The Talking Engines of Our Day

So many Yemani flags in my neighborhood
Made the mistake again of attempting a novel recommended by anyone I know in real life or digital who talks incessantly about Blanchot
Hillary Clinton's State Deparment Spokeman just called for critic of American actions in Ukraine to be financially investigated
"It hurts, this wanting to give a dimension to life when life is precisely that dimension," Ashbery said
Great Leader willing to give child covid in service of photo-op
I'm not reseeding MSADI5G but the new Destroyer album versus the new Guided by Voices album, it's not close, so not close, so I am reseeding: I rescind Guided by Voices elevation to Third Permanent Seat, I can type about this all day every day and my forbidding myself even in digitabletdaily works most days
Springtime for GloboCop
Destroyer's new album did it, sparked it, five great songs, two omg songs, two holyfuck songs, one KABOOM, three seconds in, the only reason it will never be one of my five favorite most-listened to songs ever is I'm old, some songs have up to a fifty year head start
The history of Grievance History
three seconds in, KABOOM JOY! laugh, I'd forgot, kaboom joy like pain kaboom
Two American shitlord cultures of corruption
body remembered, mind-muffled until activated, poof! everyone wants to be engraved as an epitaph
Connecting precarity and ecological crisis
Other than Ashbery, who people call difficult, I don't want to read geniuses analyzing why they can't (but *how* Zeno's dilemma close they got page after painstaking page) capture the ineffable in words, woe and angst (and zero humor)
FRESH HELL				Scepticism as a way of life
Ashbery said, "Alone with our madness and favorite flower we see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things in the same way, repeating the same things over and over for love to continue and be gradually different"
PARADISE KILLER (2020)
and "I wish I did not have to write the instruction manual on the uses of a new metal.
Avedon Carol's occasional links
Destroyer's new album reminded me I (still love Roxy Music) thrill on tribal trills, their kits and chords, I chimed. There, I tried
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LATE ECHO

John Ashbery

Alone with our madness and favorite flower

We see that there really is nothing left to write about.

Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things

In the same way, repeating the same things over and over

For love to continue and be gradually different.

Beehives and ants have to be re-examined eternally

And the color of the day put in

Hundreds of times and varied from summer to winter

For it to get slowed down to the pace of an authentic

Saraband and huddle there, alive and resting.

Only then can the chronic inattention

Of our lives drape itself around us, conciliatory

And with one eye on those long tan plush shadows

That speak so deeply into our unprepared knowledge

Of ourselves, the talking engines of our day.