My batchelor party was Hamster, Landru, and me watching the Orioles lose 8-5 to the Texas Rangers from the rightfield upper deck bleachers at Memorial, here is the box score: I had recent cause to think of my baseball divorce twenty-seven years ago. Bloggiest Days of Summer ever, not just me, look at the blogrolls. Tried typing this on the least sucky notetaking app I've found, sosuckful, it, it wouldn't eat its password, I'm lazy and have cats galore, new password easy but fuck that, the fonts suck too. Maine, covid Maine, I'm pretty sure it happened and I think it was 2023, spacy as planned but not the funspacy planned, I've photos timestamped I was there. Stegblats? Decked in chays? I'm a loner, Dotty, a rebel
BY GUESS AND BY GOSH
John Ashbery
O awaken with me
the inquiring goodbyes.
Ooh what a messy business
a tangle and a muddle
(and made it seem quite interesting).
He ticks them off:
leisure top,
a different ride home,
whispering, in a way,
whispered whiskers,
so many of the things you have to share.
But I was getting on,
and that’s what you don’t need.
I’m certainly sorry about scaring your king,
if indeed that’s what happened to him.
You get Peanuts and War and Peace,
some in rags, some in jags, some in
velvet gown. They want
the other side of the printing plant.
There were concerns.
Say hi to jock itch, leadership principles,
urinary incompetence.
Take that, perfect pitch.
And say a word for the president,
for the scholar magazines, papers, a streaming.
Then you are interested in poetry.
Gathmann pegged it. The face America shows, the Jingo and Hoo-Hah, is food for Historians, who never really seem to Grok that People have to live every single day of the decades they describe in one double-column page of a Western Civ 102 textbook (I was trained as one; I know). The real America are all the separate Americas that somehow manage to think of Us as one, a collective which has nothing to do with the Hoo-Hah, the fascist Rethugs, the sock-puppet Democrats, the Businesses and the Billionaires. We are humans, who just want every single day to be Okay, because at some point we don't get any more Days, and I will resist any Thing which tries to fuck with that holy order.
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