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you pretend to be me, I pretend to be you

7/21/2008

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You pretend to be a librarian, I pretend to be a vampire. You pretend to be online, I pretend to be against the wall. You pretend to burn easily, I pretend to lose my marbles. You pretend to take a picture, I pretend to smile for the camera. You pretend I am invisible, I pretend not to know you.

 
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Music: “You’ve Got A Ring of Radiation” the Check Out

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happy birthday get well soon

7/8/2008

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I am smiling. I am smiling at you and holding a bag. What’s in the bag? What? This bag? This green and white bag with the words ‘get well soon’ written on it? What’s in it is a gift for you. A crazy gift for a crazy bon vivant. That means ‘good liver’ en Francais. That means ‘in French’. A liver as in ‘one who lives’ — not the internal organ. I like you and I like giving you gifts. Happy birthday. Holy Mother of All Inequity! I almost forgot: This! Is! For! You! Too! This card that says ‘For someone special’ is for you. Let’s scream. Let’s scream as loud and as long as we can. If we scream in relay we can keep the screams going for a very long time. I’ll scream first, then you start screaming and I will stop and rest my lungs and then start screaming again then you stop and rest and start again and I’ll stop, and on and on. When our lungs feel like burning paper bags we stop. Nos poumons sont comme brûler les sacs en papier bruns, pas comme les organes internes.

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time on our hands

6/18/2008

We’re on a blind date, skipping school
To Canada, to Mexico, to Florida on a plane.
Lost on the opposite side of the country, then back to Washington, DC.

This is the hour when swimming in the ocean
becomes the same thing as crying yourself to sleep.
We play cops and robbers like we’re colored with crayons and recently

seen riding tortoises at the National Zoo. Do I sing karaoke
enough? I Pay for my meals and gas with coins only. From now on I wear a mask
to work. You do something you told yourself you wouldn’t.

The prank phone calls I made twenty years ago are being returned.
Go ahead and laugh until some kind of beverage comes out of your nose.
Now we’re in Buffalo — close your eyes and catch a snowflake on your tongue.

The End. On to the final dance in the rain,
the final letter to Santa Claus and the last kisses under the mistletoe.
No more time to learn how to scuba dive, ice skate, find the right nickname.

No more movies, bubbles or colored lights.
The sun will rise again, but not for someone I care about
whose favorite drink I can’t remember nor mother’s maiden name.

How much do you love your job? What is the meaning of this body piercing?
Where did your furniture come from and where is your favorite
vacation spot? I want to understand you. Ever been to Africa?

Ever eaten a cookie for dinner?
My favorite salad, favorite number, favorite pie, favorite movie
written on a torn corner of a page of the Book of Common Prayer, folded 17 times.

I realize that I’ve been in traffic accidents.
I realize that I left something under my chair when I was eight years old.
I remember learning how to take a shower. I remember body wash.

Hurry! Your favorite toothpaste may be on sale
before the baby is born.
What should we do to relax?

I know you can’t see
even one minute into the future
but in ten years we will be happy.

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the Check Out song: lock down on your brother

6/15/2008

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The Check Out is the name of my band. Enjoy them at this site or check out the Check Out MySpace:
Stop eating stop bathing stop working stop talking: lock down on your brother. Keep monitoring your brother and stop blinking your eyes. Be a super duper yo yo if that’s what it takes to lock down on your brother. With love all things are possible. I can’t paint you a picture, but I can sing you a song:

 
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lemon always wins

6/6/2008

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Put my lemon in your freezer. Lemon
always wins. Your freezer is serious.
A serious place. Have you ever been
to a frozen place with more delicious

stuff? No you haven’t. Who can say what’s won,
what’s lost when we find the truth and stop? Plus
frozen lemons and also mama’s gun
next to the iced vodka, peas, nutritious

breasts of chicken (two) and frozen french fries,
chocolate kisses. A serious place.
And delicious. As I was saying: Know

your freezer. Know its possibilities
and ice cold truths even as we now face
other ways and close our eyes tight and go.

 

Learn more about Italian Sonnets:
Poets.org
Wikipedia
Sonnets.org - selected translations of Petrach

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oratorical gestures for sonambulists

6/2/2008

HEAT.
Head titled to the left, eyes closed, lips slightly apart.
Arms forward, elbows bent upwards, hands raised, palms facing inwards, fingers fanned out.
Hips cocked right, legs shoulders’ width apart, toes pointing upwards.

FRESHNESS.
Head titling slightly left, chin down, eyes closed, lips curled back, teeth slightly apart.
Arms across chest, fingers straight, chest out.
Hips square, left leg one step forward, right leg back balancing on right toes.

HOVERING.
Head tilting slightly back, eyes open gazing upwards, eyebrows raised, mouth in the shape of an O.
Arms straight and raised upwards at a 45 degree angle, palms facing upwards.
Hips forward, knees slightly bent, toes pointing inwards.

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nasa mars phoenix mission twitter

5/23/2008

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mars phoenix twitter

NASA is twittering the upcoming Phoenix Mission to the Martian North Pole. You can also track the mission –in a social Web kind of way– via the NASA JPL facebook page.

NASA Twitter and Facebook for the MArs Phoenix Mission

Social networking, microblogging and NASA? Good, good and good!

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