Night Highway 99 (1962)

By Gary Snyder

I have a plain version but this google one helps with all the random places in it. My favorite part:

"I like to be alone.
I am an old man.
I have forgotten how to speak human words."


Read it here.

Bad Newz Kennels

By Sarah Jones

On my Dad's birthday we watched this episode of Dexter with a model photographer and he talks to Dexter about this other famous photographer who would talk about the moment and how if you miss it, it's gone forever. I just found this on Facebook and think it ties in nicely.

Part One: Life #6 (1924)

By Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Read this for the first time when i was 12 in the "Book of Virtues". Pretty simple and spot on, IMO. Read more Emily Dickinson on Bartleby.

I HAVE NO MOUTH, AND I MUST SCREAM (1967)

By Harlan Ellison



Science Fiction is so cool. Read it here.

Tender Buttons (1914)

By Gertrude Stein


A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS.

A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading.

Full text here.

Rafa

BY THIS SHITHEAD

Adams (2004)

By George Saunders
In case you were born post-America in Iraq, here is a allegory to help you recall the hunt for WMD's. (I know I'm pretty much just reposting something on another blog but hey, you wouldn't have known about it if i didn't right?) The New Yorker has 30+ of these and they're awesome for when you don't like music.

The text, stream, and download are all here.

Rot

Polaroid by Austin Durant

Welcome!

This is my new blog where I post things I enjoy reading or staring at and wish to share with others. Pieces posted here can be my own (rarely), contemporary, old school, friends, famous ppl, relevant, irrelevant, intelligent, unintelligent, black and white, color, film, digital, prose, freeverse, and able to enter in your brain in 15 minutes or less. So hopefully you find something interesting/enlightening/funny on here and become a better person. I'll try to keep commentary minimal unless something needs an explanation :).

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