February 2010
41 posts
Haikus
I never really liked haikus. I remember being introduced in grade school and thought it a terrible waste of imagination to not transcribe one’s thoughts and inner calamities to the ‘t’. How would the reader be transported?
Brevity may be the soul of wit, if wit is merely a man laughing at his own insignificance in life.
WISH: I think. LIE: Therefore, DREAM: I...
exploitation poem
why do we insist on testing one another without so much as a single warning shot an episodic glance, an indifferent shrug we demand a dent in memory build or rebuild our ego with scraps of others we feign the blues & forgetting depend on an element of surprise we fine tune our desires knowing when to surrender to surface & when to sink teeth deep when to conjure up names that promise dead...
January 2010
64 posts
“What did I get from Simon? An education – the thing my parents always wanted me to have. I learned a lot in my two years with Simon. I learned about expensive restaurants and luxury hotels and foreign travel, I learned about antiques and Bergman films and classical music. All this was useful when I went to Oxford – I could read a menu, I could recognise a fingerbowl, I could follow an...
Why I Like Attorneys
1. They are schooled in manners;
2. They have great taste in clothing and food;
3. They are witty and shockingly intelligent;
4. They talk just as much as I do;
5. They don’t give a shit about gender;
6. They are goal- and success-oriented; and
7. They can drink just as much as I can.
