Working on a new poem
Here’s a poem I’ve been working on. any responses would be greatly appreciated!
formatting is horrible, but whatever
Poem (a bubble)
of bright mediocrity. of long-ago praise that may or may not be lingering
in the shapeless light of forgotten, utterly pointless, utterly wasted musings.
something to replace religion lost or the father forgotten, but only really
as an outsider, as someone who would rather just sit around and consume the
fruits of others or to live lazily in art, in memories we have deemed important.
to shield us from the stars and other themes, images overused garbage
like cactus and rain, traffic, television, like impulses toward prehistory, or
to some telos, some pronouncement, somedusty word, some wandering mind.
because this is the human after all, and we are those who will
choose to read this poem with espresso, with our knowledge
of Keats, et al. with our knowledge of death, in our human bubble.
laughable really, that we would know about death
that we could see this bubble
that we could look to the sun without fear
that we could master our selves.
and so I write about anything but bodies dying. rathering to live
in denial of something, to make my day inside this bubble
to carve a piece of colored glass into this world and choosing to think
about writing not as an art —God no— but as our only real connection that
will transcend this death I cannot bear to imagine.
I’m thinking of making up some chapbooks to give out as Christmas gifts. I learned how to make them in poetry class, but could not remember the binding stitch. A little googling led me to this site, which offers a great step-by-step guide. (And good folding advice:
Before using your folder, oil it with the natural oil alongside your nose. It sounds odd, but it really works well.
An great article from NMSU doctoral student Jennifer Bracken Scott
Or do I dream? Or have I dreamed till now?
I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak,
I smell sweet savors, and I feel soft things.
Upon my life, I am a lord indeed,
And not a tinker nor Christopher Sly — Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew. — Christopher Sly
Lincoln’s election results. Seeing as the south didn’t even know who he was, they were kinda pissed.
Courtesy of National Museum of American History
(via civilwar150)
“These battles of memory are not only academic,” said Mark Potok, the director of intelligence at the Southern Poverty Law Center. “They are really about present-day attitudes.”
A fallacy is a kind of error in reasoning. The alphabetical list below contains 195 names of the most common fallacies, and it provides brief explanations and examples of each of them. Fallacies should not be persuasive, but they often are. Fallacies may be created unintentionally, or they may be created intentionally in order to deceive other people. The vast majority of the commonly identified fallacies involve arguments, although some involve explanations, or definitions, or other products of reasoning. Sometimes the term “fallacy” is used even more broadly to indicate any false belief or cause of a false belief. The list below includes some fallacies of these sorts, but most are fallacies that involve kinds of errors made while arguing informally in natural language.
from kottke.org:
if I had to guess at what NASA is going to reveal on Thursday, I’d say that they’ve discovered arsenic on Titan and maybe even detected chemical evidence of bacteria utilizing it for photosynthesis (by following the elements). Or something like that.
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queenskies:
6 MacPros GIVEAWAY FOR CHRISTMAS!!!! <3
RULES:
-MUST like this post
-MUST Reblog once (reblogging more than once= disqualification)
-MUST Follow me (http://queenskies.tumblr.com/)
-500 notes= 1 Macbook giveaway, so for me to give all, must hit at least 3000 notes. So once hit 500 notes, i will be able to choose a winner for one macbook
[will check thoroughly if winners met requirements]
-Must live in the U.S
-DEADLINE: 12/20/10, 10:30pm.
-I will choose using a number generator; so it’s chosen at random
(I’ll send you a message to remind you, and you have 24 hours to reply to my message for confirmation and shipping information.)
GOOD LUCK!
P.S There will be more free giveaways once every holiday
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6 MacPros GIVEAWAY FOR CHRISTMAS!!!! <3
RULES:
-MUST like this post
-MUST Reblog once (reblogging more than once= disqualification)
-MUST Follow me (http://queenskies.tumblr.com/)
-500 notes= 1 Macbook giveaway, so for me to give all, must hit at least 3000 notes. So once hit 500 notes, i will be able to choose a winner for one macbook
[will check thoroughly if winners met requirements]
-Must live in the U.S
-DEADLINE: 12/20/10, 10:30pm.
-I will choose using a number generator; so it’s chosen at random
(I’ll send you a message to remind you, and you have 24 hours to reply to my message for confirmation and shipping information.)
GOOD LUCK!
P.S There will be more free giveaways once every holiday
Recommended blogs to follow:
We think we just figured out how to have the most popular blog on Tumblr.
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