The movie showed both your delight and your weariness. The delight showed most when you were training your dog Rothko, methodically rewarding him and praising him when he accomplished his tricks.
Letter to Benita
Creak; Chef’s Special; Time Travelers; Green Dot; Upon Reading that Delmore Schwartz Was Arrested for Trashing His Hotel Room after the Poetry Festival (1962)
Much as I long for the remembered real I dwell more now on memories that never were.
“The Drama” and the New Morally Grey Leading Lady
This movie could be a turning point for Hollywood’s writers if the modern North American audience is ready to face a strong leading lady who simultaneously holds such a strong contradiction within her.
no one else to tell…lol
throwing out my brother’s autograph book from grammar school
Poems Written Before the Executioner
Swan Song
to tears, I am tragically bored the spines creased, the birds alone in their forests whistle sweet little songs to warn the others: this is my spot, my tree, my world you’d better stay away.
How I Write
I write with the tips of my fingers, extended through each digit from crackling knuckle, out from the wrist and down from the elbow, the shoulder, the neck and then the rotting brain, the brain, the mysterious box of rain that I can’t explain further.