Year: 2003
Nada
Posted on June 14, 2003 in Book of Days
I’m allowed to beg off now and then. Tonight, I beg off
I didn’t feel the earthquake?!
Posted on June 14, 2003 in Irony & Sarcasm
California geography seems to have changed since I went to sleep last night.
One Year Minus Nine Days
Posted on June 13, 2003 in Blogging Book of Days
Tupperware comes off the line without blemishes, all looking alike. When you write as I do, you get balls of raw wax, misshapen boxes, and, now and then, the stuff of weird science — things that crawl.
Crap Crap Crap
Posted on June 13, 2003 in Writing
Crap is good because at least it is writing. You see more of my crap because I have committed myself to keeping the memes going for a month or more.
Dream
Posted on June 13, 2003 in Dreams
“The nice thing about chocolate Easter bunnies,” he says, “is that they can break into a million pieces and you still can eat every bit.”
Goodnight
Posted on June 12, 2003 in Book of Days Poems Writing
That’s the problem with this place, this body
Too many Is and I am the only “you”.
Dream
Posted on June 12, 2003 in Dreams
I’m working in a company, some Silicon Valley place where the high-ranking men wear silver-gray tailored suits that they wear open as if there’s nothing hiding behind their back (which they keep covered).
The president of the company wants me to find his checks so he can write one out to meet a schedule. I go look for them. He tells me that I won’t find them until I do my work, clear a pile of boxes from my desk. The work goes fast and I distribute the boxes quickly. I find the box with the checks in it and I find myself delaying. I’ve got until noon. There’s time enough.
Blog Poetry Report
Posted on June 12, 2003 in Poems Pointers
Wordsmiths have blossomed online lately and I’d like to point out a few places where people have been risking their blogging reputations to express themselves in verse.
Resurrection of the Dead
Posted on June 11, 2003 in Book of Days Frustration Humiliation Rage & Annoyance Silicon Valley
A and T inadvertently did the cruelest thing I think a person can do to a person without cutting or shooting them. They saw me as another person, T’s dead brother who’d killed himself I don’t know how many years before.
Blog for America
Posted on June 11, 2003 in Campaign 2004 The InterNet
Howard Dean now has a weblog (written by Matthew Gross).
Snatched from Ratched.
The Women in Black
Posted on June 11, 2003 in Courage & Activism War
It relieved me to see them; they are the shadow which will not be heard in the blinding conservative sun patch of Orange County unless —
