William Carlos Williams (reimagined)

For the Sky

We remember
before the winter rain
a stellar jay
hopping through the bramble

a little thicket
along the graying fence
filled with blackberries
targeted by darted beak

blackish brown head
blends into the background however
the shocking blue feathers stand out
harsh as the shriek

skree-ka! shack shek shek!
dancing around the prickles
filling belly to feed hatchlings
then taking flight.

The Lasting

Woman,

oh woman

You seemingly traipse past the tableaus

where dark secrets are drawn

You see passionate

though quiet pleasures

in splendid colors.

The wistful rich

barely perceive

Your radiant resolve

as they jostle

Their decomposing souls

like worms making mulch

of the forest floor.

While you

and I do
love.

SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012

Suburban Mother

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Suburban mother in
something akin to deep
thought tracking down
the sidewalk through the
rain with hands clenching 
aerobic weights
in her head
dinner is made and
her thighs are thinner.

The weeds ruffle
by the corner lamppost
a cat pounces towards
what ... she doesn't know.
The darkest March 
on record clouds 
her thoughts 
the rainsluices through
into the gully
pretty much as
the planners planned.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2012

to a pretty young woman

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wearing silk black pants on 
the street tighter than the
tart skin of a plum

she knows she looks good
she knows she looks
good she knows she looks
good in them

you can see it by
the way she gives herself
a smooth half ass pat 
slightly sucking her lips

comforted
a solace of ripe plums
seeming to fill the air
she knows I know she looks
good in them
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SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2011

Just Sayin' Forgive

I ate up
the cold 
pizza from
the fridge and

the box is
empty but
I put it 
back in there

no doubt you
were my more
delicious
breakfast

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2009

red and orange rubber boots on the neighbors lawn

glazed with rain water

as she bends hoeing

whacking the weeds


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Without the Hitch

Three typos I noticed reading Hitch 22.  On page 265, the pornographer known for his "Buttman" productions is referred to as "John Staglione", but his last name is "Stagliano".  The reference arises via Hitch's fondness for bathroom humor with encouragement from Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie and is questionable, but no mistake.  Switching vulgar nouns in popular song and movies titles, lead them to such things as "What's New Bullshitcat?", "Octobullshit" and "Hysterical Sex Potion Number Nine".

On page 338, William Morris's book about the English peasants revolt of 1381 "A Dream of John Ball" is called "The Dream of John Ball".  Hitch making reference to a notion that sometimes you may lose a battle in life, only to win later in a way you did not expect.  An interesting notion that at times may be true, but not always, again though, the notion expressed is not a mistake.

Also on page 338, Hitch mentions a quote of Hegel as "the cunning of history", by which he really meant Hegel's statement "the cunning of reason" in the context of history.  Hegel's thought is that reason is supreme and while throughout history, people act in accordance with their desires, ultimately reason has its way over desire.  Hegel may also have thought that reason was in accordance with divinity representing freedom, while acting in accordance to desire is more akin to deterministic slavery.   Nonetheless, Hitch would refrain from any indulgence in whether reason is truly divine perhaps and brings the whole idea up in order to distinguish his acknowledgment of being susceptible to self-persuasion regarding what he would rather be true.

You could disagree with many of the thoughts, opinions and expressions throughout Hitch 22.  Or agree.