a nervousness in the air a nervousness in me everyone is really cool many of us are out on the sidewalk introducing ourselves have long conversations forming a solidarity “you can have some beer if you want…” another guy with a psychology degree says this is pact mentality that in danger we group together like…… Continue reading Untitled
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a friend recently wrote and encouraged me to write as much as possible through this whole thing. and so I’ll continue to do that. other friends have written to see if we’re okay, which we are for now. basically we’re just waiting, worrying, and preparing. we suspect this thing will hit us sometime late Friday…… Continue reading Untitled
Houston worries
Houston – fifty miles fifty miles from the coast we know what happened just next door but we are trapped here only with half tank of gas the roads already gridlocked cat. 5 probably headed for our heads I cannot write sensible prose in this state of worry state of emergency the helicam shows the…… Continue reading Houston worries
Your krsna consciousness is showing / confusing atheism
• so well meaning • notes on open casket viewerships and ships that leave peopled up once the earth has all been used up and mass suicides and plagues have taken place. these things, by 2123, happen. shit. happens. all kinds of shit happens. • old school. shaking hands with shaky hands. sweaty palms. the…… Continue reading Your krsna consciousness is showing / confusing atheism
Browncoats unite!
Wow… I just got to see a test screening of Joss Whedon’s movie Serenity. I’m jumping up and down so violently my guns are firing off!
Work notes [week of Sep. 4]
My situation at work is unstable, all due to this production manager psychopath, who knows very little about the print industry, who is hyperactive and stresses everyone out in her path. A little hurricane in her own right. One guy calls her the Tasmanian Devil. He attempts cheering me up: “Take it easy.” “I’ll try.…… Continue reading Work notes [week of Sep. 4]
Unstable notes for unstable times
A new disaster for the people [largely neglected… suggests genocide]. The shockwaves are felt. 30,000+, for example, spill into our city, most of which will stay on permanently. Ten minutes away, “Doctors at the Houston Astrodome said Friday they have contained a viral outbreak that caused diarrhea and vomiting in about 700 Katrina evacuees. Forty…… Continue reading Unstable notes for unstable times
Always Already…
Recently I submitted a few poems to Always Already, a new literary web zine. It was released today and has come together nicely. Make sure to check it out.
New Dwelling (some poems)
2005 worries: I will travel from Roanoke to Houston and at my friend’s house be in nearly perfect health yet when we move again it’s all lost and I’m sneezing and I’m coughing and I’m wheezing and I’m cussing and I’m wide awake all night . . . downstairs is the tile layout hard and…… Continue reading New Dwelling (some poems)
Six Feet Under
In case anyone is wondering what I thought of the last season and last episode of Six Feet Under, I cannot review it at length because, for now, I don’t think I would do it much justice. It’s something you would have to see for yourself to really understand. And each person really “gets it”…… Continue reading Six Feet Under
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