Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. Jose Ortega y Gasset





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19 January 2009

While You Sing Your Pop Song







Why You Sing Your Pop
Song







Blank green branches
spin around in an unnaturally



white valley. Simply
while you, completed in your gaze, you



knew that you would be
sustained. This ion's what turns



if I relate the drifty
rocks within which the day would



position its antlers.
Because maybe it begins with a



tempoaray contract, and
is sometimes less tenuous if it stands for



passing by billboards,
while within all minerals with a penchant



for hitching rides in
raindrops, these few parachuted out



some of the hopes they
had chewed in their fully petrified



annual rings, except the
few that had already been excluded



in the highly groomed
library aisles that conclude



most mausoleums. You
were no longer tilting our blindness,



being calmied in a
toupee. The strands of your hair trembled,



Your fingers were shaky.
A fish sang in your air,
ad then you remembered something. Even
so you are



edgy in the rocks'
shrinkingly traslucant smokes, even so



the one badly made up of
ventriloquist's doll naming stars



outside the window
strains to see when the one



gentlemen caller flashes
across the viewfinder.



Paul
Baumann