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UNTRUE
It terrifies me how easily I can be untrue. And yet—it excites me, too. Think of a woman no one loves who walks down the platform of the train. Do you know she has a face which makes me insane? Isn’t...
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I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAY, I’M RIGHT
“I don’t care what you say, I’m right,”is what I said to my lover tonightand then I thought, “I always say this to her.Is this why she is my lover?”And wondered why that was true.I was subtle and...
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HOLLYWOOD MIGHT
Give that man an Oscar.You know he will win---his great haircut, his illustrated sin.The biopic! with historic dimensions!A living textbook (but there's Matt Damon! older,recalling Good Will...
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BUT THIS WAS SOMETHING I HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE
But this was something I had never seen before. I had seen dragons, drag queens, blood-sucking ticks destroying my door, leopards with beautiful eyes, the king inside his palace, the family after...
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THE MOVIE WAS LONG
The movie was long. And, unfortunately, starred me.There was a lot of slightly sorrowful staring out of windows,A lot of bad poetry.A lot of weak, blank, wonder, so much that was out of focus and...
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A HOLOCAUST DOESN’T NEED A TRAIN
A holocaust doesn't need a train---it can happen village to village---machetes in the foliage.It can happen in your brain.A holocaust doesn't need a machine.Loyalty to your side is enoughto spread...
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OSCAR NITE 2024
Oscar Lock Lily Gladstone Remember, they are not actors and actresses. They are “stars.” The Red Carpet horror has begun. Camille Paglia said fashion is art and we agree, but the pandering interviews...
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RELATIONSHIP HELL
Relationship hell works like this.The romancers have cultivatedin mainstream imagery the kisswhich captures every squeamish imaginationdue to germs, childhood, bodily autonomy and warmthas it presents...
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WE WERE CHEERED
We were cheered by the warm winter—and then depressed by the cold spring.Unable to understand long measurements,we could not measure anything.The ideal temperature was like medicine—supplied to us on...
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THE NOSE
The nose determines who you are. If your nose is too big, you’ll never be a star. Or too small, the scientist will add. My nose is average, but why am I sad? Why do I sleep until ten while my ex...
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I KNOW SHE WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
There are many examplesof beauty so beautiful plain morality will failto resist it. Wrong will be done.The eyes I had then knew I was the dusky planetwarmed by her supernatural sun.We were in the...
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IT’S HERE! MARCH MADNESS 2024 THE EAST
SIXTY FOUR ISOLATED, INTRIGUING PASSAGES FROM ALL GENRES COMPETE! EAST BRACKET Anton Chekhov v. 16. Helen Whitman F.T. Marinetti v. 15. Stephen Davis Marc Andreessen v. 14. Camille Paglia Brian Wilson...
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MARCH MADNESS 2024 THE SOUTH
SOUTH BRACKET Schwartz v. 16 Sontag Mazer v. 15 Gabor Morrison v. 14 Murray Jowett v. 13 Jeffers Hesiod v. 12 Foer Lennon v. 11 Marantz Lewis v. 10 Barrett Newhart v. 9 Browning Browning Barrett...
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MARCH MADNESS 2024 THE WEST
WEST BRACKET St. Augustine v. 16 Graham Pirandello v. 15 Ransom Richards v. 14 Blackmur McCartney v. 13 Michelangelo Allen v. 12 Shakespeare Peacock v. 11 Keats Klavan v. 10 Bryant Milton v. 9...
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MARCH MADNESS 2024 THE NORTH
NORTH BRACKET Baudelaire v. 16 Scarriet Editors Lessing v. 15 Kipling Brecht v. 14 Wanniski Heine v. 13 Benson Larkin v. 12 Eliot Plotinus v. 11 von Strassburg Santayana v. 10 Rosenberg Stickney v. 9...
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THE DELIRIUM AND MAYHEM OF MARCH MADNESS
All the excitement is but a prelude to death. Our favorite poems must die. None will remember the rising hero of yesterday who finally fell. And the ultimate winner who is immortal feels the sting of...
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MY PERCEPTION HAS BEEN PERFECT
My perception has been perfect.I have always been surprised,but shock was forgotten or smoothed over,even by my own eyes.The disturbing facts were never disturbing enough.I continued to be safe, to...
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I COULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT TEACHER
I could have been a great teacher---but I would find myself, all at once, stopping--- my mind asking my mindquestions---my students would stareas I stopped, there,in front of the room,as if it were...
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THE FINAL FOUR
What is the final lesson of March Madness, of cruel single-elimination tournaments in which powerful franchises display their prowess and ruin the dreams of underdogs? What do we learn from sports?...
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RITE
The daffodils, wet and yellow, are no longer stooping. The plump pigeons are once again jets, swooping. The twenty-four-hour rainfall is over at last— murky and misty, like my past. The animals waited...
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