Or, Thoughts after passing a neighborhood nail salon busy, busy on a rainy Sunday evening The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as… Read More ›
drawing
Of liking, commenting, conversation, writing, reading, drawing, painting
It was just that they had lost interest in replying And so they didn’t Much liking is done these days. People want their communications to be liked by as many people as possible. An artist recently said to… Read More ›
Those who follow the news are not superior but complicit = Ce qui se tient au courant de l’actualité ne sont pas supérieurs mais complices
Those who follow the news are not superior but complicit Ceux qui se tiennent au courant de l’actualité ne sont pas supérieurs mais complices Not to worry, soon enough you will not be able to turn your machines off Pas… Read More ›
Quand – l’argent – le métier – leur dévouement à l’art –
When – his money – her work – her devotion to art {The English version, though chronologically the first and perhaps freer of a foreigner’s faults, here follows the French, stanza by stanza. La version française, quoique écrit après l’anglais… Read More ›
Poem in advance of a next birthday
Amazing, at 62, still a beginner Bloated with experience and growing thinner With scissors and phrases and crayons persisting. “Impressive—he keeps trying, in spite of his stumbling,” A few last friends, I imagine, they think or they say, … Read More ›
The Limericks, Part IV (No nation on Earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals)
Welcome to the fourth installment—a.k.a. No nation on Earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals —of the limerick project, which began in May 2017 with Pence, Trump and Comey. This part takes the collection from September 4,… Read More ›
In the Age of Thumbs, Help = 4357 (& vice-versa)
Pour les francophones – « Quel que soit votre problème, il y a un numéro que vous pouvez composer » – vous n’avez que défiler vers le bas. Celeste, Tapio (god of the forest), . . . so many good… Read More ›
