tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061338377448903442024-03-13T12:56:56.128-07:00Act Three - Guy Kettelhack - Poetry & EphemeraGuy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.comBlogger4283125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-87205509985595808012021-05-24T11:51:00.019-07:002021-05-25T21:04:20.010-07:00It's Not Too Much to Say the World Changed that Day<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">Gay Day, 2021: in memory of John-Fredrick Williams</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="https://youtu.be/RPmhEtSCqpk">https://youtu.be/RPmhEtSCqpk</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The meanings of holidays, as often as not made dysmorphic over time by
social change and the random happenstance of Fate, almost always undergo a metamorphosis. After 52 years the insurrection which marked the Stonewall Uprising in June 1969 may seem to the growing majority of people today who either weren’t born until after that date or weren’t old enough to understand it, to be a kind of mythic tale - a myth uninformed by recent well-meaning attempts to expand our understanding of sexualities as veritably incalculable. But those who were aware of the uprising when it happened could feel in that contemptuously homophobic era the potential threat of its killing bite. An ad hoc posse of gay men and lesbians in the Stonewall Bar on Christopher Street rose up
against the police who, as was their periodic wont, raided the bar because that’s
what you did with gay bars back then – true, may also </span><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">not entirely incidentally have justified it because like
nearly all gay bars it was run by the Mafia. But mostly the brute push in it
was homophobia, the kind of easy hate thought to be a normal response to any,
but especially this, Godforsaken homosexual perversity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s not too much to say that the world changed that day. Its
significance was given public form in 1970 with the first gay liberation march,
embarked upon with trepidation: most expected they’d be excoriated verbally or
worse. But it turns out they weren’t. What began as about 200 people in Christopher
Street became thousands of people once the parade reached Central Park.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_bpkcgrjWAmQVJyLmDJs_K-wkiEgU4jdTgoeEnBS23QNwuL7tU02YctgptTsvc8MfmanHlgpimcNqrWopQK4IlvAWk-YKLHL4ucaetNQ4IezJelDYlBn0zsUlQTBrt4g2lc-FhY7bPVDw/s625/christopher+street+gay+liberation+day+1970.jpg" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_bpkcgrjWAmQVJyLmDJs_K-wkiEgU4jdTgoeEnBS23QNwuL7tU02YctgptTsvc8MfmanHlgpimcNqrWopQK4IlvAWk-YKLHL4ucaetNQ4IezJelDYlBn0zsUlQTBrt4g2lc-FhY7bPVDw/s320/christopher+street+gay+liberation+day+1970.jpg" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">New York City was ready for this. The world was, too. Indeed,
the city and much of the world had already through the mid to late 60s undergone
a moral and political sea change: Viet Nam, the “sexual revolution,” the
proliferation of psychedelic drugs, the deaths of two Kennedys, Martin Luther
King and Malcolm X. All of this, and, again, an undisguised sexual revolution:
the pill made sex democratic between heterosexual women and men; overnight, as
it seemed, great realms of morality had shifted. Our notions of gender were
starting to soften. But there was also a different more concerted power in the
push for the liberation of whole ranges of human variety, African Americans,
women, Latinos, Asians and by 1969 and 1970 gay men and lesbians. I was born in
1951, which meant I was 18 in 1969, and although I was off to college in Vermont,
I continually returned to New York City in that first stretch of time, and
moved into it for keeps in 1975. The city always promised and delivered to me something
brutally, gorgeously, alluringly alive. At this stage (ages 16 through 23) my life
amounted overall to an extraordinary if often harrowing thrill. The giant mass
of my generation marked a new human condition, and therefore a very new moment
in social history. Never had so many people rethought so completely and freely who
they might be, could be, would be. This liberty to re-invent yourself was a very
strange psychic condition. In the sway and the roll of it, you can’t always find
your center of gravity, or your heart or mind.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-vfTdTPDNxdyw_rhRulZkx_fGIIS_eNF52BRVklnP5YoHK7WbvX-63I67UwcEJODFxmn8FfZojeeqyVa6Kg22NxqOS3JzxPVH1Tl-FVSldew1qWMyoayguLCRQMBqA2KaOPPRkpod3w6K/s640/christopher+street+gay+pride+2019.jpg" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-vfTdTPDNxdyw_rhRulZkx_fGIIS_eNF52BRVklnP5YoHK7WbvX-63I67UwcEJODFxmn8FfZojeeqyVa6Kg22NxqOS3JzxPVH1Tl-FVSldew1qWMyoayguLCRQMBqA2KaOPPRkpod3w6K/s320/christopher+street+gay+pride+2019.jpg" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">Zoom 50 years later to the Pride Parade, by this time a global celebration,
not least because it marked the 50-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.
Then think back last year to the utter vacancy of 2020, the first year the gay
parade was canceled. And think, if you will, of the potent tangles and
cessations of life through the imposed prison of the pandemic, the evictions
from hotels that had housed them of so many mentally ill people who now roamed
and still roam the streets, howling at the sky. And think, if I might ask you
to think now, of my dear friend John-Fredrick Williams who died back in March,
not of covid, but of a heart attack, physically deriving from his having been
born with a weak heart (unthinkably, he was </span><i style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">born</i><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"> with congestive heart
failure).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">John-Fredrick Williams 1980s</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpCvoDUzjLVgYP8WbMRGvQw03RDb5AgpfN-XRhOArjPVdeb8eOEf2YnLGKsryG4F1SdMwAoprFVVTmtk1TV4IPTEkdWYPmLnHgyh1BYcg2FCETrEQO-zCDVvdTNUWmEPgjzS66n0-JTYLZ/s606/john-fredrick+williams+1980s.jpg" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="454" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpCvoDUzjLVgYP8WbMRGvQw03RDb5AgpfN-XRhOArjPVdeb8eOEf2YnLGKsryG4F1SdMwAoprFVVTmtk1TV4IPTEkdWYPmLnHgyh1BYcg2FCETrEQO-zCDVvdTNUWmEPgjzS66n0-JTYLZ/s320/john-fredrick+williams+1980s.jpg" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">John-Fredrick evinced all of the conditions of life I have just
touched on – from delicacy to uproar. There were times he was homeless, there
were times he was a powerful political activist in Act Up and Occupy Wall
Street, there were times he would sing in the streets with a dear much-loved
friend of his – he was very musical and very brilliant. He wrote reams of
poetry, he was as often as not to be seen walking around in a kind of flowered
frock worn over, depending on how cold it was, jeans or pulled-up socks and
hiking boots. His hair was always a surprise: usually long, and dyed in unsuspected
colors. He had small intense eyes – indeed a power of intensity I don’t think I’ve
seen the like of in anyone else. John-Fredrick and I met through the AOL chat
rooms, sort of zapping odd clever strange phrases at each other, afraid to
meet. But eventually we did meet. And we managed a kind of sex, rough and sweet
and made up on the spot. We never – and I wonder generally if John-Frederick
with anyone quite ever – found a completely habitable space to share. But he
may have come somewhat closer to that with me than with most. I don’t know.
Like Quentin Crisp, his friends were met mostly one-on-one – and I suspect he
was marvelously attuned to each of those friends, when they didn’t piss the
hell out of him, which was frequently. He was no stranger to pleasures and pains
of extreme varieties. He felt very close to me. He paid a tight attention to my
poetry and my singing and my writing and my art. He was one of those people who
love with such an utter completeness that you truly don’t know how to respond –
except to accept it. He got into you like a serum; you would be affected by him
forever. The bracelet you see me wearing here is one he gave me. I don’t know
its provenance. I’m not given to wearing jewelry. But I suspect I’ll wear this
for the rest of my life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90NT-YrTYp6k_Bf1TQWz4PcW3CwdGxtU3DRGJICXHP7AHcY5aluSnvmBVflV0yMSUj4xzo6yfQ4X0ORApPB3EiWzfaB5gt9KY-k2eOG4rhjhBnBm5YTEzrCiVvbjKmhxLHYVjd0jJvzgD/s462/John-Frederick+Williams+2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="347" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90NT-YrTYp6k_Bf1TQWz4PcW3CwdGxtU3DRGJICXHP7AHcY5aluSnvmBVflV0yMSUj4xzo6yfQ4X0ORApPB3EiWzfaB5gt9KY-k2eOG4rhjhBnBm5YTEzrCiVvbjKmhxLHYVjd0jJvzgD/s320/John-Frederick+Williams+2020.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; text-align: left;">John-Frederick Williams 2020</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">What does John-Fredrick have to do with this history of gay
liberation? He is central to it. He IS it. He lived a kind of aimed and passionate
and irresponsible and deeply affectionate life. He was the human being in some
ways we all ought to have looked up to for guidance. But he’s gone now. And
there are few people, I think, who will remember him, beyond the handful who,
like me, couldn’t bear to forget him. He has no family left. In this way, dare
I say, he is us. He is every gay man and woman. He is the human spirit so tremblingly
organically constituted that if you could make real contact with him, you would
know so very much more about being alive. Few of us will be remembered. Eventually
none of us will be. But none of us doesn’t harbor a miracle. I think that’s
what John-Fredrick would want me to convey as his message. Suck dick, fuck
butt, kiss ass, laugh like a maniac, cry out of love, rail out of hate, be the whole
business of you, tenderly, roughly, and share it at least once with someone else.
He shared himself with me. And some very lucky others. And he remains for me
perhaps the most striking example of the Believably Liberated Gay Homo Sapiens,
which is to say the Freest Human Spirit, the incarnate goal, I think probably
exactly as Christ was and was meant to have been, of Divinity become mud and
ash, a frail detritus of life, as delicate a breath of nothing at the end as he
was a clarion call to singing at the top of his lungs at the beginning. Celebrate
this time in June of the liberation of Eros with someone like him in mind. We’ll
all go like he went. Unrecollected, in some ways unspent, but touched by a god’s
fire. None of us is exempt from anything. Including the glory of having to some degree lived unashamedly as who we are.</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244); text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpV3-mK3Df_-JUAs6SE9ZCvYguyfValsEWdweVBhDpOMWoICDUJEDzMhSsIdGWJiF-QTyRxvy1RuUaw-MXrueMEJE8lf6fhy_ccWNvXNXrnS8MZb-KTMxKW8gm8eQs5PkyhUwQ2HNEybPP/s390/gay+day+2021+guy+kettelhack+with+bracelet+from+JF.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpV3-mK3Df_-JUAs6SE9ZCvYguyfValsEWdweVBhDpOMWoICDUJEDzMhSsIdGWJiF-QTyRxvy1RuUaw-MXrueMEJE8lf6fhy_ccWNvXNXrnS8MZb-KTMxKW8gm8eQs5PkyhUwQ2HNEybPP/s320/gay+day+2021+guy+kettelhack+with+bracelet+from+JF.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: start;">Guy Kettelhack is the author and co-author of over 25 nonfiction books, including several on gay topics: e.g., DANCING AROUND THE VOLCANO, EASING THE ACHE, THE WIT & WISDOM OF QUENTIN CRISP & VASTLY MORE THAN THAT. He fled the Long Island suburbs where he was born and grew up, and then climbed up and four years later out of the mountains of Vermont after a requisite sojourn at Middlebury College, to make a life in New York City - which he always knew would be, and has proven over 50 years to remain, the city of his heart. You see him here displaying the aforementioned inscrutable bracelet John-Frederick Williams gave him.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; background: rgb(244, 244, 244); text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-69655865601181380802021-04-18T18:20:00.002-07:002021-04-18T18:20:25.798-07:00Finding a Rhyme for Linda<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHfCpzeaDisUEwgmQ-y96wxMa3pSfeWMegFP41SMT_b7whS0EaN_dXltu1fTUbOLZKYMDOjHofuk3VzUEUtQp1AWgdVJVIFwe5zhPaThRqiMXmazSZbr1eynJEc7v28rP6xmzMVqlJSVfU/s564/Finding+a+Rhyme+for+Linda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="410" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHfCpzeaDisUEwgmQ-y96wxMa3pSfeWMegFP41SMT_b7whS0EaN_dXltu1fTUbOLZKYMDOjHofuk3VzUEUtQp1AWgdVJVIFwe5zhPaThRqiMXmazSZbr1eynJEc7v28rP6xmzMVqlJSVfU/w291-h400/Finding+a+Rhyme+for+Linda.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finding a Rhyme for Linda<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://youtu.be/4yRAK94GzXM">https://youtu.be/4yRAK94GzXM</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My mind, last night, like a cat, came to paw<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and to knead – interceding to show its affection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it hoped this time might make me draw<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when I woke, overcoming whatever objection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that seemed to run through me in streams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">faintly tainted with slightly unhappy confusion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">which kept me from seeing the innermost beams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of the sun that would open to one sweet effusion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’d longed to inspire me – wishing for Linda<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to come to the fore and to open my door to the joy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that she couldn’t not bring. I felt a soft wind a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">mercurial shifty small poltergeist blew to deploy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a strategic solution to finding a rhyme for her name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He cheated (stuck wind-a to Linda) but lent me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a dream filled like clouds with soft faces – a frame<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of some graces of human reflection – which sent me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to pick up my pencils and markers and faith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to apply to some paper: Linda’s wisdom runs quiet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and sweet through the thing, like a sly smiling wraith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of her humor. Of which you’d heard more than a rumor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from me in the panoply of all the souls she delights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whom do these faces depict? You got me, honey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I asked around which got all my ghosts into fights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One said he might tell me, if I had the money.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But money I lack. And Linda is far more<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">than funny, to this Kettelhack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She is dimensions of Kind, Wise & Smart.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I give her my heart. And I won’t take it back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-34314987966597769282021-04-12T23:50:00.000-07:002021-04-12T23:50:33.514-07:00Two Songs with a Poem In-Between, in memory of John-Frederick Williams<p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRlpjH8LpqQ" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRlpjH8LpqQ</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> please watch & listen to the video.</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. “The Sweetest Sounds”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. A Stripped-to-the-Skin Singularity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><i><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Mourning for John-Frederick Williams<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Which was your truest New York?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Was she utterly like, or utterly not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">likd her clamorous claims to fame?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What was your newest New York?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Does one have to become certifiably<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">something requiring rehab to prove<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that one cannot imagine inhabiting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">anywhere else on the planet but here -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in her gut, breasts and testicles, penis,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">vagina and sinuses - all of her vast<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and celestial variety, emptiness, fullness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and grief, thereby finally in a position<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to earn a satiety all of her lovers must learn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">she can lend in a breath - sending each<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of us harrowingly and hilariously<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">into what, after all, we discover is death?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She was a bitch, and she’s a bitch still.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She’ll randomly keep you alive, or kill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But she burst your strife into glorious life:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And you burn more brightly than I ever will.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is a poem I posted probably too hastily during the last day
or two of John-Frederick’s life, knowing he’d be gone soon, but wanting to
write it in time possibly to read it to him while he was still breathing, albeit
in a coma, in his Mt. Sinai hospital room up on west 114<sup>th</sup> Street. But
I didn’t read it: I don’t think I had the balls to read it to him. His partner
was there and I didn’t want to disturb him, which was probably silly because
his partner had to have been as tough as John-Frederick was, so he would have
borne whatever piddle-paddle I had to say. But I still didn’t read it aloud
there. And I always read my poems aloud to John-Frederick; he was such an
enthusiastic audience. He thought I was much better a poet than I ever would
esteem myself. But the fun of it arose from his perfect understanding of what I
was doing. Which was basically being funny, or trying to be. Or at least having
fun. He knew all the pulse points – his, mine, and those of everything living.
I won’t go on about him now because it’s still too early and I don’t know what
to say.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">I did however know what to sing, this afternoon. Or any rate
convinced myself I knew, this afternoon, why I wanted to sing “The Sweetest
Sounds”, which opens this cobbled-together business, and “Softly, as I leave
you” which will close it. Karaoke background shamelessly exploited. “Sweetest
Sounds” is a charming song written for “No Strings” – music and lyrics by
Richard Rodgers: it’s lovely to experience him as both melodist and lyricist.
It’s among his best songs. A little thing with a capacious heart. “Softly as I
leave you” was written by Tony DaVita (music) with lyrics in Italian by Giorgio
Calabrese, translated into English by Hal Shaper. “Sweetest Sounds” is about a
life not yet lived, but hoped for; “Softly, as I Leave You” tackles a striking
notion, that these are the thoughts of a man dying who wants to spare the love
of his life the pain of having to watch him fade from life into death. It’s an
extraordinary premise, and it gets into my brain almost virally. It asks us to
be this dying human being, and to feel as our last conscious experience in the
last breath of our mind the whole giving miracle of loving. I think they’re
extraordinary songs, and they came to me this afternoon as the only means I
could imagine of saying what still seems to me this moment between life and
death </span><i style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">is</i><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"> for me – not just because of John-Frederick’s death, not just
because of more than a year of feeling half-buried in this Covid Era of Erasure,
not just because I will become 70 years old in about three weeks, but because I
apparently need sounds and words and behaviors to manage at least for a moment
the unorderable, the unfathomable, the unforgiving obstinacy of Existence, with
its complete refusal to tell us why. Why what? Why anything.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. “Softly, as I Leave you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-17910757862564721092021-04-01T14:00:00.000-07:002021-04-01T14:00:01.226-07:00Actuality, an Hypothesis (Existentialism 101)<p></p><p><br /></p><p>As possibly a blanket defense, or biologically as the first faint dimmings of the onset in me of Alzheimer’s (with or from which my father and his mother died), no memory of anything in my past stands out in any sharp detail. The stories I’ve told and repeated to myself about signal moments in my life are what recur, but nothing with the clout of the initial substance of a moment - vivid smells, colors, faces, places - all of that is sort of what my memory has turned into hearsay. Frankly that’s true of whatever it was that happened to me this morning walking to and back from Rite Aid where I picked up a prescription and stopped in at my Chinese takeout place to pick up lunch. It’s a sort of hazy view, no real sense of immediacy. I’m only ever sure I’m in ‘reality’ in the instant I’m in. The tapping of my index finger on the iPhone keyboard is actual because I can see and hear it (my fingernail, though trimmed, still makes contact with the screen and audibly clicks). But when I stop doing it its reality will become hypothetical almost. I’ve never expressed this instant swallowing of the actual with quite this clarity before. It’s not exactly a surprise - I can’t imagine anyone not knowing through his or her experience what I’m saying - it provides an angle of perception which seems to me almost designed to tamp down memory so that it doesn’t interfere with the immediate impact of actuality. But the forgettingness of things also seems to me so self-protectively defensive. And one of its casualties, for me, is to becloud any memory of anything. It becomes harder to believe in actuality if our experience of it can’t be entirely recollected. How do we know that anything actually happened? Or that anything remembered isn’t just a story we made up to provide evidence that corroborates what we want to believe happened? I know this is Existentialism 101 but it bites me anyway.</p><p>Attached are pics of what caught my attention en route to, from & in Rite Aid. It would be churlish of me not to accept them as things actually perceived. So I’ll coast on the sleigh that says they are such a thing.</p>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-27989249520757095592021-02-22T14:12:00.002-08:002021-02-22T14:12:28.829-08:00A Foregone Duty<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7gJum2PsLaT6oXrHb2ekJzGL30t5BpL_fRqbVt7fjrdg01R2wueE18a-H6_NzNOP-ZYudkKhfb6MYXG7AqaMcpPzM2KUzxHHHPA2_TUGB_vVN6S87lg1znzSZ3ePkjCFCXkS16svuW0Ux/s722/A+Foregone+Duty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="521" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7gJum2PsLaT6oXrHb2ekJzGL30t5BpL_fRqbVt7fjrdg01R2wueE18a-H6_NzNOP-ZYudkKhfb6MYXG7AqaMcpPzM2KUzxHHHPA2_TUGB_vVN6S87lg1znzSZ3ePkjCFCXkS16svuW0Ux/w289-h400/A+Foregone+Duty.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Foregone Duty</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F4F4F4;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI65Ehi1t_0" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI65Ehi1t_0</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Apoplectic anorectic -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">biometrically unsound -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New York City, once electric:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">has it run its power aground?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or has it always played<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">this trick of seeming sick -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">doomed by fate to fade?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oblivious to slow or quick,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when or then, again, before - it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">knows what it is, it’s more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How could horny New York quit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">its favorite role as whore?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But it’s mother more to moods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">than sin. Outer and inner -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to New York they’re foods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of the feast. Loser and winner -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fall on it, savor its beauty's<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">perfection, its chaotic loss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">beyond measure. Its duty’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">foregone: it’s the boss.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-20972569055560580912021-02-02T04:17:00.003-08:002021-02-02T04:17:59.536-08:00Whispers<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLShzcqKrwIzKF1hx7jlCOV-K6qJSw9MexaJDyRjdUrN5tfiehWzPmVC5yi3Uokyx8Xh75VhrK-N7lR5HBTOlcrnTuadwf8_7vreqy0o4L1Q0uVLH1Ke2GdgE4rX6Ip0iLxR-vYwYxBjjC/s708/Whispers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="516" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLShzcqKrwIzKF1hx7jlCOV-K6qJSw9MexaJDyRjdUrN5tfiehWzPmVC5yi3Uokyx8Xh75VhrK-N7lR5HBTOlcrnTuadwf8_7vreqy0o4L1Q0uVLH1Ke2GdgE4rX6Ip0iLxR-vYwYxBjjC/w291-h400/Whispers.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div><br /> <span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I shall rashly suggest (in the wake of finishing this in the early pre-dawn of a blizzardy February) that this may be my best work yet. By which I mean, I had a helluva good time entertaining it, that is, allowing it to entertain me. The video recitation, which is part of what I like to think makes this fly e'en through the snow, is, in fact, done in whispers - though stage whispers of the kind that should be audible. Do expect to kick up the volume, though, if it's annoyingly too soft.</span><p></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><strong><em><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Whispers</span></em></strong></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #1c2023; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://youtu.be/uYTZ1GrGXB4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/uYTZ1GrGXB4</a></span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">By the time she’d trotted powerfully out to plant her ass</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">flat on the floor close to the safety of the southwest corner</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">blissfully to suck up through a giant straw inside a giant glass</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">half half-and-half, half cold sweet coffee – oh, to warn her</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">not to drink too much, whatever it might be! – is all you</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">wished to do and would have done had you been nearer.</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">But now, from her sly knowing eye you somehow also knew,</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">with not unwelcome certainty, it could not have been clearer</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">that you’d merely caught her in the act of drinking iced sweet</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">mellowed half of this and half of that: no more. Your view</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">had changed and oddly prospered from this cul-de-sac: neat</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">trick! this heretofore unknown blessed invitation to pursue,</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">pursue, look into, voyage through, the unsuspected blithering</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">and blandishment and random glories in a heavy down-pour</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">of the rest. You look around: the sky and ground are slithering</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">into another circumstance, a dancing fanciful romance: much</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">grandeur now arrives - more heads, which with yours number</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ten. Six are yellow, three evince pink greenish-nesses such</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">as might be bound in and surrounded by fluidities of slumber</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">that you’re subtly kindly pressed to entertain will not so much</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">decree your destiny as be it. All this folderol! At last you see it.</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p class="yiv0880889937MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-68912023939223520742020-11-11T05:09:00.005-08:002020-11-11T05:14:02.688-08:00What I Guess I Came to Say<p> <span face="HelveticaNeue-Light" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 36, 43); color: #21242b; font-size: 16px;">What I Guess I Came to Say</span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(33, 36, 43); color: #21242b; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(33, 36, 43); color: #21242b; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; font-size: 16px;"><img /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHml1rPJwqZ9MGUAxL2o4NoCSn70Q_Yb_JNHa15c3D0XJVssJbJ7Eh7NJqg1y_JzHDqaav2NpJSmNP3mvDOPtLAM7xiUWpUY4h5MaCA6ewplkHuK42DUyAE4U4YN6ZQLrzn6dGgLhrdE6/s350/1BA1A070-C95E-4FB2-803C-092D62362D64.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHml1rPJwqZ9MGUAxL2o4NoCSn70Q_Yb_JNHa15c3D0XJVssJbJ7Eh7NJqg1y_JzHDqaav2NpJSmNP3mvDOPtLAM7xiUWpUY4h5MaCA6ewplkHuK42DUyAE4U4YN6ZQLrzn6dGgLhrdE6/w400-h400/1BA1A070-C95E-4FB2-803C-092D62362D64.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(33, 36, 43); color: #21242b; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/xF6TPfTwRZc" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #00a8ff; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">https://youtu.be/xF6TPfTwRZc</a></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(33, 36, 43); color: #21242b; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light; font-size: 16px;"><br /><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 9px;"><div id="yiv7990036358"><div><img /></div><div>(the video is maybe worth seeing, mostly because of the light that dims at the end, exactly on cue, which it did entirely on its own recognizance.)</div><div>.</div><div>.</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 9px;"><div id="yiv7990036358"><div>The practical reality of doing what I do</div><div>seemingly impracticably makes me climb</div><div>back into reinventing plans to mimic who</div><div>I think I was or what I did the last time</div><div>.</div><div>I believe I had succeeded: that’s a pain</div><div>with little prospect of a gain: “again”</div><div>is not a notion to rejoice in: but to feign</div><div>a former me, to re-ingest some madeleine</div><div>.</div><div>to re-inhabit memory - may be the best</div><div>maneuver I could conjure up to shoo in</div><div>inconceivable catastrophe, to fail the test</div><div>of being serviceably human, ergo ruin</div><div>.</div><div>the renewal of what had been an ability</div><div>I now had lost: to render calm accord</div><div>from those so rageful with malignant incivility,</div><div>no calm could now arrive except by sword.</div><div>.</div><div>But that would be uncivil and untoward.</div><div>Then, at last! I now recall their favorite condition.</div><div>“Hit the ground!” I yell as I move forward.</div><div>With great relief they do. They love submission.</div><div>.</div><div>One twists and turns and burns</div><div>to find a serviceable way.</div><div>I suppose that’s how one learns.</div><div>I guess it’s what I came to say.</div></div></blockquote></div>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-66684707278972525832020-11-05T23:17:00.001-08:002020-11-05T23:17:25.939-08:00Bubbly Ding Dong<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4MC9L3hSCISQbmZx3R0LxEWUfkZdO4_opMAKZDxnRetHs4K7KPMOiytM1aAy47Yio5-OI_HTV_yXwEzcrKkWdOjicQBFlToXn8OfYEtD9rdCAbT4Xqq_GvTlv8NnWG-squtQjfs2F0nMO/s708/Bubbly+Ding+Dong.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="510" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4MC9L3hSCISQbmZx3R0LxEWUfkZdO4_opMAKZDxnRetHs4K7KPMOiytM1aAy47Yio5-OI_HTV_yXwEzcrKkWdOjicQBFlToXn8OfYEtD9rdCAbT4Xqq_GvTlv8NnWG-squtQjfs2F0nMO/w289-h400/Bubbly+Ding+Dong.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">City stone is mostly what my art
observes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to find its way. From 1880s scroll
and column<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on my block I heard today what bell
deserves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">my notice, and for whom it has to
toll. Solemn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">though this business may appear, New
York<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fears nothing about death. It plays
ping pong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with it, and life - can’t wait to
pop the cork<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to toast the art it spawns with
bubbly ding dong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hence the pitcher and the lizard
here, I think:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">who find themselves in lurid hues a
city bell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">would welcome. They’ve drunk the
drink.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Feeling well. Not in hell. Art’s
rather swell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s amazing how little
things matter. They<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">don’t matter at all, and
they matter the most.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every life we bring on we
will shatter. Hey!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But don’t leave in a
huff. Make a toast!<o:p></o:p></span></p>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-74898997343256809852020-11-01T19:37:00.002-08:002020-11-01T19:37:26.743-08:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Snide Little Tease<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhun94e9gYrdTLGVkehB76WhrMbLwqVB0umy980dEgaI1TMYC_zALL4if4og02QB9CIxtL4D59s0hU0xuHb5sgikYo5r9pHPH4vMkZixP_J4t3ulBl8ottA_I9zIVfM1-Ol83sqmh0MaB77/s705/Snide+Little+Tease.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="510" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhun94e9gYrdTLGVkehB76WhrMbLwqVB0umy980dEgaI1TMYC_zALL4if4og02QB9CIxtL4D59s0hU0xuHb5sgikYo5r9pHPH4vMkZixP_J4t3ulBl8ottA_I9zIVfM1-Ol83sqmh0MaB77/w462-h640/Snide+Little+Tease.jpg" width="462" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Book Antiqua, serif;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://youtu.be/C3rPTWL2X08">https://youtu.be/C3rPTWL2X08</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What are all these terrible proclivities, anxieties?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In how many guises of exuberance do quakes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of terror hide? Life can be a snide little tease –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an acrobatic malady, a viral wheeze that makes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">us watch trapezes full of inept fliers falling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from the ceiling. These unfunny circuses reach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">into all our psyches, hearts and eyes, appalling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">anyone who pays them any mind. Spirits beseech<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you: offer to whoever wants it, all you’ve got –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">your marriageable self, your favorite raccoon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a chicken-burger-fries chain with a parking lot –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">offer it to God or the woman in the moon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">or a brilliant astrophysicist, or witch on a broom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Give your every penny, Eurodollar or doubloon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Divest yourself of everything: empty every room.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do it years and years from now or do it very soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or hoard it all forever in a cellar in your house.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There may be worse and better things to do as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some will parade themselves, some hide and grouse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some make a boring heaven, some make a happy hell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-39408104594057516702020-10-10T07:59:00.002-07:002020-10-10T08:00:24.423-07:00We are Candy Bars and God is Crazy<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaKS1wi6fOJotNHzub5nc9EgdLC-PGkdWnS4ks9tpf3wc8RxW-1dCQhG3R7KZdYIvfD7Il-9Jen5XUPPYlm6LLNA71_O3uheV7607cG0Oq3qQEmM0PI7d-bqHWHP-R9F90S-gMSOnSh-JX/s704/We+are+Candy+Bars+and+God+is+Crazy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="516" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaKS1wi6fOJotNHzub5nc9EgdLC-PGkdWnS4ks9tpf3wc8RxW-1dCQhG3R7KZdYIvfD7Il-9Jen5XUPPYlm6LLNA71_O3uheV7607cG0Oq3qQEmM0PI7d-bqHWHP-R9F90S-gMSOnSh-JX/w294-h400/We+are+Candy+Bars+and+God+is+Crazy.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal">https://youtu.be/hFGAb6xS3sw</p><p class="MsoNormal">.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Boundlessly unfounded chaos would appear to be</p><p class="MsoNormal">the order of the day today from Speonk to Bombay.</p><p class="MsoNormal">It’s not that any thing might happen but that every</p><p class="MsoNormal">thing must happen which contrives to drive one</p><p class="MsoNormal">mad. “Does it serve justice that such coconut-</p><p class="MsoNormal">stuffed heads as ours be driven nuts as well?” or so</p><p class="MsoNormal">.</p><p class="MsoNormal">the clan of crania I’d just impelled to sprout up</p><p class="MsoNormal">from my neck and shoulders into an incarnate form,</p><p class="MsoNormal">now queried God. Who out of mirthless laughter</p><p class="MsoNormal">hollowly replied, “Because you cannot be dissuaded</p><p class="MsoNormal">from believing there’s a cosmic truth, your reality</p><p class="MsoNormal">both must and cannot happen: you’re Ambivalence</p><p class="MsoNormal">.</p><p class="MsoNormal">made flesh. Maybe, baby, you’ll discover you have</p><p class="MsoNormal">never lived. To see if you exist you must subject</p><p class="MsoNormal">yourself to infinite varieties of ands and buts and ifs.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Recall infinity knows nothing of ‘before’ or ‘after’.</p><p class="MsoNormal">And candy bars are lazy.” (As I, albeit vainly, have</p><p class="MsoNormal">implored you to accept, we are those candy bars</p><p class="MsoNormal">.</p><p class="MsoNormal">and God is crazy. There’s more (God’s hungry for</p><p class="MsoNormal">us sundry sweets!) but it avails us little to explore it –</p><p class="MsoNormal">undermined and undermining, all the rest at best</p><p class="MsoNormal">is hazy (God’s synonym for hellish). He wants His</p><p class="MsoNormal">valedictory goodbyes to ring with language we will</p><p class="MsoNormal">relish: He does orate them stirringly, then – oh, with</p><p class="MsoNormal">.</p><p class="MsoNormal">what relief! (but no surprise) – He dies. Ambivalence</p><p class="MsoNormal">personified to such a pitch, God couldn’t find a way</p><p class="MsoNormal">to scratch – alleviate – that old hellacious itch. Ergo</p><p class="MsoNormal">the Universe he made could not stay made. That’s</p><p class="MsoNormal">the skinny on why we’re no longer here, though it</p><p class="MsoNormal">may seem we are. They’ve bedded my eight crania</p><p class="MsoNormal">.</p><p class="MsoNormal">into a comfortable and capacious booby hatch. Every</p><p class="MsoNormal">being “here” appears to think God’s busy running</p><p class="MsoNormal">worlds as usual and all is fine. They’ll find out</p><p class="MsoNormal">soon enough that nothing anymore belongs to God,</p><p class="MsoNormal">long gone. When we sit down at dawn at breakfast,</p><p class="MsoNormal">I perceive the real design. Everything is mine.</p><p class="MsoNormal">.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-84438482606362493272020-10-06T09:27:00.005-07:002020-10-06T14:27:52.602-07:00We Like to Think We’re Taken Care Of<p><span style="font-size: medium;">...Being Cared For</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2q3yoTeV4KrcqHmZNeL2rvVmYewlgR0kmPGfcHZNIFvia6Eee_Zhf-1R41aK9yfKxtKZ8njJRIvU8H0fk2XmEg86jFy4ffxBUBcx9XZHhdJow1zlD5_Q_1dEWsHwqISzw3PlCigJy9RYK/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2q3yoTeV4KrcqHmZNeL2rvVmYewlgR0kmPGfcHZNIFvia6Eee_Zhf-1R41aK9yfKxtKZ8njJRIvU8H0fk2XmEg86jFy4ffxBUBcx9XZHhdJow1zlD5_Q_1dEWsHwqISzw3PlCigJy9RYK/" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Has anything caused you to consciously reinvent yourself in a way you never could have imagined?</span> (question on Quora)</p><p></p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p>Now there’s a question you can take to bed with you - really only to subject it to every measure of sensual persuasion you’ve got to see how long it will take to succeed, and to what degree you and it will convince each other you have succeeded, in prodding, seducing or cajoling each other’s substancelessness - yours & the question’s - into one of only two possible manufactured ‘emotional’ outcomes: feeling excruciatingly exposed or hopelessly beyond any chance of ever being understood. There’s a kind of aching ecstasy to be had here for a very short while.</p><p></p><p>The most obstinate kicker of a single word in the question arrives in the form of its lethal adverb ‘consciously’.</p><p>Consciousness of oneself is an entire impossibility, at least if the condition sought is framed for you as some version of ‘objective’. The great lie we cannot help sustaining about ourselves is to believe (pathetically in the effort to keep sane) that we can in any way - say through the agency of the great fabrication so many of us ferociously refuse to refuse - the substanceless abstraction ‘Soul’ - manage to separate from our thoughts and physical sensations in order thereby to ‘see’ what manner of thing they (and we by the illusion of contrast to ‘them’) may really be. The circumlocutionary syntactical maneuvers we attempt in the cause of finding and inhabiting a ‘stance’ of clarity of perception which can permit this impossibility are heartbreakingly vacant of power. They are little whiffles of swish in an imaginary wind which of themselves harbor no wish to help or hinder, heal or infect, add to or subtract from any of the arbitrary forms or imagined principles governing the ‘substance’ we are convinced are what gives us shape and shadow. Language inevitably breaks down in the face of any mission foisted upon it to describe a single ‘thing’ definitively. We are and we exist entirely as Unknowing. We are remarkable for our persistence in face of this Unknowing. All there is, is Unknowing. That’s it. There’s nothing to make of anything else. If you don’t end with your mental exertions dissembling in and into a blithering heap - well, there’s no other way out but that. The heap will deconstruct into a blither and be what it only ever was or could be: Unknowing.</p><p>[postscript]</p><p>I wrote a poem ten years ago, September 30 2010, which I dare to suggest may offer a little peace in these troubling matters: it entertains a notion I still am unable to clasp completely to my soul and heart but which tenaciously retains a sort of hold on me. I can’t banish it to oblivion. It traffics in the sentimental notion of faith. I abide with its possibility.</p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p>We Like to Think We’re Taken Care Of</p><p>Being blankets and suffuses, underlies and overlays; nothing</p><p>doesn’t have a cover from which nothing isn’t made: everything</p><p>is anything you like: constellated atoms spike and swoop</p><p>and promulgate their warp and woof to keep you fizzing</p><p>in a grand and infinitely busy camaraderie. Biology is physics:</p><p>sentiment is quarks. Everything’s a spinning whiz: whirling like</p><p>spaghetti twirls on forks: proximities in endless overlapping</p><p>families of probabilities and permutations of exacting essences</p><p>of star. We like to think we’re taken care of. Perhaps we are.</p>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-90768906264622329642020-10-02T01:01:00.004-07:002020-10-02T01:07:11.116-07:00Sorcery's Zeitgeist - 2020<p><br /></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="510" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3U64okSpSR5sToOjwY4Fi6B5MgHs1VJkGDSh_8-yJovCycKZ7k8npzTvWMsUFLvrn-bMb-GXfSuQjE3sBNISTHpHWYmQWbyM2zg7yFs7uYWQqetinqOGSR97jr7G82OFyiITFq3uZ0gH/w290-h400/Sorcery%25E2%2580%2599s+Zeitgeist+-+2020.jpg" width="290" /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Sorcery's Zeitgeist - 2020</i><br /><div>.</div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;"><a class="postlink" href="https://youtu.be/AO3vqEUlmx0" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; unicode-bidi: embed;">https://youtu.be/AO3vqEUlmx0</a><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Comes around, goes around, but it won’t come back.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Systems we relied on insubordinately crack,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">attacked by rabid forces we had not dared to predict.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Kittens’ wounds, although assiduously licked</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">by mama cats won’t heal. Everyone’s attacked by rats –</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">decided, undecided – Republicans and Democrats.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Treasonably trapped by an intentional iniquity,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">unreasonably wrapped into occasions for obliquity.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">.</span></span></div></div>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-15021884948691444702020-09-21T01:38:00.001-07:002020-09-21T01:38:26.488-07:00Multiloquy<p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></span></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHg6TH3D4YppGNpeXLFwzxIQvPLmCuaKIOe3M4Yo23jnaqqkKf5PsQG0J5eT-Bv-w4ULSTDuhRBhOfmpH9zFhgn-ZJH6YBDiu3_HjKANaxy8cgxLHefa1DsBEu8Z4ExWIQ7Pvbu49XLZAK/s697/Multiloquy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="504" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHg6TH3D4YppGNpeXLFwzxIQvPLmCuaKIOe3M4Yo23jnaqqkKf5PsQG0J5eT-Bv-w4ULSTDuhRBhOfmpH9zFhgn-ZJH6YBDiu3_HjKANaxy8cgxLHefa1DsBEu8Z4ExWIQ7Pvbu49XLZAK/w289-h400/Multiloquy.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><p></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://youtu.be/BZ7rXp_oolY" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">https://youtu.be/BZ7rXp_oolY</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">Things devolve, reveal
themselves to be extraneous<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">extremities, eventually obtruding
obfuscating<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">tender slender and insensate
lines that bunch up<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">like the spines of broken
babies’ bodies thrown into<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">a common grave: little
ones whom nobody can save;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">geometric chaos waiting
for a wave to sluice them<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">back into the sea in
which, disintegrating, they will<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">find escape, at last,
from obloquy. Is contempt<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">the generating force that
drives the green fuse through<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">the flower? Dylan Thomas didn’t
promise happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">Who can promise that? And
yet, and yet, I rise<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">to shave my head in
public and to dye my beard<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">a tawny brown and raise an
arm alluringly so it can<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">frame my gleaming pate,
somehow rendering to it<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">a lyric sense of biceps you
would be attracted to, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">if things like that attracted
you. My drawings start<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">as sketches and then grow
to wretched and unruly<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">size, indefensible: complex
for no good reason, or none<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">beyond a treason in the
soul which strives to hoodwink<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">roaming eyes into regarding
its thick overlays of colors<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">given texture by the
random sticky use of crayons,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">bleeding markers, pencils,
waxy, wet, fat, thin anointed<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">implements of my decision
to provision space with<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">something I can bear to
see, as wise. I like them when<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">they’re done. They seem to
have such fun, all blundering<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">and wondering, caring not
a whit that their multiloquy –<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">the quality of never
being other than excessively<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">loquacious, never shutting
up or saying anything that<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">matters (bodacious and capaciously
rapacious are<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">the sorts of rhymes whose
visual equivalents it traffics in)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">– more than deserves that
obloquy those tender slender<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">and insensate lines that
bunch up like the spines<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">of broken babies’ bodies thrown
into a common grave<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">nobody can save. Sometimes
I wish my drawings would<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">behave. Other times I don’t.
Indeed, I must confess<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">I rather love it – much
prefer it - when they won’t.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p></p>Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-23859008088498408982020-09-08T02:46:00.000-07:002020-09-08T02:46:06.113-07:00The Thing You Think You're In (spoken and sung)<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(spoken & sung)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Today go do the
things you say</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">and say the things you do</span>.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Try to find out in your usual way</span><br />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">if anything new is true</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">about the thing you think you’re in,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">or if you’ve made the cut.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If not: at least you’ve
blundered in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">to find at last you’ve
shut</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">the door on ambiguity</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">and found one truth intact:</span><br />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">agleam with sheer congruity –<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">your empty head’s a
fact.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Keep your final act at bay,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">blithering toward the<span style="background: white;"> abyss.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Get on your knees midday to pray,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">slithering forward
like this.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-41986570759870926722020-09-07T20:47:00.002-07:002020-09-07T20:47:44.904-07:00Articles of Faith<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just came across a piece of writing I posted about a year and a half ago about the German side of my family. Somehow, in this zeitgeist, this odd dissociative covid moment, such musings seem to have more than usual force. As the last member left of my immediate family, I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that I feel the desire, maybe even the mission, to re-discover my provenance - kind of see my place in the cosmos, a mission about which, right now, the cosmos even more than usually probably couldn’t care less.<br />
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Oh well!<br />
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Feb something-or-other 2019<br />
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I had another moment — not the first, but they’re rare — of contemplating the German half of me, more particularly the Kettelhack half: prodded by someone on Facebook who said he’d enjoyed seeing a photo I’d posted of my father as a toddler held by his mother Elsie, his father Herman’s arm around both of them and his sister Elsie sitting at their father’s feet: a formally posed at-the-beach scene I suppose may have actually been taken at a beach such as Coney Island (since they’re wearing beachwear) but was the sort of thing in the 1910s often staged in a photographer’s studio. Formal studio family portraits were clearly fashionable then and the Kettelhack family featured here were for the moment well off enough to afford the life that went with them. Herman had a successful import/export business he had come to the New York City area (they first lived in west New York, New Jersey, then to Amsterdam Avenue at 110th Street) to pursue. However, it had to have been tough going almost immediately since the War broke out in 1914 and presumably anything run by a German (although he and his wife quickly became American citizens) in New York in trade with Germany could not have fared well. If my father was 2 or 3 yrs old in this pic, this would have been 1915 or 1916. After the war Herman took his family back to his home town of Bremen in northern Germany to see his own relatives and presumably to repair his business contacts there so that when he returned, as he did in 1922, to the USA he could rebuild his business. It was a mission fate decreed he wouldn’t accomplish. Only months after he got back he died of a sudden heart attack, falling over while shaving in the bathroom. Hard years ahead for his wife and children.<br />
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But what put me in mind of the Kettelhack family that preceded mine was my having rearranged the display items on the shaky spindly étagère I’ve inserted among their faces: it seemed to me more German than Victorian - which recalled my father’s intricate imagined charcoal cartoon figures and the ones I draw inspired by him - and how different they are from my mother’s clean cool uncluttered views of sky and bay. Also pressed into service here is a photo ça 1899 of my grandmother-to-be, then Elsie Hilgen at 17 or 18. A glimpse at the turn of the century northern German cultivated girl she was. There’s also a photo quartet of me, 2 in my 30s, 2 in my 60s. (Unnecessarily making the point that there are a lotta me’s.)<br />
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I’ve decided these amount to articles of faith identifying my father and his family’s influence on me as ‘German’ - which opens up the possibility that I am as much the child of Bremen as I am of New York. I like ideas that enrich my sense of provenance, a word I use to excess because it somehow organizes the chaos of influence into something elegantly speakable.<br />
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We invent ourselves with every word we utter and mutter.<br />
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All those forebears are dead. My mentioning them and showing their pictures and celebrating them gives them a kind of life no one else is left to give them. When I’m gone, so (in every likelihood) will they be. Their details - those few I have, in pictures, memories and artifacts - avail me so easily: they help me make their lives up, imagine who they were, what they were like. Apparently I need them. New York is where I can have them. They all knew this city, found their lives here. In that way we align completely - my mother’s Blake family and the Kettelhack’s and Guy. What other family do I have?<br />
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Well, the indifferent Cosmos I suppose. Which of course I’m not just the child of but am. You are too. Wanna see it? Look in the mirror.Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-87741358660900510172020-08-27T19:40:00.002-07:002020-08-27T19:43:17.158-07:00The Multi-Species Family<br />
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<br />Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-45851713731106829652020-08-27T10:27:00.001-07:002020-08-27T10:27:34.460-07:00What I’m Careful to Say<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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(from a response to a dear friend who was concerned because one of my recent poems seemed to indicate I was maybe feeling bleak. As is usual with such expressions of concern I started to pontificate in the usual way about the usual ‘suspects’ - aspects of the natures of Creation - but which I kinda liked when I was done so here it is.)<br />
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What I’m careful to say (because it strikes me as true not as any conscious coverup) about any drawing or poem for which I seem to be the sole generator is that they seem respectively to draw & write themselves. I don’t know where they come from or even what their mission is for themselves: I’m just the hired hand who wields the physical instruments of their construction or destruction. I don’t write in a ‘trance’ but I am aware that I do everything (I mean in every moment of my waking life) in a kind of slightly altered state; I was tempted to say meditative but that’s too loaded a word. It is a condition of attention which has no connection I can feel to whoever ‘me’ is. It is a self-forgetting not a self-‘finding’ - whatever that may be. The ‘self’ doesn’t exist except as a word made of letters from a vocabulary - a sort of stand-in (as all words are) for an existentially both precise and immense ‘felt’ human experience so powerful that it pushes you to the brink of attempting the ridiculous task of describing it, to do it justice. Experience is immune to description.<br />
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Those artists known as great are those who through some deeply magic sleight-of-hand are able to bring to life the illusion that something can with any justice be said. Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson being two. I don’t count myself among them but I do dare to say I am sometimes afforded what seems like an intimate glimpse of what they do - catching them undressed in the act of doing it, sort of. But that’s probably still my hubris.<br />
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They both come to mind because each refuses to say what he or she ‘believes’. They (via each’s style: and “style,” as Quentin Crisp reminds us, “in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness”) are abundantly present - who could mistake either of their ‘voices’ for any other - but their business is not to ‘bare’ or reveal themselves. ‘Self’ is the least interesting aspect of what they do. They’re too busy creating autonomous worlds. They’re less like writers than “God” - another silly word or stand-in for Creation. Who cares who creates anything? Who can’t care about what is created?<br />
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So I’m never the poem or the drawing I do. I especially give Emily the nod here for demonstrating how to appear to be speaking in first-person - the single letter word “I” is to be found all over the place in her work - but I defy anyone to put an equals sign between it & Miss Emily D. Who in the cosmos knows who that is? Or who any of us is?<br />
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The guy who calls himself mostly for convenience sake, Guy.Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-88440741599670584042020-08-26T12:50:00.000-07:002020-08-26T18:17:14.596-07:00An Ideology of Shock<br />
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Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-87277909897715451592020-08-24T18:15:00.005-07:002020-08-24T21:03:25.414-07:00Anatomy of an Impasse<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Two circumspect smiles
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">but more hands than
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Their fingers come
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">suggesting not four
hands, but five.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">What do these hands want
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">And how does one read
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I feel a warm madness
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">if it is a disguise. I
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">of assuming that truth
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Or is it that this is the
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">to converge the point of
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Five hands not four give
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Homonym! Paws with claws
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">that I will not much
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">the first time. Won’t be
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I recall a small mantra:
“Don’t be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-65381333788344589882020-08-23T20:09:00.000-07:002020-08-23T20:09:07.348-07:00Much Worse Things You Could Be<br />
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<span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The prospect of expulsion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from the only realm of being<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it possible, was what<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to be a sunny spiritual paragon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">all fêted as divinities <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are much worse things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you could be, my sweet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">petite verisimilitude<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-18709167097889059272020-08-21T16:21:00.000-07:002020-08-21T16:31:39.248-07:00On the Inadvisability of Annoying Endora<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Though “Bewitched”
reruns upset him,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Carefully, resourcefully retaining plural forms of every noun,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">upsets and cacophonies that seize and swat our spirits down<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This meant: to sing! – “to toss the tune up, over, in a spherical<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">smooth swing.” <i>“Can’t awaken a thing without a song”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of whatever rhythms, pitches, high or low or fast or slow<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">absorbed his genius inner ear to hear new harmonies to show<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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song,”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-44672850399165786632020-08-18T23:43:00.003-07:002020-08-18T23:43:29.073-07:00So, hey!<br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://youtu.be/t_T_LKkwz8g">https://youtu.be/t_T_LKkwz8g</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, hey! Is everybody sure they’re real?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How do they know? Because their noses blow? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because they have nowhere to go? Because <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">they can’t say no? Because they’ve got an <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">outer glow that they believe will soon achieve <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an answering response in lusted-after Joe? –<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">whom you just saw advance upon that red-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">head Mary, secretary to the Moonshine Girls?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He’d gladly pay the IRS to go away with <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pints of his own blood if it were necessary. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And what’s the IRS to do with this? You may<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">well ask. Questions tend to make things clear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ask one and you’ll start to think you’re here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ask another and the whole gestalt of what <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you think about yourself will come to haunt<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and worry, hurt, deceive, desert and taunt you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">See that giant lady praying? I’m just saying.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-23107978676822309802020-08-17T23:42:00.006-07:002020-08-17T23:42:58.822-07:00What to Do with this Thing I Do<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://youtu.be/tIjzp_3Ushc">https://youtu.be/tIjzp_3Ushc</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A drawing
plants itself on paper,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">waits
for a useful assist. What is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">its
status? How does it stand,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">coming out
of my pencil and hand?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What do
I do with this thing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that I
stencil, erase, cover up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and cross
out, underline, undermine, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">circle
round and resist, and toss out,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">then take
back in the flick of a wrist? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What do
I do with this thing I do? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Should
I be its spy? Or ought I to spy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on it? Cry
for or at it, lie to or on it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ply it and
dye it the colors it wants,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">then dunk
it in colors it doesn’t?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Clapping
her hands, she begins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">now to
dance with the bird<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and the
thing becomes not what <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it wasn’t,
but what it had always<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">been:
what it is. Absurdly spot on,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">unduly complete,
with an avatar soul <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">so replete
it resounds! But what I’ve<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to do with
the business confounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The girl
and the bird (seeming blest)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">clap and
whirl nonetheless. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at least has done its best.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Guy Kettelhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14867335877049558315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906133837744890344.post-31292313216259314912020-08-16T11:14:00.001-07:002020-08-16T11:14:24.762-07:00Scan the Man<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://youtu.be/PEijazvRfF8">https://youtu.be/PEijazvRfF8</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It makes a kind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of sense, this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">silent push to slip<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">into the shimmer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of a cyber hole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and hide amenably:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a new imaginary grace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that could replace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the awkward scarred<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">brutality of this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">expiring city where<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I now must needs reside. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Must and needs belong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">together; let that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">English phrase abide.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What’s money but a toss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of paper rectangles and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">button-shaped pastilles?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Storm the pastilles!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maybe that would be fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What will anyone I love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">decide to say to me? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pray to me and I’ll<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">absolve us of our sins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">or be absolved by you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from having to say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">anything at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not that I’m not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">jonesing to have<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">confabs with whoever’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">reading this, and not <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that I’m not liking pouring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">out what’s left of yesterday’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">refrigerated coffee from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a clunky pressed glass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pitcher generously dosed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with half-and-half into<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a big ol’ Houston Texas glass,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the kind they pour sweet tea into.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not that anything’s amiss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">besides the city’s endless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">emptiness which has<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to be more vacant than<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it’s ever been in history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why are we here?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scan the man, report to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">what he apparently can’t say,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that dumb ass who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">did mumble something<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I could not make out <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a word of. But<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">no thing warrants <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">complaint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is no thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I push poems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">out and sing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">suck lollipops<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and draw. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That’s how <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I fuel me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and New York<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">City’s gaping maw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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