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“Your need to love shall never know Me …”
“Your all is partial, Prospero.
“My will is all my own.
“Your need to love shall never know
“Me: I am I, Antonio
“By choice myself alone.”
— Antonio, refrain from W. H. Auden’s “The Sea and the Mirror”
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Snow on Second Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
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I am trying to watch the Perseid meteor shower right now …
… and I am not seeing a DAMN thing.
The same thing happened during the last big sky event … that Blue Moon/Blood Moon/Sailor Moon/Neptune/whatever.
Why do I always suck at these things?
There’s always a silver lining. If I can’t see the meteors, then I can’t be reduced to ash or zombified as per a crappy, overrated 1980’s horror movie, right?
I enjoyed a 7-11 “Simply Tuna Salad Sandwich” for lunch today.
And that’s good.
Because the last thing I need in my life right now is goddam complicated tuna fish.
I got enough problems.
Auguste Rodin’s “Eternal Spring”
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Publication Notice: Dead Snakes features “March Midnight Window”
The good folks over at Dead Snakes were kind enough today to publish my poem, “March Midnight Window.”
Thanks, Dead Snakes!
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Separated at birth?
One of these men is Jack Nicholson in his iconic performance in Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1980 film adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Shining.”
The other is my friend and fellow horror movie fan, Pete Harrison.
You can’t tell which is which, can you?
West 24th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
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“The Unknown,” from Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology”
“The Unknown”
— from Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology”
YE aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown
Who lies here with no stone to mark the place.
As a boy reckless and wanton,
Wandering with gun in hand through the forest
Near the mansion of Aaron Hatfield,
I shot a hawk perched on the top
Of a dead tree. He fell with guttural cry
At my feet, his wing broken.
Then I put him in a cage
Where he lived many days cawing angrily at me
When I offered him food.
Daily I search the realms of Hades
For the soul of the hawk,
That I may offer him the friendship
Of one whom life wounded and caged.
