I When I was a teen, 45 years ago now, I’d walk weekly to a neighborhoodrecord store. There were, in fact, three to choose from on the samesuburban strip, otherwise, a culturalwasteland. By the time I was an adult,all three of them were shuttered. My favorite, Everybody’s Records, turned into a pornshop. ALL ADULT VIDEOContinue reading “#573: A Double Loose Love Sonnet for Daily Records”
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#567: Dream Song Sonnet with An Extra Couplet
The drummer reaches the end of the songbut can’t remember having played the bridge. He thinks to himself, as he prepares for thenext tune, did we mess up the arrangement?Did we all make the same mistake or wasit just me? He doesn’t recall any strange looksfrom his bandmates, no side-eyes or scowls, the usual indicationContinue reading “#567: Dream Song Sonnet with An Extra Couplet”
#566: Two Sonnets for Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacios by The Mars Volta
I I haven’t even listened to it yet, but I have looked at it with some surprise– precisely because there’s nothing to see.I will describe it from the inside out.Black vinyl, black label, on which tiny numbers indicate sides, inside black sleeves.An insert, the only art, a gray and tanindeterminate image, a map, orjust randomContinue reading “#566: Two Sonnets for Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacios by The Mars Volta”
#565: A Sonnet for Japanese Breakfast
From jubilation to down in the dumps: The trajectory of Zauner’s JapaneseBreakfast from the last album to this one. For Melancholy Brunettes and Sad Womenspin for the first time on my turntable, but I’m not despondent, not in the least, in the way that it can feel good to be sad,in the way that aContinue reading “#565: A Sonnet for Japanese Breakfast”
#555: Dan’s Boogie (A Record Review Sonnet Pair)
1 “That’s life,” Dan Bejar sings in the first song of the new Destroyer album. “It’s the same thing as nothing at all.” Listening toBejar, I remember hearing Neil Youngsing for the first time, thinking at first he was a woman, and then thinking that he really wasn’t very good at singing, until I beganContinue reading “#555: Dan’s Boogie (A Record Review Sonnet Pair)”
#532: On Writing 60 Poems in 30 Days
I think I know why I’m writing these poems– I’ve two a day for a full thirty days.If for only one month in the whole yearI’ve found a discipline that keeps me trueto the kind of thing I most want to do.No one’s waiting, holding their breath for me, there would be no consequence forContinue reading “#532: On Writing 60 Poems in 30 Days”
#529: The Impossible Pot (again for Terri Ford)
It seemed at first impractical, and then inflatable, then improbable, now impossible, this ain’t no blow-up pot, but a real one. Or is it? It does not look plastic or rubberand there’s no nipple to put air into or suck air out of. It may actually bea real clay pot, and yet, look carefully. TheContinue reading “#529: The Impossible Pot (again for Terri Ford)”
#528: The Improbable Pot (for Terri Ford)
In the picture, the man appears to be carrying a large clay pot on his shoulder, a pot painted to look like a gigantic boombox, like the ones in the80’s, so that while he carries it, helooks like he might also be rocking out,the speakers right up to his ears for thatoptimal stereo sound. ItContinue reading “#528: The Improbable Pot (for Terri Ford)”
#527: An American Sonnet after Simon’s American Tune
We come on the ship they call The MayflowerWe come on the ship that sailed the moonWe come in the age’s most uncertain hoursAnd sing an American tune Paul simon Something must be wrong with us, it seems. Half of us appear to have lost our minds.I attempt to write a poem that doesn’t trytoContinue reading “#527: An American Sonnet after Simon’s American Tune”
#526: An American Sonnet
It’s been difficult to ditch the English wayof tapping out syllables. I liberated myselffrom that whole mapping of rhyme schemebut I still gravitate helplessly toward that godforsaken rhyming couplet at the end. Claude McKay adopted the whole shebangand wrote the most significant sonnetsof the twentieth century, as Beyoncé hasschooled us about the true roots ofContinue reading “#526: An American Sonnet”
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