thirteen ways of looking at someone you'll never see again
1. paul revere, ravel, reelections.
2. pants design.
3. not from here to there, not from 1981 to 1985 to 2010 to whenever. not to be told twice either. merging, merging and hiding the seams. we would never know, never see the way things had been attached. no ocean.
4. sacrificial fish-pants of a man. the whalebone, the whalejaw, ghastly and intense and savagely got. forgetting, forgotten.
5. a song called "things that we own"
things that we own crying for the death of our thing 45 to 5 oh, no things that we own
on a hilltop, far away where ringtones do not roam the toothy grin will fade away goodbye the lifeless chrome
things that we own goodbye today tomorrow shadows on the lawn things that we own
6. fragmentary bits, bits of shore and lovely bits. remnants. things that beliterate and things that bevolve. what we call it when we don't know what it is or cannot bring ourselves to say, one way or the other, what exactly — that thing. slip out of areas freighted with social color. tire of hearing other people. tire of smiling while others opine.
7. crackle from a socket — unexpected and unwelcome. people will be sweet, you wonder — could i vow never to repeat myself and still keep saying things? how long would the language supply hold out? how are its legs?
8. you never want to sleep, but you stay up late doing stupid things. changing over time. delta.
9. what i thought would happen: never really gets dull. never really gets sharp either. the mechanical pencil.
10. sea of blue ribbons tied in bows. see a sea of blue ribbons tied in bows and believe in what you see.how to bring it to life? beans in a cup, mind's eye. mind's eye going beyond. would like someone to buy my photograph.
11. nightfall each year. what is nightfall, and who walks?
12. run for the shadows
13. OAR
SOME EXTRA WAYS:
i. a dad wants to be the good dad above all. after all.
ii. on the deck of a ship on the wave of a sand dune of an ocean of a tire pile.
iii. i guess we thought of these as warm-ups and how you want to know how you want what you have not got.
iv. like a beet: dark, smoky, pulsed, bizarre; i do not love you.
v. "forget-me-not:" what can the other person really say?
vi. obligation to the wrong masters. a misplaced allegiance. a sense of duty enforced from the outside, and reinforced through years of misguided loyalty to a productivist ideal. extrinsic motivation.
vii. charles mckim hiding
viii. who are the defenders? floating vertically. moving inexplicably from place to place at seemingly arbitrary intervals.
ix. someone's empty office.