spring is about to hit puberty

stand back!

No Hemlock Rock

I'm sad about Deborah Digges, another suicide of a poet of renown.  Cut it out people.  

No Hemlock Rock

Don’t kill yourself. Don’t kill yourself.
Don’t. Eat a donut, be a blown nut.
That is, if you’re going to kill yourself,
stand on a street corner rhyming
seizure with Indonesia, and wreck it with
racket. Allow medical terms.
Rave and fail. Be an absurd living ghost,
if necessary, but don’t kill yourself.

Let your friends know that something has
passed, or be glad they’ve guessed.
But don't kill yourself. If you stay, but are
bat crazy you will batter their hearts
in blooming scores of anguish; but kill
yourself, and hundreds of other people die.

Poison yourself, it poisons the well;
shoot yourself, it cracks the bio-dome.
I will give badges to everyone who’s figured
this out about suicide, and hence
refused it. I am grateful. Stay. Thank
you for staying. Please stay. You
are my hero for staying. I know
about it, and am grateful you stay.

Eat a donut. Rhyme opus with lotus.
Rope is bogus, psychosis. Stay.
Hocus Pocus. Hocus Pocus.
Dare to not kill yourself. I won’t either.

Poem for a rainy April evening

History

Even Eve, the only soul in all of time
to never have to wait for love,
must have leaned some sleepless nights
alone against the garden wall
and wailed, cold, stupefied, and wild
and wished to trade-in all of Eden
to have but been a child.

In fact, I gather that is why she leapt and fell from grace,
that she might have a story of herself to tell
in some other place.

From my book The Next Ancient World.

If you come to this, come say Hi to me.

Tonight's Event

Library of Dust

go here and see one of the cans in which were stored the cremains of uncollected patients of a state mental institution. Look here too.

The event tonight has a big line of luminaries in different arts and sciences talking about the book of these by David Maisel.

The book is called Library of Dust.

what made us stuck in traffic

i guess i'm my own worst architect

I see the difficulties, but I still want to live in this house.