Why isn’t the brain green? It’s a pretty
simple matter of
A few people are likely to laugh
at a textual joke
Dollars look like play money
They weren’t there before I fell asleep
resting my eyes really
What dead poet
would you like as a roommate? (“The Jew
in me is the ghost of me,” began one stanza in The Golem Wheel)
ka! ka! ka!
screech of all
life’s hungry babies
I floated into that weirdness the kitchen with butter and
gold I realized I still had 40 years or so
tho I’d be dead for half of them in which
to master a darkness of disintermediated onto-
That’s pronounced ontoe
The girl in me is a country of rope
It's so strange to type in a room with other people
[Note: Sources: More of my Google Reader, and some of the Reader’s suggestions. Jon Gertner, “Why Isn’t the Brain Green?”, at NY Times Magazine, 16 Apr 09; Graham Harman, “on lecture sites”, at Object-Oriented Philosophy, 22 Apr 010; Graham Harman, “Georgia Tech”, at Object-Oriented Philosophy, 22 Apr 010; Ivy Alvarez, “21st of April (“She does as she pleases)”, at Ivy is here, 21 Apr 010; Richard Lopez, “assholes and just plain holes”, at Really Bad Movies, 21 Apr 010; Jerome Rothenberg, and David Meltzer, “Hero/Lil”, in Rothenberg’s “For David Meltzer, a Pre-Face”, at Poems and Poetics, 21 Apr 010; Rebecca Loudon, “This True Thursday”, at Radish King, 22 Apr 010; V., comment appended to Rebecca Loudon, “I hate hospitals …”, at Radish King, 21 Apr 010; Ben Woodard, “Dark Vitalism 2/10 – Unpredictable Nature)”, at Naught Thought, 21 Mar 010; webinar put on by Ithaka, 20 Apr 010; Eileen Tabios, “Welcome … to … You”, at Babaylan Poetics, 21 Apr 010; Suzanne Frischkorn, “How public, like a frog”, at litwindowpane, 21 Apr 010]