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. 

—duchamp

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.