What’s Happening
(“Write 19 lines under that heading and I’ll post it” – DL to DS)
- Mostly decathected as they say in analysis: forget forget!
- I pause don’t dance don’t leap. “I rarely dance.”
- I don’t own the four volumes of Herzen just a sliced bio like his bio.
- “Bankers are roaring like beasts on the floor of the Bourse”
- What’s better? Alain Delon and Monica Vitti loiter at stock exchange.
- Someone dies, a minute of silence grows, then the beasts roar back.
- I love stringing beads in a bead store in New Orleans. Beads in trees.
- I wanted a random necklace to give to a random friend.
- I was attacked for randomness. It was indeed too expected.
- The critic’s glasses are flying, and also a Mondrian flower torn apart.
- “I am afraid of nothing. I have BEEN to Mexico.”
- Spinoza the lovable philosopher fried spiders and watched: what?
- Don’t overcome obstacles, find easiness. KK’s motto from VL
- What’s happening? What am I thinking? “Do you actually think?”
- Ron Padgett: you don’t actually think I will read all this, do you?
- Don’t ever use the past tense in discussing physical beauty.
- My friend said he was sinking into the white spaces between letters.
- Whitman said “Leave the best unsaid———————————-
- How do you end a poem? With the proper sense of endlessness.
in memory of KK
— David Shapiro [March 31, 2009]
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Author: The Best American Poetry
