December 2009
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“I remember the last time I got drunk in Chinatown. It wasn’t that great,” he says, tugging at his beard as he speaks. He shuffles in his weatherworn boots. I smile, soothing his nervousness. No, the microphone held up to his pockmarked face won’t bite; it only hisses when the wind whistles through its honeycombed mesh.
“What happened?”
“Well,” he begins and continues tugging at his beard,...
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“Because you are unique, you can’t help being for me always another,...”
– From “Mad Love” by Andre Breton
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“Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you...”
– From “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot
“A farm prospered in the heart of Paris
And its windows looked out on the Milky...”
– From “The Sunflower” by Andre Breton
An Exercise in Embellishment
I once rode inside of a train which must have had a broken heater, as it was so cold in the cabin that you could see your breath. Everyone upon it sat hunched over, coats pulled up to their ears and hats and hoods on. It was so cold that I considered getting off and waiting for another, almost certainly warmer, train to come, but, as I was running a little late for class (Morning classes, I always...
Demonstration
I thought we taught you I thought we built you up I thought you thought but you’re unthinking you’re unmoving you’re not moving oh, you’re not going anywhere quite yet not until things come down and out and things flow out and things pour out and we’re all standing up here waiting, watching, tired but unwavering, you’re down here and we’re up there we’re better we’re better we’re better I fucking...