Friedrich Hölderlin: Narcyssen . . . / Jim Dine: Thistles in September
. Thistle in September: Jim Dine, 2014, charcoal, pastel and watercolour on paper, 132.1 x 106 cm (courtesy of Pace Gallery)Narcyssen Ranunklen undSiringen aus PersienBlümen Nelken, gezogen...
View ArticleAram Saroyan: Old People
.Untitled: photo by Joshua Perez (StrangeGoodness), 24 July 2013You see................the electronic...............................meshingin the human being................assume...
View ArticleMarcia Roberts: Revealed and Not Revealed
. Antirrhinum cornutum (Spurred Snapdragon): photo by Frizzzlefry, 28 May 2012Spring pleases and doesn'tleaves pile and drift...weneed a snow shovel...todaysprinkles...our clothes...damplaurel in...
View ArticleJim Dine: My Letter to the Troops
.Very cool decor at #AdmiralBenbow - Oldest and biggest pub in #Penzance: image via Twyla Campbell @wanderwoman10 8 February, 2013 Cornwall, EnglandIÂ Who Is George? (Blind Pew, The Admiral Benbow, and...
View ArticleSamuel Beckett: My Family
.Indonesia's Street Monkeys #streetmonkey #animalrights #creepy #Jakarta #WowShack: image via Wow Shack @WowShack, 1 February 2015 My family. To begin with it had no part or share in what I was doing....
View ArticlePeckerwood Diplomacy
."@Marmel: The GOP's childish #IranLetter found by @LivingBlueinRed #GOPTraitors": image via Anthony B. @PoliticalAnt, 11 March 2015@brownsa31 @Littelbrownhow did the Level 1 English exam go Browny?...
View ArticleCottonmouth
. #TomCotton has betrayed the U.S. with his letter to Iran. He should resign today. #UniteBlue #47Traitors #CNN #inners: image via Leedog @Leedog33, 11 March 2015Green-tail tip, gaping white maw. A...
View ArticleThe Avenger (Lorine Niedecker: "A monster owl...")
.#ArT By Order #Nature GT #ArTisT New Paradisus ET RiTing @Protect_Wildlife @bestphotonature #EagLeOwL: image via OrdeRius #OrdeRiusa, 4 February 2015Rogue owl caught after year-long reign of terror in...
View ArticleSlippin'
.Mum: "Where are you?" Me: "At home cleaning, why where are you?" Mum: "Next to you at the traffic lights.." #slipping: image via Izzy Ahmed @iamIzzyAhmed, 18 October 2014Everywhere now gapsin...
View ArticleEnd of the World Cinema: Daring To Be the Same / The Commanders
L#edenroc fête ses 100 #ans #antibes #monde: image via Routeur News @Routeur News, 21 May 2014Without spectators there is no spectacle. After the last of the televised war programming, viewers report a...
View ArticleKing of the Grifters
.Kenneth Goldsmith reading a new work The Body of Michael Brown, the autopsy report @kg_ubu #interrupt3: image via Paul Soulelleis @soulellis, 13 March 2015FOR THOSE OF YOU PROCLAIMING THAT KG DID THIS...
View ArticleBeing Boring
.Poor Zelda. She wasn't well-da. #zeldafitzgerald #catlady: image via Estelle Pigot @pigelle, 26 September 2014It's the old aestheticization of politics, isn't it? -- Duncan Jones, 18 March 2015The...
View ArticleMahmoud Darwish: Words
.The almond blossom sends me flying in March, from my balcony #MahmoudDarwish b 74y ago [Photo: #Palestine circa 1920i]: image via rui borges@homo_viator, 13 March 2015When my words were wheatI was the...
View ArticleHilton Obenzinger: Treyf Pesach
.Bomb damage, Gaza City: image by Banksy, 2015 I wrote this right after the election in Israel for Passover coming soon. Add your own words to the Haggadah:Treyf PesachThis year I am observing a Treyf...
View ArticleOpen Arms
.Barber and Coin, Guns and Ammo, Beaverton, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 5 February 2014Joseph Ceravolo: Hand GunWhen I was a childI thought a handgun in a holsterand the lead colored bullets on...
View ArticleRites of Spring: Fire
.The Kurdish Spring: struggle, resistance, renewal: image via Dilba @DilbaKurd, 24 March 2015IÂ NewrozIn praise of... Nowruz: As western nations celebrate the coming of spring, other cultures are...
View ArticleSy Hersh: My Lai Revisited: "We were carrying the war very hard to them"
.#MyLai: @Seymour Hersh habla de la masacre que EEUU perpetró en 1968 y que él mismo denunció: image via Democracy Now! Es @DemocracyNowEs, 25 March 2015Seymour Hersh: My Lai Revisited: excerpts from...
View ArticleBeyond Gaming
.Facebook sees a world beyond gaming and entertainment for its virtual reality headset, meaning social networking will soon take a step into VR if the company gets its way: photo by Tom Dymond/REX via...
View ArticleFrank O'Hara: On Dealing with the Canada Question
.Homeland Security sells a 3D printed drone for $1,100. Enter coordinates and it drops stuff "like in Hunger Games": photo ShaneBauer via ShaneBauer@shane_bauer, 7 September 2014Untitled: photo via...
View ArticleUnearthly Beauty
.Untitled, from the series Site/Cloud: photo by Daisuke Yokota via The Guardian, 30 March 2015[Aphrodite reveals herself]And so he took her hand, and she, Aphrodite, Laughterlover,turned aside her face...
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