Wednesday, September 7, 2011

One Morning after a Storm.... So Poetry Configures Its Comparisons

I time-stamped the second I read about what I thought would be the next big media shitstorm - I though, think how happy the suits at Fox and CNN will be - because, regardless of any facts released since or in the future, everyone (including you, me) would hysterically and luxuriously default to his or her current moral/political zeitgeist's interpretation reflexively, in my case the arch self-congratulatory and self-deprecating self-rebuking of a recent apostate.






As of seven this morning, it's buried on the Post's front webpage, doesn't appear at all on the NYT's front webpage, and none of the mouth-breathers at the Corner have started woofing, so maybe I'm wrong about everyone but me. On the other hand, I was going to write more about Maryland's uniform in general and my willfully incoherent aesthetic of uniforms in lengthy particular (plus more Harkin v Obama nonsense), so lucky you, consider yourself spared. Look! I did it again!










Julianna Barwick & Ikue Mori - Rejoinder from RVNG Intl. on Vimeo.




HOW SIMILE WORKS

Albert Goldbarth

The drizzle-slicked cobblestone alleys 
of some city; 
                      and the brickwork back 
of the lumbering Galapagos tortoise 
they'd set me astride, at the "petting zoo"....

The taste of our squabble still in my mouth 
the next day; 
                      and the brackish puddles sectioning 
the street one morning after a storm....

So poetry configures its comparisons. 

My wife and I have been arguing; now 
I'm telling her a childhood reminiscence, 
stroking her back, her naked back that was 
the particles in the heart of a star and will be 
again, and is hers, and is like nothing 
else, and is like the components of everything.




Julianna Barwick & Ikue Mori - Dream Sequence from RVNG Intl. on Vimeo.

9 comments:

  1. Is there anything wrong with the term, "Opologists"?

    It's short, to the point, and pisses them off.
    ~

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  2. Nothing wrong at all. My fingers have been typing obamapologist for two years is all as the fraternal twin of obamapostate.

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  3. P.S. Has it been raining in D.C. as much as it has here? (Here = Berkeley Springs, W.V.)

    Solid rain (even extremely heavy rain) since Saturday evening, except for a brief patch Monday A.M.
    ~

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  4. Yup, though not as much as the bobryans predicted.

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  5. If throwball existed in the late middle ages, that's what the uniforms would look like.

    Bullet sprees are so passe.

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  6. for what it's worth, I like the new MD unis too... but then I like the flag (I think it's the only state flag with any character whatsoever); others seem not to

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  7. I'll pay attention to the Booker when it pays attention to you.

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  8. Safe bet for many reasons, most pertaining to I figured out I'm a bad poet not a bad novelist, but most crucially, I'm not a British citizen or a citizen of a Commonwealth country.

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  9. Well, fuck the fuck out of those fucking imperialist fuckers.

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