Bedrieger Junction

My mind is somewhere else

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a prose poem

"Art loves chance and chance loves art." -- Agathon

“Let’s Get Real About Aliens”

The Viridian Door Issue 1 - Immortals is out, with the poem "The Mother of the Gods" by Carl Bettis

Friday, 8 PM, Riverfront Readings features Lynne Jensen Lampe & Steve Brisendine. Live event, proof of vaccination required, masks encouraged. https://riverfrontreadings.com/event/riverfront-readings-featuring-lynne-jensen-lampe-and-steve-brisendine/

Mark Twain and Charlotte Bronte both hated Jane Austen, with a hate too deep and visceral to be explained by the reasons they gave. W.C. Fields hated Charlie Chaplin, preferring 3rd-rate comedians who were in no way rivals.

This Friday, 8 PM Central US time, Riverfront Readings on Zoom presents Annette Hope Billings, Colleen Maynard, and Celeste Oster! https://squoom.com/z/3 #poetry

thank you god, gods, chance, / fate, whatever, for grackles

We Are All Extinct but Some of us Continue to Love our Ghosts

Young people live / in another country...

Behind the walls is a room made of glass...

No holy book, no cursed tome, tells...

Why...

Standing in disbelief...

I've lived my life / in another country.

Every artist is a Platonist. They may think they are a nominalist, but their work refutes them. No honest nominalist can become, or can long remain, an artist.

At Pickman's Grave