I like the way people hold cigarettes and dogs leaping over the grass and I like the way unmoving photographs can move into your eye a hand on encircled holidays ashtrays with ashes with crushed sticks or what about the way people tip ashes into ashtrays? or the way people look after a sip of...
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By the power of grey skulls?
I miss cartoons. I miss Super Book and Flying House. I miss She-Ra and Punky Brewster (not a cartoon, but still.) In fact, I miss television, the corny shows I mean. I miss the Adventures of Pete and Pete (with its good soundtrack – I discovered Polaris and The Magnetic Fields thru this show.) I...
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Whip it good
I dreamt that the members of Devo were running after me, laughing and shouting, “Whip it good!” Something is wrong when you start dreaming of Devo. I do not want to be whipped by them. But I like their red hats. A few months ago I had a dream of Lionel Richie whispering, “Hello?” over...
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Little child won’t you dance with me
I like that tingle in my toes when you tell me that the water is freezing and still I dip my hand in and I turn to you and say “yea so it is i should have listened to you.” And similarly it’s funny the way laughter automatically converts to “I told you so”, “What...
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The Opposite
I can tell you what I don’t know. I don’t know how to react when people tell me things straight from the heart. Should I feel cut down, should I be relieved. I don’t know how huge the sky is already, I don’t know if it will ever stop expanding in my mind. I don’t...
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Plotting the Shapes of Interplanetary Magnetic Field Lines
Mostly dancing is all about the timing : like stumbling over in midwhisper, or bumping heads. The most beautiful human dance is getting up after falling down. Should the mind be organized into neat yellow folders, labelled with black magic markers that dispel heady scents which, while strongly familiar, make you remember weakly. Do you,...
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The Teaching Globe
The advert for the product showed a picture of a globe, very colourful, with the following 3-easy step instructions: Place thumbs on each of the two locations. Rotate until thumbs touch horizon ring. Using ring as a straight edge, draw a line connecting the two points. Measure distance with scale on ring. The line drawn...
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