December 2011
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"Life on the road: Art Sinsabaugh’s Midwest... →
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Bell St. Blues/Notes from the Neighborhood on...
1) annoyingly well dressed
couple orders fifty dollars
worth of vegan baked goods
“we can’t have dairy”
they say in unison.
2) an old woman
with a frozen pizza
& a diet coke
walking slowly
down 39th street.
3) a black girl jiggling
in spandex, santa hat
and air jordans
that match!
4) feeling less
than excited
as i watch the
owners of the
ice cream shop
hang...
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things to do in kansas city
-sit up suddenly in bed, talk radio still on.
-rub your eyes out, take in the blur for a moment.
-stand up to the sound of a garbage truck.
-get dressed to roar of engines and sirens screaming down 39th street.
-go outside in the cold.
-pick up all the empty beer bottles in your front yard from last night’s bar crowd.
-find some frozen vomit on the sidewalk and kind of like the way it...
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breakfast haiku
1) kettle going now
coffee fresh ground and waiting
in the old french press.
2) notebook on the stove
next to big brown eggs frying
the sun pouring in.
3) oven hot, pan hot, ouch
biscuits go in, the kettle starts
to steam and whistle.
4) coffee, eggs and biscuits
old army sweater and jam
caught in my red beard.
5) one plate, i don’t mind
breakfast alone, it’s the rest
of...
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thoughts this morning (every morning really)
i don’t like and can’t function in this american life. i don’t want to buy what they’re selling and that seems to be all thats happening here, buying and selling. i’ve tried, i’m no young kid, i’ve gone to college, had real jobs, bank accounts, credit cards, even owned a house, but none of that is for me. i’ve been struggling all my life with the...
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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“I produce nothing but words; I consume nothing but food, a little propane, a...”
– Philip Connors, from Fire Season
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Inventory
What I have given to sorrow, though I have poured out all I am again and again, does not amount to much. One winter’s snows. Two loves I could not welcome. A year of mostly silence. Another man I might have been.
Richard Hoffman
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World Shifting, Charles Yu on Murakami's 1Q84 →
Most people can’t, or at least don’t, read a 925-page book in a couple of nights. In fact, if you happen to have any of the following: (i) a television, (ii) access to the Internet, (iii) one or more children, (iv) regular bathing habits, or (v) gainful employment in a job where your responsibilities do not include getting paid to read books, it would probably be difficult to finish a book...
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From "The Way Of Chuang Tzu"
These are the ones we call true men.
Minds free, thoughts gone
Brows clears, faces serene.
Were they cool? Only as cool as autumn.
Were they hot? No hotter than spring.
All that came out of them
Came quiet, like seasons.
translated by Thomas Merton
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