#228 Mental Complacency

My grandfather was
a technician for Ma
Bell. He said, "We are

complacent in our
color attributions. The
only way to receive a

signal is to eliminate the
noise. There are no co-
incidences, merely portals."

#227 The Amorous Vista

Without this inter-
vening presence
of a sudden &
aggressive getaway

with some significant
other to that highly
recommended place
to karaoke, then it's

essentially a bucolic
image, even if no
sheep, no alpacas,
no fertility-symbols,

no Lacoste alligators
mingling with angels
holding dynamite, no
animated cuddly lions,

no eggs or rabbits, no
Japanese women,
no cameo appearance
from Don Quixote.

#226 Faraway Looks

Drained of context,
of creative market
mechanisms &
public policy, the
interior surface of
the shell is contoured.
Perhaps an actor sits
there knitting. The
mechanical, despite
its notion of longevity,
is just the biological
on a shorter rope—
banality was never
intended for posterity.
History is historical
romance, politics is
science fiction, to
quote Foucault. Work-
place romance
is a local construct.

#225 Fortune Telling

Someone
opened a
door & let
me see the
future. It
was as
bland as
the present
& as blind
as the past.

#224 Blood Will Tell

Even when
refurbished
to incorporate
beautiful en-

suites or worn
with denim
for a smart
casual style

property derived
from things from
nature is a step
back in time.

#223 La Courbure de l'univers

Light, which
normally travels
in straight
lines, follows

a curved path
when affected by
gravity. This is a
serious bottle.

#222 The Secret Life II

Economics is boring. So
too are all those Star
Wars toys when / they're
kept in the box. & boring

is why even the live
bad man black dog bite
mix of Henry Kissinger
as he mounts his return

to Hollywood is now
available in French for
free. How else to explain
the media visibility of

Chaos theory with its
streaming versions of old
cell phones being tossed
into the trash? Beauty is

uncovered in the most
surprising of subjects—
the discovery of a new
food, a detailed snap-shot

of online teen behavior—
but the duende is too fragile
to survive by scraping algae
from the rocks upon which

they live. The pressure to
perform prevents proteins
from being made. Every
poem is the story of itself.

#221 Spiritual Exercises

 
Begin by dismantling the
self. Taking things apart
is fascinating. A first 
pivotal step is the right 
hemisphere of the brain;
is tagged with Hamlet, 
madness, melancholy; 
includes coral, jelly fish,
anemones. The colors 
of the actual products 
will look slightly different
in reproduction. A 
character map is free on
all Windows machines.

#220 A Courtesan's Palace

The unicorn has
left his horn
in the anteroom.
It is a courtesy.

Besides. Some
things are better
left unsaid. She
took her face off.

#219 The Great War

Unlike, say, the Gaelic
for kiss my ass, most
Declarations of In-
dependence are top-

heavy with awkward
or extremely dated
references. Some-
times they present

as an organic synthe-
sizer, a Granny Smith
apple perhaps, with a
sound set restricted

to industrial use
because of extremely
mixed reviews. At
other times as an

holistic framework
that purports to look
at all aspects of life
as spiritual practice

but then recommends
the confining of women
to the home & the use
of tanks to shell densely

populated areas. Colon-
ialism is a patriarchal
system. The methods
devour themselves.

#218 The Great War

Sometimes she con-
fuses words that
sound alike. Such as.
Violets & violence.

So. She thinks the
soldiers are off
picking flowers.
Have brought some

to her. She goes
out walking to show
them off. Back to
the sea. Dressed

for. All in white.
Morning. Her face the
color of violence. Some-
times she confuses

words. Not always.
Life is a parasol.