Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Notes Paolo


But why the sizzle through the cheek
Working on an urban work around
Orpheus orifice
Queen of tardis
Queens crystal orbit 
Trollope
Devil
Manny
7
Labyrinth
Bone essence. Alice 
Biology of words
Windswept arrival are you?

Everywhere a center nowhere a circumference

American magic book

I'm an old guy
Old magic

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

List of recommendations

1. The Virtual Reality exhibit at Museum Of the Modern Image. 

2. Bernadette Mayer's collected early books. Poetry all the way through.

3. Alice Notley's In The Pines. Took my head clean off and left me in a cold sweat.

4. Paolo Javier's Court The Dragon. Magic capsule in lyric fire.

5. Caspar Babypants "I Found You!" Great kid's  album by dude from The Future Presidents of America. 

6. Alabama Shakes new album

7. Kurt Cobain doc on HBO.


Monday, May 4, 2015

queens sonnet

Queens Sonnet

In nearly every language there are eels and hovercraft, so in Korean, 
"Nae hoebuhkeurapeuteuneun changuhro kadeuk cha isseyo"
means the same as "Nire aerolabanguilua aingirez beteta dago"
does in Basque, though there are more subtle differences within
than can be known, and the musical differences alone
are bigger than the difference between, say, Beethoven 
and the Beastie Boys. The latter got it right in "The Five Boroughs,"
though most fly of all the boroughs is Queens, the most diverse
of boroughs, all those flocks of language, the most musically diverse
too, of course. There are more songs here than you could learn in a lifetime,
but it'd still be great to learn a phrase or two from every place.
I'd start by taking the hovercraft to the nearest Korean restaurant.
And as for all those eels filling up the hovercraft? Think about it though,
that line still carries the same floaty slimy feeling wherever you go.