in the bathtub this morning, i was reading the penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, coming to terms with the delicious absurdity, the beautiful stupidity, that is my life ( Read more... )

recidivism

a few weeks ago i smashed glasses against my brother's bedroom wall. also inadvertantly smashing his turtle tank in the process. yesterday i put a proper gash in my other brother's bedroom door when i hurled a cellphone at it.

kai believes i need anger management. i tell him i need not to be made angry.

whoever thought i'd terrify anybody.

been picking through bloom's estimation of "the best poems of the english language." bloom compares himself to samuel johnson--letting the GREATEST CRITIC of THE TIME factor remain tacit--in that bloomie has a hard-on for stevens & crane the way johnson had a hard-on for pope. though i usually skip over intros to poems, i must say there are some ( Read more... )

i'm down as donne on st. lucy's day ( Read more... )

You meant more than life to me. I lived through
you not knowing, not knowing I was living.
I learned that you called for me. I came to where
you were living, up a stair. There was no one there.
No one to appreciate me...

-John Ashbery, "The New Higher"

"so what was that kiss in the elevator all about ( Read more... )

First, crash Ethel, your 1990 Honda Civic. This is NOT YOUR FAULT, no matter what the insurance companies say. Spend your freshman year of college braving the occasional mile and a half walk to K-Mart, often returning with a pirated shopping cart. Try to take the shopping cart through a Burger King drive-thru. When the acne-faced teenage “manager ( Read more... )

hit list:

-the GRE
-"talented youth" ages 13-14
-The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
-Vassar College 2005-2006 Senior Composition
-England

no, i'm not writing.

in fact i'm barely living.

so leave me alone.

you've already gotten it,

everything i wanted.

it's nothing personal

but i've got nothing to offer.

so please take your intelligent commentary

across the ocean where i'll not be.

you have got

to be

fucking

kidding me.