Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Gabriel Yared - Greatest Hits
mmm...the rare composer who gives my soul rapture. Just skip right to 725 and then start over.
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Descartes
My body awoke to the furnace of my mind
branding all my misdeeds like cattle
set to wander a grassless pasture
I don't know why my mind can't
put these things into some capsule
sneak them on to the dock of a rocket
send them on their way, they are no use to me.
My mind is filled with garbage.
There's an obsessive-compulsive recycler
spinning in circles on a tricycle in the corridors of my brain
nothing new can come in. Nothing new has any room.
All the little nebulae, like faces pressed against a glass
voices, muffled by the thickness, are forced into silence;
the occasional screech that reaches beyond
there's so much trash piled up against the glass that I am barely
aware that I exist. I want to sell off the garbage
to some lumber company in Canada
that makes shiny new castles out of recycled pasts
castles I'll never have to live in or walk.
I'll take my grass shack, my salt-dry lips, my thoughts--
the newness of them, like dew
on the grass, where cows graze,
chewing in contemplation
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