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INEVITABLY, I FIGHT AGAINST THE INEVITABLE
If you want to create a certain mood, Strike the following keys. Use this rhythm and you will never be misunderstood. The blues are actually angry. The melancholy taint is just a tease. I’m tired of...
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THE AVANT-GARDE IS LOOKING FOR A NEW (BLACK) BOYFRIEND
Cathy Park Hong: “Fuck the avant-garde.” But does she really mean it? For its whole existence, Scarriet has hammered away at Modernism—and its Avant-garde identity—as nothing but a meaningless,...
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FAG HAGS, COCK TEASES, AND RICHARD WAGNER
Richard Wagner. We need infinite patience for love—and Wagner’s exquisite music. Civilization exists because people grow old—otherwise there would be no civilization at all. A beautiful woman growing...
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UNTRUE
You loved me loving your love Which loved love but not me, A song without meaning sung melodiously, A bird singing but not to the other bird— Love speaking beautifully without meaning a single word....
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IF YOU ANTICIPATE THIS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY
Not everything is possible with love, But passion definitely gives you a shove. You may have been competitive and agitated before, But love has made you compare yourself to others a little more. Since...
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THE LAST STAR
The morning sky’s cloudy variety, The horizon’s depth of yellow With a mass of lights and darks nearer and slowly moving, A painting filling the window, Is the sacred work of the last star, Beauty too...
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ONE HUNDRED GREATEST FOLK SONGS (PERFORMANCES) OF ALL TIME
Pete Seeger: Song owes more to him than anyone else. It is fitting this Scarriet List of Greatest Folk Songs should appear in the wake of Pete Seeger’s passing (January 27, 2014). Folk music (who has...
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THE POET DOES WHATEVER HE WANTS
The poet does whatever he wants, In the soul the soul-things flaunts, In the soul a little song he sings Which he loves because you love these things. The secret is that a little song Is what the...
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I FOUGHT IN THE WAR OF LOVE
I fought in the war of love With a thousand others fighting. The movie set was a dream, From the fluttering flags of the ships to the red lapping waters. (The ships were tipping, and as they burned,...
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IS SHE NECESSARY?
Is she necessary because of her kisses? Or for that beauty which this beauty otherwise misses? That beauty is hers, hers the beauty that she Lavishes when her eyes float and she kisses me And her...
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VANITY FAIR: NAUGHTY AND CLASSY
Thomas Brady with the December 2014 issue of Vanity Fair: nothing shall escape him. Let us read the issue cover to cover. Scarriet will confront art culture as it lives in a literary fashion magazine,...
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NO BOOBS! VANITY FAIR, DECEMBER 2014, PART TWO
In the “Vanities” page of December’s issue, Diana Bang, a 33 year old unknown actress, is photographed in a white Gucci dress—she’s appearing in a new film with Seth Rogan and James Franco. Also...
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IT’S NOT FINISHED YET, I SAID
When the muse looked in on me, I suppose she was just being kind, But I don’t like to see Anyone reading my mind. When the muse looked in on me, My poem was almost done. The purple clouds nearly...
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I BEGAN MY NOVEL
I began my novel. I had nothing, really, to tell; My life is not one for the ages; My story, I decided, would cover ten years. But after I wrote ten pages I broke down in tears. Oh! what good is the...
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WHAT DOES THE HISTORY OF POETRY LOOK LIKE?
Thomas Eliot set the old poetry world in order, by george, he did! T.S. Eliot was correct to remind us that the Tradition—Works in Time that We Read Now—evolves constantly as a whole by every present...
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“GIRL, YOU GOT TO LOVE YOUR MAN”—WHEN HE’S ALMOST DEAD
Happy Birthday, Lizard King. Jim Morrison turns 71 this week. We’ve come to realize that there’s nothing a woman hates more than an arrogant know-it-all. Guys can banter back and forth about ‘expert’...
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THE ONLY UNCERTAIN THING IS THE HEART OF THE ONE WE LOVE
The only thing we really want Is to feel what one we love is feeling Tenderly and earnestly, And with more conviction Than we feel; it can be real. It can be fiction. But let the other feel with more...
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YOU CAN’T HANDLE RACISM, YOU CAN’T HANDLE LOVE
She will go back to her husband If you say the wrong thing. If you say the wrong thing (will you? will you?) You’ll get a slap in the face. Don’t talk about her husband (pride is all), Don’t talk...
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THE WORK OF HUNTERS IS ANOTHER THING
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is...
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WHAT DO WE EAT?
What do we eat when we eat someone’s kisses? What do we drink when we drink someone’s soul? Why does love always leave us in pieces? Why can’t two halves ever equal a whole? The man wants to come home...
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