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Vienna Postcard 9
Budapest Postcard 4/Berwyn Postscript Pathopatridalgia Homesickness hit me on April 26 around 8.30 in the morning. It emerged from my sinus cavity & my salivary glands, tasting like a blend of minerals & Novocain. Thoughts that moments ago coursed on what felt like normal trajectories suddenly felt tethered, held to some invisible center in my […]
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06.16.04
Poems by John Martone, Joseph Massey, & Pam Rehm; the continuing saga of Peter O’Leary’s European stay (including some fineness on CultSoc favorite Márton Koppány in Postcard 8); photos from Cary Conover; picks courtesy of Philly’s finest, Jesse Pires: the man said, “Please, please, please let me get what I want.” The CultSoc replied, “Here […]
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How to Stay Alive in the Woods (for Michael O’Leary)
Mosquitoes prefer blue and all birds are eatable Suppose you have no gun snares are simple and invaluable A button is a useful lure and the best belt has a buckle Blood can be secured and carried and bones may mean your salvation Staying alive in the woods from the green depths of sensation From […]
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Presence of All Colors (for Jerome Rothenberg)
my black wristwatch my black pocketknife my black chanting-box my black rosary my black flashlight my black winter gloves my black watch-cap my black camera my black typewriter my black tyre-sandals my black lamp wick my black picture frame my black tu’ pháp my black shortwave my black cassock my black window my black tooth […]
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Summer
My heart, this sunken day I shall go on saying Mercy, how the heat tires determination Upholds method and prudence in watering And we all went out to nightfall And there was luxury in it
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Patrick’s Point / Rim Trail
You lift a banana slug off the trail with a twig gravel attached to its body and leave it in damp leaves.
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Vienna Postcard 7: Budapest
Language, Money, Food By some miraculous linguistic convergence, the Hungarian farewell, Szia, and the American parting, "See ya" are not only homophonic, they are homonymic they mean the same thing (More or less: Szia can also be used as a greeting, as can Hello. Hungarians say "hello" like Hawaiians say "aloha"). Imagine that the […]
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Jesse Pires, contributor
Suggested Reading The Verificationist, by Donald Antrim Gilligan’s Wake, by Tom Carson Lipstick Traces, by Greil Marcus Essential Cinema, by Jonathan Rosenbaum Let’s Put the Future Behind Us, by Jack Womack Suggested Listening To Each…, A Certain Ratio Inventions and Dimensions, Herbie Hancock Louden Up, Now, !!! Black Unity, Pharoah Sanders Young Liars EP, TV […]