When we look at the other
we think we understand each other
eye to eye we clearly see
the words are not just words but meanings
we play a game of mysteries
but we both know the rules are written
in a script that’s chiseled
at the bottom of the rock pools whence we’ve sprung
and where we’ll bleed
when we fall from dancing [...]
Category Archives: Life
The Summit
December 15, 2011 – 3:21 am
to a coin
October 31, 2011 – 12:04 am
You are brilliant. You are foolish. Your nature cycles like the sunlight.
Which are you, in any moment, in particular? How could you tell?
Can you reach behind yourself to pull your own puppet strings? Can you reach in front of you, lift your own palm to your face–’stop’?
Eyes will only see only [...]
An OPEN LETTER to Maestro R. Stuart Geiger, PhD (student)
October 13, 2011 – 7:39 pm
An OPEN LETTER to Maestro R. Stuart Geiger, PhD (student):
I have recently received joint approval from the UC-Berkeley Committee on the Protection of Human Subjects and the Graduate Division for our Nemesis relationship.
This is a relief. It’s been a restless fortnight since our last Thirsty Thursday encounter, when you scandalized me with your ideological [...]
Forms of Life
September 23, 2011 – 12:22 am
What redeems our inadequacies is that we are each but one being churning among diverse forms of life.
American Night Train
September 12, 2011 – 7:45 pm
This American night train through the mountains
in the 21st century
is partly for tourists
celebrating history’s hard labor
On tracks laid for gold and meat
I’m stretched in ample legroom
with an open laptop
miffed that the tray table’s broken
The music through the earbuds
synthesized UFO music
confounds the Americana
Then a poignant song,
poignant with lost romance reminders
sweet with memories baked so briefly, melting
sad [...]
Notes from the front
August 29, 2011 – 7:58 pm
I’ve now been on the West Coast for almost two weeks.
I’ve met and had in depth conversations with several people already. I already love some of these people, at least in the lightweight sense. Strangely, I do not feel the need to reify these relationships digitally through a social networking and communication tool. [...]
Jetsam: What I need
July 11, 2011 – 9:36 am
Jetsam is part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is purposefully cast overboard or jettisoned to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore.
I am moving across the country from New York City to Berkeley, California in August. So I need to throw things away.
I [...]
Three Jokes
December 12, 2010 – 5:56 pm
Last Friday, some friends and I were hanging out together and we began telling jokes.
Dave Kush told this one, a one-liner.
My friend told me that I don’t understand irony, which is ironic, because we were waiting for the bus.
Ben Herschenfeld told this one.
Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Fish
I [...]
On Narrative Structure
July 15, 2010 – 12:36 am
Narrative is a High Level Data Structure
was the first thing I read this morning. It was a text message that Ethan Jucovy had sent the night before.
“Or…is data a high level narrative structure?” I responded, pleased with myself for having found something to say on the topic at 7:14 am. I was [...]
