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coincidence colliding in opposites
Coincidence colliding in opposites,
Bliss is the blind shoulder of pain.
Nothing insights happiness which does not bring torment,
Love hate relationship is life’s game.
Sustain in a state of exuberance,
Retain rapture in your souls desir...
by: actisj
Shards of Glass
Shards of GlassYou said you would always be there,Well ha, ha, haWhere are you now?We pass as if we're acquaintances,Mumbling a silent prayer-Laconic and lacking gesticulation,Saying things to serve only the purposeOf acknowledging eac...
by: chinanski
Official Guide
Official Guide
The pieces will fall down faster and faster.
Be organized. Be quick. Watch rows disappear.
L-shaped shapes only go into L shaped holes.
Always hold out for the long skinny block until the last.
Eat mushrooms, grow bigger...
by: Jewell
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"Untitled 48" 2009 21in x 32in pencil on paper
From a distance Lucas Monaco's pencil and ink drawings look like stills taken from a slightly dark psychedellic expedition. Thick fluid forms wind round each other, in curvey shapes to dissolve back again into impercepti...
Near the top of the list of books everyone should own, especially if they’re a fucking poet, is: The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan
edited by Alice Notley with Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan This beautiful 749 page monster contains Berrigan’s p...
Last Thursday I had the pleasure of attending the first in a series of three Riverfront Park Fashion shows to be held on Little Raven Street this summer. My initial intention was to write on the Catherine Malandrino collection that was being shown that night, but shortly after arriving...
Tyler Burba: poet, musician, publisher, Orson Welles aficionado, virtuoso shark wrestler, mysterious keeper of the secrets of supernatural halcyon, one of the greatest people I've had the thank-everything luck to meet on this planet and the keeper of the crotch-forged thesaurus' and other things tha...
Tonight has a lot of things going on I like:
1. Fashion Show by our wonderfully talented friends Buffalo Exchange with hair by Katie O'Shea!
2. Bikini Alley Cat Race. Bicycles!
3. Le Castlevania.
'Nuff said. Be there.
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The Unreal are in town! I just received an email from them which I'm plastering below for your informational reading enjoyment. Besides being one of the best traveling poetry live acts on the planet (see old poetry blog from months ago in which they were featured for more details), we are proud to a...