Gnome

Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.

--Samuel Beckett 1934

The sparkling wine was from Spain.

Alone

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were--I have not seen
As others saw--I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I lov'd, I lov'd alone.
Then--in my childhood--in the dawn
Of a most stormy life--was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold--
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by--
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

--Edgar Allan Poe

started Dedans Helene Cixous

started Theorie und Praxis Jurgen Habermas

started La Montagne R Jacques Jouet

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Herman Melville. 10:25. Soft-boiled egg. Please. Peo punked he crack.

adorno anaxagoras arendt aristoteles bacon beauvoir benjamin bloch cicero darwin descartes dewey engels

Library. I find a single poem and four, five, six certain books. I wove to delve into simplified categories for pie stain quit queasy. Another media story prominent discussion, purpose, lines, poetry, repetition.

I am going home at some point in the next week. Back to Virginia, where I was born. Then, after that, I will come back to New York City. I hope to see people there I used to see there. Then I hope to see people I see here when I get back.

. . .To travel in space you must leave the old verbal garbage behind: God talk, country talk, mother talk, love talk, party talk. You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live it alone in silence. Anyone who prays in space is not there.

--William Burroughs

A purple pigeon on my fire escape. I'm getting ready to leave the island.

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until five thirty sunday morning

American Television>>1970s>> Sanford & Son, Happy Days, Soul Train, Match Game, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, The Gong Show, The Midnight Special, Sesame Street, Starsky & Hutch, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, NFL Monday Night Football, Baretta, M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, IBM Presents Baryshnikov on Broadway, Rhoda, Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, Welcome Back Kotter, One Day at a Time, Three’s Company, Charlie’s Angels, The Six-Million Dollar Man, Laverne & Shirley, The Mod Squad, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Alice, 60 Minutes, The Muppet Show, Heehaw, My Three Sons, Mork and Mindy, WKRP in Cincinatti, Taxi, What’s Happening!, Dallas, ChiPs, That’s Incredible, The Carol Burnett Show, The Odd Couple, Kojak, Hallmark Hall of Fame: Hamlet

Monitor Street Fire

8:00 December 14

Poets Helping Poets: Benefit for Todd Colby, Elizabeth Zechel & Melissa Piechucki!

On November 19, a fire on Monitor Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn destroyed the home and possessions of Soft Skull poet Todd Colby, his wife Elizabeth Zechel, and their neighbor and friend Melissa Piechucki. Please join us for a great night of music and poetry to help them create a new home!

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (across from CBGBs)
New York, NY
http: //www.bowerypoetry.com
http: //www.softskull.com

Suggested donations at the door: $5, $10, $25, $50, $100. Plus $2 raffle tickets to win pairs of tickets from the Joyce Theater, the Bowery Poetry Club, CDs, books and more!

MUSIC by

Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes
Rebecca Moore
Matthew Wascovich, Brian Straw & Todd Colby
Alice B. Talkless
Tobi Joi

READINGS by

Hal Sirowitz
John S. Hall
Maggie Estep
Brendan Lorber
Sharon Mesmer
Regie Cabico
Cat Tyc
David Cameron
Lisa Miller
Karen Randolf
T. Cole Rachel
Brenda Coultas
Marcella Durand
Anne Elliot
Daniel Nester
Justin Theroux
Michael Portnoy & Marrianne Vitale of the Yogurt Boys
Edwin Torres
Dana Bryant
Celena Glen
Tracey McTague
Thad Rutowkski
Dawn Saylor
Jo Ann Wasserman

SPONSORS/DONATORS include

Soft Skull Press
Bowery Poetry Club
Gammon Records & Jordan Trachtenberg
Slow Toe Publications
3AM Magazine
Skanky Possum Press
Boog City
Lungfull!
Ugly Duckling Presse
Arthur Magazine
LIT
Unpleasant Event Schedule
call: review (John Most)
Pagan Place Zine (Merry Fortune)
Eric Baus
Eileen Tabios
Joshua Beckman
Noah Eli Gordon
Susan Mills
Poetz.com/NYC Poetry Calendar
St. Mark's Poetry Project
Kitty Magik Magazine
Tish Benson
Butcher Shop Press

finished The Birth of Tragedy (Die Geburt der Tragödie) Friedrich Nietzsche

I even caught Langston Hughes reading with Mingus at a new club called The Five Spot. I spoke to him that night, very shyly. Later, when I began to publish poems, Langston wrote me a note telling me he liked them. And he began to keep up with my publishing and from time to time wrote me and told me what he thought. Langston was always very sweet and extremely helpful and encouraging to young writers. When his Selected Poems came out he sent me an autographed copy, "To LeRoi, From Langston, Harlem, U.S.A," and later he sent an autographed poem, "Backlash Blues," which I have on my wall framed today.

--Amiri Baraka The Autobiography of

finished Finnegans Wake James Joyce

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in 1995 Tutsis skypocketed this corner an information syndicate coups froufrou
stricken switches & cat-o'-nine-tails spew curvy pies ticker ginormous shafts,

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--from Cicero's Somnium Scipionis

A blind boy.

Rage, for to heap bung on war
        displaces information.

        In honor of endings, Extra Terrestrials
cranked up wickedness--their cavities
stuffed with panis caelestis, they cavorted
all the live long day with evil paper
pushers & crapulent classifiers, subcontracting
pork fat to greasier hands
while pissing in the crock that held
citizens and the President’s copy of
One Hundred and One Unamericanisms.

Rage,

while these mythologies, as the living
dead or warped lumber,
were stacked atop Dupont Circle’s
Carpathian Mountains.

Today I would rather be anywhere, not here. I go back to paddlling down the Muskingum River.

limitations delimited and limitation

limitations.

That man is not from Haiti. He is not from the Ivory Coast. The man sitting on the concrete looked like me. The temperature is below freezing.

If I were to document New York City