July!!

• Selections from my Tender Buttons annotations:
  • Conceptual token
  • It's not really like that for me
  • "Where is the serene waist"
  • She flipped it / There's a show about it
  • I thought about N dancing last night
  • big gulp
  • My calves / Improvised / Blue whale / Burnt shoulders
  • "A single image is not splendor."
  • Improvisational Attunement
  • "...a single frantic sullenness..."
  • unKnown ConTingencies
  • Vespa
• I'm parsing my vagueness and mincing my words, pitifully, dutitfully.
• That couldn't mean nothing.
• "Once the experience of evil has been endured it is never forgotten." - Natalia Ginzburg
• "Because poetic beauty is a mixture of ruthlessness, pride, irony, physical tenderness, of imagination and memory, of clarity and obscurity -- aand if we cannot gather all these things together we are left with something meagre, unreliable and hardly alive." - NG
• "...every kind of meeting with our neighbor is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin." - NG
• "If you care about words you learn quite early in life that it is evil to lie." - Wayne Koestenbaum
• I'm hearing the way space can hold a sound and because I can hear it I can also see it
• I didn't want that which was freely given to me