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big ern

About Me

some people say i remind them of annie oakley. maybe i should buy a shotgun. when i was a little kid, i wanted to be on Star Search but my parents wouldn't let me.

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My Blog

Shakespearean Blueprints

(collage of Shakespeare's better known verses rescontructed without having changed a single line except for some punctuation.)For ever and a day I have not slept one wink, to sleep; perchance to dream...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:28:00 GMT

FingerPaintUrr

It's not because of sardines. It's not because I think I'm any good. It's not because I'm done writing poetry although I haven't written any in months. I like touching paint and making a mess. These w...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:52:00 GMT

Super Secret Secret

These highly verbose, rhyme infested lyrics were influenced by trop d'ecoute d'Of Monteal...and i know, they're a little much...so maybe I should start smoking pot again?______________________________...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:03:00 GMT

Something Not Unlike a Fugue and Even Less Unlike Gertrude Stein

(imaginary void where an explanation previously existed.)HOLDING AND IF NOT IN THE HOLDING THEN OUTSIDE OF SOME HOLY WITHHOLDER WHOSE HANDS HOLD FOLDS LIKE SPINES FOLD BONES YOU MAKE YELLOW LIKE SUNLI...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:17:00 GMT

A Valentines Day Proposal

I wrote this during workshop last year and re-vamped it a bit tonight. It's seasonal, fictional and kind of lame...just like Valentine's Day, so um, I figured, why not? ------------------------------...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:23:00 GMT

Newspaper Poems

These are essentially collaged from the NY Times...i try to stick to using words from single articles, but 'On Conjugation' uses two features. _________________________________________________________...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:22:00 GMT

Low Tide

The tide was out so lowthe sand breathed with urchins, quivering ornamentsfrom a plum-colored sea.A factory for pickling whales leaned in shadow formacross the wet & open-wounded shore and I followed...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:10:00 GMT

Color Theory with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

If redhe said if red is a color and also a word, which is more erotic?Take me the red way she saidand we'll find out.If orangetrees are growing, mid-Novemberin the grove, he shouted through the window...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:21:00 GMT

BUSH: men: 9/11!!! 9/11!!! 9/11!!!

Getting high for the State of the Union Address I call a friend in D.C.:...thought you might be having a drunken get together......wanted to get the inside scoop...she is at the grocery store buying ...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:30:00 GMT

RECYCLED ADBUSTERS

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Posted by on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:04:00 GMT