1. It’s so much easier to get further from home than nearer that all men become travelers. 2. Of all the ways to avoid living perfect discipline is the most admired. 3. Idolators of the great need to believe that what they love cannot fail them, adorers of kitsch, camp, trash that they cannot fail…
A woman travels to Brazil for plastic surgery and a face-lift. She is sixty and has the usual desire to stay pretty. Once she is healed, she takes her new face out on the streets of Rio. A young man with a gun wants her money. Bang, she’s dead. The body is shipped back to…
Lights are burning In quiet rooms Where lives go on Resembling ours.The quiet lives That follow us — These lives we lead But do not own — Stand in the rain So quietly When we are gone, So quietly… And the last bus Comes letting dark Umbrellas out — Black flowers, black flowers. And lives…
I pick an orange from a wicker basket and place it on the table to represent the sun. Then down at the other end a blue and white marble becomes the earth and nearby I lay the little moon of an aspirin.I get a glass from a cabinet, open a bottle of wine, then I…
Sometimes a moment contains so much of itself it begins to multiply. A beetle lands on an entomology book, then scuttles towards The White Album. At any moment there are at least twelve assholes reading On the Road on the road and some lovers talk about fucking while they fuck. Remember that time we drank…
Not many people know it but Adam and Eve had a dog. Its name was Kelev Reeshon, which means, first dog. Some scholars say it had green fur and ate only plants and grasses, and that is why some dogs still like to eat grass. Others say it was hairless like the Chihuahua. Some say…
For an hour or two the evening has no limits Or so it seems to you as you walk the pavements Of this, your adoptive city. Before you the sun At play lights the windows of the office buildings In the vault of the avenue, conveying odd images Like the faces seen in the flames…
Shot List 1. Night. River. subtitle: It was for such a night she had waited. 2. Trunk of her car is open and lit by a funnel of light from the porch. 3. She loads the trunk: 4×6 trays, photographic papers, strobe light. Strobe doesn’t fit, she angles it into the backseat. 4. She is…
A couple awaiting the arrival of their first-born delivers instead a ring-tailed lemur. They are beside themselves. The father beats the obstetrician with clenched fists. He curses the nurses and flings himself to the floor bawling. The mother stands up on the table and denounces God. The next day they go home. The lemur eats…
The American road is our art, pure process of leaving. Driving doesn’t end. It only startsas the radio feeds a secret part of the brain that’s always running the American road. Our art has no destination, though it departs, and the eyes, never full, keep filling. Driving doesn’t end. It only starts when the land…
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.At rest on a stair landing, They feel it Moving beneath them now like the deck of a ship, Though the swell is gentle. And deep in mirrors They rediscover The face of the boy as he practices…
