all of this is pending

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2011-02-06T23:13:00.000-08:00

the parasites will love you when you're dead la la la la la

2010-05-03T20:29:00.000-07:00

since my last, i may or may not have gone certifiably mad. i cut my hair with kitchen scissors in the bathroom sink after a firedance with nihilism. i traded places with the ocean. i came at the circle from outside. the distractions sprout tentacled distractions which sprout other infinities. i offered myself as a temporary storage vessel to daniel johnston should he need to transfer his

i wish i had a horse's head; a tiger's heart; an apple bed

2010-03-11T06:12:00.000-08:00

a series of redshiftsplenty gum soured in the cheek; half-hardened;full-harbouredplenty remold wantingplenty spit wantingcrowded palette; mostly distaste for gumi will await the legalization of marriage to music. in the interim i will marry a six-legged cat who treats me badly. i will be popular in missionary-plagued countries. my profession will be taking bets on whether the human race succeeds

may your shade be sweet and float upon the lakes where the sun will be made of honey

2010-03-08T02:33:00.000-08:00

jerome david

2010-01-29T02:27:00.000-08:00

dreamed a submarine wreck & bear fetus in a petri dishit hurt to have the bendsso long & thanks for all the bananafishdays are now swirling aloud with canceri now bathe during thunderstormscongress is still a glorified fraternity househere are some objects i adore enough to keep in my bed & wake strangled, bleeding & with indentations of them on my face{first year}, mlpi is to vorticism, ben

the earth is not a cold dead place

2010-01-13T17:14:00.000-08:00

amour telepathy for haiti

today is not a palindrome

2010-01-10T01:33:00.000-08:00

j.a. tyler was kind enough to include something of mine in mud luscious X.0 alongside gena mohwish, david erlewine, adam moorad, zachary bush, andrew borgstrom, howie good, michael hessel-mial, more good people. meanwhile the man behind the curtain continues to put everyone to shame with 13 books in print and en route. there is much to anticipate and never a dull moment.and then there is X.0and

cellar door

2009-12-22T01:49:00.000-08:00

gorged on lists & the semantics parade reached a pavlovian vomit reaction to xmas music still climbing out of self-imposed brain valleysright now there are kites in icelandi want to put paul simon in my pocket & talk to him in open publicif i am honest i have no interest in self-defensesometimes in los angeles it is fun to taunt the celebrities with your anonymityhere is why i rarely write "

the contents of my lungs are mostly the result of a handful of supernovae and years of poor ventilation

2009-12-12T23:23:00.000-08:00

out of practice. kneesliding. was near starting the i-am-dead rumour but i am neither a close enough nor a reliable source.i have been in my state's capitol. home of barbara boxer, cactus, streets paved with VHS copies of the perennial classic jingle all the way.it is hanukwanzmas. let's take off our kaftans and dance, fry up some latkes, set fire to indoor trees.it has only just struck me that

note found on pillow

2009-11-24T16:57:00.000-08:00

i am redividing inside you.have a nice day.

faux pas/fox paw

2009-11-22T14:48:00.000-08:00

i dreamed i was holding a severed starfish in my palm. i welled compassion.i am diseased. i know this because i do not recall swallowing any knives, syringes, bees, or matches. i have taken to writing any of the twenty standard magic 8-ball responses on post-it notes and attaching them to my throat.reply hazy, try again.today i am happily devouring the failure six and prose. poems. other good

binge & pear noir! & nano

2009-11-05T10:27:00.000-08:00

i have been paid which means book binge. also there was that elephant chariot and monocle i wanted to buy. i have a(n) (overdue) list which includes the failure six - shane jones adam robison and other poems - adam robinsonone hour of television - kristina born prose. poems. a novel. - jamie iredell &pear noir! #3 is on the launch pad frothing. i get tourettes twitches reading the lineup. thank

wherein a bag of beans is on my back & other things happen

2009-10-27T22:46:00.000-07:00

there is currently a microwaved bag of beans on my back. this is one way to tell whether you are loved. or a corporate slave and possible victim of aneurysm. in my mind there is no distinction between the two. my memory goes to bermuda these days. memory just traipses around ticking. i saw the orionids and they were burning medicine.(not the orionids nor a bag of beans)massive thanks to the

ثلاثة

2009-10-18T16:29:00.000-07:00

> kill author numero 3 is screaming wet. i trust > kill author to kill me. i would have their babies then promptly cover their heads with paper bags. within are these demigods: eric beeny, mel bosworth, jason jordan, michelle reale, drew kalbach, howie good, other megaliths. to tango with the likes of them is the most murderous of pleasures. cur rent ly /// in side:- kaddish, ginsberg- walking

sabbatical

2009-09-26T19:23:00.000-07:00

i dreamed i was skiing pregnanti woke with blood on my pillowi bought honey, acai,acetaminophen, two lemons for the illread half of scorch atlas in a hospital parking lotthe hospital was under constructionthe scaffolding was a monster's skeletonits horns were elevator shafts in the futurethis was when i realizedthere is no one left in this townwho remembers the tact needed to speak to watertoday

drums, unscroll, ken jennings

2009-09-20T15:11:00.000-07:00

my current gmail session displays this advertisement in the margin:sleep apnea? play a didgeridoo.there is a busker who plays didgeridoo and hang drums on the santa monica pier. he wears corduroy and birkenstocks. he also has a business card and a lexus.i do not know whether he has sleep apnea.this is a hang drum when it is breathingthere may or may not be dirt in the yerba mate i bought. nice

so young to be tired so tired got younger

2009-09-09T23:32:00.000-07:00

- 9 9 9. happy scorch atlas day. - i start a new job tomorrow. am nervous. will need to relearn conversation and circadian rhythm. will need to limit tea intake to under five cups per hour. and no more snorting lines off the interns.- there is a fan-severed fly corpse on the floor and i am leaving it there to remind me of how cliche televised funerals are becoming. i named him cornelius. i saw

party like a sephardi

2009-08-28T16:48:00.000-07:00

i bought a pocket-sized green moleskine that smells like chlorine and sex dolls. a man in an israeli restaurant all but offered to be my sugar daddy.i dreamed it was 321 degrees outside which is not far from the current temperature.i dreamed i was sailing on sine waves. then on tectonic plates. then through downtown rome. the boat carved wakes in pavement. then salvador dali told me to join

zebras are reactionaries /// antelopes are missionaries

2009-08-19T00:38:00.000-07:00

something tells me it's all happening at the ZOOlet's talk dirty to the animals

you are worth hundreds of sparrows

2009-08-17T01:32:00.000-07:00

twice tried to see the perseidstwice fire obscured themmaybe octoberwatched lars and the real girl and liked itlistening to weather systems by andrew birdsomeone gave me a voodoo bracelet with obscure black and white symbols on it. the bracelet may or may not be trying to kill me.in print, currently inside these ---zyzzyva (vispo issue), opium (infinity issue), tin house (appetites), redivider v

i go through pairs of headphones more frequently than tanks of gasoline

2009-08-07T16:23:00.000-07:00

last night the lesbian ghost who haunts my shower came back. she is only there when i take a shower at two in the morning. she tilts her head and stares. she is maybe more curious than a lesbian. i offered to play scrabble with her but she just kept watching me.i think everyone should read life as a crossword puzzle by noah falck. it is layered, it is enigmatic, it is linguistically and

sub-lit. goodreads. funnels.

2009-08-02T11:47:00.000-07:00

j. michael wahlgren kindly added speak easy symmetry on goodreads. i love that february has an account there and is trying to clear his name.5 poems in the new SUB-LIT. themes include haunted pianos and cosmonauts-turned-island-castaways.i had a dream about funnels.i smell of coffee today.

gold wake

2009-07-29T23:57:00.000-07:00

i have an electronic chapbook up at gold wake press called speak easy symmetry. definitely check out some of the other collections there if you are inclined. or even if you are level. i like eric beeny's wounded rainbows, j.a. tyler's when the height of you outreaches me, kristina marie darling's opera: prose poems, j. michael wahlgren's modern candy, andrew borgstrom's people i haven't seen in

zygote, atlas scorched, boxes of light, staples, porn

2009-07-23T13:33:00.000-07:00

two poems at zygote in my coffee. one about ice cream and death, the other an ekphrasis of a dream i had wherein gandhi and einstein make slow love.for some reason nothing but solid winter keeps coming out my pores and mouth. my body doesn't know it is summer and i don't have a calendar i can hold and point to in front of my body. i drank the ouzo in the fridge but before doing that i set the

word // riot

2009-07-15T09:19:00.000-07:00

4 poems in word riot. excited to be in the company of j.a. tyler, brandi wells and tirumal mundargi, among others. brandi wells has a badass piece in decomp by the way. plus you can play the what parts of my bio are still true? game. kind of embarrassing. kind of notorious for outdated bios. i would not be surprised if the next one alludes to the recent reagan election. if i am honest this one is

david lynch brand coffee

2009-07-14T12:03:00.000-07:00

dreamed up honeycombs and doorjambs last night. have been out of town. visited a nice institution called book soup and spent all my money on litmags. missed david lynch by two days. was distressed by this. there was a display for david lynch coffee cups (see below) built by david lynch and his son. witnessed an aristocrat car crash outside this institution. took photographs of graffiti warning of

nice try esperanto & moments of levity

2009-07-08T23:57:00.000-07:00

dante alighieri was like bitch please and saved this post from the throes of HTML hell.esperanto sounds predominantly like italian to me. esperanto was a nice try. here is something at dogzplot about language. i think of it as kind of a b-side.update: the WHOLE summer issue is up and looking fresh and like it could smell of star anise if you get close enough. so far i really like this story by

glow into you i will glow

2009-07-06T16:27:00.000-07:00