So the plan is to stop posting DRGDKCLB (click mosaic, yo) stuff here two days ago, but in lieu of embargoed bleggalgazing - you'd rather have nothing than this, this than bleggalgazing, I seem incapable of giving you nothing - you get this, plus now through July 30 a daily Ashbery poem and a daily Kate Bush song in anticipation of two of the holiest days in Egoslavia. I had two fascinating email threads working yesterday on Blegsylvania and... oh, right. Had a conversation with my obamapostle friend, the one who doesn't even want me to use a pseudonymous initial to identify him/her, s/he said.... oh, right.
- Some choices are more equal than others.
- Motherfucking Democrats.
- UPDATE! Motherfucking Democrats.
- OK, more Cockburn: this.
- Those who know me aren't surprised this is placed here.
- Villager Court Jester really dislikes Willard.
- Things you might have missed.
- I hate the motherfucking Olympics. Possibly more than The Motherfucking Doors. It's close.
- I hate the motherfucking Olympics. Possibly more than The Motherfucking Doors. It's close.
- Via this, there's this. I drive by it almost every day.
- The Marlo on Rocketville Pike that caught on fire yesterday ironically was built on the plot of land the Rocketville Fire Department held their annual fundraising carnival for years.
- I am shocked to learn that Peter Nowak is a raging asshole. I've witnesses I've always said so, even in good times.
- Participatory art.
- Silliman's always awesomely generous litlinks.
- Will it be Mantel again? Wouldn't surprise me if they Bookered the whole trilogy. I tried reading Nicola Barker's Darkmans a few years ago, left it on Metro by accident, and....
- A Thurston Moore playlist from yesterday.
THE NEW HIGHER
John Ashbery
You meant more than life to me. I lived through
you not knowing, not knowing I was living.
I learned that you called for me. I came to where
you were living, up a stair. There was no one there.
No one to appreciate me. The legality of it
upset a chair. Many times to celebrate
we were called together and where
we had been there was nothing there,
nothing that is anywhere. We passed obliquely,
leaving no stare. When the sun was done muttering,
in an optimistic way, it was time to leave that there.
Blithely passing in and out of where, blushing shyly
at the tag on the overcoat near the window where
the outside crept away, I put aside the there and now.
Now it was time to stumble anew,
blacking out when time came in the window.
There was not much of it left.
I laughed and put my hands shyly
across your eyes. Can you see now?
Yes I can see I am only in the where
where the blossoming stream takes off, under your window.
Go presently you said. Go from my window.
I am in love with your window I cannot undermine
it, I said.
