2011/10/08

The Very Flatness of Portraits Makes for Nostalgia in the Connoisseur




Speaking of sillyass Star Trek allusions, and wonderfully serendipitous to thinking about Occupy (if unfortunate to him), Charles Napier died this past Wednesday, who played Adam, who called Kirk Herbert.

Motherfucking Obama is often compared to Herbert Hoover. Coincidence?

Also, looking for the above youtube I found the below. Is proof I'm old that I bring up this old sexist debate, but most guys said Marianne but I always said Ginger.











OUR NATURE

Rae Armantrout

The very flatness
of portraits
makes for nostalgia
in the connoisseur.

Here’s the latest
little lip of wave
to flatten
and spread thin.

Let’s say
it shows our recklessness,

our fast gun,

our self-consciousness
which was really

our infatuation
with our own fame,

our escapes,

the easy way
we’d blend in

with the peasantry,

our loyalty
to our old gang

from among whom
it was our nature

to be singled out