Just a poem this week; only this. We need only this.
Supernatural Love
My father at the dictionary-stand
Touches the page to fully understand
The lamplit answer, tilting in his hand
His slowly scanning magnifying lens,
A blurry, glistening circle he suspends
Above the word “Carnation”. Then he bends
So near his eyes are magnified and blurred,
One finger on the miniature word,
As if [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 27, 2009
That’s All There Is.
July 21, 2009
Post-Things
Ack! I can’t get my phone off speaker phone! I just had an entire conversation with Adam on speaker phone. I can’t handle this, truly. I laid the phone down on the counter, and shrieked at it like a 90 year-old Amazonian shaman who’d never seen a light bulb before. I don’t know how we made [...]
July 13, 2009
Artistes, Or: This Blog Feels Kinda Stuck-Up
The amount of people who happen upon this blog because they’re performing an image search for Garfield the Cat is mindblowing. My mind lands across the room every time I see new evidence of this trend. It goes flying.
He’s a lovable rascal, that Garfield. There’s no blame here.
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I finally visited the Art Institute’s Modern Wing last [...]
July 6, 2009
It Was Glorious And It Was The Fourth
Thoughts and feelings at my home in regards to the bleeding-eyeball-decibel-level fireworks going off all ’round us on the Fourth of July:
Did someone just blow up a dump truck?
Did someone stick a gasoline-soaked dishtowel into a Coca-Cola bottle, light it on fire, and throw a Molotov cocktail into the backyard?
Was that an elephant? That was an elephant. They shot [...]
