Our Daily May (for Mel Nichols)

Good bye small hands!

2007-05-31T20:17:00.000-04:00

Good bye small hands!
Good by small arms!

For you bergamot to remember.
And you and you and you.

You're going to have to ruthless now, panda bear
Born in captivity. You're going to have to be cruel.

You're telling me, you're telling me
No, no, no. I won't go.

The second no makes you laugh.
I don't think the third really exists

Like the Yeti in the joke I told earlier today.
Better luck next time, my marsupial friend.

Oral Dissent Gives Justice New Voice

2007-05-30T23:33:00.000-04:00

The hedgehog repeats the mantra he learned as a young boy in Tokyo,
ay ee eye oh ewe en sometimes why
ay ee eye oh ewe en sometimes why

What political leader from Georgia had the most impact on the 20th Century world?

There are one dozen eggs in a dozen eggs.
They are stacked neatly on shelves according to size.

Do you realize that, when you are outside, you are standing on more oxygen than you are breathing?

I felt the same way when I heard the news.

The hedgehog was delivered to this planet as a bacteria in a comet that traveled a very long distance.

Through a staggering number of forks the hedgehog emerged from the march – and it takes some pretty heavy Stalinist revision to point out actual decisions. Breeding breeds concurrence.

Early man posited, based on this unpatterned movement misnamed progress, that perhaps the hedgehog was not a fruition. Perhaps the comet meant to teach process.

But that angered the hedgehog greatly and he smote them nearly unto extinction.

We see this story told and re-told in diverse forms including myths surrounding the birth of fire, The Iliad, phrases like “your motherfucking ice cream” and even the preamble to the now-defunct Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Yea for you are but a vessel.
Peace be with you and also with you.

A Complex and Unusual Auction

2007-05-29T18:21:00.000-04:00

Young Sol Lewitt is staring at the machine-stitched seams of your windbreaker.
Your parents told you it was because the roots could damage the foundation.

Young Sol Lewitt will want to talk to you about arithmetic soon.
You actually could appreciate that some things would always be unfair in this world.

Young Sol Lewitt always finished his vegetables when your mom cooked.
You wouldn’t describe yourself as a libertarian anymore than a polar bear.

Young Sol Lewitt then developed an affinity for the ocean and its constant horizon.
You pretty much hated anything that involved a uniform, like gym class.

Young Sol Lewitt had trouble understanding you and quickly decided never to.
You have more postcards than photographs from childhood vacations.

And So I Drew The Laundry

2007-05-28T22:58:00.001-04:00

It started with boiled meat,
Aging pavement, and
Standard, unpainted shovels.
Many have seen the Michigan sky in March.

From the salt in salt and pepper,
To the distinguished uniform of West Point,
To a pewter pitcher fallen to disrepair.
Hosts of birds, fish, and the endangered wolf.

But also in charcoal's heart,
The ash it was before,
And the ash it will be again.
Or, often, the beginning of pottery.

There is work in the links of a chain link fence
That the fog will ignore as it rolls over this town.

The Back Nine Has Always Been Too Kind

2007-05-27T17:02:00.000-04:00

Horse around elsewhere, my little cabbages.
Don't spray it, they admonish in unison.

The island station tilted ominously into space.

You're cancelling my overtime?
I have mouths to feed, a sub-prime loan and fogging up my tail.

Then succeed the dogleg to a tight green, but don't miss the
Opportunity for horse fantasies and heat transfer just outside the cabin
Is but a burning house --

Who shouldst be spared burning?
Matter? The little island? Leading?
Allowed snagging is my shaky basis.

Leading is my sturdiest chassis.
What is a parsec, anyway?
Permissive.

All That Is Left Will Be Yours

2007-05-26T21:07:00.001-04:00

It is not my flaws that make me a monster, they merely make me flawed. I hadn't realized I was so brittle, now. Everything inside liquified and draining out a small hole by the ankle leaving a husk to be filled with air upon air.

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And then an imagined third.

And You Can't Take That Away From Me

2007-05-25T22:46:00.000-04:00

A change in the rate of change is acceleration.
And we learned earlier that there is no opposition,
Merely force in a diiferent direction. Because
While speed goes, velocity points
And then goes.

This doesn't change how much the universe will love you.

The Miracle of Organic Materials, Among Them, Glorious Plastic

2007-05-24T13:58:00.001-04:00

Is this what you'd imagined?

A bus careens across baked pavement. Weeds grow tall by the roadside as the insects swarm forth from Tallahassee by the plague. Still she can watch the world unravel through rose-colored lenses.

Now it is time to say goodbye to a multitude of friends made along the way. Life after life, hope after hope breeding dream upon dream.

This isn't your flight. This isn't your land. This isn't your song.

The end will stutter. And then you stood too quickly, against advice. Your blood pressure plunged, and rather than falling you tilted your head forward to vomit.

On the Commodification of Dolphin Encounters

2007-05-23T15:49:00.001-04:00

When I awoke I found myself in line for once-in-a-lifetime opportunity made available by the burgeoning Experience Economy. I can't fathom survival in the days before sleep-eating and mass literacy.

And I, too, have decided that leaving everything in is best for the right here and now. I give you this database and a world for the taking once you see as in the last of the first days of clocks.

Drown your friends. Drown your dreams. Drown your days and your nights. Drown your family. Drown your food and your drink. Drown your job. Drown your car and the waiting. Where they are safe.

When you stare deep in mine eyes you profess to see only twinned error messages. Then sing the blue both terrifying and fantastic. Screen upon screen like the waves that will surely signal the end.

Democrats Find Ethics Overhaul Elusive in House by David D. Kirkpatrick

2007-05-22T22:00:00.000-04:00

John P. Murtha stared into the darkness, waiting for the brilliant lights.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, wrapped herself in a defensive cloak of inconsolable fears.

Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania was all but dumbstruck by furious beauty midst humidity and
Representative Ray LaHood, Republican of Illinois always wanted to fly the friendly skies, but

Speaker Pelosi asked for both restraint and realism when defining dreams.
Representative Ed Perlmutter, a first-term Colorado Democrat, a real team player in joining

Representative Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, for an inspired game darts, contemplating throwing the game for the status quo, while
Mr. Van Hollen knocked back a cold one, which was definitely his right.

Representative Michael E. Capuano, a Massachusetts Democrat, was tired of this vexing taxation and so
Mr. Capuano stormed away, ball in hand and two in the bush.

Mr. Van Hollen, dismayed, enticed them all with visions of milk and honey.
Representative James P. Moran, Democrat of Virginia, was no stranger to honey, but

Mr. Moran couldn’t clear his mind of prescience when it came to
Caesar’s wife and her terrible undoing.

Mr. Murtha objected vociferously, claiming no one among them knew the future, but
Representative Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan, put his chips on the other side. Oh how this vexed

Mr. Murtha, who could feel the reigns dissolving in his fingers.
Mr. Rogers could not mitigate the risks around him.

Mr. Murtha, chairman of the military spending committee, could not mitigate the risks around
Mr. Murtha and so buried himself in obscure terminologies and rhetoric.

Mr. Rogers, “Once again we stare down a common foe. Will we stand together on fields of battle.”
Mr. LaHood, the Illinois Republican, stood firm on that day, his blood soaking into the Earth.

Observations Both Stolen and Compiled

2007-05-21T18:45:00.001-04:00

1.
It could be said I was put here to serve you, but at the present moment that is not the case. Completely.

2.
Yes it is true, we have been taking more than we require. Coupled with thermodynamics, this will bring an end to everything.

3.
Not on my watch, you boldly stated. Pride begins with a P and will be your undoing.

4.
Maybe I was born for many things, but fisticuffs isn't among them.

We live surrounded by facts and observations, testimony, concurrence and discord. We drift from agreement to dispute to defeat and something more. We didn't intend circle upon circle, and we confused them for some kind of safety.

5.
You haven't lived

In Court Files, Hollywood’s Mr. Fix-It at Work

2007-05-20T21:52:00.000-04:00

Melting frappucinos dot a vista
Of puckered cheeks and transparent

Blue plastic visors. Hair sprouts
Here and there midst chemical concoction.

I stand at the gates to your soul and
Though palsied in agony, tread on.

When you dialed room service, did you
Expect all this artificiated splendor?

This articulated font of displeasured
Observation splashed over your sills?

Did you get behind your ears this morning?
I will say, the end-time will certainly be more fetching

For the matched separates you instinctively chose.
Their shades and smart tailoring most certainly

Complement the day, be it Ragnarok or the Rapture,
O joyous victory or something far far less.

This Is Definitely Not Paris

2007-05-19T22:12:00.001-04:00

That dream where you are surrounded by hundreds of people who've been waiting with you but maybe not waiting for the same thing. And then the lights go down.

You'll be happy to know that i've been eating well and shaving regularly. Do you remember that puppy? I really wish you could get a handle on the drinking.

When I count to three my enigmatic aura will dissapate and a pile of equations will slowly unravel where I once stood.

Princesses at the Gates

2007-05-18T12:00:00.000-04:00

O my starlings, my twittering little cabages,
With your complicated migratory patterns

And distinct viewpoints on the benefits
Of teleology over applied atmospheres

Over time. Who wouldst dare, nay dare
Think to scratch a name into the mahogany?

What the fuck were you thinking when
Those pellets pierced the muscle wall of

Your abdomen and other assorted sites.
Sure, official transcripts of sworn testimony

Of the happenings by relevant personnel
Tell us what tumbled from your lips,

Your wrists, your gut, and we can calculate
Entropic losses of energy, always remembering

That matter can be neither created or
Destroyed in this crazy crazy town. I know

You are dying for a banana right about now
Because I could see the future once upon a time.

THE END

Wolfowitz Resigns From World Bank

2007-05-17T23:38:00.000-04:00

Names spelled in brakes lights
Murk beyond mist and morning
This is how I go

Wolfowitz Said to Be Working on Deal for His Resignation

2007-05-16T21:48:00.001-04:00

Seeded today, song tomorrow.

She said sell sell. And, we’ll help you deal with it.
We wanted to call so bad.
Accept expected recognitions, if you don’t mind.

The answer cited sources both numerous and diverse.
Ancient soldiers surround ancient prey as the sun somethings.
Pay now and we will skip the caps.

She said buy buy buy. I’ve been working all day and prosper, sir.
I’ve been negotiating your future and futures and sundry toiletries.
I’ve even been defending the depths of your sizzle. Was it enough?

There, it is said. If I’ve breached your mind, please say so.

Note to self, no way.

No, seriously.

President Intervened in Dispute Over Eavesdropping

2007-05-15T22:30:00.000-04:00

(three rounds for five to 15 voices)

1.
Low blow Joe. Sure, Oates
Bent me ‘round latrines.
Sully me, Sarah Lee. Sue me, Jerry Lee.
Find me a new butt cream.

2.
The go-slow flow cured my goat
Rent-free down the street!
Stare is free. Tear it free. Married be, verily,
Try the fission beam.

3.
Tow some mo’ hoes and gloat,
Pimps be clowning treats.
Live the dream. Rent a queen for a ream. Pick up steam.
I’m blitzed on benzadrine.

Chrysler Group to Be Sold for $7.4 Billion

2007-05-14T17:36:00.001-04:00

The Palestinian Interior Minister looked up to the sky
And wondered where the hell he’d parked.

He was gonna work on his resume tonight, but
Drunk on cheap beer and poker winnings, he feels

It best that wait another night. Maybe two. He thinks
“I really should get my son out to more football matches.”

Scientologists ambush the BBC, while
Cruise ship runs aground off Alaska

Pakistani official killed as strike called in Karachi, while
Search for 3 G.I.’s [sic] abducted in Iraq continues

No ‘new Cold War,’ says Rice in Russia, and
Atomic agency concludes Iran is stepping up nuclear work

Maybe we can wash the car together this weekend.
I don’t think they said it’s supposed to rain.

Chrysler on Verge of Sale to a Private Firm

2007-05-13T23:34:00.000-04:00

To appear to have downed to back and
To have stuck structure again

Missing more could last human cost
To define huge troubled definitions.

They pledge to dent the gap,
Swelled then slowly decreasing then

Against the tide flared anew,
Now the post-apartheid era.

Pressure with violence and a large
DNA database clouding risk.

When you get caught up in your legacy
It is someone else's and unlucky.

See. I'm not afraid to totally suck.

Religious Groups Granted Millions for Pet Projects

2007-05-12T20:35:00.000-04:00

Who’s searching for you?

Forty-One Is an Island

2007-05-11T20:15:00.001-04:00

That real estate is prime
Real estate, she said, as
Stars fell from the sky some-
Where far north where
Once-tall mountains have
Migrated thousands of
Miles, grinding one another
To loam to walk among us.
Counted eighty-two blooms
So far, and that's just the
Irises out there in the front.

Love,
Paul

Blair Says He Will Leave Office in June

2007-05-10T22:25:00.001-04:00

10%	of a portrait of five men to emerge.
20%	of served fresh conditions.
30%	of closely choreographed times.
40%	of coping with rapidly changing [redacted].
50%	of merged collars a day after.
60%	of we must show gains.
70%	of squeeze and improve and fall more.
80%	of expanding and protracting and plus plus.
90%	of coy baggage.
100%	of welcome to these times.

Open In Case Of Daughter Loves Jesus

2007-05-09T20:38:00.001-04:00

No, I'm pretty sure not.
If there was a nice tire swing and it didn't go to fast.
Show and tell.
They don't serve people that young, I hope.
No.
Peanut butter, no jelly, no crusts.
That's some retarded shit.
She eats like three things and toast ain't one of 'em.
Ball pit, all day!
That's it. Thanks. Come again!

Power Sharing Begins in Northern Ireland

2007-05-08T22:12:00.001-04:00

Avid brunette kith of myriad barest epics,
Lend me the winning bloc of safari summers.

If you peruse the census and ditch the victors,
Savory clues of the realm kneel, my statesman,
in heinous flaming graphs charged to
Marshaled villas of fiancés and French writers
That vainly painted revolutions, in general.

Hero for your office,
Brace for regeneration!

The evil barns harbor Danish brothers,
While harpies, true to every man, rush in
Where baseball shears bran like voice actors.

Stark noble turkeys, nobler snagged,
Clamped and bobbing in the gory remains
Of polished industrialists joined to swamis,
For what brutish sickles doth thou don sharper heather?

Sing the iris and hillside law!

And the charlatan, seventh in line of succession to gravity,
Dials the cellar’s tricky cutlery freed of ails and sawmills
Before the sumo wrestler lugs person and portmanteau.

Darkening hate while whiney harms break way.

Yard birds, dale dye and gray glitter.
Robbers, muggers, stun and degrease.

The gang, lucid. Marina.
Bunny. Born diagram. Marine wills.

Whistle-Blower on Student Aid is Vindicated

2007-05-07T08:05:00.000-04:00

1.
Argue repeatedly. Carry out. Close the door. Come to preoccupy. Come under questioning. Continue. Drop interest. Eliminate the help.

2.
Fail to act. Fail to halt. Find others. Further restrict the help.

3.
Grow out of decisions. Get more. Highlight the failures. Inflate. Inflate your eligibility. Issue some help.

4.
Keep it by cutting it off. Offer more. Open a window. Propose to eliminate all references to the help.

5.
Protect. Receive the help.

6.
Recommend recovery. Seek new rules. Serve. Shut off the help.

7.
Stop this hemorrhage. Take it. Turn it over. Uncover some help.

A Liberal Case for Gun Rights Helps Sway Federal Judiciary

2007-05-06T14:49:00.001-04:00

In a few notable instances, the
nation’s freshly mown lawns
court favor in a line of favors
on such a ’flicted day.
Only it’s not Winter –
would it were, we’d wonder.

There is the dining – re-
plete with glances and excur-
sus – before the main event de-
tects our every weakness, and
stats once more betray us. Con-
sensus may be rendered useless,
largely due to a momentum feared
years beyond fixing. In fact.

Street Sense Wins Kentucky Derby

2007-05-05T22:33:00.000-04:00

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Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops

2007-05-04T01:26:00.000-04:00

A train leaves Paris at 4 p.m. for Nice, carrying a 22 year-old woman. Ten minutes later, a second train carrying conservative presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy departs from Nice headed for Paris. The women has just left her job, her family, her boyfriend of three years, a nice apartment and a Chow Chow named John who is a bit mouthy. She is carrying a canvas shoulder bag containing a well-used composition book, a French-to-English dictionary and her purse which contains a small assortment of cosmetics along with her ID, credit cards, a few receipts and loose currency. The only other passenger in line-of-sight will fall asleep less than an hour into the trip. A dot of saliva will gather at the corner of his mouth mere minutes later and a jostle on the tracks will send it tumbling to his chest. But she won’t see this occur. The Nice-bound train is traveling at 150 km/hour while the Paris-bound is moving at 200km/hour. Her cell phone battery is nearly fully charged and Sarkozy stands 1m 58cm tall. When will the two trains lead you to consider the nutritional value of your last meal?

The Seven Heavenly Sins

2007-05-03T11:05:00.000-04:00

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a framework for	Critical	Reform
wrestling over how	Making Men Into	THE ORIGNAL
media baron	in the Sand	along the road
dealing	Amid Concern	Invisible
hands-on approach to	Whether He	compromise,
as they gather	to Resign	practical truths
The Fitness	Makes the Marlins	Make your money
Move North	Plant Walls	Welcome
his politically barbed	Style	wating for you
increase pressure	Spar Vigorously	they might have
Concern	Spreading	Envy?
many experts agree	Assailed by Lurid Evil

Chávez Takes Over Foreign-Controlled Oil Projects in Venezuela

2007-05-02T10:55:00.000-04:00

One two three four five six control begets mastery begets
An understanding of things like parabolic arcs
Or maybe Brownian Motion begets currents

The point is one two three four making the choices
Each day, even if I decide not to and

When I said Get a little distance from the distant at 7 a.m.
I was talking about getting closer to right now.

Out	Five Minutes Ago	In
One	Two	Three
Control	Mastery	Questions
Ninjas	Zombies	Frankenstein?
Wolves and stags	Horses and unicorns	Owls
Ana Nicole Smith Dies After Collapse	Wolfowitz, Violated Terms Officials Say	BP Chief Quits Over Revelations About Sex Life

But better and believe and true are day-to-day.
So is now. And there is no real problem with that, I think.

And my tummy hurts. That’s why.

Google Calls Viacom Suit on YouTube Unfounded & Yahoo and Comcast in Deal

2007-05-01T10:00:00.000-04:00

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