wait did that just turn into a poem about poetry. i am so totally not voting for you, mike.

Friday, 29 February 2008

THE MAN ALONE AT CUMBERLAND FARMS THE OTHER NIGHT WHO BOUGHT MILANO COOKIES WITH A $20 BILLWill he read it? Are you warm yet?If he doesn't, will you tie me to asheepdog who will never brag that he's"people watching, you know. I don't getbored: I'm a people watcher." Wrong.In 1954, the last document

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mc oroville news

Saturday, 23 February 2008

MC Oroville's Answering Machine, if Logan likes the title, will come out from Transmission Press late this year, along with chapbooks from cool people like Dorthea Lasky, Mathias Svalina & Julia Cohen, and Aaron Lowinger. I'm excited. I hope Logan includes little paste-on beards with each chap.

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blogs are for blogs blogdamnit

Wednesday, 20 February 2008

WE ARE ALL GOOD IF THEY TRY HARD ENOUGHNo, I am not out to start a smear campaign.For you who you are and stuff you’re good,ripcord! When I grow up, I want to bepatience, an asterisk, or the kitchen when“I’m not trying to be an ass but honestly”is frying and frying his cardigan to chase theNew Real

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every dreamer's got a skinned knee

Monday, 18 February 2008

EVERY ROCK STAR'S GOT A HEART PINGfrom MC Oroville's Answering MachineDelbert shaves his chest hair to accommodate the heart machine. Thanks to MediCal he'll taste next summer's olives. Rock on. There's paperwork. He's already got a motorcycle license and another for the AK-47 he had to buy in Oreg

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amy hempel: "every story could be re-titled 'the day i was sad'"

Sunday, 17 February 2008

ADVICE IS DEAD LONG LIVE ADVICEAccount, really: royalty counts.Crown the orphan hockey goons, teapeddlers, lie menders, good drivers.Then freeze. Pay someone to stall yourquiet. Go dredge for enough lightto make home by. Someone buy shovels.Don't weep for that bobsled of fire ants.Old solutions sun

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overdue your sweet fist

Monday, 11 February 2008

Absolutely what needs to be done isn't my endorsement of the praise draped and prize nominated Sleeping and Waking by Michael O'Brien, but whoa. It's a terrific book of poems, real poems. Thank you Joe Massey for the alert. Before the hooplah! It's taken

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AWP = train / mike = deer

Sunday, 3 February 2008

Thanks to Amy King for the photo. I am so fucking spent. Had a delicious time, yo, and will post about it when I can confidently remember how sentences and breathing works.

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