“Tell All the Truth but Tell IT Slant”
Nellie Non-Linear and Larry Linear bump into each other crossing
the cross-campus bridge. Will they Just Get Along?
Variant: Sally Sphere and Fred Flatlander meet at the bar.
Will they hook up?
I mythologize:
personify or deify an abstraction.
Characterize & watch for narrative.
Once upon a time.
Any one can improve my terms and images. We can wonder
about how these two frames of minding, inclinations, biases,
preferred cerebral processes, attitudes, lefty & right-handed,
simultaneous and consequential, affective & intellective, richly
scatterbrained and directed schizmo-genetic systems might
be said to work, to relate.
BEAST BRUTALITY
The caption read,
“He and she standing quietly next to a dog.”
The prompt queen sat with her crown on,
The insets between each Gothic arch providing a measure
Of what can be
Done with architecture.
She said, “We built it long ago.
And then knocked it down.”
And then she looked away.
“And then we looked away.”
Mary Jo Bang
To be lost in the springtime fields
is to find yourself in a place called
Maybe-The-Wind-Still- Shakes-
The-Long-Grass-Of-Childhood.
We had grandmothers then.
The blue sky was a home for us.
The shine on a beetle's back asked
“who are you to be looking?”
It’s a place called Color-Can-Stir-
The-Heart: who am I in this springtime
field so big no grandmother could
ever find me?
Michael Phelps' mother
One of these poems is published in The New Yorker.
The other: not.. Put your finger on the one that counts
and tell the difference that makes a difference between
the two.
I have a student who’s doing independent study on
“beauty” and “soul.” Initially, on beauty, but he says
his emphasis is shifting to “soul.”
He insists they are related. He’s reading Coleridge for
inspiration. I urge him to study Emerson: “The Poet,”
but he marches to a different drummer.
.
.....................Non Sense
Common Sense 
No Sense At All
These three: the Mothers of Invention.
I banish one mother to the attic, the other
mother to the cellar in order to keep the peace.
Poe explored our enlightened bias for common sense
throughout his tales of ratiocination and grotesque, the
price paid again and again for privileging common sense
& sustaining the poor we have with us always.
“to mock, pervert, and demolish all the tenets of painting,
music, poetry, philosophy, logic and even reason itself
and set up a pretended madness instead, in protest against
…the insane and vicious destruction of civilization, life and
thought taking place in the trenches of World War I.”
(Wm Rose Benet)
Many Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic' of
bourgeois Capitalism" society had led people into war.
They demonstrated their rejection of that ideology in
artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and
embrace “Chaos" and Irrationality. (WikiP)
Even as policy makers worked on details of a $700 billion
bailout of the financial industry, Wall Street began looking
for ways to profit from it. Financial firms were lobbying to
have all manner of troubled investments covered, not just
those related to mortgages. At the same time, investment
firms were jockeying to oversee all the assets that Treasury
plans to take off the books of financial institutions, a role that
could earn them hundreds of millions of dollars a year in fees.
We are the Zombie Apocalypse we have
been waiting for. We’re all flesh-eating
ghouls mindlessly shambling through a
giant shopping mall. The disease of late
Capitalism gives us a hunger that can
never be satisfied by our consumer-good
product of our own labor. We eat ourselves
when we should be tearing out the throats
of the living:--the owner class. etc etc etc.
Eat the Rich is not just a slogan.
Men’s Restroom stall proclamation, first floor Jensen.
A colleague wore a Question Authority button
to class yesterday.Question Everything is a notion
I’ve seen on the bumpers ofautomobiles.
Put it all in play. In school mode, sure.Not in Church
& State modes. That just confusesthe issue.
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