It seems like all the cool blogging kids are talking about “Stuff White People Like” and its parody, “Stuff Christians Like.” As uncharaceteristic as it is for me to do this, I have to agree with the going opinion: both these blogs are very funny, very clever pieces of work.
As I was considering these blogs, [...]
November 11, 2007 – 1:33 pm
Two weeks ago:
My testosterone reached some critical mass
and so I rolled up that magazine, motivated
at last
to kill that thing that had spun it’s web
next to the door to the mailbox.
Then you deflated me.
You explained that at some point there was this turning point
in your relationship with that arachnid.
You disarm me,
open my weapon
and turn it to [...]
November 4, 2007 – 7:39 pm
I think there are blessings in becoming a Christian late in life. I think about kids– even my own kids– who grow up with bible stories. When people are exposed to stories before they can comprehend the full depths of them, they end up, sometimes, missing the point forever. I’ve read through the bible a [...]
October 28, 2007 – 2:11 am
Someone I never met before
(who might live in Beverly Hills
or Bangkok
who might be pretzel salesman by day
or a cross dresser in a transvestite revue)
Someone I never met before
sent me an email.
The FROM: column said
George T.
But that’s not what I found so interesting.
The Title: column said
Tomato Necromancers #6.
Now, that I find interesting.
Is this a sort-of secret [...]
October 28, 2007 – 2:06 am
The doctor who brought me into the world
could be suffering dementia,
in a grey forgotten place somewhere.
The teddy bear
which held me through infant night terrors
is probably rotting in a dump, somewhere, abondoned.
For all I know
The house I grew up in.
With the ivy covered walls.
Burned down.
My second grade teacher
The one who really believed in me.
Very well might [...]
October 28, 2007 – 1:54 am
The body has its secrets.
For example:
A yawn–
perfectally executed–
will bring about transcendence.
It begins at the toes which curl downward, a little
looking for purchase inside socks inside shoes
the knees bend slightly
thighs begin to rock foreward
stomach calm and relaxed,
making room for the diaphram.
The chest is brought up
by shoulders which strech out…
the neck is arched backward
The mouth spreads in [...]
October 28, 2007 – 12:54 am
Two weeks ago:
My testosterone reached some critical mass
and so I rolled up that magazine, motivated
at last
to kill that thing that had spun it’s web
next to the door to the mailbox.
Then you deflated me.
You explained that at some point there was this turning point
in your relationship with that arachnid.
You disarm me,
open my weapon
and turn it to [...]
October 28, 2007 – 12:14 am
Begin
in a world that operates
like a poorly done hybrid
of The World According to Garp
and Forest Gump
Now: list 87 character quirks.
Randomly ascribe 17 and a half of them to a main character
who must be female
pregnant
and dumber than your phys. ed. teacher in high school.
Apply the other sixty-nine and one half quirks
to the people who will rally [...]
October 27, 2007 – 11:47 pm
I think that all poetry should be written this wayA spark rises up from this tension.
It sets the paper aflame.
You stood over simmering pots like a Goddess floating above supplicants.
You, who had run the house all day
Had tended our children,
laundry, bills, groceries…
I, a crazy man,
Approached you at the end of the day.
“I have to write. [...]
