1963 –
We never knew love lives
or monkey shines.
We never got around to hammering
out the details.
We were told to
watch our mouths,
unless our mouths
were somehow televised.
There were better
Guy In Your MFA
One pretentious, mansplaining, literary tweet at a time, Guy In Your MFA
[https://twitter.com/guyinyourmfa] has become an internet phenomenon. Run by
Dana Schwartz [http://www.danaschwartzdotcom.com/], since its inception last
Forgetting Tomorrow
“This land doesn’t look like tomorrow.”
That was my six-year-old daughter Mae’s comment when we walked over the bridge
into Disney World’s Tomorrowland, with all of its planetary balls attached
Noteworthy: “Wasting Time on The Internet”
This spring, poet Kenneth Goldsmith
[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/kenneth-goldsmith] has been teaching a
class called “Wasting Time on the Internet.” Listed as a creative writing course
at the University of Pennsylvania,
To Contest A Parking Citation
Driving this way doesn’t bring up
any nostalgic feelings, doesn’t take
me back to a room I’d like to be in,
it doesn’t give me something new
to obsess