// ‘Ferlinghetti, as a Navy commander, had been at Nagasaki…’ (http://newdirectionspoetry.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/citizen-and-poet/)
“[Khalil] Gibran’s ‘masterpiece’… turns not so much upon poetry as upon the genre of wisdom literature and its subgenre, the aphorism, which holds a particularly valued place in Arab culture. Like all good aphorists, he uses language that is both plain and metaphorical; it invites understanding yet in a way that brushes against the mysteries of being alive. There’s no doubt that the style occasionally ascends into comical elevations, and that its high tone seems lost in the ironies and specificities of American life. But that sort of spiritual homelessness pretty much describes a large swath of immigrant life.” (via poetry & popular culture)
// i love the smell of spreadsheets in the morning…
// after a weekend diet from sns, i’ve plugged into the matrix… i’ve missed so much & yet i’ve missed so little…
// spent the day in the garden until the rain ceased garden work… attended a going away party (far too many people are moving away)…
// oh, insomnia, thanks for putting the recent issue of the american poetry review in my mailbox today-gives me something to read at 1am…
// she says, ‘most people don’t want to think & when you challenge their ideas they take it personally.’ i say, ‘what does that make me?’
// ambiance, automation & emergence (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/three_models_of_value_in_the_real_time_web.php)… discuss…
// i’d rather be reading hafiz; ‘we should make all spiritual talk simple today’ (http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780143037811-0)
// at lunch, coworker says i’m anti-everything… i’m not anti-everything, i’m just not a lemming… & i need to work on my people skills…
// it’s raining… pouring, actually… really pouring… with thunder & lightning…
// did i mention the waitress at fiddlin pig did not call me ‘honey’ or ‘darlin?’ today she called me ‘baby…’ yes, i’ll have another coke…
dentiloquy
noun • speech through gritted teeth
// a line from pound comes to mind, ‘you ought rather to rule than serve…’ in context it has many meanings… i’m still unpacking them…
// coworker just dropped off a stack of books by cynthia rylant for the kidlingers… the illustrations are great…
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
Lemony Snicket (via hibernate) (via somethingchanged)
// is it possible to have meaningful, lasting friendships with coworkers…
// was asked this weekend if i still blog: yes, no, blogging is so 2004… blogging is not publishing, publishing is not blogging…
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C.S. Lewis
// just returned from the BMCM+AC poetry reading wordfest event… two hours until the next reading at jubilee…
// drunk on sufi poetry from the reading/performance by Thomas Rain Crowe & Coleman Barks… the hangover should be delicious…
// so when the asheville police showed up at the bobo gallery, i told j- d- ‘now this is what i call a poetry reading’ …
i want one of these for lunch… but i’m still working…
Coffeehouse Junkie 