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"THESE FRAGMENTS I HAVE SHORED AGAINST MY RUINS"

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"Any material object which can give us pleasure in the simple contemplation of its outward qualities without any direct and definite exertion of the intellect, I call in some way, or in some degree, beautiful. Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colours, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood." 

Ruskin, Modern Painters

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child wosebagger pretending to drag race dad's camaro

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500 Bay Lane, Key Biscayne

2 pelicans above the water wheeled

to drop in synchronous and sudden falls.

I drove to Bay Lane where you had your place.

all gone today. behind new stucco walls

some stranger's palace with a roof of clay

obscures the yachts' reflections on the bay.

what did I come for? did the child I was

expect a ghost, or that the causeway led

back to the 70s, where I would find

you as you were? that you would not be dead?

I cannot bring you back. not with my will,

a Wallace Stevens poem, a daffodil.

how sharp they turned to dive, that ghostly pair.

I closed my eyes. they vanished in thin air

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"Cambridge ‘really suits me fairly well’, Erasmus once confessed, but that did not stop him grumbling about the cold, his ‘grinding poverty’, the undrinkable beer and wine ..."
-P. Richards

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runnin down a dream

that never would come to me

workin on a mystery

goin wherever it leads

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MY DUMBASS FRIENDS AND I ATE PIECES

of this candle at a party

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JUST KILL ME

I was born too late to be Richard Nixon's girlfriend 

he played Aeneas in a high school play. here's his account fom the memoirs

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THESE ARE VERY EXPENSIVE KALEIDOSCOPES

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THAT IS ME

1,000 years ago

riding a horse named Sam

who is still alive

if you want his autograph

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"Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,   

The maker’s rage to order words of the sea,   

Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,   

And of ourselves and of our origins,

In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds."

(from the Wallace Stevens number "The Idea of Order at Key West." the photo is of shells on Sanibel)

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WHAZZUP, WE SLUTTIN AROUND OR WHAT

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"I used to wake up bright and early
Got my work done quickly, held my baby tightly, oh, boy!
Rye whiskey makes the sun set faster
Makes the spirit more willing but the body weaker"

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IF YOU THINK

Richard Nixon is the only entity I've had a crush on, you are sorely mistaken.

honorable mentions: The Earl of Lemongrab; Greg Proops; James May; Erasmus; Shostakovich; Jon Arbuckle; Dale Gribble; Hannibal Lecter (as played by Hopkins); G. Mahler; Les Nessman; Freaky Fred from Courage the Cowardly Dog, and so forth. de gustibus non est disputandum!

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this was the image on my dissertation cake.
it is a road in Lawrence county, KY.
I took the photo one winter night.
no one ahead, no one behind

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BEN STEIN

lived the life of my dreams. speechwriter for Nixon, game show host. host of a gameshow, moreover, that was a smug celebration of his own cleverness. congratulations, Ben Stein--you walked so I could languish

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"I got your drinkin money!
Tune up your dobro."

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THAT'S MY GRANDPA

(below; on the left) George Wisenbarger. Master of Mischief. Simply the greatest.
"Let's go fishing, pal!"

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THAT CAR

up there

was my dad's '62 Bel Air.

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YES, THAT IS
A

Richard Nixon commemorative plate on a column in my living room, because I am

UNHINGED

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RED AS A CLAM

this is a phrase my enemy once uttered.

are clams even red? some clams are red, I guess.

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"Beam me up, Mr Speaker."

-James Traficant, Youngstown football hero and fashion icon, Cincinnati desktop background

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I MIGHTA BEEN BORN 
JUST PLAIN WHITE TRASH,
BUT FANCY WAS MY NAME

HERE'S YOUR ONE CHANCE FANCY DON'T LET ME DOWN

HERE'S YOUR ONE CHANCE FANCY DON'T LET ME DOWN
"Fancy" (Bobbie Gentry)

"WE GET NOOOOOO SECOND CHANCE IN THIS LIFE

WE GET NOOOOOO SECOND CHANCE IN THIS LIFE"

"Captain Badass" (Jason Molina)

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SOMEONE I KNOW PEED HERE

WHILE I KEPT A LOOKOUT

LARD BLESS THE DING DARLING WILDLIFE REFUGE ON SANIBEL. SURE HOPE IT FLOURISHES AGAIN SOON

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Kim PossiBird

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"FAIR AND FOUL ARE NEAR OF KIN

and fair needs foul"

from Yeats "Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop"

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"BYE."

-Richard Nixon, at the end of many phone calls

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