Monthly Archives: November 2006

Bethany:Part VII

Bethany, Part VIII   "Yeah, I mean, I can’t act the way I’ve acted and expect Pitt Prep to pat me on the back for it, can I? Why should the administration let me stand up there and say anything … Continue reading

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Cancer in America

Cancer in America   Wears a knife on his belt He cuts off one part of you And then another   He licks out the marrow While crawling inside Of your bones   He sends you downstairs And when you … Continue reading

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Doing The Boston Monkey: Quotebag

Doing The Boston Monkey: Quote Bag   For intellectuals, what is at stake specifically in an inquiry of this kind is a cultural politics which seeks to learn from the forms and discourses of popular pleasure, rather than adopting or … Continue reading

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The Noise of a Party

The Noise of a Party (Adapted from the novel Satan in Silk by Paul V. Russo)   The noise It flowed, rumbled, roared from Behind the door at the head of the stairway   Some of it poured from overheated … Continue reading

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Crime Beat: Furniture Felon

Student arrested after table thrown A 20-year-old University of Michigan student was arrested after he threw a table into traffic Saturday evening and ran from police, Ann Arbor police reported. Officers on patrol in the 800 block of Packard Street … Continue reading

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Bethany: Part VI

Bethany: Part VI   It wasn’t really enlightenment in the traditional Buddhist sense of the word – remembering my past lives – but more like somehow remembering my future life, a timeless instant when I achieved a kind of perspective … Continue reading

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Ellen’s Hymn to Inanna

Ellen’s Hymn to Inanna   She gave me the kick of speeding She gave me the trick of lovemaking She gave me the kissing of the phallos She gave me the holy tavern And the sacred fermented grain beverage She … Continue reading

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A MONKEY BEING FROM THE LAST CREATION: Quote Bag

  A MONKEY BEING FROM THE LAST CREATION   Everything has been reversed in Nerval, because his life is a faint transcription of his dream. –Wallace Fowlie   She writes sincere pages only to excite and intensify her own sensations. … Continue reading

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The Hippy

The Hippy   The Hippy loved to roam the streets of the city, his hands in his pockets, his mind wandering with his feet. One day while walking in an unfamiliar neighborhood he heard a cry that astonished him. It … Continue reading

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Bethany: Part V

Bethany: Part V   And what I wanted from Bethany was simple (no, ease your dirty mind, it wasn’t that, sorry to say, that part comes later) – I wanted to compose and recite the class ode at graduation. You … Continue reading

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