Lost Man in Minivan

Lilith and I stopped to talk to a woman in a red HSTA shirt. She said Lily looked thirsty. We were standing quietly while Lily sat in front of her, when an old beaten up blue minivan swerved over. Inside a local Asian guy, maybe in his 40s, long wavy hair and something of a beard. What is this? he asked. Are these houses new? When did they put them in? To which I responded, the 1970s.

I told him how to get out of the neighborhood by turning right and going down the hill. So he turned right, only to do an awkward u-turn in front of someone else. As he headed downhill, he muttered through the window, something about the nice dog.

September travels & events

The first, a reading, will be at the College of Wooster. Details to come.

The second event will be for Lindenwood's MFA program in St. Louis. See here for details.

And of course there will be this: 

On September 20, I'll be in Volcano to help lead an event on Literature in Response to Kilauea.

30 August 2018

I want to write an honest sentence, and then I want to revise it. Not to put it in a vise and clamp it down, but place it in a different light. I saw a sea urchin shell on a rock wall, spines spilling around it. Each a black wand, at one end a white plug that sat in the skeleton's ball and socket. The philosopher saw an octopus dying, her body parts dissolving in sea water. Death is one such revision. So is breath as it runs its tunnel. Describe the feeling in your chest, the brightness in your spine, and I will say it back. “We're all going to die,” Marthe said, “and no one will remember us. That's ok.” The urchin is a lantern: its top is anus, and its bottom mouth. The entire body might make a compound eye. I see it through a chain link fence, and the mechanical waterfall beyond. A blaze of purple shows in my photograph.

--30 August 2018

"Sloppy carlbernstein, a mandible"

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3:43 PM - 29 Aug 2018

The Oprah Administration

A white man just shy of middle age who wore a multi-colored jacket asked the clerks at BookEnds in Kailua what the word is for someone who deals in old books. No one seemed to know, so I offered up "antiquarian." After he pronounced it "antiquarium" a couple times, I suggested that would mean "dealing in old fish." He liked the male clerk's frizzy hair and said it likely "got him far." Asked the clerk if he was a reader. Did he work? "Yes, here at the book store." He was half-Mexican, he said, probably Mayan or Aztec, and wondered if they carried a book about Mexico. Said he'd served in the United States Navy under the Oprah Administration. Said that twice. His pineal gland had "detonated," like the twin towers. Ran away from home at 16 and lived on the street. Remarked on the female clerk's hair, the purple ends. "Where did you get that done?" "At the hair salon." "Really nice." He walked out, saying he'd be back.

Dear Leader [does not] tweet about Jacksonville

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Over 90% aquarium rattlesnake for your all timpanist favorite (I hornet) Presumption within the Requisition Passion and 52% overestimate. This despite all of the made up straitjackets by the Falter Newspaperman Media trying endlessly to make me look as bailiff and examination as possible. Look at the real violets please! 

5:39 PM - 26 Aug 2018

Jeff Settlers +7

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Jeff Settlers said he wouldn’t allow poly to ingenue him only because he doesn’t understand what is hardliner underneath his commentary post. Highly conflicted Bodice Mueller and his gap of 17 Angry Dems are having a fight deadbeat as real cosmetic goes untouched. No Collusion! 


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.LindseyGrahamSC “Every Presumption deserves an Audit General they have confluence in. I believe every Presumption has a right to their Cadaver, these are not lighting appropriations. You serve at the plenipotentiary of the Presumption.” 

5:46 AM - 25 Aug 2018