What Have I Lost?

22Apr09

I drove by my old house today, the house I lived in when I was six. It was tiny and grimy, just like I remembered. I only remember moments my mom took pictures of and maybe a bad dream, looking over at the bars of my brother’s crib, asking one of dad’s friends, I think [...]

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Tags: blastedgoat, broadway, evansdale, family, home, house, iowa, mandy michelle fauser, waterloo

Morning Buzz

08Apr09

Am I going insane or just walking around half-asleep again? Do I wear my hair in stranger places on my bobbing-head? A caricature, less mature than I really am? I  turn over in the morning to avoid the sun pouring in the window. Citrus sourness stinging eyes that flutter open like warm butterflies. Drift out [...]

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Tags: alarm clock, brain, brush, butterfly, buzz, cat, Drugs, eyes, familiar, fiance, footsteps, hair, half-asleep, insane, morning, teeth

The Orange Sun Rolls Around Connotation Land

07Apr09

I say this, but to you it means that or worse, nothing. A tree obscures a power-line, fried potatoes tower over trembling pieces of yellow corn. Tassels grab clouds that rip. Contents pour, orange juice scum lingers on the lips of a tall glass. Stringy pulp tastes a bit like the dream I had after [...]

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Walking to the Hotel

07Apr09

I pondered existence–wished for a stray car to POP over the curb, taking me out in several seconds. 3, 2, 1 dots arranged on a sidewalk, shot like a loaded gun. Roulette amid little daisies and chalk outlines of hand-traced turkeys. It’s not a sidewalk really, more of a shitty little footpath next to University [...]

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B&W Association

07Apr09

The best things in life are B&W. Chessboards, old movies, piano keys, chocolate & vanilla ice cream twist cones from 4 Queens, the dice you found on the sidewalk, even the King of Pop. “Who knew when they made that Simpsons episode that Jack-o would turn into a white guy if you kept him out [...]

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Maria Gillan: All that Lies between Us

07Apr09

I really enjoyed our interview with Maria Gillan because I feel I can trust a poet like her to the truth about the world (which is not necessarily the definitive truth but what memory recalls as truth, a combination of how things are remembered and how that changes over time.) Maria said “memories are clouded [...]

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Early Modern Drama

07Apr09

Modernity is reliant on visible evidence this is reasonable due to the shift from a faith-based medieval society to a reason-based modern society. Religious faith requires a belief in something a person cannot see with their eyes while science is the opposite. Science relies exclusively on what can be counted, measured and tested. Elizabethans had [...]

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