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La pluie verglaçante, le soir: mentir un peu

But: but there is blossoming.
Pourtant: "Quel est ce murmure sentimental qui s'élève? Les fauteuils d'orchestre se prendraient-ils pour des musiciens?"--Aragon

Appropriate Lighting

Stack: all things in a random order and obey instinct.
Pile: up your towels on the make-shift couch and get ready for the construction guys.

Plante herbacée vivace, vénéneuse

Symptom: Elles peuvent être isolées--feuilles alternes--ou par paires, en face l'une de l'autre.
Cure: Water frequently; prunes.

Iampersuadedthatfossilsarealive1

1.Robinet via Bachelard
2.And the dark green yews growing under the taller trees were familiar to me too, as familiar as the cool air which enveloped me at the bottom of the ravine and the countless windflowers covering the woodland floor, faded now in April...--Sebald

Protect your brain

Pocket change: lint, behavior, and ribs.
Cash coins: plantes grasses, rayons, change. And satire.

On the dichotomies of inside and outside

You're: white duct tape; fennel soup; rabbit leg and peas.
Not kidding: republicans; champagne; t.v. news anchors from Minnesota.

Still stripes: Why didn't we meet then?

Scrabble: win
Parcheesi: draw; you are older now.

Steaming

Symptom: no symptom
Cure: continue doing what you are doing and make sure to listen to the good kind. Additionally, when buying gifts for babies, buy gift for self.

who, what, when, where, how, huh

Hey: symptom
Hey yo: cure

Days of construction

Symptom: les impots/taxes; your calculator is solar powered and there is no sun.
Remedy: soon: the French Open; the upcoming visits of the gay boys (2 doses, enfin); chicken milanese and the little yellow box.

Modern Gothic Cycles

Symptom: flowers/branches
Remedy: branches/flowers; also, take time to rearrange the apartment, but only slightly.

Wearing stripes is a happy gesture

Raindrop 1: you like spring?
Raindrop 2: no. sometimes. Nice shirt.

(for mow)

on était danseuse, une fois

Constructeur: sois, sois, sois...
Destructeur: distance. Madonna. Fascist. and time.

"But man, whether fortunately or unfortunately, is not a bird."*

A. unconscious sprawling in aisle experienced by man on bus.
B. woman attempts to convey religious views.
C. man throws self on grenade.

*John Dewey

Beautiful Garbage

!: so one day, this chicken walked into a bar. She turned to the bartender and said, "hey, It's really raining cats and dogs out there."
?: the bartender replied: keep your shirt on. And then he winked.

for C.H. and her beautiful variations.

Air and brains

Symptom: can all of them be truly gone?
Remedy: don't fear the levity of gone.

The Recent Past is the New Black

Symptom: you are recovering. It may take hours. It may take days.
Cure: The recent past.
(for AM at Apple)

I am a lobster sans shell

Symptom: Such things mark the passage of time with far greater accuracy than we know, and they fill time with shapes of a limited variety. Like crustaceans we depend for survival upon an outer skeleton, upon a shell of historic cities and houses filled with things belonging to definable portions off the past. Our ways of describing this visible past are still most awkward -George Kubler

Disater: two days pass. You decide to get back to the blog now that the work is done. you realize that you have deleted 9000 photographs. The slate of the past is cleaner than you would have ever thought clean.

Working man

Tickets: cap, hole-punch, no-nonsense.
Please: politesse, gum, thought bubble: la tour Eiffel.