June 2012
8 posts
WHY GO OUT?
The secret lesson of his charades class is: if you’re not good at being a charades player, maybe it’s actually because you’re not entirely good at being a person. This is called being tortured with fun.
Yes. I’ve come to the conclusion that what my friend is trying to do is organize events that capture and crystallize and reproduce the effects of ordinary socializing – which is not quite about...
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DOWNHEARTED
lunchboxpoems:
Six horses died in a tractor-trailer fire. There. That’s the hard part. I wanted to tell you straight away so we could grieve together. So many sad things, that’s just one on a long recent list that loops and elongates in the chest, in the diaphragm, in the alveoli. What is it they say, heart-sick or downhearted? I picture a heart lying down on the floor of the torso, pulling up...
EVERY BEGINNING WANTS A GOOD PLACE TO START
According to laws of ownership, you’re homeless. According to virology you’re hunted, sore-throated, snotty. By psychology you’re understood and spun out, an iced tire. In fashion you’re an adopter, a crofter, a little black smock of sleep.
Notice how roofs lift their houses into reason, their stories into debt. How leather walks years after the first bloody cut and shoes say something...
