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Gabriel Kruis

I'd rather be a thousand words than a picture

About Me

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love

My Interests

Rich, Chocolaty Goodness

I'd like to meet:

new jesus

Music:

G-wicks, Caleb, Kate, and Kyle when he claps and snaps and grins and gargles(http://www.myspace.com/calebmccoach)Oh yeah and: Low, American Music Club, Vic Chesnutt, Dave Bazan, Undertow Ochestra, Bob Dylan, Fair Ophelia, G-Wacky (www.myspace.com/gwicks), Our High lord's Entertainment, J. Tillman, Anticostas! Pedro the Lion, Wilco, The Mars Volta, Ours, Damien Jurado, Pallisades, Headphones, The Flaming Lips, Lucid Chrysalis, Jeff Buckley, Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, White Stripes, Joni Mitchell, Beta Band, Radiohead, Beck, Tilly and the Wall, Led Zeppelin, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, The Cars, Travis, Jurassic 5, MC Paul Barman, Starflyer 59, Pink Floyd, Sublime, Outkast, Beastie Boys, Project 86, The Walkmen, Shins, Eric Clapton, Postal Service, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Del the Funky Homosapien, Anathallo, Saxon Shore, The Soft Drugs, New Pornographers, Iron &, wine, Kings of Leon, Sufjan Stevens, The Faint, Elliot Smith, the Decemberists,

Movies:

Eddy Westerhuis films and 24 Hour Party People

Television:

Watching reflections in convex screens has its passing amusements

Books:

Grey Psalter Hymnals

Heroes:

T.S. Eliot

My Blog

Drunk and Reading in the Library

Drunk and reading poetry I wander the stairwells of the library searching               for you while the words vividly divide into ...
Posted by Gabriel Kruis on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:12:00 PST

The Three Sleeps II

I am tempted to fight my way out of this. In some ways it is my only option; I lack that vital energy I formerly possessed. But this is the talk of a fever&really, I don't feel well. I don't know that...
Posted by Gabriel Kruis on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:15:00 PST

The Three Sleeps

I am in bed reading Italo Calvino's "If on a winter night a traveler," and it is not that his voice is dull, but on the contrary, it is so penetrating and constant that I am suddenly unconscious. ...
Posted by Gabriel Kruis on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:22:00 PST

Walter, Cannot You See?

the effluvium of your brittle beard pours forth from wild fenestrations dazzling in the confusion of its weird mass              "yea! the cou...
Posted by Gabriel Kruis on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:18:00 PST

Evolution

EvolutionI saw a bug sprout grey fur, asleep in his grey shell, beneath a green leaf Flightless and large as a clenched fist a thousand tiny fingersI saw a rat suddenly take wing sunset-red in ...
Posted by Gabriel Kruis on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:32:00 PST

Worden Street Pop

    The rooftop birdwinds it's whirlwind wings    preparing to flee
Posted by Gabriel Kruis on Tue, 30 May 2006 03:11:00 PST

Worden Street Pop

Black helmetMan crouches like BuddhaBehind motorcycle
Posted by Gabriel Kruis on Mon, 29 May 2006 12:08:00 PST

Worden Street Pops

Sitting on my porch watching the ghetto grow up around my farm houseBlack boy in faded Superman capeBalances on wallWorden street schrink diagnoses Xenophobia...
Posted by Gabriel Kruis on Sun, 28 May 2006 12:52:00 PST

Child Myopia Senryu

Removing glasses    Upside down handsForm childhood simulacrum
Posted by Gabriel Kruis on Mon, 15 May 2006 12:06:00 PST

ready-made

will you accept my apologyfor things never coming to fruitionthe way they begin and end
Posted by Gabriel Kruis on Mon, 15 May 2006 12:04:00 PST