The tank is dry.
Maybe I really don’t have anything to say this week. Or maybe I’ve just been inspired by Shawn’s post. Regardless, all I have to share are the following:
1. A Robert Creeley poem:
I Know a Man
As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking, — John, I
sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what
can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,
drive, he sd, for
christ’s sake, look
out where yr going.
2. A Glenn Danzig video:
3. A picture I made:
Danzig as a scholar of the early life of Jesus is fantastic. I, for one, didn’t know that Jesus the child killed so many people. Important stuff here.
All of my favorite religious scholars preach shirtless. That’s how you know they’re serious.
Is your fabulous picture a religious scholar who fell asleep after preaching to the bottle?
You know it.
That Creeley poem is one of my favorite poems of all time. Thanks for getting me to read it today. I needed that.
I think I can say with some certainty, that it’s my #1 poem. In fact, it’s the only poem I’ve ever memorized.
Here’s my favorite footage of Danzig:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THauXuRYizc
Of course it is, Pete.
And now that I’ve watched the Danzig link you posted, I want to punch him in the face too.
Of course you do, Pete.
I just read that Creeley poem last night, as I was scouring a book for things to teach my class. And when i first saw the new collage, i wondered if that was me — some forgotten night, me drunk, you with a polaroid. Wouldn’t it be pretty to think so?
Beautiful.