February 2009
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RAINDAY ON SUNDAY
the rain is sideways in the wind & under umbrellas. i am drenched in fatigue. california needs the water & i need the rest. today i read camus’ l’étranger cover to cover in the space of two hours (au café, part i; sur le lit, part ii) like a feature film, & fell soon after into a deep, dreamless sleep.
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CREATING A GOOD BLOG IS LIKE WRITING A GOOD BOOK...
Creating a good blog is like hiding your treasure under piles of new treasure. Creating a bad blog is like burying your trash under piles of new trash.
I try to walk a fine line around here.
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A MINOR ECLIPSE OF LESS RENOWN
loosely defined, an eclipse is the obscuring of a light source (or its resulting shadow) relative to an observer at point 2 or 3 in a 1-2-3 sequence, where the source of light is point 1. the moon, the sun & the earth make headlines.
commercial jetplanes dice through the upper troposphere. wide-eyed heads rest against the circular windows, spiced w/just a little frost. below, the wave...
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FEVER MATH No. 5
these two phrases have an identical letter progression:
A.C. curates our cemetery awnings
Accurate source meter yawnings
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MY LIFE ASPIRATIONS, AGE 5 TO 28
AGE & ASPIRATION 05 cheetah 06 puma 07 astronaut 08 astronaut 09 paleontologist 10 paleontologist 11 paleontologist 12 construction worker 13 cartoonist 14 skateboarder 15 skateboarder 16 skateboarder 17 poet 18 poet 19 hobo musician 20 travel writer 21 ...
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WINTER RAIN$
i found a twenty dollar bill in the street last week (which i promptly spent on fine coffee for friends & lovers). do the top floors of the tallest buildings seed the clouds around here w/cash money or what?
fortunecookie fortune: poor souls w/rich hearts & open eyes find more of life’s prizes.
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EQUALITY IN SOCIETY
looking down from the window by my kitchen sink, you can see below into several floors of kitchens & living rooms of tenants in another apartment building across a courtyard. late one night i was at the tap drinking a glass of water when i happened to notice a large mouse scurrying to & fro on some sorry bastard’s tile. i called my girlfriend into the room to witness the funny...
