#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.

#217 Le Grand Siècle

Pick a point in time
& stick a pin in it.

Attach a piece of string,
50 or 100 years long.

An area defined, ob-
long in a circle's arc.

Three sides with forest
lining them. A low

block wall across the
other. In front of which

a faceless avatar being
stared at by a windowless

mansion. Grass underfoot.
A plaster ceiling overhead.

Deadening the acoustics. A
silent century. How grand.

#216 The Wonders of Nature

One of the
wonders of
nature is its
ability to re-
use objects
over & over

in similar
or disparate
settings &
make them
new again.
So, once

more a ship,
the waves,
the very sea
shore, on which
a pair of stone-
crossed lovers.

#215 La Pipe

                       pipe
Surely             a
Magritte     not
can see     is
that     this

#214 The Apparition (2)

They're keywords. That
much he recognizes
even if he doesn't
recognize the discipline
that they come from. "The 
labels could mean any-
thing," he thinks. Which 
means. He carries one
himself. Or two. He doesn't
think. Which means.
He isn't. He appears.
Walking towards 
one of two horizons. 
Which means. They 
may not be.