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Monthly Archives: February 2010

heart humming wild like a bird

but his horse

Read “Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town, After the Coronation” by that daydreaming irritable slave Alexander Pope.

If he thought divorce would give her pleasure in any way he would stay married the rest of his life to her, for damned spite.

Read “The October Game” by Ray Bradbury.

Who fails to consider the/Flim and flam of the world

Barack Obama’s undergraduate poetry is pretty weird, but not bad, and if nothing else better than Jimmy Carter’s. (via, which includes lots of other poems by heads of state)

not really haiku, but fun

Their backs stubbornly faced the danger, and then were swallowed up by it. Frank was a good man. She had no reason to be unhappy with him. They watch her struggle to stay awake, the dolls gripped tightly in each hand. I just look at her. The moonlight slides over her face like a slow [...]

les fourmis

Every round went two minutes. If you stepped out of the ring, you lost. If you cried, you lost. If you got knocked out or if you yelled stop, you lost. Afterwards we drank Coca-Colas and smoked Marlboros, our chests heaving, our faces all different shades of blacks and reds and yellows.

Read “Refresh, Refresh” by Benjamin Percy.

there are beautiful white birds/that live completely in flight

Read “In Flight” by Jennifer K. Sweeney (from the 2009 James Laughlin Award-winning book How to Live on Bread and Music).

Google Book Settlement

The Department of Justice has concerns. (via)

What a stressful workplace. The minute your Cute Rating drops you’re a goner. Guests rank us as Knockout, Honeypie, Adequate, or Stinker. Not that I’m complaining. At least I’m working.

Read “Sea Oak” by George Saunders.