Honey Suckle Rose

Playing in the Chinese garden the adults were laconic children lulled by a muttering pond. Eventually a bespectacled couple began talking after the man grabbed a lady bug from the women. 

"You want it? Come and get it." 

"Thats rather primal. Where does your tongue come from? "

"Probably from my first identity crisis."

"When was the second?"

"The day after the first."

"Thats quite a feat for a common fickle head." 

"Yes, I know."

"Well, what happened?"

"Don't you remember?"

"No."

Relativity

Mountains looked at from satellites close up look like wrinkled autumn leaves. 

Cities look like slides of virus' attacking a fertile area.

Atoms were once thought to be the smallest particles. Then scientists found Neutrons and Protons buzzing around like comets at high speeds.  The veins in a body share likeness to a road map. An infant child is the wisest being in the world.

Ten Minutes from 12/24

On my break between classes I have ten minutes to prepare for the next lesson. In the office I found this odd looking man; who had just arrived that morning from Hong Kong, using my chair and the computer next to my desk. He was studying the screen intently. I waited a moment before asking about my chair, but he noticed me and motioned to me. "Hey, look at this." He pointed to the screen. I looked. "This stuff is either crap or treasure." He said. We were both looking at an EBAY advertisement selling a 4 inch paper scrap from a 500 year old latin bible. It was 12 bucks plus 5 for shipping. "Leaf 6," He said "that's page 6."  "Oh."  "Well, I'm buying." He seemed satisfied.  "Good. Can I have my chair back?" "Oh, of course. Are there other chairs I can use?" "There's four over there." "Can I just---Is anybody---OK I'll just.." He groped one chair and placed it in front of the computer. "You know I love noodles," He continued. "It's all I ate in Hong Kong." "Oh really?" "Yea, here they have them but I don't like the seasoning." I removed a paper from a folder and tried to look at it. "The instant noodles are poison, I mean the noodles are fine, but all the crap is in that salt seasoning." "You shouldn't eat those." I said. "Yea, I mean it tastes good, but there's so many chemicals in it. A little is okay. I want to ask them to maybe put a little in next time." "Tell them So-guem Bae Chuseyo--It means Please take out the salt," I offered. "Oh yea, thats easy. Ok." "Ok." 

Four more minutes. Maybe they will be silent ones. A Soju headache was creeping in from the last night. Now thats some poison for you. I reflected on the stream of bars, pork and kimchi pizza, and the purchase of beer at a convenience store; finished in the warmth of a PC 방 at 1,000 Won per hour. Times Up. 

 

after work poem

i have decided to re-read things that i know i like
i was trying to read a new poetry book
from the library every week
i felt tired bored under that 'rule'
and have had the same two books
that are boring for more than a month

i had a change of mind about the chapbook
it should just have two or three stories in it
i want to change the story i have been working
on to match the story someone sent me
in length or be close to it
so they fit in the book nicely
then there will be a facebook advertisement for it
and we'll maybe send people copies
and maybe people will send us
stories for the second edition of the chapbook

i like run devil run by Paul McCartney though i don't have it
or haven't listened to it in more than a year.
i like the chapbook they all seem asleep by Matthew Rohrer.
maybe i'll like review that or something.
it's in my pile of things in my 'office'.

HELLO WINTER

it snowed today in nyc. it's approaching 2am and it's raining now.

so far, fuck the farside chapbook. i don't want to put the things my co-contributer and myself write into peoples lives, though i like the things we both write.
i like talking about stuff that other people do that i like...

new 3bk song.
funny video made by a fellow jets fan/sports journalist...


my friend did a video as part of her journalism degree. i like when the guy talks about a dishwasher: