http://dansagarin.com/strome/

some good stuff on there.

Atlas

all these poems I have been posting recently I am going to compile into a collection and call it Atlas. the poems are about travelling through different places and seeing weird shit. most of the poems are erasure poems, meaning I grab another source and erase words from the source to create my own thing.


here is a short one. you can highlight it to see what it says underneath.

"Dive"

Yet the implicit danger of the sign seems to get washed away by the pristine, vivid-blue lake below, which from the vantage point of the rim 1,000 feet up, looks like a massive, rock-lined bathtub.

Researchers here are going deep into the giant volcanic hole with aquatic robots and highly sensitive sonar. The lake, formed by a massive eruption 7,700 years ago, is one of the world's purest bodies of fresh water and, at 1,932 feet, one of its deepest. Most interesting to scientists, it's had little mixing with the outside world--no feeder creeks, no rivers, just snowmelt and rainwater.

ok. there you go.

Berryman

Songs may speak clear

t, almost John’s whole truth

into

and

and their become more and

tender and absurd that would

enough, he to hand

and that

"He lay in the

ally, anything can be

of pause.

pried open." There are several possible for

he has been, and still is, on

display, his "pride" in his "long wonder"

scrutiny. The world, however, no longer a single lover,

has been taken from him), of a woolen lover, of a prying open, a sycamore

four and five. "Do it" means do to: it is all things done to

-like, but in tone, calm. search for such such for much

My Big Night Out

I am going on a big night out on the town

I am going to wear my favorite shirt and a nice pair of jeans

I am going to put some pomade in my hear and shave my face

I am going to put on a pair of comfortable shoes



I go to a restaurant and I choose several things to eat

I am watching the faces of the people around me as they look at the menu

Sometimes I worry that they will not like the food or think it is too expensive

Sometimes I feel compelled to contribute more money to the bill



The other thing I might think about is whether everyone is talking

Sometimes one person stays quiet the whole night and this makes me nervous

I have a big bottle of melon flavored vodka at my house

I have two sofas and a rocking chair and two IKEA chairs and a rug



Everyone gathers around the living room and has different things to say

Through the windows I can hear other people walking either out or back home

From Hunters in the Snow

He picked up his sandwiches and his cookies and slung the rifle

He looked like a cartoon of a person laughing

He just wanted to get out of the goddamned truck

He spread his feet and closed his eyes and leaned his head way back and breathed deeply

He wore a heavy wedding band and on his right pinky another gold ring with a flat face

He heard his heart and felt the flush on his face but he never once stopped

He sat down on a stump and wiped his face

He folded his hands across his stomach

Then he stopped and lay there

He looked into his empty cup

He turned and let the air play over his back

He said. "Frank. Frank."

The clouds were low and heavy-looking and the wind blew in shrill gusts

It sounded like a dry branch cracking. The post splintered along its right side

Maiden Voyage

The New York Times is running another story on the plight of the wealthy in getting into college.

Things that NYTimes does:

1. Focus on the troubling nature of girls needing to look "effortlessly hot" while focusing on what are probably the four "hottest" girls at the school.

2. Taking pictures of "hot" girls multiple times.

3. Illustrate that one of the girls has made the "sacrifice" not to take an SAT prep course because of the correlation between income and SAT scores.

4. Reveal that it's ok for girls not to have boyfriends.

5. Reveal that one of the girl's favorite shows is Grey's Anatomy.

Statements like "The amazing boys say they admire girls like Esther and Colby" occur as well.

Something about true religion jeans.

And cute lingerie.

Most institutions in society are designed to self-perpetuate.

I don't think any of these girls will have a problem getting into a "name" college.

Kick out the jams motherfucker
from merryswankster