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.