Friday, December 30, 2016

Five Photographs of Five Notebooks 2014-2016.

 
Photograph One: The aforementioned Notebooks, contents varied.

 
Photograph Two: Unbullshitable. Alex references, "poop everywhere." No context provided. A quote by Jack from the novel Office Girl that reads, "I just can't be around people all the time because it makes me sad to be around them sometimes."

 
Photograph Three: Boston excerpts. The Verb Hotel as olfactory experience. A record of seeing Warhol's Red Disaster at the Museum of Fine Art. A melancholy morning on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

 
Photograph Four: an unfinished poem, The Velocity of Loneliness. "I heard the wood floor/creak at your step/and smiled thinking/you were walking/my way. Then I heard the door/and realized/I was alone.

 
Photograph Five: The page on which the teacher wonders about the security protocol for tear soaked standardized tests, and later has a panic attack brought on, in part, by Willie [sic] Loman.

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Like Christmas

 

We suspected he had guns,
which made things all the more

unsettling 
when he shouted at his wife
until the cruisers arrived.

Red and white lights 
flashed in our window
onto a living room wall

like Christmas

as he talked to the cops
in his driveway, arms crossed,
calm, measured as a diplomat.