Song for more than one voice In Paris I ride in an old elevator. It has no memory. We cannot argue. A middle-aged woman sits naked on a bed. A man, equally naked, stands facing her. “Do you want… Read More ›
death
Sonnet for 9/27
One looks for a partner but can only be found by love. Since empirical research employs many more people than more intellectual pursuits, can it be wrong? We are on pace to die of canned laughter. The dog that I… Read More ›
Class Warfare Poverty Death
Reblogged from Zeteo Out of the hundred million people living in Soviet Russia, we should be able get 90 million behind us. The others, there’s no talking with them, they have to be annihilated. — Bolshevik leader Grigory Zinoviev, September… Read More ›
Christmas 2014
{Click for pdf} It is often, if not always the case that an intellectual, if he is honest and dogged enough, will be able to discover the not necessarily warm and fuzzy personal experiences and feelings underlying his theories… Read More ›
There are times you can’t say no and you do anyway
FROM NO SEQUENCE April 2008 It was said that an expert told him to play with his son. “I don’t do roughhousing,” he replied, and it was left at that. When it came time for him to die he asked… Read More ›
My Best Friend
LISTENING FOR THE UNCONSCIOUS June 2013 My electronic friend Carolyn has graced me with, as she puts it, “one of my little stories which I am thinking could be of interest to you and your readers.” With no further… Read More ›
Pedestrian Approaches to Life and Death (Ghosts Included)
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 May 2012 In crossing a street one might look both ways, or — a popular New York approach — simply step into the street or indeed start crossing it, leaving it for others, oncoming drivers included, to… Read More ›
