November 2008
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“We should be grateful for complicated explanations: simple ones are lies.”
– Marty Peretz
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on the panoramic
what is it about windows with views that make them so starable out of?
there are days, i wake up, i want to gaze at the horizon
as if it were the only interesting thing
as if it wasn’t composed of buildings and people
it isn’t a matter of comprehension or of ownership
it just makes me feel belongingly
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“You’ve seen things my memoirs won’t say.”
– Robert Forster
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one (hyphenated) word:
vis-cereal.
instinctively good cereal!
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nostalgiod.
definition: a single unit of nostalgia, approx. equal to one back in the day, or 10 sighs followed by long glances out the window. Abbrev. nost.
common measurements:
Song from way back when - 5 nosts
That disgusting musty smell that old things have - 8 nosts
Sepia - 15 nosts
Childhood play item - 50 nosts
Disintegrating letter from an old friend - 2x10^3 nosts
note: when...
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I will forever remember this fall as the season that nearly ruined my life.
Consumed with worry over the outcome of elections here, I locked myself into my room, accepting only the occasional calls for food and water. Day and night I connected to flows of information, never missing the slightest poll fluctuation or media reaction. Gazing deeply into possibilities that I could not much affect and...
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the briefest of digressions on dinosaurs
where do the dinosaurs go when the history book is closed?
bonus question:
where do the dinosaurs go when the history books are burnt?
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lightbulbs hang
across familiar spans
revealing every nothing left
perhaps it will all fade soon
twin lightbulbs hang
and my solitude is not returning to me.
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