Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Blues Of The Hour

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Where do you think you're goin My conscience said to me And I said well I don't know about that But I know where I'd like to be ...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Against Kitchen Cabinets ("manuscript" version)

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Go into anybody's home. Look in the kitchen. Overhead cabinets with doors on them. You can't see inside. What's in which? Yo...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Clerihews For Athaliah

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King Hazael Was simply vile. He got everything he had By murdering Ben-hadad. The prophet Micaiah Was a great soothsayer. All of the others ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Luke 1–5: A Sestina

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Zechariah was a godly man; Elizabeth, his wife, a worthy woman. Gabriel, a messenger from God, told them that she soon would bear a child, a...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Vlorbiad (1999)

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Introduction (Lines 1—40) God (as I choose to call my higher power) Grant me an audience for half an hour And I will, if I can, do all the r...
Friday, January 1, 2010

An Essay On Criticism (1998)

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I've stuffed my Shelf with loads of learned Lumber , Like Kant , and can't let sleeping Dogmas slumber. "A little Learning is ...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Athalia Pierces Her Nose (1997)

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Athalia and her mother were on their roof being served breakfast. Though the day was not yet hot, they sat in the shade of a brightly colore...

Dedication (1997)

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When the priests had completed the rites necessary to consecrate the new temple in Jerusalem, Queen Athalia lifted her hands and face to pra...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Cover Copy For TPN#15 (1997)

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the ten page news number fifteen we turned one year old sometime in the last month or two we were too busy to notice fourteen issues in a...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Tudors and Teachers (1998)

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“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,”the Mock Turtle relplied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distract...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Saying___Meaning___Doing (1998)

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The effort to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is ...

Why I Teach Such Good Classes (2003)

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Right. Here's some old paperwork, alpha-tized as usual; do please maintain the order as it circulates so everybody can find their own w...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

A Program Of Rigorous Honesty (1998)

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(From The Ten Page News (v.3) Number 21, July 1998) I'm pretty self-conscious about putting pieces about my feelings into print; I'...
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Gaff My Wheel (2009)

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Here we go again It's another phony friend Pretending that they're oh so glad They've found ya Until you can escape It's emo...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

The Gospel According to Matthew According to Vlorbik (1997)

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These are the fathers of Joseph the Carpenter: Abraham, Isaac, and so on. Why bother? None of it's relevant geneologically touching on ...

Wham-Bam (1981)

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I'd just met a girl And was glad I had met her So I tried to treat her nice So I could get to know her better But that was a mistake It ...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

I Love My Beer (1982)

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I woke up this morning late Afraid to get out of my bed I felt like a two-ton weight Was hanging over my head I had to work my eight Before ...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

On Having No Clue (1998)

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A lot of things that other people apparently take for granted elude me entirely. In at least some cases, it's because of my own willfuln...
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On Having No Life (1998)

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I've got three different jobs. It works out to about two and a third times full-time or so. I've had to cut back on... well... pre...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

On Having No Talent (1997)

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For several months about fifteen years ago, I used to sing in public regularly. A bar not far from my apartment in Indianapolis had "o...
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On Having No Class (1997)

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For just over a year, I recently had no class quite literally: I spent a summer, fall semester, spring semester, and summer with no teachi...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009

For John Henry (2008)

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Once upon a time there was a robot And once upon a time there was a guy And the guy could never tolerate the robot And of course the robot d...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Blue Car, Blue Car (1998)

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I finally got a learner's permit at age nineteen in Thousand Oaks, where I'd been living like a hermit on coffee, pot, and rum-and-c...
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