cake and coke again

I cannot believe myself. After cheating yesterday and enjoying a three-coke day, I decided to skip the cereal and go with the cake and coke again.

Okay, this isn't terribly surprising, but I am sooo asking for it.

I guess I am kind of depressed, seeing my poetry aspirations fall apart again. Now I see that the only way I can ever care to try my own poetry is if I lose easy access to computers and the Internet, in which case book-blogging would be lost to me, since I need some serious word-processing facility to make that work, with all that typing of book-text. And, of course, I would need something more than just reading books. And I don't think simply journaling with pen and paper will be able to do it for me anymore. Then would be the time for shitty poetry.

cake and coke again

I cannot believe myself. After cheating yesterday and enjoying a three-coke day, I decided to skip the cereal and go with the cake and coke again.

Okay, this isn't terribly surprising, but I am sooo asking for it.

I guess I am kind of depressed, seeing my poetry aspirations fall apart again. Now I see that the only way I can ever care to try my own poetry is if I lose easy access to computers and the Internet, in which case book-blogging would be lost to me, since I need some serious word-processing facility to make that work, with all that typing of book-text. And, of course, I would need something more than just reading books. And I don't think simply journaling with pen and paper will be able to do it for me anymore. Then would be the time for shitty poetry.

Invasion of the Hairy, Crazy Ants

Texas just gets more fun to live in every year. If the heatwaves and droughts are not fun enough for you, now we have a new breed of ant - the hairy, crazy ant - that brings a more ferocious appetite. Higher-powered heatwaves and now higher-powered ants. If I ever win the lottery I am moving.

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Invasion of the Hairy, Crazy Ants

Texas just gets more fun to live in every year. If the heatwaves and droughts are not fun enough for you, now we have a new breed of ant - the hairy, crazy ant - that brings a more ferocious appetite. Higher-powered heatwaves and now higher-powered ants. If I ever win the lottery I am moving.

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On Limping Blank Verse

I cannot even tell in this guide-to-poetry book
the stressed and attention-whoring syllable
from the unstressed and easy-going bloke,
much less glean the way of that half and half fellow,
the ambiguous, bi-textual secondary stress -
and just forget about stresses versus beats!

Obviously, if I should ever feel so giddy and artsy
to versify and write as if my words should be sung,
I will have to trudge along on limping blank verse,
unmetered, unrhymed, unmusical, unimmortal and blah,
with my all resting on just the cut of the line -
how I break a sentence and stuff a clause
or leave a word or two dangling along and clanging

and failing, and always failing...

-- e. e. monk

On Limping Blank Verse

I cannot even tell in this guide-to-poetry book
the stressed and attention-whoring syllable
from the unstressed and easy-going bloke,
much less glean the way of that half and half fellow,
the ambiguous, bi-textual secondary stress -
and just forget about stresses versus beats!

Obviously, if I should ever feel so giddy and artsy
to versify and write as if my words should be sung,
I will have to trudge along on limping blank verse,
unmetered, unrhymed, unmusical, unimmortal and blah,
with my all resting on just the cut of the line -
how I break a sentence and stuff a clause
or leave a word or two dangling along and clanging

and failing, and always failing...

-- e. e. monk

my first trip downtown

Shaved as well as showered. It is usually a bigger deal, if not quite like the butterfly breaking free of the chrysalis, at least a little like a snake shedding its skin. But my first shave only feels like I'm already in the middle of a long routine. Is this because I no longer have the least expectation of looking good with my relatively smooth face? Maybe my face has finally become simply a fact of life, and a falling, fading fact at that.

Regardless, I am still anxious and excited about my first trip downtown and my first dish of chicken fried rice, like I'm an eager undergraduate going to his first real job interview. It's never an easy thing for me to leave the house, much less travel across town. It is always an uncertain trail through the wilds full of perils and traffic and muggers. Nevertheless, even if money and romance are not out there for me, there is still the shiny lure of new books and better food.

my first trip downtown

Shaved as well as showered. It is usually a bigger deal, if not quite like the butterfly breaking free of the chrysalis, at least a little like a snake shedding its skin. But my first shave only feels like I'm already in the middle of a long routine. Is this because I no longer have the least expectation of looking good with my relatively smooth face? Maybe my face has finally become simply a fact of life, and a falling, fading fact at that.

Regardless, I am still anxious and excited about my first trip downtown and my first dish of chicken fried rice, like I'm an eager undergraduate going to his first real job interview. It's never an easy thing for me to leave the house, much less travel across town. It is always an uncertain trail through the wilds full of perils and traffic and muggers. Nevertheless, even if money and romance are not out there for me, there is still the shiny lure of new books and better food.