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2013
The Only Thing I Have
2012
Sent
Loose
Current state
Two things on hypothetical technologies
Places I’ve Lived: A Photograph, Worry, a Ribcage
Q & A
color of a dog running away
A sponge or a fist
2011
Shapes of houses
Radio check
Has someone
2010
Learning
2009
All of these things are right
So then I had to tell a stranger what I was trying to do and it was easier than I thought but mostly he just wanted to talk and within two minutes I’d learned he’d been four years sober and then the lady across from me asked him to please stop talking
Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
I felt bad this weekend
A note
Curtis White Takes Issue
Skeins
Paula Fox, Desperate Characters
Self-assurance
Self Defense
Elsewhere
Self-reliance
SELF-HELP
From the two most violent books I’ve ever read:
The Port
Some ways to whittle the world down
Fits and starts
Last things
Cuidate, querido
You Are Easy To Love
Ben Marcus on Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine, a book not worth quoting from unless it is from beginning to end
Always roaring.
Elsewhere
A few things:
How we orient
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Listen:
Barthelme, The Explanation
Q & A
Q & A
Q & A
Not to cause any alarm
HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM
Revisited
Dwelling
Well roared lion, gluey atmosphere
A Joke
Onwards
Time & the Internet
Supposed
The San Francisco Columbarium
Vanishing the Statue of Liberty
The Most Honest I’ve Ever Been
Our whole civilization is a layer of sediment
In two years
Sex Tips from Magazines, #5
Sex Tips from Magazines, #4
Sex Tips from Magazines, #3
Sex Tips from Magazines, #2
Sex Tips from Magazines, #1
15 Items or Less
How we fortify
2008
When it starts with Sanskrit in a German accent
WATER COOLER
Simon is amazed by what he doesn’t care about.
They rarely know even what they don’t know
Being better
Couch dwelling
Flesh
Rat, iron, taks
WE’RE AT THE DISCOVERY ZONE
Some things about vomiting
Freezer, inside
It’s a book about a man who builds in order to feel
As lively, and as vigorously productive
What we can make of the mess we have made of things
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Benign Fascination Syndrome
Two things that aren’t all that related and that I want to talk about but only tangentially
Speaking of which
A Guide to Living Haptically
Short-tailed albatross
Sudden appearance of birds, nearness
Never getting older means stabbing people in the ear
A man on TV said this was a “no man is an island” situation
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Between a life actually lived and a shadow cast on…
Fourteen August Three AM
When nothing else subsists
Self pity is the least interesting
oh
Good reasons, I think, to go places
Viva la Vida
What I meant
The Library of Manifestos