Nov 19, 2007
my american sentences
(a book that won’t sell)
A Womb of One’s Own: Leading the Independent Embryonic Life.
The dark will be a ground we recover in the night / Illegitimate, turning to those other bodies http://bit.ly/aJbaYW
Now carry the stone for a week, taking notes while reading the poems of Mina Loy. For nearly a century her poems have been waiting to be used as keys for the map. http://bit.ly/9eOVsZ
i took the hose to fill each hole i dug / and drove a Woolworth’s remote control truck / in and out of the water http://bit.ly/bevHjl
God, my symptoms / are so garish: this slick / pawing, clinging dead-drunk fucking / gulping our shame. http://bit.ly/dcwhCO
only cremation will do in this altitude / a plastic box of ashes spread white, not always granular / coarser bone shards, slivers of teeth http://bit.ly/djCKNR
In January gather snow, this is intimate this calling to honor the shock of being alive. http://bit.ly/aXdMUX
Archive for newsblog: writing and arts »Dye could enable Alzheimer’s diagnosis and evaluation of treatment efficacy. http://nyti.ms/cknbuq
“Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials.” http://nyti.ms/cxG2J5
Try not driving for 22 years. And not speaking. John Francis did it. http://bit.ly/cCpUF8
Will Richardson. Social media. Personal learning networks. Connectedness literacies. The classroom. http://bit.ly/anDEIb
Undersea plumes are a feature of the BP oil spill. http://nyti.ms/cfRMUP
Cognitive surplus, social networks and how we spend our spare time. http://bit.ly/d6TGte
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“The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public” ~George Jessel
I love the reach of your imagination.
Roca ~ which is precisely why I don’t want to read in December. *smiles*
I love this sentence
Great sentence – kind of a pun and yet … more than that.
We just seem so set on focusing on independence in this country, not interdependence. It’s all so me me me: so why not start by marketing the me thing in the womb?