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| We'll always have Gaultier's Paris... |
Tuesday August 01, 2023
His understanding
of haute couture started with
Jean Paul Gaultier’s
autumn and winter nineteen
ninety three Chic Rabbis show.
Wednesday August 02, 2023
Thomas and Vicki
knew how to control the board,
until they got bored
and chose to play something else.
She checked him and they mated.
Thursday August 03, 2023
When he met Leonard
Cohen it was like looking
Cohen it was like looking
into Rumi's eyes:
words were unnecessary
for him to say, "I love you."
Friday August 04, 2023
Despite the ruins
of his European past,
he still has feelings.
They return in response to
distant midnight messages.
Saturday August 05, 2023
Office of the Night:
while the rest of the world sleeps
the monks of The Grande
Chartreuse arise from their knees
to sing their silent vigil.
Sunday August 06, 2023
What is it about
first names that begin and end
with the first letter
of the English alphabet?
What’s a well-read man to do?
Monday August 07, 2023
Their question about
his relational status
came without warning.
It was as direct as could
be without being blatant.
Tuesday August 08, 2023
Eno’s Apollo
has more credibility
than what it attempts
to musically represent.
At least the cover is real.
Wednesday August 09, 2023
Every so often
he receives a translated
notification.
It reminds him that he has
been taken away for good.
Thursday August 10, 2023
The fourth of the four
was meant as a literal
sentence to silence.
The sound of this virtual
distancing is deafening.
Friday August 11, 2023
The next thing they knew
it had been ten hours since
they started talking.
Eternal life belongs to
those who live in the present.
Saturday August 12, 2023
The Upojenie
continues to gently play
upon his h(ear)t strings.
It is intuitive, but
that does not make it less real.
Sunday August 13, 2023
He needed to feel
the pain of loss one last time
to remind himself
of Schopenhauer’s maxim
on what he will be missing.
Monday August 14, 2023
Preconceptual
awareness between knowers
knows no time nor space.
It is the place in Rumi’s
field where they have always lived.
Tuesday August 15, 2023
He protects himself
from himself so that he can,
in turn, protect those
that he cares about the most.
that he cares about the most.
He will never interfere.
Wednesday August 16, 2023
United States Live
has absolutely nothing
on this dear woman.
This is his monument to
the monumental mother.
Thursday August 17, 2023
One’s view of the world
is either moralistic
or aesthetical.
Those who primarily see
beauty have their own ethic.
Friday August 18, 2023
Time to retire
into his oblivion,
before it's too late.
This process has already
begun without much fanfare.
Saturday August 19, 2023
Between nothingness
and eternity exists
the free trilogy
that dear sister andrea
listens to inside her dream.
Sunday August 20, 2023
The Tridentine Mass
was once so Ordinary
that to say it is
Extraordinary is a
commentary on the times.
Monday August 21, 2023
Hearing the sound of
the enigmatic ocean
brings back backbreaking
moments of powerwashing
oil away at Esso.
Tuesday August 22, 2023
Depopulating
all the rural areas
is a part of the
urbanization plan to
turn cities into prisons.
Wednesday August 23, 2023
And then there was one.
Paying attention without
expecting a thing
in return is the only
possible way to befriend.
Thursday August 24, 2023
After all these years,
he is still quick enough to
get out of the woods
when he realizes that
there’s no reciprocity.
Friday August 25, 2023
Just one year ago
today they were forty-nine
years old and wondered
what was waiting for them in
the next decade of their life.
Saturday August 26, 2023
Just one year ago
today they turned fifty years
old and hopefully
realized that despite the
silence he still remembers.
Sunday August 27, 2023
And he walked with God
and was seen no more because
God took him into
the Ciudad de Dios
where he remains to this day.
Monday August 28, 2023
When he found his love
he knew there was no other.
One thousand years may
come, and one thousand years may
go, but she shall always be.
Tuesday August 29, 2023
Sentence by sentence,
word by word, and letter by
letter they let love
look not with their tired eyes,
but with their retired minds.
Wednesday August 30, 2023
It is best to rest
with the words of Doris Day:
“Que sera, sera,
whatever will be, will be,
the future’s not ours to see...”
Thursday August 31, 2023
An old friend of his
recently started writing
on a very old
typewriter because he is
an old school type of writer.
