Pulaski Skyway World

There's commute to it. The Cashmere Pulaski Skyway.

Nada observation

Geneva is like a low-pressure water fountain.

Girl's night out

Tooker

Angle of Yaw - Ben Lerner

HE HAD ENOUGH RESPECT FOR PAINTING to quit. Enough respect for quitting to paint.

Enough respect for the figure to abstract. For abstraction to hint at the breast. For the breast to

ask the model to leave. But I live here, says the model. And I respect that, says the painter. But

I have enough respect for respect to insist. For insistence to turn the other cheek. For the other

cheek to turn the other cheek. Hence I appear to be shaking my head No.

Anecdote of the Jar - Wallace Stevens

I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion every where.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.

KL

Free 2 Play

Everyone Wins

A Game of Skill

Groucho Marx on the ability to bang mad chicks

Whatever it is, I'm against it!

Dogs, Foreign Cars

Dogs, foreign cars,
the bourgeoisie, electronic boxes.
Don't listen to me, go ask your mother --
the appeals court.
Look, I should never have let her give you
no pulp orange juice --
women's lib.
What are you doing,
go comb your hair, your hurting me.
Please call your mother.
Go on.
For her, not for me.

Opposition - Mitsuharu Kaneko

In my youth
I was opposed to school.
And now, again,
I'm opposed to work.

Above all it is health
And righteousness that I hate the most.
There's nothing so cruel to man
As fitness and truth.

Of course I'm opposed to "the national spirit"
And duty and human feeling make me vomit.
I'm against any government anywhere
And show my ass to authors' and artists' circles.

When I'm asked for what I was born,
Without scruple, I'll reply, to oppose.
When I'm in the east
I want to go to the west.

I fasten my coat at the left, my shoes right and left.
My hakama I wear back to front and I ride a horse facing its behind.
What everyone else hates I like
And my greatest hate of all is people feeling the same.

This I believe: to oppose
Is the only fine thing in life.
To oppose is to live.
To oppose is to get a grip on the very self.



Except when Marvin sings it.

Common Nouns and Their Plural Forms - H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N

house....houses
dog....dogies
library....Public library
cat....Katz


(The Education of Hyman Kaplan, Leonard Q. Ross)

This Is Bad - Gottfried Benn, Translated by Harvey Shapiro

Someone hands you an English thriller,

highly recommended.

You don't read English.

You've worked up a thirst

for something you can't afford.

You have deep insights,

brand new, and they sound

like an academic glossing Holderlin.

You hear the waves at night

ramping against the shore

and you think: that's what waves do.

Worse: you're asked out

when at home you get better coffee,

silence, and you don't expect to be amused.

Awful: not to die in summer

under a bright sky

when the rich dirt

falls easily from the shovel.

I think I don't like poems about nature

Construct

device

werk out.
I just come here for the material. 

Three Laments - Diane DiPrima

I

Alas

I believe

I might have become

a great writer

but

the chairs

in the library

were too hard

II

I have

the upper hand

but if I keep it

I'll lose the circulation

in one arm

III

So here I am the coolest in New York

what dont swing I dont push.

In some Elysian field

by a big tree

I chew my pride

like cud.

Motto - Langston Hughes

I play it cool
And dig all jive-
That's the reason
I stay alive.

My motto,
As I live and learn
Is
Dig and be dug
In return.