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after the lung
Congratulations to all subjects of Britannia on the breeding arrangement celebrations of your Christ-ordained house of masters. -
think how her robe should be,/ distantly, to toss and turn,/ to toss and turn.
I liked how you had mp3 recordings in your cell phone of your friends reciting poems for when you missed their voices - we would hear these girls speaking in five languages in the dark. You liked my wet hair on your skin. I liked the gusto with which you ate. We never seemed to converse in back and forth replies and comments, it was always me ( Read more... ) -
in the words of wei yingwu
I retired because of incompetence
it wasn't to follow a higher path
I read your essay of jade and gold
its beautiful hues lit up my face
day after day I've wanted to reply
that was in spring and now it's winter -
missing rest
Lying in the twilight, body fading into the blue mist, a thin chill film of sweat on me. I can feel my mind putting away its colors one by one like glass talons, they're all dark colors, all shades of blue. My hair is all about me, wet, like a halo of seaweed for a drowned saint in this twilight blue. Today was the first day of the wet season. I ( Read more... ) -
today had a low point but it has passed
I've got a new chair, comfortable and awesome in equal abundance, like a seat from which to dominate things by thinkings.
Spinning softly, listening to this, drinking excellent, excellent white tea, wondering whether I should read To your scattered bodies go or The books of the South next.
"A nerd is a human being without enough Africa in him or her ( Read more... ) -
Now no longer feeling all sick!
The list of stuff from earlier, in order:
Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone (vol. 1); David Sheppard's On Some Faraway Beach; Yip's Chinese Poetry; Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel; Moorcock's Elric Stealer of Souls; Andrew Dalby's Empire of Pleasures: Luxury and Indulgence in the Roman World; Chesterton's Complete Father Brown (vol. 2); China ( Read more... ) -
being experimental is so tired it's probably time it's back as an ironic thing
Found text:
[last sentence of first paragraph of page 50, or first afterwards full of text, of every book on my desk at this moment, the order I pick them up; begin]
He goes about constructing this framework quite mechanically, beginning with the names of his pair of young lovers and invariably adding a third character, a servant or the like, to ( Read more... ) -
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I wish I remembered why I have a two-inch cut between my eyebrow and eye that caked my hair in dry blood, and 2000 more words in a short story than I had before, when I woke up ( Read more... ) -
take me
The part some time after 1:50 reaches a place the initiate usually has to sacrifice a dog or cat to open the door to:
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in a poem by Lisa King there is the line: if the dark under the pillow kept its promises
The last two weeks have been ruthless. I ground through manfully, of course. Things should pick up now.
It reminded me of the most recent time when I felt real bad. I took up reading Michael Cisco's The Traitor, which is... special. It's the darkest thing. In it the reviled souljews (i forget how they were called so i think of them as souljews or ( Read more... )