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behind on the pace i set for myself earlier in the month. its taking me forever to get through mary oliver’s book specially the section on meter. i aint blamin it on anything else other than my inability to decipher meter which is incredibly ironic considering how good i am with recurring numeric patterns. and thats how the ball bounces, gee!

also behind on my poem count. i need to produce a couple of works by this monday’s class. normally, at this point of the game, i am saying the same thing but at least i have a fragment of an inkling of a thought of where the poem is originating from. a line, a thought pattern, an ending, a lil sumthin. this time around, not so much.

despite all this, i woke up this morning with a spring in my step and happy to see my reflection in the mirror so while there are some roadblocks the road is still a good place to be.

lets see if i can post up a poem of mine or maybe (cough)most likely(cough) someone else’s.

love ya like fresh lemonade with mint leaves loves a hot summer night!

giving voice to the man who forever changed the face of new york city in his own words.

Found Poem
“
You can draw any kind of pictures
you like on a clean slate and indulge
your whim in the wilderness in laying
out a New Delhi, Canberra or Brasilia,

but when you operate
in an overbuilt metropolis
you have to hack your way
with a meat axe.
“
– Robert Moses, City Construction Coordinator for New York, 1964

the text is from moses’s autobiography– Public Works: A Dangerous Trade.
the line breaks are my addition.

i am very sure we will be hearing more from mr moses as the manuscript keeps growing.

just got through ai‘s “vice”
quick synopsis: ai has a formula and it works because she is bold enough to apply that formula to the lives of famous figures (examples include the kennedy brothers (john, robert & edward), oj simpson, j edgar hoover, marilyn monroe, imelda marcos) and, historical situations. by casting her net out into history she is able to apply her “formula” over and over again with each result a unique portrait.

next up on the hit list: mary oliver’s “a poetry handbook“

finished “walking worlds”
i wont say i disliked the book but i will say that i enjoyed the poem interludes much more than the short stories. maybe its just that i have had a little too much magical realism in my literary diet as of late.

to cure that i will be reading ai’s “vice“

just finished reading nicanor parra’s “emergency poems” translated into english by miller williams
note: williams’s introduction makes some wonderful points regarding the “creation” of antipoesia and where his translations both fail & succeed.

currently reading eduardo galeano’s “walking words“