I am excited to see you, as you know

If you find strength, hope enough to return to my home


you will discover I have chosen solitude over seduction - must have grown


unfearing to tell that I am in love - hallowing, sanctifying for us this space


that when you declare you love me again, it will have been worth the wait.

140-character poems, 2

These series are all screenshots from my mobile devices, upon which collaborator and I exploit SMS technology's limited byte allowances.

 

Exquisite Corpse at the Merryweather's, 2

Conclusion to the collaborative night with Rebecca Mark, Kay Merryweather, and Jesse Newman.

 

Exquisite Corpse at the Merryweather's,1

An evening with Rebecca Mark, Kay Merryweather, and Jesse Newman.

Gravity sucks freestyle at poetry reading, 2

Gravity sucks freestyle at poetry reading, 1

 

 This is how arms enclasp
this is pushing inward
this is how one pushes and sways
this is how they fell this is
how we grow - this is heavy shit
this is how you became a dead man - this is how
you rushed her way
this is the lake house/this is
my lake house
this is exactly how you get to my lake house
This is how you get
to the road to get to
the lake house this
is how you turn on
the car this is how
you get out the
door I don't know
how to get out the
door she said
this is how she said we
did it last year
this is how to close your eyes
    on stab
this is how to lock the door
this is how to stab
this is how you survive
a stabbing kiss the
victim don't be
the victim.
this is how this how the
        world should end
this is how we can already see it.

Gravity sucks

Jesse Newman: 2010

Jesse Newman: 2010
1 July - 31 July

Opening Reception 1 July 6p-8p

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Plan for Figment (in silence) Festival 2010 for Gravity Sucks

Gravity sucks is a collaboration with Jesse Newman (Performer in video below - raw footage from Figment 2010), who has previously appeared in our blog posts - Check out his blog While this machine is to him.

Invocation: Silent, solitary, suffocating, and stilling bout of immediate laughter.

Ties: Appear unable to figure out how to tie a tie, so seek out and attain aid from chanced-upon tie-wearers.

Pictures: Attempt to convince passersby to film and photograph performance of familiarity, the products of which will be compiled on blog.

Approvals: Do anything for as long as physically possible except talk.

Introductions: Be unwilling to progress further than a handshake or hug with stranger.

Charities: Convince passersby to accept one penny and that they owe nothing to anyone.

Separations: Undertake with aid of notes to establish unique 'six degrees' that separate two apparent strangers.

Not losers just lost

I'm lost already

don't smile -
I'm not smiling

b/c if yu smile
yu may give yrself
away

a smile once offered
cannot be reclaimed
it bears yu naked
to the world

your hopes, miseries
envisionings of self
past

it even shows sadness
in yr absence

Sir, don't smile - yu'll
give away, perhaps
to someone you could not have
intended, or will ever know

mayb even to this poor
sportsman, whose past
is a batter's allusion

To all your hungry
cold men
now, forever underfoot:

get lost
don't, don't yu smile -

Benji + I on broken + bowed guitar @ hArlemspace

Sounds like, I think, more than one instrument with reverb . . . Or mayb Im just trippin like I do...

jEsse orations

jEsse, a precocious student and erudite mentor of mine, reading original compositions. Offscreen I direct him, but next time I'll let him flow his own ways. This was captured on webcam so please excuse tha staggering, just listen to this writer's words and you just may begin to-