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Heliotropic Love Poem
I wrote this poem the other night during a pause in watching "A Single Man."
Heliotropic Love Song
There are few things in the world as beautiful as the Sun
blazing with the love of God: all hands on deck!
morning-mist-melting and dewdrop-dissolving
as salamanders shimmy out from beneath mud and dark
to warm their supple, spotted suits by Her fierce and ( Read more... ) -
Cat Ladies
Just saw "Cat Ladies.", part of the SF Doc Fest, at the Roxie Theater in the Mission. It was quite good, although more opinions could've been brought in from psychologists, animal shelter workers, if the filmmakers (who were on hand for a Q&A) wanted to expand it. It did a good job of showing the spectrum of obsessive behavior ( Read more... ) -
And this one I wrote a month ago before I got a job...
RECESSION
So many people going so many places
So many people with purposeful faces
If I just had a job, I'd be one too
Instead of lying here dreaming and inhaling glue -
I wrote this poem today...
SETTLING UP
And it was raining vigorously as it always used to in Puddletown
as if my former home were humansick for me
(vestigial trace of the subjunctive mood)
No doubt the bleary-eyed beggar who entreated me for a dollar
(not forthcoming) thought me a niggardly prince
as I strode briskly by in my smart suit and dress shoes
little reckoning ( Read more... ) -
If anyone from Portland is coming down to the Bay Area...
..in the NEAR future, and has room to bring some or all of my boxes of stuff (about 8 produce boxes' worth) to me in Oakland or S.F., let me know! I need to get it down here soon since the friend who is storing it for me is moving into a house with less storage soon. I could conceivably give you some $$ as a transportation fee.
gracias
TONY
