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On suicidal ideation and authorship
... thoughtful minds are free of pain
To the degree that they can think
And alchemize their thoughts to ink.
Happy the man who can declare
His angst with any savoir faire.
-- Tom Disch, "Waking New Year's Day, Without a Hangover," 1986
RIP Thomas M. Disch, writer and poet, 2008
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On David Tennant...
Here is a man who has been to the Paul McDermott school of Mad Scary Eye-Bulging Stressed Expressions.
Cheesy, but excellently hyperthyroid! -
Pub picnic: Personal evaluation form
I don't remember how journal entries work. Have an evaluation form. I used Maslow's Hierarchy of Needy People to build Quality Areas for assessment.
Crafternoon at the Poob!
Attendees: Nine! Eight artists, one canine; max seven people/one puppy at any one time
A good number. A couple more would've been nice, but we'd have run out of couch and teeny- ( Read more... ) -
An elaboration.
Eating Poetry (Mark Strand)
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.
The poems are gone.
The light is dim.
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Doug Tanoury,
Two Poems by Doug Tanoury
© 2004, Doug Tanoury and Journal of Mundane Behavior.
Ode to Feet
I have seen poetic feet so perfect,
The very smallest units
Of patterned stress,
Soft idioms of Iambic
And drum beats of Anapestic,
That march across the carpet
In measured meter toward full-length mirrors.
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Two poems by Kathryn Simmonds
Winter Morning
Rain sings spirituals across the pane
as Old Man River rises, rouses me
to dip a toe into the semi-dark
where half-read novels and a bowl
of last night's cereal still float.
Birds gang up in dripping trees,
already morning fills my IN tray
and I'm thinking of the journey home.
Winter how I love you for you speed
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POLYSYLLABIC!
DROMAEOSAURID! Troodontidae!
My happy and rhythmical neep of the day!
I shall send a special gold "LICENSE TO PARSE" sticker to anyone who can identify the metre in that last line :} -
Reasons to love James Nicoll
"Assume a simple two dimensional map of SF-space. One axis is the optimism axis (running from the extreme of whoo to the extreme of blah) and the other is the rigor axis (running from D'oh to Aha):
Whoo!
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