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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12 November 2013

Thank you pleas



No, do not/I will not


accept/have need without


desire/possession mined in


trial of error/an arbor day


I cannot want to be


a tree, not nothing screaming


moseying, viceroying mythic


fluff - it gets harder, more


of curses, left behind hankies


now meaningful appearance of


no sight, bile-blooded crane


torches tickle-less neck, tit


unpreened, in appreciation


pile on if your band name is better


than mine/here I am without


melody’s/tongue, unfriended


befuddler decrying, on distance thinned


are still for me, and from


me you may anytime receive


rejuvenate, incarnate love is not love


which alters when it alteration finds


lover who obsesses, warms me


damns - could were it willed


do what you will, as is the custom


I fear, the more I gain of partial


custody/to be seen by all, known


as available/in wrest of


form, tearing you awayed


look back not


even once you have


not even to cross off list


recollections musket/invocation of early


morning you stole frequently


away, into mist that welded blades of


comfort sheathe my collick


your hair clumped on


timeless ruffling seas of lips


in automatonic service of


history- lust enduring being loosed


ferries self into over all again


uncontainable in the grist


once man, new to note-finding


had, how could man steel


back from self-hiatus, saying everything right


but curses! - far and too-lightly and in chorus


late… from what you were willing


to share with me


and in whom else, possibility


find caring ears except with


in so far as you lived where


you in love, meet you who refuses when


even in service of memory - for obvious


reasons… your fear behest far fended off


childhood stills, possessions, frieze


do you really want, intend, predict avoidance


forever behind/long a viable cross


bore rambo whom you are not


hypocritically, waveringly fall/you stand, you are tall


once you get up/wishfully my





answers only go so far/ahead of me