I am honored today to share with you three recordings of me reading from Dennis Villelmi’s Fretensis: In the Image of a Blind God. The Bees Are Dead has graciously published the readings over at its website; you can find them right here.
Thank you, Dennis, for allowing me to interpret your outstanding poetic work.
Oil on canvas.
There was a particularly damning interview over at Rolling Stone yesterday with Steve Schmidt about his vocal departure from the Republican Party. It’s a quick read, and you can find it right here.
Ziff-Davis Publishing.
Meet my baby groundhog buddy. His neighborhood is that stretching bed of blue wildflowers.
Oil on paper.
I swear to you — this looks very much like the nightly view outside my home here in Roanoke.
The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small.
It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe.
Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”
― Sophie Scholl, member of the White Rose resistance movement in Germany, executed by the Nazis at age 21
DC Comics.
… stop on over at The Bees Are Dead for the latest in dystopian prose, poetry, art and photography. Most recently, B.A.D. has featured the outstanding work of poets such as Jake Tringali, Paul Brookes, Allison Grayhurst and David Spicer.
See you there.
Credit: By ADBGVA (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
Anyone here in their 40’s? Anyone remember the material excesses of the 1980’s, and how people thought THAT was proof of America’s declining moral fiber?
Bring back cocaine and parachute pants, and we’ll cheerfully surrender our neo-nazis and child detention centers.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 