March 2009
14 posts
“Only the day before Francis, in a swish of black cashmere and cigarette smoke,...”
– Donna Tartt, The Secret History
“by the roots of my hair some god got hold of me, I sizzled in his blue volts...”
– sylvia plath
“About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they...”
– W.H. Auden, Musee Des Beaux Arts
America
America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb I don’t feel good don’t bother me. I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind. America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your...
“Not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not...”
– Jack Kerouac
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close