actually wrote some stuff recently. hurrah.

i charge you all read this poem by robert creeley--i just heard it performed this evening in a most lovely fashion:
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working on the hardest and funnest paper i've ever written: prosodic analyses of "Lenox Hill" by Shahid Ali Agha, "For William Carlos Williams" by Galway Kinnell, and the first three stanzas of "Suburban Monastery Death Poem" by d.a. levy.

ever heard of a phonetic chiasmus?
i hadn't either.

anyways, here is an awful pun that came to me in my sleep deprived state:

I think therefore iamb

summer sucks, as usual
sci-fi villanelle in the works

i really don't update this often enough.

spring break had its ups and downs.

i need to write more.

today, i sat imprisoned in my economics 199 lecture, paying no attention to the class and reading, instead, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.

I happened to come across this rather appropriate passage while the professor was blathering about banks and loans and assets and suchlike:

"He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary"

a long and stupid dream, indeed.


a list of books you really should read:

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley