Tag: poetry

• Fragmentary, No. 27

  Looks like what drives me crazyDon’t have no effect on you—But I’m gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too. ✧ Langston Hughes, “Evil”

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  December 4, 2018

  Fragments, Reading, Words

  crazy, evil, hughes, langston hughes, madness, mantra, mantras, Poems, poetry

• Fragmentary, No. 26

  Lecturing in JapanStephen Hawking was askednot to mention that the universe had a beginning(and so likely an end)because it would affect the stockmarket.Speculation aside,we all need a prehistory. According to Freud,we do nothing but repeat it.Beginnings are special because most of them are fake.The new person you becomewith that first sip of wine was already […]

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  November 23, 2018

  Fragments, Reading

  Anne Carson, fresh starts, Freud, history repeating, Japan, poem, poem fragment, poetry, prehistory, Stephen Hawking

• Fragmentary, No. 23

  poets are useless, . . . are not only ‘non-utilitarian’,we are ‘pathetic’: this is the new heresy;but if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgementon what words conceal? ✧ H.D., The Walls Do Not Fall

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  November 12, 2018

  Fragments, Reading

  H. D., Hilda Doolittle, ignorance, literacy, long poem, poem fragments, poetry, Reading, writing

• Fragmentary, No. 1

  The phenomenologist from Paris hates mosquitoes and carries a small electronic device that lures the female mosquito to her death by simulating the amorous cry of the male. Then, to block the whining sound, he has pink earplugs. As he sits in conversation with the phenomenologist from Sussex a mosquito is observed to enter. The […]

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  January 25, 2014

  Fragments

  Anne Carson, insects, phenomenology, poetry