active contempt for it is to enter its vortex. mediocrity is the dark flipside of self-love, parasitic on it. it’s a craving, this contempt and it makes you into somewhat less of an original human being. It’s subtle, and you may never realize that your predominant activity is to scrape the sides of the well…
Read moreturning off the radio
the voice grows urgent and fast every time your hand comes near to the knob.
Read morethe father
frustrated by time running out and knowing his son won’t know til after he’s gone how irreplaceable that time was…such an immensity of time.we here for so little of it.
Read moreLottery/Fortune Cooke
<fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger><bigger>FROMNYTIMES:Powerball lottery officials suspected fraud: how could 110players in the March 30 drawing get five of the six numbers right?That made them all second-prize winners, and considering the number oftickets sold in the 29 states where the game is played, there shouldhave been only four or five. But from state after state they…
Read moreif you’re burning to teach someone something
consider indirection. Finding a book at a used bookstore, your own rare find, is a species of this. The dislocation of time and oblivion enabling your discovery is a kind of indirection. The writer wrote it in hot haste, but you were more receptive once that haste had cooled. This has something to do too…
Read moreProduct Placement
As works of art become product placements, the effect of diminishingresources and corporate dominance which emphasizes its own survival,therefore prodding the survival instinct in people, stifles even theambition to look beyond onesself, to place onesself in the universe,to wonder. A corporation never inspired a person to do anything. Except in the sense of negative inspiration,…
Read moreCovers
On the one hand thinking that musicians who play covers of say, Bob Dylan, in the subway are pathetic. On the other, perceiving that it’s pathetic to not recognize something of value, which they are doing. It’s a kind of piety. And then thinking, a priest or minister is in a sense doing the same…
Read morean artist should never complain
ever. & above all not about the state of the world. that’s a given, and the task at hand. to disclose that is a capitulation.
Read moreHe thought I quit
I didn’t resign. I re-signed!!!
Read morewhat did I do?
I stopped a seal hunt. They had another. I fought for clean air. The government lawed that away. Resentment choked me to death.Skia
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