Thursday, January 13, 2011

Float Beside Me with a Swan’s Touch of Casual Satisfaction

For the sake of succinctness, what I said in comments yesterday:
Yeah, I saw both. The world is large and shitty enough that Palin can both be a victim of horrible misogynism and Liberal kneejerk reactions AND simultaneously be a loathsome pig.

I've transcended the either/or impulse. Yay me.
I've yet to find joy from my new enhanced-by-double insights. What I seem to see clearer are the formative rules that demand the either/or impulse as lead and leash, remember the lessons I've learned from that philosophy of power's key texts.



Yes I am a lazy motherfucker: there are plenty of folk who'll tumble for you - I link to them below! - to wrestle with the meanings of The Sarah Palin Decade, but I want to again thank KEXP  for making me revisit WFMU: I found that image on a dj's excellent playlist (each song has an mp3 pop-up, yo).

Serendipity is as double-edged as enforced either/ors (or forced metaphors).





ONE NIGHT STAND

Jack Spicer


Listen, you silk-hearted bastard,
I said in the bar last night,
You wear those dream clothes
Like a swan out of water.
Listen, you wool-feathered bastard,
My name, just for the record, is Leda.
I can remember pretending
That your red silk tie is a real heart
That your raw wool suit is real flesh
That you could float beside me with a swan’s touch
Of casual satisfaction.
But not the swan’s blood.
Waking tomorrow, I remember only
Somebody’s feathers and his wrinkled heart
Draped loosely in my bed.


8 comments:

  1. beyond the binaries your loathsome pig detector seems quite adjusted...

    so how do we reject the great institutional binary (left-right bullshit) one and for all then?

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  2. Welcome, michael.

    I have no idea how we reject the binary, though if we can agree to disagree on the goodness/shittiness binary of the band your blog's name alludes to, anything is possible! Heh.

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  3. Link thanks, sir. I swear I had that record player growing up, except in red. Didn't have a Svetlana though.

    Whomever comes up with a workable anti-binary solution could probably crown him/herself philosopher-god. Bonne chance, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.

    Re: fetishization of the recent proceedings, alluded to by many. Apparently, they brought a 9/11 flag to that girl's funeral. Awesome.

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  4. LOL. I'm not a fan of that band. They kinda suck actually. I came up with the blog name all on my own (it is apersonla motif), but i probably had Derrida's book title 'Archive Fever' floating somehwere in my subconscious nightmares...

    I came here by way of the mighty Jack Crow's linkage. Great blogging here I must say.

    I hope you'll drop by my place sometime and weigh-in.

    Cheers-

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  5. @Randal

    funeral protesters should be flayed with bundles of shredded iron sheets, and then made to get grade 12 diplomas in a non-southern state.

    you wanna talk about gun laws, they are fucking lucky that they aren't protesting my kid's memorial, it'd be like a Rambo movie up in there.

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  6. "LOL. I'm not a fan of that band. They kinda suck actually."

    Yay! It's love!

    I use my blogrolls as my bookmarks and you've been tagged. It'll remind me to come visit.

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  7. I think what Sarah meant to say was that 'pundints' and journalists shouldn't use a "surveyor's" libel against her.

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