Tuesday, March 8, 2016

I Had the Happy Idea to Call Myself Happy



  • Yes, I posted (happy) news of Planet then pulled it down because bastards, posted a mood then pulled it down because the mood passed, posted the backside of the above, which is the front side too. The new tablet, a Leuchtturm 1917, washes superlatively. Doesn't PDF as clear as the moleskins or boorum & pease, but washes superlatively.
  • So there's tablet rule writing and bleggalgazing, so I'm happy.
  • Every living thing is a target.
  • The faux feminism of Hillary Clinton.
  • Washington Post hates Bernie Sanders.
  • Motherfucking Obama.
  • It is not my job to give a critique of Pere Ubu.
  • A state that is not possessive.
  • tender seven.
  • #464.
  • In Vollmann's Europe Central v Wallace's Infinite Jest, Vollmann is winning.
  • I drive on this road every day I'm at work.
  • Westerberg and the I Don't Cares.
  • Guess who started playing on the iPod shuffle last night as I was falling asleep.









HAPPY IDEAS

Mary Szybist

I had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel
to a kitchen stool and watch it turn. 

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I had the happy idea to suspend some blue globes in the air

and watch them pop.

I had the happy idea to put my little copper horse on the shelf so we could stare at each other
all evening.

I had the happy idea to create a void in myself.

Then to call it natural.

Then to call it supernatural.

I had the happy idea to wrap a blue scarf around my head and spin.

I had the happy idea that somewhere a child was being born who was nothing like Helen or
Jesus except in the sense of changing everything.

I had the happy idea that someday I would find both pleasure and punishment, that I would
know them and feel them,

and that, until I did, it would be almost as good to pretend.

I had the happy idea to call myself happy.

I had the happy idea that the dog digging a hole in the yard in the twilight had his nose deep in
mold-life.

I had the happy idea that what I do not understand is more real than what I do,

and then the happier idea to buckle myself

into two blue velvet shoes.

I had the happy idea to polish the reflecting glass and say

hello to my own blue soul. Hello, blue soul. Hello.


It was my happiest idea.




4 comments:

  1. a hillary haiku posted at the "faux feminism" article you pointed to

    a disrespectful
    sobriquet one sometimes sees -
    "killary" klinton

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    1. Apparently they make black dot too.

      I feel like I'm cheating on my wife Moleskine and my wife Boorum & Pease. Haven't changed my brands of pen yet, preserving some small honor.

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    2. Gotta look for some new pens. Bought the girlfriend some really good japanese ones last year, but haven't seen her use them lately. I will have something for your collection one of these days. After tax season.

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