The Lettuce in My Fridge is Going Bad

The statement is true, but lettuce is not actually the subject here. I just couldn't think of a title.

In other news, writing poems every day is cool. Hard sometimes, but cool.

Friday I wrote a sestina; yesterday I wrote one about running into my gay ex at the Hare Krishna temple's Festival of Colors; today I wrote one while watching House by stealing lines of conversation and ripping them violently out of context.

Doesn't this sound like more fun than cream puffs? Mmmm, cream puffs. Maybe not more fun than those. At parties in Mississippi when everyone one else was using booze as a social lubricant, I used cream puffs. Fill me with a few of those and I'm fine.

And that, dear friends, is why my jeans don't fit anymore.

Anyway, also wanted to share this quote from a documentary film maker that I loved: "A bad film stops when it's over. A good film starts when it's over."

True of all art, I'd reckon.

One other thing. Learned this on a podcast, from a sound artist man. He took a recording of seals under the water in Antartica, and I swear to you that it sounded exactly like electronic music, only really really good electronic music, better than humans can make. It sounded like outerspace is what it sounded like. Also, walruses clack their teeth under water and it's full of these beautiful, artful cresendos and decresendos. What does this mean?

I think it means this: We humans that think we're artists? Amatuers. Every last damn one of us.