Inconsistency is something I have been battling lately. I give too much power to my mind to wreak havoc with its lazy and destructive patterns. Control is what I seek and the more I seek it, the more it evades …
There are people who are too intelligent to become authors, but they do not become critics. — W. H. Auden, “Reading” (in The Dyer’s Hand, 1962) Compare with Kenneth Tynan’s: “The critic knows the way but can’t drive the …
By JA Herringbones those were on me, my ignorant a** wanted big gold ropes DNA slave mentality 15 handcuffs, 17 add shackles for a Lifetime Airplanes, ankles and wrist pain, swollen rivers my blood thickens in my eye I see …
Forgotten to observe the stories of the unsaid Glitched neural networks to propaganda and overloadEmotions overpower contentment Ideas sacrificed for thirst for power The brave new world is drowningand the underwater rebellion war criesdrowned out But you know what they …
Ed note: I write the “Talking Pictures” monthly column on movies for The American Scholar. My latest deals with Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 masterpiece, “To Be or Not to Be,” with Carole Lombard and Jack Benny. Here is my opening and …
By PJ In my mind’s eye, I see so many things. I’ve been frozen for eternity, forever preserving their beauty and sentimentality. In my mind, they can remain untouched, perfect that way, as beautiful as I perceived them to be …
To attain the first impossible I venture beyond silenceAlmost touching the great beyondI find myself going inside the soul Glitters shine around vacuumThe gravity doing its work Space rock blasts in the cosmic night and the stars dance to its …
Fuck me now in pale-fireparking garages, againstU-haul trucks and trellisedfences that tread-mark skin,against Victorian lamppoststhat lull with their flicker,on grated sidewalks, sideways,upside down in Ferris wheels inreverse in the backseat of theBuick accelerating exponentiallybetween our thighs, pistoningupwards in thunderous storm,against …
By MV Lady Liberty must be sleep Or maybe she turned her back Lady Liberty must be sleep Or maybe she doesn’t care Lady Liberty must be sleep Or maybe she’s in on it too Lady Liberty must be sleep …
I write what I deny to think in my own head. I surprise myself as I watch these thoughts become real. It feels like someone else holds the pen and writes things I didn’t know I feel. He writes all …