Wednesday, September 5, 2018

national anthem hearer

  • The Bannon/New Yorker story is dead where I read - I expect it still dominates places I'd expect - and the Kaepernick/Nike story is dead where I read - I expect it still dominates the places I'd expect.
  • Only the K/N story interests me.
  • I have no idea if Kaepernick is a good quarterback though I follow the story because Fuck Helmetball and I've read enough he'd have a job but and have !all! faith the reason he's unemployed is exactly the same reason everyone knows he's unemployed.
  • Nike using Kaepernick (and Kaepernick taking the money) to capitalize on "resistance" strikes me as a brilliant business decision by a company that makes billions on sweatshop labor, 
  • a metaphor abounding without Motherfucking Helmetball, a fine metaphor abounding with.





  • I ask myself the xth time, why don't I love Spoon, I should love Spoon, everyone who knows me and loves Spoon doesn't get me either.
  • Typed at 2020 EDT 9/4/18: just saw tweet - some dumb patriotic racist lit his Nikes on fire while still wearing them, dumb patriotic racist now in hospital with 3rd degree burns, and it gave me no motherfucking joy for whatever that's worth even after he tweeted out photos of his burns pretending he meant to do it.
  • Belabor Day Is 20/20.
  • Grotesques.
  • On Ashbery one year after his death. 
  • Ashbery isn't difficult unless you insist it be.
  • Freddy Mercury, born 72 years ago today, I've been nattering to myself about hagiography lately (more songs click Queen tag).





BEAUTIFUL HABIT

Tom Raworth

greetings
as the door opened
ticking
              
please listen to this
food alone for all
the f.b.i. will continue
              
maybe you dozed off
i hung by that phone all night
suppose he talks
             
*
          
vida
 
later
 
aria
            
*
            
once upon a time
not looking for any thing
            
*
                
you’re on
your own
it’s off
it’s on
             
*
        
perhaps it means
ragged like that
golda my-yeer
         pre-meer
             
*
             
and pour the old box
down a drain
           
*
            
too  much news
said the news
             
*
           
r e  o l e
          
*
           
it’s us
or rust
listener
           
*
            
deep
 
personal
 
regret
 
looking
 
up
 
monday
              
*
             
we can save
your head or your body
we can shave
           
*
          
even
his admission
is
a subtle lie
             
*
             
in suspense
what is cut into
the smallest of the
           
*
               
grinding
 
to fill
 
a prescription
 
*
            
drum to the wobble and a roll on the sea
come to mind an article of light
distance through distance unfinished
               
*
              
piano
            
*
              
willing to believe
           
*
           
national
 
anthem
 
hearer
              
*
             
perfect rhyme to some
 
all cars
 
kept in doors
           
*
            
sophisticated
newsmen
show how
it could have been
           
*
          
retreat
from the swiss
legation
           
*
           
numbers
for an event
 
*
                
corruption
why not?
 
*
          
infinite
 
detail
 
is no more real
           
*
           
thought
 
             against
 
                          power
           
*
               
answer
 
 
it
              
*
        
hooked
to just another
piece of tape
hooked
to just one more
little piece of tape
            
*
              
through words in to
no
record
             
 
*
                
writer
 
righter
 
riter
          
*
                   
am:
              
i
                 
on replay?
               
*
              
all you
do is
expand
the system
              
*
               
a polaroid
of la
with the wrong
voice print
        
*
    
astronaut
amazed
at what
was expected

2 comments:

  1. ... is dead where I read

    i read here, inter alia - where do you read?

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  2. Speaking of brilliant business decisions check out just how much money Obama is making as a reward for his mass murder spree:

    https://www.gobankingrates.com/net-worth/politicians/barack-obama-net-worth/

    Poor helpless Obama. And to think the Republicans forced him to do it.

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