this is just what it looks like

here are the things people said and i wrote down:

celebrating world. reestablishing surprise and awe. turning. considering what happens at each turn. no boundary between what is a gift and what would otherwise not be. no distinction. agree upon something between two realities. everything agreed upon. seeing in agreement with our reality. orismology: study of definitionalizing. purpose. station. examining cognitive processes in yourself. in the differences something happens. sets up process to reverse it. speaker takes on theoretical presence. constantly dislocated figure we keep seeing. more ridiculous action, more viable it is. order. dislocation. elizabeth bishop. geography iii. melodrama. dramatized. jauntiness.

notes from class

myth: sacred narrative

legend: 3rd person story believed to have occurred in present world

folktale: fictional narrative in which people or animals act out culturally meaningful plots

memorates: first person narratives about striking events (often supernatural) that happened to the narrator

"there was a time period where one's actions changed one form; rabbits used to be human size."

list, list, before i lose it

geek love, dunne
nights at the circus, carter
freak's armour, dehaven
cruddy, lynda barry
black juice, margo lanagan
a very long engagement, s. juprisot
fancies and goodnights, john collier
black glass, karen joy fowler
bel canto, ann patchett
carment dog, carol emshwiller
high wind in jamaica, richard hughes
understanding comic, scott mccloud
short stories, saki
short stories, joan aiken
mr. wilson's cabinet of wonder, lawrence weschler

yet another

i couldn't resist adding one more:

what i like most about poetry is "write about a mystery like scary i also like to write poetry about funny things like once my dad try to take everything in the house upstairs he sleep and it was really funny even my mom laugh about it and the last of writing poetry is by thinking of my thoughts. funny, scary, happy, sad, emotion, mad, dreams, and mostly wishes that come true.

what i don't really like about poetry was those persons that came to us was some of the things that they say was kind of boring but other times was really fun."

the storyist

so, after writers in the schools, the kids had to finish the sentence: what i like most about poetry

what i like most about poetry is "that i don't like poetry. poetry is boring. poetry is silent. poetry is silent and boring."

what i like most about poetry is "i don't like reading and writing, i like only listening and speaking. i like the storyist a lot for the poetry."

what i like about poetry is "one thing i like about poetry is that you can write about anything you can think of or just imagine. there are only little rules in poetry but hardly any."

"what i like about poetry is experiencing just what is in my mind, and writing it down in a paper. i also like when we wish and write it down in a paper. next what was my favorite thing is when we get to touch things that they brought and let us touch it. also when we shared that is what i mostly like about poetry."

what i like most about poetry is "that you can feel creative exploring like if you were on a play but when you write a poem you can write anything like about what you did just write about what you think no matter what you write some people might like the poems you write but most people do. when i was small i would always write poems about little bugs some people liked my poems some people didn't so i really didn't care i was mostly sure i liked my own so i really didn't care that much."

event horizon

"things really are like other things, but also they're not and we've got to deal with that."

--bin

lemmings from norway have been reported to migrate to a particular area in the atlantic and then swim in circles until they drown. flocks of of birds have gone to their deaths in the same spot. is archaic instinct drawing them back to atlantis?

--from reader's block

secret and plan

secret:

today we got a note under the door about a new secret code. we are not to give this code to anyone in the 1250 building: "please do not divulge this new password to anyone in the 1250 building." now i want to give it to everyone in the 1250 building. i probably want to because i'm not supposed to.

plan:

"ian joins ruth and me at the pub though he isn't drinking. a scottish guy in a pub not drinking is weird. i ask him what's wrong with him. he says he can't, when he does he gets smashed then uses all his methadone instead of rationing it like he's supposed to. when he says so he looks kind of spiritual, like a hermit in the desert where there is fake water everywhere but none to drink."

--the meat and spirit plan, s. saterstrom

there's so much to being a hand model

you have to have a portfolio and never cut your nails, only file.

here is something from afterpastures (which has the best cover i've ever seen) about it:

what doesn't fear my hands? the crush of my thumb,
my fingers that make a fence. the deer stand on one
side, watching. among the trees they are hard to see,
their skins smell of leafmould. if they would let me, i
would trace the grain of their pelts, its marks like a secret
language. i would put my hands upon them, and their
eyes would roll white.

--claire hero

100

if you've made it to 100, the state wants to celebrate:

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12240994

saturday after saturday

today i went to thrift stores with m and bought something gold. i didn't feel very good. on the radio, a man said about his mother, she had a casual relationship with reality. man. in the mail i got more birthday money. i like that i'm old now and i still get birthday money.

here are some quotes from renee gladman. she worked as a sound engineer. i love her:

"but my sister said looking had nothing to do with the sky."

"i knew it was me by the way my head felt."

"every day what i've learned about the world recedes a bit--i can only guess what we were."

"one day i outgrew everything there was to see."

and i got a postcard from indianapolis, but it's a picture from vermont, "of the capital building built in 1859 in vermont's third state house. the gold-leaf dome is adorned by ceres, the roman goddess of agriculture."