November 8, 2009
nogoodboyo: Sarah. Just saw John’s posting of this on your wall. When you said “identical,” I didn’t realize you were 100% for serious. This is so weird. And I’m going to go ahead and assume that yours was thrifted as well? Man. Also: is yours a child’s large, too? Tim. Mine was a birthday gift from the boyfriend at the time. A year ago today, actually. Not thrifted. Child’s large. Can we match sometime? Tonight?

nogoodboyo:

Sarah. Just saw John’s posting of this on your wall.

When you said “identical,” I didn’t realize you were 100% for serious. This is so weird. And I’m going to go ahead and assume that yours was thrifted as well? Man.

Also: is yours a child’s large, too?

Tim. Mine was a birthday gift from the boyfriend at the time. A year ago today, actually. Not thrifted. Child’s large. Can we match sometime? Tonight?

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Autumn Day

Lord: it is time. The summer was immense.
Lay your shadow on the sundials
and let loose the wind in the fields.

Bid the last fruits to be full;
give them another two more southerly days,
press them to ripeness, and chase
the last sweetness into the heavy wine.

Whoever has no house now will not build one
anymore.
Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long
time,
will stay up, read, write long letters,
and wander the avenues, up and down,
restlessly, while the leaves are blowing.

Rilke

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Tim. I not only own an identical article of clothing, but slept in it last night. Did you know it glows in the dark? nogoodboyo: Dear Aubry and Rachel, Thank you for the potato mashers (yes, you can call them that). They fit, technically, and I think the stegosauri and pterodactyls are really neat. I will probably pass them down to my children, when they get to be college age. I look forward to seeing you guys soon. Much love, Tim

Tim. I not only own an identical article of clothing, but slept in it last night.

Did you know it glows in the dark?

nogoodboyo:

Dear Aubry and Rachel,

Thank you for the potato mashers (yes, you can call them that). They fit, technically, and I think the stegosauri and pterodactyls are really neat. I will probably pass them down to my children, when they get to be college age. I look forward to seeing you guys soon.

Much love,

Tim

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“ A lot of the poems that mean the most to me are the ones that are faster and bolder than logic, that defy straightforward paraphrase and explanation but create an indelible effect or sensation—the ones, in other words, that I am least equipped to write about but can read and re-read in the hopes that I’ll be able to pick up their charge as if it were static electricity.
Douglas Wolk, from this article on what literary criticism can learn from good poetry. •
October 28, 2009

ptbruiser:

Dark Was the Night / hot coffee / Plato’s Republic.

Noah and the whale/hot coffee/Dante’s Inferno

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Consider a Move

The steady time of being unknown,

in solitude, without friends,

is not a steadiness that sustains.

I hear your voice waver on the phone:

Haven’t talked to anyone for days.

I drive around, I sit in parking lots.

The voice zeroes through my ear, and waits.

What should I say? There are ways

to meet people you will want to love?

I know of none. You come out stronger

having gone through this? I no longer

believe that, if I once did. Consider a move,

a change, a job, a new place to live,

some place you’d like to be. That’s not it,

you say. Now time curves back. We almost touch.

Then what is? I ask. What is?

Michael Ryan

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Moleskine haiku dumping

I process in haiku.

1. Give me daily bread,

but do not give me too much,

or I won’t hunger.

2. Descarte existed

only because he doubted.

Should I doubt his doubting?

3. Thomas Merton claimed

no man is an island.

I am Alaska.

4. It’s like finding a

bug in your backpack when you’re

in Antarctica.

(Leah Samuelson, on familiar pieces of art)

5. Fall has come at last.

Leaves are thrown down under boots;

I am their crier.

6. Oh the great good luck

of being alive today.

I am so lucky.

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“ Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name,
you are mine.
When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sleep over you.
Isaiah 43 •
“ If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Chinese proverb, as heard from Peter Karanja •
“ Hope empties our hands in order that we may work with them. It shows us that we have something to work for, and teaches us how to work for it.
Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island •