'gulf oil spill'

everyone is falling all over themselves to pretend they care

about some oil spill in the gulf right now...

i give it one more week

i give the 'gulf oil spill' one more week

and then the 'gulf oil spill' goes the way of 'darfur'

and no one knows what you're talking about

when you say the words 'gulf oil spill'

or maybe

everyone gets nostalgic about

how they remember the 'gulf oil spill'

or maybe

how they used to be all about it

but now everyone is all about it all the time

someone said it is 2010 and i'm having a flashback

the 'gulf oil spill' is just like having a flashback

to 'that exxon-valdez thing'

someone actually said this out loud

and in public and to people who heard it

all i want to talk about right now

is 'things covered in oil'

i'm all about 'things covered in oil'

if you would like to talk to me about anything else

anything else like 'kids in darfur'

before i could even think the words 'kids in darfur'

they would need to be covered in oil

we are the only ghosts left alive

"The mind has no such restricted districts as those so often used for clandestine sexual encounters."

~ Antonin Artaud

"When you move into an apartment, you cannot start to illuminate every last corner with neon light. If there are no dark corners or hidden niches, your house becomes uninhabitable. Human beings who are trying to self-reflect and explore their innermost being to the last corner become uninhabitable people."

~ Werner Herzog

ballet with office chair

ballet with office chair

we are the only ghosts left alive

"You haven't the least or feeblest conception of being here, and now, and alone, and yourself.  Why (you ask) should anyone want to be here, when (simply by pressing a button) anyone can be in fifty places at once?  How could anyone want to be now, when anyone can go whening all over creation at the twist of a knob?  What could induce anyone to desire aloneness, when billions of soi-disant dollars are mercifully squandered by a good and great government least anyone anywhere should ever for a single instant be alone?  As for being yourself - why on earth should you be yourself; when instead of being yourself you can be a hundred or a thousand or a hundred thousand thousand other people?  The very thought of being oneself in an epoch of interchangeable selves must appear supremely ridiculous."

~ ee cummings

"Letter writing is an intercourse with ghosts, not only the ghost of the receiver, but with one's own, which emerges between the lines of the letter being written... written kisses never reach their destination, but are drunk en route by these ghosts."

~ Franz Kafka