dreaming
snuggled up in the small of vermont pines, clapboards and newspapered insulation. my fleece, my dozing retriever, dreams on. snow chills the breeze, embers heat my hearth. So. i meditate. on the popping, the crackling of the kindling.
Poetic License
I was a poor nigga
Now I’m a ______ nigga
You can find me up in Greenpoint, chillin’ with the hipstas
In my fourth floor walkup bangin’ tranny sistas
Or the backseat puttin’ down the master fista’s
New York gay boys, copy fashion magazines,
Or tv streams, or str8t acting dreams
Fuckin’ around like there’s no more disease
Fuckin’ around like we’ze on shootin’ sprees
I’m from North Cackalacky, but got an east coast swagger
See me I got the arts and letters, BFA dagger,
I get up on the stage, point from left to right
Pushin on my actors just to get it fuckin’ right
Feel em pullin out your tears, make you laugh and holler
My muses, with my guidance, make you throw down mighty dollars
See Niegel play fa keeps, and Niegel stay wit heat
I can’t go commercial, they love my avante-garde beats
I’m a real artsy man, a MOMA loves me man
Don’t make me put you in a participatory art thing man
Walkin’ to Detroit, Still bring my queer vibe
Niggas screaming faggot, we gonna skin yo skinny hide
I was a poor nigga
Now I’m a ______ nigga
You can find me up in Greenpoint, chillin’ with the hipstas
In my fourth floor walkup bangin’ tranny Sistas
Or the backseat puttin’ down the master fista’s
adapted from 50cents ‘Poor Lil Rich’
Dream Five
“Evoking Feeling” – Dragana Skrepnik
- I was in a Condo converted into an art gallery surrounded by the owner’s private collection of sculptures and paintings and some of her own original paintings. The colors were rich hues: aqua, jade, amber, blonde, rust, bronze, cinnamon. I was surrounded by her passion, her love and care, and I had a private viewing/relationship with all the pieces.
- I was in a shower in the condo. Again aquas and jades surrounded me – the tiles. The water was warm, but almost like aloe vera, it didn’t make my skin dry.
- I was rushed out, her husband was coming home.
- Rain, rain rain. I was wearing tennis shoes, and walking through a deep public square with several inches of water sloshing around my feet. But I didn’t care. I was in Paris or Florence and people were sitting out in the rain, on the steps, in the plaza. And there were fireworks.
- I lost my sense of direction. I was alone.
take a bow
You Make It, I Take It
“The striking thing about all consumer products — and none more so than electronic devices and applications — is that they’re designed to be immensely likable. This is, in fact, the definition of a consumer product, in contrast to the product that is simply itself and whose makers aren’t fixated on your liking it. (I’m thinking here of jet engines, laboratory equipment, serious art and literature.)”Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.
By Jonathan Franzen, NY Times 28 Sat 2011
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