America. The Pink Bloque is committed to shaking their asses in public places against all kinds of haters. (video assembled by Dara Greenwald and Blithe Riley, &c.)
Bibio, Sugarette (Wax Stag remix)
Lemon Jelly, Ramblin’ Man
Remembering Dara Greenwald, Artist and Activist |... →
so glad to have known you, dara. hope that the love streaming from every corner reaches you, gives you both all the strength you need.
Little Dragon, Twice
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone’s orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
— Anne Carson, Decreation
Short Talk on Hedonism
by Anne Carson
Beauty makes me hopeless. I don't care
why anymore I just want to get away.
When I look at the city of Paris I long
to wrap my legs around it. When I
watch you dancing there is a heartless
immensity like a sailor in a dead calm
sea. Desires as round as peaches
bloom in me all night, I no longer
gather what falls.
Short Talk On Shelter
by Anne Carson
You can write on a wall with a fish
heart, it’s because of the phosphorous.
They eat it. There are shacks like that
down along the river. I am writing this
to be as a wrong as possible to you.
Replace the door when you leave, it
says. Now you tell me how wrong that
is, how long it glows. Tell me.
In Which We Choose Our Mentors Carefully
Dear A, The manuscript is finished, sealed and sent. Am I bereft? I think so. The inbetween is a longlong night at sea. Looking to you. With affection, H Dear H, The manuscript is in progress. Am I adrift? I think so. Horizon as far as you can see. In any case, certainly rocks instead of lighthouse. Regarding the sea: Try not to worry. It carves the earth, yes. But its...
December 2011
16 posts
Ween, Push th’ Little Daisies.
“You have got to be irritating and desperate, and if you are not it is terribly...”
– Carey Mulligan (bcs)
WatchSandra Bernhard, Little Red Corvette (from Without You I’m Nothing)
Crystal Castles & Health, Crimewave.
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This sentence is meaningless because it is...
It is very interesting that nothing inside in them, that is when you consider the very long history of how every one ever acted or has felt, it is very interesting that nothing inside in them in all of them makes it connectedly different… The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything. This makes the thing...