Monthly Archives: June 2006

Euridice

Euridice   Vapor rises slowly in grey February, the scuffed snow Pitted as the peel of the moon The ash of a cigarette growing Long between your long fingernails As you stand white naked scarred Your voice flat with an … Continue reading

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Atonal Cinema for Zombies: Quote Bag

The right to an arbitrary vision of the world is the most sacred, the most inalienable right of man. Art only proclaims out loud this too often forgotten right. – Claude-Edmonde Magny   The attitude of great poets is to … Continue reading

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Jens Peter Jacobsen

Like almost everything else, the instant printing revolution has two sides to it. The dark side, and to my thinking the misuse of the new technology, is the fact that ANYBODY with a few bucks can have their scribblings printed, … Continue reading

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Burning Rainbow Farm

Hey, we just hosted an event for a really good book called Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke by  a real cool guy named Dean Kuipers. It’s basically the story of two men, Tom Crosslin … Continue reading

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Stationary Chaos

Stationary Chaos   brought to you by THE ANN ARBOR QUESTION AUTHORITY                          "The nymph of false moonlight"                                – Catullus                           1.   The waitress older than she seems The business woman running between cars The school … Continue reading

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Diary of a Madman

The garden court   Posing as Dr. Chaos   To create something near consciousness Its meaning stated in its existence   The oven Sylvia Plath put her head in   A mythic morning with the playmate of your choice   … Continue reading

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The Merchant’s Epitaph

The Merchant’s Epitaph   I was a merchant in the city I knew every scam I heard every story Nobody ever made a fool of me   Except love…

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As seen in the New York Times Book Review!

Hello, America and all my pals around the world!   Recently, Marilyn Stasio, the doyenne of mystery fiction who writes a very influential column in the New York Times Book Review mentioned a volume called THEY DIED IN VAIN: Overlooked, … Continue reading

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Annals of Crime

  St. Peters, Mo. Dead Pup Used As Weapon   A woman angry that her new puppy has died pushed her way into a dog breeder’s home and repeatedly hit her in the head with the dead Chihuahua, authorities said … Continue reading

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Quotebag: Professor Chan Fu Speaks

Professor Chan Fu Speaks   Style is like a second cousin to class. Style is loving yourself until everyone else does too. – Prince   I told myself that this slim personage in a white frock who wore stockings that … Continue reading

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