Ode to 2008

Bells: Ay, she was good to me.
Whistles: Ay, she was good to me.

Flight Status

Check.
Refresh.

Monkey Face: Preferred 2 to 1

Symptom: boots and books lost in flood waters, a metaphor.
Cure: recall that this isn't the lottery, but pottery, poetry.

Une poche

Symptom: you have forgotten your keys for the first time in your life.
Cure: go to the movies.

Une oeuvre

Symptom: Les moments volés valent-ils plus que le doughnut?
Remedy: (Rappelons): l'intimité de la forme (et son inverse) ne vaut rien sans l'ambassade.

(images courtesy www.furhatworld.com)

As seen on

a. the train
b. the tele
c. the liver

Color me

Seasonal: tables, toasts, gusto.
Hybrid: trains, basements, parents.
Delicate: all of the above plus future rendez-vous.

Chords

A. Living in the midst of elevated symbols and magnificent allegories, he too easily lets himself be drawn into translating his characters into tones and _______.
B. But these reservations must not make us forget that, with ___________, we find ourselves in the presence of a work of exceptional quality.
(E.V.--with omissions).

Degrees

(1) form, which is fundamental to the object.
(2) objective surface, which, being an intrinsic component of form, is equally fundamental to the whole.
(3) subjective surface, which is a mere illusion of the visual faculties.
--A.R.

Poise

Symptom: you telescope in on various psychic networks thanks to a dream of forgetting that you had to remember was only a dream. (a.m.)
Cure: it is always about water. (p.m.)

333

A: "... necessity was the inventor of clothing, and what has art to with necessity?"
B: "In poetry a garment is not a garment; it conceals nothing; our imagination sees right through it."
--GEL

We love great works

Era 1: anxiety was the motor.
Era 2: pleasure is the motor.

AND SO DID WE

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flash: Change is here

Monday: excellent news has arrived.
Tuesday: more excellent news must arrive.

Calling Fossils

Symptom: there is fear that there are no pigeons in Chicago.
Cure: work at your desk and keep looking outside.

Clowns

Symptom: there are people, includng your fathers, who will not change their voting pattern.
Cure: attribute it to altitude sickness; lack of oxygen. Take a full cup of cottage cheese mixed with flax oil and cayenne pepper. Once daily.

Do Not Play


unless you want proof (of both symptom and cure).

Myopia

Symptom: mass popular websites describe your eternal condition.
Cure: consult the professional to whom you render weekly payment; continue to render payment. (cough, cough)

You Old

Symptom: hostage situations, "you must be....."; you think you might have been a police detective in a former incarnation.
Cure: lucky breaks, deals, surveillance videos, and writing on the flight of impulse.

How to relax

1. coffee stop
2. cigarettes stop
3. yes stop
4. worry stop

Love, your friend located between the visible and the speakable

Despues

Symptom: tick tock.
Cure: shape, impressions, and that theory you forgot to read.

B.C.

1. McCain
2. Obama

Hurlements (?)

A. Exchange value (?)
B. Self-portrait.

Please Cubs Please

Bottom of the 4th: swing on a ball.
Top of the 4th: we're gonna pop some hits.

sagittal planes

View 1: one has been speechless.
View 2: one has been particularly focused.

What you think

Symptom: bluster, bubble, uncongenial. Bad hair.
Cure: stems and roots. Be judicious. Serious.

Décor

Symptom: you are the youngest person there; you are a hippie.
Cure: let it all hang out. Carnet in hand, flex.

Between a Rock

Symptom: last day of summer.
Cure: first day of summer, next year.

Le Sac

Symptom: summer is going, going....
Cure: parka.

Atlas*

1.a: (...) " Par un tel continuum, l'extérieur ne se distingue pas de l'intérieur, rien ne se découpe ni se tranche, ni l'art en parties, ni en éléments les choses."

1.b.: (...) "L'histoire de l'histoire naturelle expose donc, au long des siècles, une méditation continuée, exacte et variée, sure le thème du lieu, en s'élevant de la localité concrète, traversée par l'observateur et vécue par l'observé, à l'espace propre à une nomenclature raisonnée."

*M. Serres

A Real No Hitter

Runs Batted In: construction, design-less towns, visits, and the ticking clock.
What does this mean: downtime, human Sunday style. And chicken.

Plastico

Symptom: the people need to have the scales ripped from their eyes; people are saying that they are reminded of 04.
Cure: set up shrines now.

Wig on a Pig

Symptom: the outrage is palpable everywhere.
Cure: let them wear lipstick.

Your Concepts are Showing*

A. Scientific
B. "Commercial"
C.__________. (drw)
D. Hobby.

(*Minor White)

The Simple Things

Wet: the streets, the sandwich, the floor.
Dry: the wring around the flat, find the dead spaces and eradicate them.

White shoes

Labor: playing trombone in a cemetery; 97 degrees; 100% humidity; losing streak.
Memorial: W.

("I think about my work every minute of the day." --Jeff Koons)

Runs batted in

Symptom: lots of play.
Cure: go to bed early, make more tacos, and get out the blue mat. Make the change.

Eight into one

Monday, Wednesday: projects for real.
Tuesday, Thursday: the out of doors; purchasing opportunities.

Archaeology of Cake II

Layered: second helpings of that view that made you say, "What's in here?"
Tiered: do some yard work, finish the lingering tasks, and go with the flow.

Last night dreaming

1. [T]he French usage requires an accent on the second e, in the formation of the compound term.
2. We may say in brief, however, that a plate of silver upon copper is prepared, presenting a surface for the action of the light, of the most delicate texture conceivable. --EAP

How to sit

1. Be calm.
2. Look the span.

Mine, yours, and theirs

Impressionist: there and not there.
Pointillist: just sexy.

We were five

Three days: cousin, cousin, Lantis Lady, yourself, and the (former) sleeping bear.
Four days: drive.

electric-leaves-electric-waterfall

Take today: El pastor, tortilla, limes, limes, piri-piri, one gingerbread man.
Cette semaine: Chicago-Minneapolis-Crystal, N.D.-Minneapolis-Chicago.

The Pigeons

Gaston: And whenever space is a value--there is no greater value than intimacy--it has magnifying properties.
Roland: Je suis fou.

Where you walk.

Symptom: your new apartment is named 910 Foxy; you love where you work, walk, and who you talk to.
Cure: tell the past thank you, tell your Mom thank you, and look for the pigeon who is your dead grandmother: she has something to tell you.

Que Linda

Near: the lost details that only you notice.
Far: it looks real, it feels real, so go with it. As they say, beauty.

First Impressions

Ceilings: higher makes for 3 foot bubbles.
Floors: wood makes for better.

New Address

"The house shelters day-dreaming."

(for: The Holiday Inn Business Suite, and then The Honeycomb Hideout).

From the rooftop

Symptom: the passage from cordial
Cure: to vocal (à bon chat, bon rat)

The archaeology of cake

The scene of the crime: one weekend in 03--an emptied pool, belt buckles, upstate.
Returning to the scene: en route, them; thinking about criminality--theirs, mine, everyone's.