Monday, September 24, 2012

Why Write

Why Write

i've always look for joy as a pretext to write
but could not or would not
fall face down upon the knot of pain which seems 
to make even the simplest things
a complete and frightening mystery.
this way i have avoided being torn
by the terrific closeness with that heart-shaped weapon
which makes us die. i have left out
important fragments of my life. i've taken only
the juice out of the squalor. i have avoided 
loving more than i could love.

- Andrei Codrescu

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Books

Books

death covers me with a fine dust.
i love fat used books. they are
like used fat bodies coming out of sleep 
covered with fingerprints and shiny 
snail trails.
i wish to read the way i love:
jumping from mirror to mirror like a drop of oil
father and farther from my death.
but god gives us fat books and fat bodies
to use for different reasons
and less a metaphor i cannot say
what haunts me

- Andrei Codrescu

Tuesday, September 11, 2012


Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. 
- D.H. Lawrence