(Cincinnati) Fragments (Variously Tethered)


"...It is a place only lovely/at the fringes of her dress, best observed/under dusky light at seventy miles per hour./No one really lives here./They're all on their way..." -- Mike Shaffer

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"Perfectly reasonable demands kill the voice, I'm/irritated beyond all usefulness..." -- Lew Welch

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["Hello, it's me..."] I try and stay out of this as much as I can, you know? -- I mean, in terms of the part about blogging to [imagined] readers. What I have to say is a chili recipe. Is a pound of coffee. Is not knowing next week, nor what to do when it comes to me. And yet, the lists to do continue interminably. See?

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"...a strawberry at the center of a blizzard." -- Brad Liening

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[Todd Rundgren][Yo La Tengo][Extra Golden][Black Flag][Alice Cooper][Dead Kennedys][Kiss][Sonic Youth][Songs: Ohia][Iron Maiden][Salif Keita][Thin Lizzy][Jawbreaker][Jimmy Cliff][The Clash][Mission of Burma][Pere Ubu][Murs & 9th Wonder][The Get Up Kids][The Smiths][Al Green][Wilco][Ornette Coleman][The Breeders][David Bowie][Elvis Costello][Shellac] [Guns-N-Roses]

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Here comes my neighbor, walked by his dog.

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"Are you the new person drawn toward me?" -- Walt Whitman

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And what about me toward you?

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Moderate the white house, its color, its texture.

Of elephant. Of rocket.

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-- 'Til next time...