Kafka Cooks Dinner
I am so filled with despair as the time grows near when she will come and I have not even begun to make a decision about what I will offer her. I am so afraid I will fall back on the Kartoffel Surprise, and it’s no surprise to her anymore. I mustn’t, I mustn’t.
Aggressive Glass and Mirrors
“I didn’t know he was famous,” my husband said.
I said, “He said all he knew is that he wanted to be famous.” I had praised Yves.
Later that night I glared at my husband. The time limit was a few seconds. I think when you’re younger the first idea you have is that adults want to talk.
Little House
Little house
clay house
thousands of funeral smell
ground swell
Vial
She came bearing
A dark-green oil.
The Great Loneliness
By March the hay bales were ripped open
exposed in the open fields
like bloated gray mice
who died in December.
Pastorelle 2
reminder that the object is a song
for which the troubadours commanded themselves to a life between
risk of holding back
risk of not holding back and the death of desire
from Writing is Never By Itself Alone: Six Mini-Essays On Relational Investigative Poetics
Currently in the U.S.A., the practice of intellectual analysis seems like an act of defiance. Fundamentalist logic pervades and is being used to justify many domestic and foreign policy decisions—from the notion that poverty can be controlled through faith-based initiatives, to establishing the parameters of an “axis of evil” that threatens “freedom.”
Did You Know?
Did You Know?
1957 — U.S. public school/elementary student pie consumption — at least 14 pieces annually (school year)
1982 — student pie consumption — 4 pieces
1999 — s.p.c. — 1.77777703 pieces
Did You Know?
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The New York School
The e-mail from Hanoi reads: Babar was a colonial foil, beset by pygmy riffraff, whose trunk was the family tree of empire. Postcolonial theory adopts the unexamined rhetoric of adoption, bien sur.