SHORT INTRO This old thing is my favourite poem by Delmore Schwartz, and in my top 100 favourite poems. This one is copied from the Poetry Foundation site, citation at the bottom.There may be many good pictures of Schwartz but I haven’t found them. These are from https://pcolman.wordpress.com/tag/lou-reed/. A blog by Padraig Colman.Lou Reed took
... read more.Category Archives: This & That
The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
Also posted in Blog, Listening, Namedfropping, Poems, Quotations, Uncategorized 2 Comments
THE PAIN DIALOGUES
THE PAIN DIALOGUES 1 WTF -Fuck off. -No, you Fuck off. -Oh yeah? Well fuck you! -Fuck yourself! -Asshole. Just You wait! I’ll fuck you Till you’re bruised And blue, fuck. -Fuck yourself, you don’t have one original line! -Just yours, fuck your miserable bones, Jimmy, I’ll fuck you up, like there’s no tomorrow. You’ll
... read more.Also posted in Blog, Health, Pain Room, pain room blogish, Uncategorized Leave a comment
Some Assembly Required
... read more.
Also posted in Blog, Listening, Podcasts, Uncategorized 2 Comments
LISTEN, HERE
“I paint what I see.” Artists through the centuries have responded differently to their vision, even to what’s right in front of them. What they see is not always representational but imaginative art making prompted by what they see. Painters, visual artists, use a variety of stimuli to inspire their art making. Music listening certainly
... read more.Also posted in Blog, Listening, My Daily Fog, Uncategorized Leave a comment
from THE LETTERWRITER #1
Dear Max Ferguson, My name is Victor Enns. I am a grade 12 student in the Mennonite Collegiate Institute, the oldest coeducational boarding school in Canada. The school has several other distinctions, and is renowned for its music program. I have enclosed two records of our choral singing that were made in the last two
... read more.Also posted in Blog, Listening, My Daily Fog, Preachers' Kids, Uncategorized Leave a comment
IT WAS 25 YEARS AGO TODAY
TUMOUR IN THE FOURTH VENTRICLE For Theo Suspended, slung in mid-air for surgery, son, you are alive, a metal halo, screwed into your skull to still your head. The swaggering neurosurgeon cuts out a circle of your skull, pulls it out like plug to reach your brain. The careful knives know where they have to
... read more.Also posted in Blog, Family Matters, Health, Poems, Uncategorized Leave a comment
My Chicken Curry Recipe
Chop large onion. Dice/crush 4 cloves of garlic and grate ginger to taste (3 – 4 tablespoons fresh). Peel and cube 1 sweet potato. Heat oil in a deep skillet or Dutch oven. Put in the onion, wait until translucent. 2020 curry in progress Then add grated ginger and garlic and cook a few more
... read more.Also posted in Blog, Food, My Daily Fog, Uncategorized Leave a comment
A Poem I Like
“AUBADE” by W.S. Di Piero published in March 30th 2020 New Yorker, morning blessings for our times. Photo by eliana melisande. Thank You!
... read more.Also posted in Blog, Listening, My Daily Fog, Poems, Uncategorized Leave a comment
Our Bodies, Our Pain
Showing our pain, our selves We start by showing our pain to our parents and our partners. At first, it’s easy. We take our skinned knee inside and one of our parents gets a Band-Aid for our boo boo, wipes the grit away. Some antiseptic, and the bandage will protect us, especially once we have
... read more.Also posted in Blog, Health, pain room blogish, Uncategorized Leave a comment
Poets’ Poker Night in Regina
... read more.
Also posted in Blog, Listening, My Daily Fog, Namedfropping, Poems, Quotations Leave a comment