“See… that right there… is what it’s all about. Laboring in obscurity. Starving and struggling. The man who embraces his mediocre nothingness… shines greater… than any.”
Keanu Reeves
Jan
15
The following is the long-lost 1974 commencement speech given by the great Tom Robbins, one of the funniest writers of our time and author of my all time favorite book Still Life With Woodpecker. I am often asked whether there is life after death. Certainly, there is. There is also death after life, and […]
Mar
28
Why Rimbaud Went to Africa poetry isn’t literary poetry isn’t sure which fork to use poetry can’t name the parts of speech fill out a grant application logroll poetry doesn’t like cappuccino poetry doesn’t want to be printed in a small press edition with its name on the cover and get reviewed in […]
Mar
27
(Originally posted on 6/5/2012. Occasionally reposted not because it’s good, but as punishment for ever having written it. A reminder to myself just how horrible I can be.) This is not something I wanted to write. It’s been more like a fart I’ve been trying to hold in while surrounded by decent company. Hoping […]
Mar
26
We walked together under the night sky. Not hand in hand of course, she did not like overt displays of intimacy, or covert acts of intimacy, but the next best thing. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky and she commented on the handful of stars that twinkled above our head. “There’s a lot more […]
Mar
25
Expert In A Dying Field Can we erase our history? Is it as easy as this? Plausible deniability I swear I’ve never heard of it And I can close the door on us But the room still exists And I know you’re in it Hours of phrases I’ve memorized Thousands of lines […]
Mar
24
There will come a day when women lose all interest in men. The need for protection will diminish, as will the physical attraction towards the very features that made men indispensable for the first couple million years. As such, procreation will become more and more challenging. And if we’ve learned anything about evolution, it is […]
