(a diorama, even:) i wish to be rid of silly, stupid people and to be taken up with the wise. i envision this so: zouaves around a campfire, with canteens and veils over their faces, and i am among those who take seats on the ground ( Read more... )

WHEREAS: it was proven to me today beyond the echo of a doubt that the couple paying my wage are mostly soulless and tasteless yuppie trash ( Read more... )

i tried to do this yesterday and gabe's computer crapped out on me. i was on a roll. i feel i should recreate. but i was talking about how camel crickets have a way of staring and falling apart menacingly, and it seems not so important an observation at this point. anyhow, so milano is on the fritz and i'm cutting back to two days a week so i can ( Read more... )

Two of my parts were sliced and sauteed, and one boiled. All were thrown together, and now reside in The Stomach. It is a very fashionable neighborhood. Many oil-rich sheikhs are to be seen here, driving Lamborghinis.

because there may be an artist consummate enough every three hundred years, if the world's been good enough to get a reward, to round out even the circumstances and happenstances of his most immediate life (yes, he's probably a guy, that's just how it goes) in say six hundred words. so it's bits and parts, whatever i get by the end of the song ( Read more... )

urbi et orbi:
(urb'et orbi?)

so stealing flowers had gotten out of hand; the drunker i was, the more i'd bring back. the other night there was a precious white lilac (syringa vulgaris alba) that went missing, somewhere. please note: this is no confession. and someone may have enjoyed that lilac, in its own right, more than they would've otherwise ( Read more... )

i find myself expending tremendous amounts of energy daily as a service yuppie, running to-wit to-whoo. today! well, hayley's been out of town since friday or so- the Boss at the florist, that is. so sara teaster and i've been manning the fort. it was supposed to be my day off, wednesdays are. not so much. our delivery vehicle is an old ford ( Read more... )

my new number is
434-229-0415

what is blooming now: viburnum x carlcephalum, forsythia, serviceberry, quince, some redbud, all the various orchard trees, a lilac down the street from me, the end of the hellebores, the beginning of the muscari, the middle of the hyacinths, daffodils have seen better days (except for narcissus odorata, which is just starting to start,) a few ( Read more... )

THIS IS AS MY MOTHER USED TO SAY (hallowed be her memory and her soul, with the Father and saints in heaven) I shall now explain the details and dangers of male menstruation. this is, as we say, ahem, a purely mental and metaphysical phainomenon, and comes in spurts and fits as if we were bouncing back and forth between the padded surfaces of two ( Read more... )