Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Poetry on Glenn Beck's new site - the bLAZE

UCSD PROFESSORS WANT TO DISSOLVE US — GIVE GPS PHONES WITH EXPLICIT POETRY TO ILLEGALS FOR BORDER CROSSING





GPS phones with EXPLICIT POETRY!  For Illegal Aliens (the ones from Mars?) Funded by taxpayer money!  Holy )&%)&^&_ Batman!

Blaze away Beck, with your "real journalists."

Friday, August 27, 2010

Tuli Kupferberg RIP

I was deeply moved today when I read that Tuli Kupferberg had died some weeks back.
I first saw Tuli perform with his band The Fugs in 1967 in Chicago at the Electric Playground, and this pivotal concert opened up more than a few doors of perception.  Tuli wrote amazing songs, and one of my favorite was "Morning, Morning" which is pure poetry.
These lines written by Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman in Memorial Day 1971 describe Tuli perhaps better than anything ever written.

"I asked Tuli Kupferberg once, "Did you really jump off of The Manhattan Bridge?" "Yeah," he said, "I really did." "How come?" I said. "I thought that I had lost the ability to love," Tuli said. "So, I figured I might as well be dead. So, I went one night to the top of The Manhattan Bridge, & after a few minutes, I jumped off." "That's amazing," I said. "Yeah," Tuli said, "but nothing happened. I landed in the water, & I wasn't dead. So I swam ashore, & went home, & took a bath, & went to bed. Nobody even noticed."


A god of peace and vicious personal honesty has passed.


Thursday, August 19, 2010

Friday, August 13, 2010

Such a Stone

Such a stone
Rolling down.

anonymous

Reality Hunger

Read this Book:

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto.
David Shields, UW

then let's talk