elliott smith
(August 6, 1969 - October 21, 2003)

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listen, i've met a recluse in a red jacket and cut my hair. one thing for certain, the future will involve evenings of airplanes and appellations from the north. it was just the night before i boarded a bus traveling in one direction, and found my way back before too long with all my pockets emptied. mostly what i can remember from sleeping is ( Read more... )

the shoe museum, the second city, the markets, the castle, the black dress

the mousetraps in the corner of the room now exist merely for the sake of decoration, and i am aware of some violet flowers beginning to appear on the tree outside the window. rock doves and lunch-birds have taken to the garden despite our talk of cat. none of our pets survived the long winter, save for the pets that we fashioned ourselves. ( Read more... )

It is raining softly and the sky is shrinking the earth beneath it. Because he works quickly, there is only one frond-collector for every three cleaners of the palms. The fronds are gathered below in neat piles: one of them for every two palms. With saws buzzing, the treetops are transformed into geometric simplicities.

Listen, the October air is particularly white thismorning, and clouds stretching out over the hills are gasping & tangling with themselves. Yr flowers emerging in the garden appear uniquely crushable if not incomprehensibly orange. Some scent of Assam remains in my fingers as a result of the morning's preparations and nothing to do with their own ( Read more... )

The lanterns of Chinatown are hung with icicles and I am standing on a carpet atop the telephone pole. And in the near future rumbles the vehicle of my adventure, winding its monstrous way as if I were the waiting minotaur. Not fast enough to blind the lives on east and west bulging with pain, the luminous glass identifications of their nagging ( Read more... )

We are sober and industrious; there is some locomotion we feel in our interior talking, a muscular arrangement in transpositions that is weights of lifting and letting falling / measures of going and retaining / the how of our proceeding through the spaces of the time from the moment we are moving ourselves word after word walking by words and ( Read more... )