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Franny

A lot of people would kill for my less than nothing

About Me

"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist." -JPS-Get MySpace Layouts from nUCLEArcENTURy .COM OR create your own using MySpace profile editor !!!
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My Interests

SESQUIPEDALIANISM. Crush anemia. Finding the continual interrogation. Existential crises. Bridges and tunnels. Beets. Train Maps. Being alone. Every precious, goddamn thing that comes out of my mouth.

I'd like to meet:

Andrew Bird...exclusively.

Music:

These days, it's all Curtis Mayfield, Dolly, Kamikaze Baby re-runs, Dungen, Llasa, Francoise Hardy, Leonard Cohen, Mr. Bird, Beirut, DKSE, The Inconsolable, and other sexy or foreign noise.

Movies:

All the same "artsy" shit my demographic likes.

Television:

LOST.

Books:

Simone De Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Salinger, Nathanael West, Sinclair Lewis, Ralph Ellison, Salmon Rushdie, Tom Robbins, Dave Eggers, Russell Banks, Jean Paul Sartre, Freidrich Nietzsche, Milan Kundera, Ernest Hemingway, James Madison, Roald Dahl, Robert Penn Warren, Gustave Flaubert, Thomas Pynchon, Carolyn Forche, Emily Dickinson...to name a few. Scholarly heroes: Thomas Risse, Kathryn Sikkink, Jeffrey Sachs, Joe Stiglitz, Roland Paris, C. Mark Blackden, Claire Manuel, Amanda Ellis, Kathleen Staudt, Doug Massey, Nancy Denton

Heroes:

Anyone who starts things and finishes them. The Notorious S-E-E-M-A.

My Blog

Geld the Bells

There are many waysTo be in hell.To forfeit me isTo geld the bells,Hush the swell inMy breast, Wave inThe sudden deathOf the earthy perfumeOf pears, the fairestBulb at first blush.It's to muffle theLu...
Posted by Franny on Tue, 27 May 2008 03:15:00 PST

Five Deltas

With some speed,I've come upon One quarter century.And with my friends,The new old women,Squinting and unhinged,I meet mirrors more Slowly. As in the DarkAges in the LowCountries, we areFive deltas ru...
Posted by Franny on Tue, 06 May 2008 04:07:00 PST

How to Build the Filaments (revised)

On a Sunday morning,You cleared your voiceAnd colorlessly told meTo drown the ring, andSleep down on the pews.I feared from earlyWarning that youMight kill for me all thatBuilds the filaments...The th...
Posted by Franny on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:42:00 PST

The Way of the Dogwood

Even in the lavish, sweetHeat of Spring’s GoldenWeek, these good blossomsAnd bad seeds get cankered,And Weeds eat the browningRemainder.The plow, it stuttersDutifully due south, andBeneath the t...
Posted by Franny on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:36:00 PST

Despotism

One bitch was leftPigeon-breasted andHeavy-set brooding In her nest.Her little baby birdsWere set to ploddingAnd plotting for herWithout knowledge ofHow they fell bottomsDown to the city ground.And it...
Posted by Franny on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:22:00 PST

Sordid Glory and Boring Stories

In order to avoidA murder in the mezzanineYou moved languidlyFor the door. You've hated fewWomen more than her.I wish I'd caughtYour shirtsleeveBefore you fellOut of our moment.As docent of thisStorm,...
Posted by Franny on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:02:00 PST

Thick, Thick Ocean

No, not us. WeCan't go out in thatThick, thick ocean.Let's stay here andHope for crows to pickUs up like picked-overFish and show us thatThis land really is a World different than theDark, dark ocean ...
Posted by Franny on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:45:00 PST

With These Letters

You'll take an ersatz bride,Two or three just for the night,Light hair and dull light eyes.Then stag and sad, you'll ask whyThey still aren't her.Jesus, I am not the cure.There's no good reason To kee...
Posted by Franny on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:49:00 PST

Start of a great drought

One temerarious professorPrepared himself for theStart of a great drought.Put his smart man's stoleOn hold up on the highest shelf(He thought to himself,"It's hardly useful to Have truth if you can't ...
Posted by Franny on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:05:00 PST

Dear God,

I'd like to stay to seeThe way your faceWill temper with age,How your handwritingWill change,All the many namesYou'll call me byBefore I turn thirty.Dear God, it's too early....
Posted by Franny on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:27:00 PST