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Self-Portrait at 33: Peachtree St ( Read more... )

Self-Portrait at 33: Peachtree St.

1.

Big Dad is dead.

Papa T is dead.

Grandma is dead.

Buster, my father “is dead is dead.” [FN1]

[FN1] some Jack Kerouac poem whose name I cannot remember or probably never knew.

I have done everything I settled for doing

and now there is nothing that I want to do.

I want to stop

doing ( Read more... )

Well here we are again. As many of you know every year I compile some of my favorite songs that came out in the year and give the mix away at the end of the year. I used to send out actual cds but now I just post things and let you download them yourself. I still limit myself to what will fit on an 80 minute cd-r. Each year I do one “best of the ( Read more... )

Self-Portrait at Thirty-Two ( Read more... )

It’s time again for my best of the year music compilation! This year you get a 2009 mix AND a best of the decade mix. You can download them from the links below. The tracks will come in a zip file and you should be able to just import them into itunes or whatever you use, or burn them onto two 80 minute CDs. Just let me know if the links do not ( Read more... )

I want all these kids ( Read more... )

“Medicine”

I saw some medicine

bring me some medicine

I saw some fire, go

and get it for me

Do all the things that I say

That is why I love you

and why I tell you to do things

Bring me that medicine I saw

and know where it was

and which one I mean

without my having to say more

bring me that fire because I am out of ( Read more... )

“Science Facts: GIANT JELLYFISH INVADE JAPAN!!!”

Where something enormous

is always crashing through

the most polite transactions on the planet,

Sheets the size of sheets

are converging in

the ink around the concrete covered shores

and fill in the bays, thick.

I lived there before.

In a town famous for raising a cartoonist

who ( Read more... )

“Science Facts: Whale Mothers Contact”

Somewhere

in the protective bays of Canada & Alaska,

whale mothers

have been making contact.

And this is odd for two reasons:

One, because this is the time of year

when the whales come into the bays and coves

of the inside passage to calve, and previously

this had been when they were most ( Read more... )