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by Hypatia
October 20th, 2019, 10:37 pm
Forum: Mingo's Lingo
Topic: Zuihitsu
Replies: 1202
Views: 2543162

Re: Zuihitsu

ming wrote: "... the head is a useless appendage unless you are anchored in midchannel deep in the mud." Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller Time to go to sleep or time to wake up - down in the village the water is going over the old dam and the sound of it can't be named and nobody knows who the wat...
by Hypatia
January 6th, 2019, 9:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 2019
Replies: 8
Views: 4184

2019

2019 and everybody is doing the monkey doodle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPFjTaAS5s
by Hypatia
December 30th, 2018, 2:45 pm
Forum: Mingo's Lingo
Topic: Zuihitsu
Replies: 1202
Views: 2543162

Re: Zuihitsu

"Elephants dance in baggy pants" https://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=546 last week it was spring, 70 degree days and sunshine, this week it's pneumonia weather again, cold rain, but not freezing thank god. and Zuihitsu too 8) dang me, how many commas do I have in that...
by Hypatia
December 27th, 2018, 9:39 am
Forum: Mingo's Lingo
Topic: Zuihitsu
Replies: 1202
Views: 2543162

Re: Zuihitsu

I woke up this morning and found an elephant in my boot, I grabbed her by her trunk and threw her on my bed and had my way with her. I never knew big rodents were good to eat. I wonder if they are kosher? I saw this bit about nutrias, a big South American rodent that has invaded Texas. Texas’s Five ...
by Hypatia
November 4th, 2018, 6:15 pm
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: Sincerity's shadow
Replies: 11
Views: 2944

Sincerity's shadow

By practicing a little solitude, going off by yourself once in a while to store up that most precious of golds: the vibrations of sincerity. The Beat Generation and The Decline of the West "...poets in English have sought to represent a “sincere” self-consciousness through their work. Forbes’s gene...
by Hypatia
November 2nd, 2018, 8:58 pm
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: Your Working Boy™
Replies: 15
Views: 4898

Re: Your Working Boy™

I just checked in to see what my condition my condition is in
My ego inflated by pot
Up by 6 and high by 10
been on vacation for a month
I got two months of high left
then i go back to the struggle for the legal tender.

oh the Israelites
by Hypatia
November 2nd, 2018, 7:45 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: Roller Coaster
Replies: 17
Views: 1716

Re: Roller Coaster

Time loves a hero I am grateful that I lived long enough to die old Yeah distance can be a cure maybe not a 'healing' in the Native American meaning of the word. but it is an analgesic temporary relief from pain I did that in 1963 after Jack was murdered in Dallas. Away from everyone I knew, and who...
by Hypatia
October 19th, 2018, 5:37 pm
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: Paul's Rifle
Replies: 13
Views: 2860

Re: Paul's Rifle

self-pity and resentment
depression
if she was my brother I would kick him
compassion empathy
if I can't help
let me do no harm
say/do nothing to deepen her funk
by Hypatia
October 19th, 2018, 2:59 am
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: Paul's Rifle
Replies: 13
Views: 2860

Re: Paul's Rifle

Camus cheered me up when he wrote The Myth of Sisyphus thoughts of suicide come and go with me when I think about choices living wills, and pre-paid funeral expenses organ donors, and stuff like that the bottom line is I can't afford to commit suicide randy newman rainy day she gives me reason to li...
by Hypatia
October 17th, 2018, 4:10 pm
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: The Studio Eight Diet™
Replies: 70
Views: 18122

Re: The Studio Eight Diet™

the missing link :?

what it was like to be free, white,15 years old and a male in the fifties
and in the seventies, all the dungaree dolls were reading The Bell Jar
Oh yes I want you to wear my high school sweater the one with the three Scarlet Letters
by Hypatia
October 17th, 2018, 4:08 pm
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: The Studio Eight Diet™
Replies: 70
Views: 18122

Re: The Studio Eight Diet™

now I remember

what it was like to be free, white,15 years old and a male in the fifties
and in the seventies all the dungaree dolls were reading The Bell Jar
Oh yes I want you to wear my high school sweater the one with the three Scarlet Letters
by Hypatia
October 17th, 2018, 3:55 pm
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: real life with still life: Poo-tee-weet
Replies: 75
Views: 13101

Re: real life with still life: Poo-tee-weet

maybe one too many today :? maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

too many user names to keep track of
this thread an outlier off my main train of thought
I have it dangling here and no link back to where I am on another thread, always a bad sign when I start rambling about this vocation
by Hypatia
October 17th, 2018, 3:49 pm
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: real life with still life: Poo-tee-weet
Replies: 75
Views: 13101

Re: real life with still life: Poo-tee-weet

a homage Before I die I would like to make a pilgrimage there and see Sylvia Plath's thesaurus. They say it is a sight to behold with its underlings and notations in the margins of the pages. reminds me of what hack I am, I hardly ever use a thesaurus, but I do google a lot of words victoria lucas m...
by Hypatia
October 16th, 2018, 10:23 pm
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: Paul's Rifle
Replies: 13
Views: 2860

Re: Paul's Rifle

Paul's rifle leaning against the wall in the bedroom closet The one he inherited from Lew Welch I fell asleep to thoughts of the rifle pointed at my head, my finger on the trigger. and sleep was a challenge for me, after Crazy Mike's death I was barely conscious, I might have just to have been sleep...
by Hypatia
October 16th, 2018, 10:01 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: Boneyard Tour
Replies: 2
Views: 510

Re: Boneyard Tour

interesting poem 8) I do a five-mile lap every two laps I stop at the Lutheran church never occurred to me to wander hardly ever talk to anyone but occasionally someone will wave I used to sit on a bench facing a big tombstone with only one name on it and a space for a spouse. USAF veteran Vietnam I...

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