May 2009
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yard blooms
from the mid-south today my yard with honeysuckle, ivy, azaleas and assorted vines. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from psyouoverthere | Comment »
Poetry
“Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.”
— Boris Pasternak
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humanity
i want to speak to a human but i am on the phone with a machine who speaks with a pleasant tone ‘rep’ i say clearly the machine informs me politely she does not understand my request ‘representative’ i ennunciate ‘i understand that you wish to speak to a human but i need you to answer more questions so that i may assist you’ she is unfailingly polite in a remote...
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irises many
vital statistics movies this weekend: 2, ‘milk’ & ‘deathrace2000whatever’ irises pixed: many of millions guts: 1, sucked in coffee: 3 cups and sipping boyfriends: 1, sitting next to me pancakes: 52, cooked for family with strawberries yummm fieldtrip of the weekend: memphis botanic gardens Posted via email from psyouoverthere | Comment »
Karmic Benefits and Social Neuroscience « The... →
reading dr brady is one of my indulgences. this one with its final question to the re-birth fairy is fulla stuff to think on.
the beatles vs. godzilla
in the early light a tune weaves through the coffee a low hum interrupted by burgeoning young womanhood the beatles vs. godzilla mothra vs. the electric hum of peace and quiet sunday morning 26 april 2009 Posted via email from psyouoverthere | Comment »
truth
“It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
and the road goes ever on
the 2 cardiologists were hard pressed to follow the paths taken and the roads unfollowed seeing one go up and another down 8 april 2009 Posted via email from psyouoverthere | Comment »
mojo wave in retrograde
when in the course of human events the collateral erratic random beam goes wonky i generally say something along the lines of ‘the mojo wave is in retrograde’, but i like ‘ether brouhaha in de virtual times square’ too. my thanks to juliann for the notion so for the record wonky here it is today is all about my mother and her alzheimer’s and that, my friends, is...
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fools advance
“Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, / And toss them on the wheels of Chance.” — Juvenal
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reflections
Reflections on rocks. Memphis Botanic Gardens. 19 April 2009. Posted via email from psyouoverthere | Comment »
idea unsprung
after the flow of the day the glow of the dream fades and the words clog up in the spokes of an unsprung idea your beads lie scattered across the rug unstrung Posted via email from psyouoverthere | Comment »
life transitions
my mother used to say when she retired she’d paint she assembled the desk and the paint and the brushes she took classes and made posters and never painted anything she cuts down trees piece by piece sweeps the street curb nips at shrubs tells me that i am not conversational Posted via email from psyouoverthere | Comment »
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Personals by C.D. Wright
frostflakes:
Some nights I sleep with my dress on. My teeth are small and even. I don’t get headaches. Since 1971 or before, I have hunted a bench where I could eat my pimento cheese in peace. If this were Tennessee and across that river, Arkansas, I’d meet you in West Memphis tonight. We could have a big time. Danger, shoulder soft. Do not lie or lean on me. I’m still trying to find a job...
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sunday stats
coffee: in the pot sink: full of some dirty dishes but they are going down soon breakfast: getting there loves of my life: 4, all sleeping in on a rainy day thunder and lightning: lots need to go out: none at all cup: halfway up or down depending on your perspective Posted via email from psyouoverthere | Comment »
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so this font walks into a bar...
one of the more amusing parts of the weekend has been repeating the comic sans joke to folks who don’t have a computer and thus don’t know what a font is or a comic sans but they know bartender jokes and they laugh anyhow it was the crawdad festival in tunica which featured mudbugs and taters beer and barbecue biting off heads and spitting out parts the kiddie rides were old and...
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Good writers
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.” — Ezra Pound
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comic sans
i think it is an indication of the geek take over of the world that the wall street journal today has an article on the front page entitled “typeface inspired by comic books has become a font of ill will” referring to comic sans and the creator vincent connare by name along with the joke “Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, ‘We don’t serve your...
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green angel
while we were standing near the green angel i looked up and noticed that the sky had a very odd look to it the look of an impending storm. elmwood stands on the edge of old memphis near the road that takes us across the river and we drove off down the road over the river and deep into the heart of darkness the wind blew us all over the place and trucks splayed water but we got to the place we...
list of everything
january 12: a usb card reader black coffee my lover’s neck in the morning Fargo Nurse Carol Kashi bar a half day off from work a 50 dollar Movie gift pass interferon april 16: the day after tax day bad muscle cramps and pain oatmeal with cranberries medhelp forum week 13 going forward the list of everything in a blue book bruce in memphis on monday the gates of graceland the green angel of...
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“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in time of greatest distress.” Milan Kundera Posted via email from psyouoverthere | Comment »
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