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Some Phrases I Put on Student Papers

reword

rephrase

awkward

not sure I follow

logic

tense

you can do better than this

more

best word?

best phrase?

organization?

sentence frag.

italics

quote?

cite

source?

better source

good

good thoughts

excellent

terrific

nice work

keep it up

IDK (I don't know)

not exactly

earlier paragraph

conclusion?

avoid this

Suprise!

Internal panther pulling can get you in trouble

with the other side. It all depends on the alliances. Are

you familiar with alliances? These are dedications of devotion

between at least two partners. In this way, might

countries expand, or be won or lost, or be weighted down

with the super tonnage of exploding horribleness,

bringing a weak person into further weakness and crippling

the strong into snowflakes. O, for my own sake,

I have be traveling vast roads yanking large cats

from my vital organs. Each one screams the same death wish.

Each one eats a meal from my palm. There is no

room for junkies and cutthroats, laze about bobs or freak

shows. In this cab of doom there is only room for us.

You are permitted a suitcase that is no bigger than a regular

kitchen sink. Are you familiar with this particular size? You

could look up ideas on lines for further analogies, but for

now trust in your imagination. It is stronger than what you know.

It is hairy and on fire. It can spit you a toad

or rain teeth. It can flee the room you have set on fire. Even

if something awful happens, it will drink you into a teardrop.

Just now, for instance, the door rang.

Mr. Exhausted

Sometimes a thought is recorded for some

reason that is very mercurial and stupid.

You get caught leaving peanut butter on the counter!

You leave crumbs all over the bathroom!

These little sick teardrops spill from the jowls of the tired.

The weak and lonely weep and place phone calls.

Often, no one is home.

On other occasions, the whole neighborhood awakes.

On these night, like so many times past, the kindling is

kept in the mattresses and also stuffed into underwear.

The whole world set ablaze with bleary wakefulness.

Do you remember what it's like to go sailing?

Have you ever been upon a boat? They sort of tilt and tilt back

again quickly as the waves bounce jumpy. It can be

disorienting for a person accustomed to a more stable

foot pedestal. This is why I mention it. Suppose the whole

world drowned, how would you know I was gone?

Run DMC

Rock Box

Sucker MCs

My Adidas

Run Dmc and Whodini

Come On, You Can Take It

I can't take it.

Some days it builds up inside of me like a smell and

I can't let it out.

I'm, really? seriously? asshole.

I want to send e-mails that say, you know, fuck you.

I just think about how Himmler organized the death camps.

I want to name something "My 10 Years of Struggle Against

Ignorance, Cowardice and Stupidity."

Even my friends don't make it better.

I regret decisions I've made.

I think about reversing myself, but I'm too lazy.

I can't forget something.

That something can get lodged and I want to burn it.

I think, well, there are people who you can never win with.

There are also decisive actions, consequences, circumstances, etc.

Coming Soon!

post

flannery o'connor

A Video for A Poem

Emily Dickinson

Bitch

I wouldn't be so smug seeing as how

you don't stand a chance in the long run.

Your smirk shall smote you! I understand

your interest in protecting your reputation

and your thoughts regarding you history,

actions, words, and signatures, but you

are digging your own throat with those

holes you hoe. You messing with me, or not?

Seriously, if you've got something to say,

you should say it? I know I'm not the only

one who is waiting for your thoughts. I've

been waiting to hear what you'd say for,

like, ever, mother fucker! Speak, Tina! Speak!

We're fucking waiting! Speak up! I can't hear

you! Shout it, Tina! Scream directly into

my ear! I want to savor every word. I want

each of those words to be birds winging

through my tiniest passageways. May they

stay safe! May no one molest them! Until, I've

heard each one, I will be a patient fucking stone.

But, after that, your papers won't mean

shit, and me and all of my aspirations are

going to seal you in a sick, concrete fog.

Blue Belt!

The Good News

Bloof Books will publish my next book of poems, Tina. That makes me happy.

honors stuff, listening/watching stuff

Skip James, Crow Jane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVww5r4Nk0

Skip James, I'm So Glad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcaH-U4x-T0&feature=related

Skip James, Lazy Bones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojm_2v2Ax7M&feature=related

Son House, interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPO3GXemNY0&feature=related

Son House, Death Letter Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdgrQoZHnNY&feature=related

Son House, Grinnin in Your Face

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ-TQwMhPDg&feature=related

Howlin Wolf, How Many More Years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou-6A3MKow&feature=related

Muddy Waters, Hoochie Coochie Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr839d9t44I&feature=related

Muddy Waters, Mojo Working

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEYwk0bypY&feature=related

Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gV5C5mB7A

Chuck Berry, No Particular Place to Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtKcdzaqq40

Bukka White, Aberdeen Mississippi Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gV5C5mB7A

Bob Dylan, Man of Constant Sorrow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_tD9BuA1ic&feature=fvwrel

Rev. Gary Davis, Death Don't Have No Mercy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGNcDLFqLUk

Mississippi John Hurt, You Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-GN-BP_Qlk&feature=related

Keb' Mo, Love in Vain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkrapUIhh9c

* bonus

Jack White, On "grinnin in Your face"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTlSka5iqPY&feature=related

Jack White, rockin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1rYiUf73k&feature=related

Rolling Stones, I Just Want to Make Love To You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOr2a9oEzGQ&feature=related

Coming Soon-ish

Reasons

The reasons can't be broken down into, like, say,

this is because of this and this is because of that

and, you know, whatever. So, here, in that place,

you start thinking about history and a whole

host of horrid abortions of love. Then, things

don't change, but they take on a certain aura.

That aura is one that welds the faction of the

universe that is involved hope with the faction

of the universe that is involved in power.

Then, people, the very real possibilities

become realer and the people who are willing

to stand up, stand down and a large bowl

of shit goes spinning off into the distance.

Our Hearts Were Hot

The Worsters Gang

Having Life

As they say, one man's eyesore is another man's cool

hair-cutting place. It makes sense when you've seen

it firsthand and can understand the inherit problems

in isolating the exact problem. So, something else

happens that must be mentioned. I hate

to get into it, but we'll have to. Deep in the black night

of deep blackness, no one can witness the invisible.

I remember, years ago, when you had those issues

with the high-schoolers and the kids at bake camp, you

would find yourself up way past midnight, pressing

the buttons of a remote control so deftly that you

thought you had found a calling. Those were heavy, heady

moments. Those were the good times. But, it's hard

to feel the urgency in a damp hug. I don't even enjoy laying

beside dead bodies. Never, not once, have I wanted a dead

body sitting in the passenger seat of my car. My car

is for going places and places that are gone to don't deserve

the dead. O, no. Something different. Something

that requires a scoop of iced cream and less death-y.

Good, Little Stuff

Me reading at a Vouched Books reading.

Which leads to a review.

The Funnest Ton!

this is the Haaret'z weekend edition "judging committee". PPP! made the high-good corner last friday,

alongside the elections in Turkey. the text says "irony is the funnest ton to read".