September 2008
“Things are so bad, the show “Wall Street Week” was moved from PBS to...”
“PRESIDENT BUSH issued a warning to Iran. If they continue to enrich uranium they...”
Rx for Election Anxiety Disorder →
New Chemical Compounds to Help Get You to, and Through, Election Day
“We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government...”
– The 2008 Republican Party Platform, adopted earlier this month.
Plants Make Aspirin When Under the Weather →
“But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an...”
– Mark Twain (Letter to Mrs. F. G. Whitmore, 7 February 1907)
“Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great...”
– Mark Twain (autograph inscription in album to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, reported in The Washington Post, June 11, 1881)
“I like gypsy moths and radio talk because it doesn’t remind me of...”
– Doesn’t Remind Me - Audioslave
much ado about
nuclear tambourines, shellfish
and the calendar pages
still fluttering
from the stories we told
each other
and so much talk about
broken arrows and quivers
emptied too fast
but if we were still
well equipped with
sadness and skin that
shed itself each time
we surrendered
and all this news about
the bar-room brawls, the emergency
exits and walls painted over time
and...
abruptly subtle without a hint of regret, your daisyskin wilted while i lie intoxicated from the scent alone. next morning found holes in my fingers, clothes alibis; no catwalk long enough for you to reshuffle your alkaline features into something readable. born again, ten minutes on the hour -fast wishing lightning, bugs and a burning desire to be desired. calibrated wind-speeds clocked out of...
“I predict that Sen. Obama will win and win pretty handily.”
– Bill Clinton
“Over a cup of matte under a marine layer of grey I speak with the Gods of all...”
– Jason Mraz
cartilage is to bone
as stick to stone
we lick alone the
wounds
unknown
.
stars to space
as hands to face
and easy laced
clumsy grace
.
come closer they whisper
for a taste of what’s different
but no flavor can cover
the craving of lover
stalled
.
compose and create
corrupt and construct
a new ship to sail
a new suit to strut
.
cartilage wanders, bends
your eyes shift,...
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by...”
– Plato
“i turned up the volume between our bodies
until even the room screamed”
– me
“We’re not going to be bullied, we’re not going to be smeared,...”
– Barack Obama
desert jaded hearts with fangs
no better time than
half past nine
no better hand
than mine
in this haunted birdcage
where our bellies
touched
until we shook
alternately in lust
and rage
.
not equipped with enough
awake
to claim a piece big enough
to call a stake
and you’re safer than
any animal that i’ve
slept next to
.
if i broke these eggs into
the last clean bowl who
would be left to slip...
