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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 

Category: Writing and Poetry
    Is everything.  
    Multitudes of confident dictators shape personal destinies, misconstruing.  
    Required by administrator; lost money otherwise.  They wanted the history of the thing, the context of the history, the truth closest to the truth.  Why is Dali worth remembering?  Contextually proper answers available only by the passionate or the privileged.  At times, we all fit the bill.  
    Imagination lives outside context.  
    And, why is _______ ______ worth forgetting?  Contextually proper question for the same esoteric few.  They write the context; "they" bend it.  Never "me."  But, "it" remains for us.  
    "…conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
    Really?  
    1929.  The crash.  A dream was born in Atlanta; a Dick recently stroked was born in Mount Vernon, New York.  Joyce still banned; the Millers in Paris practicing geometry—isosceles; a thirty-year-old expatriate bid adieu to guns.  A decade removed from the great conflagration to end all conflagrations, a generation lost.  The flu killed scores of millions.  War in Afghanistan.  Art, creation, voices loud and pertinent.  Relief to be!  Futurists abounded.  Germany boiled.  The world displaced its fear with blind joy (the wolf snuck in unseen).  We remember because he noticed.



    The Great Masturbator.  Reality, sir, reality.  More hunger, more vision, more value than current times can muster.  Exploding everywhere in thought.  America, where is your spirit?  We remember because he noticed.



    Trompe l'oeil.  Really?  Stand back.  Stilled missed it?  Two ma knee hax hair. 
    I got your letter today.  I really don't know what to say to something like that.  I'm sorry to hear about Steven.  When did it happen?
    2008.
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Jim
Jim DeSantis

 
"America, where is your spirit?"

I had spirit once, but Bush killed it for oil.

Forget St. Patrick's Day becoming a national holiday, our new holiday is going to be "HAPPY $4.00 GAS DAY!"

Still need to go to the Dali Museum.
 
Posted by Jim on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 2:02 PM
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Maria

 
just, wow! i read this at least five times, because theres so much to absorb and every line has meaning. i'm studying the culture of modernity this semester, and you caught it perfectly! though i really cant explain it well, i know just what you mean when you say context and teh pictures are perfect. maybe thats the thing, that its just a feeling. the last lines about the letter gave me chills, just beautiful and mysterious. this is my favorite thing you've written, hands down! this is perfect!
 
Posted by Maria on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 9:11 PM
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