Quoted in the Grove:
Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
~Giorgos Seferis
I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
~Jorge Luis Borges
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Posted from the Grove
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~ShudderTV: “Black Lake” In time for Hallowe’en
In Danish, with subtitles (compliments, Rusty’s Electric Dream)
https://www.shudder.com/shudder-tv?mc_cid=9d46e5c82c&mc_eid=a574d835a3
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Prewritten for Thurs 11/01 (6:00pm PT/9 ET): cloak, blizzard
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@Writers Platform
Prewritten: delete, improvise
~BarTalk:
Poems
Improvised first draft
Carve space in the stone
Of too many choices
Sand edits ’til polished
Eternal marble of words
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GameBoy’s Apotheosis
Improvised bravery and derring-do
Crossed the chasm by daring to
By caring who arrived at destination
Dared the deed that meant his deletion
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“Action”
Her beauty seen delighted
His body obscene deleted
Her days spent waiting
His gaze penetrating
Improvised love on screen
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To Do List
Improvise reason
Dilute meaning with lies
Impoverish the language
Delete opposition
A day well spent
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Details @6:00
News @The Improv
Posturing and preening
Fictional and factual
Time factored deletions
Pick your fantasy
Shoot @Will
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5-7-5 x 5
brash improvised lines
stunned recoil of wounded eyes
delete that image
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black ink jealousy
dilute passion with poison
spill to delete love
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delete the old ways
excise new ones that don’t pay
improvise again
or
delete the good men
remove the ones who won’t play
use improvised rules
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d’ leetle bug fly
up d’ nose wit’ someone’s blow
him Pro Vice Counsel
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