Thoughts on beauty and the abyss

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burrough reality in a blade of grass

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seeing comes when it comes the miasma lifts vision returns words explode fat and wide inspired need to write them send them floating on the aquaduct of being old movie turn the sound off listen to your own music but carefully watch the storyboarding and scene lighting….
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Warm pregnant fat light…

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Senuos Night

a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/videopoem/3854421456″_MG_0430.JPG on Flickr – Photo Sharing!/abr /Sensuous nightbr /he thinks of her legsbr /wide openbr /moist clam br /greeting his mouthbr /so many scenes blur in the nightbr /he remembers that he had signed up to readbr /someone’s erotica on myspacebr /a year agobr /but it might as well as be an eternitybr /he liked that stuff when it was harder to getbr /the girls his age all middle age womanbr /with children leaving the nest if not full grown adultsbr /how had they made those choicesbr /it amazed himbr /although not that muchbr /the petrified forest etched on their facesbr /still left him with disgust at that choicebr /the late night tv humsbr /and he thinks of herbr /nakedbr /br /blockquote/blockquotebr /br /div class=”zemanta-pixie”img class=”zemanta-pixie-img” alt=”" src=”http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=a72f3a51-1a5a-8e10-b54b-6665367baa93″ //div

Summer Fat Light…

summer light bisects the landscape fat and wide…shadows extend their tongues over the manicured lawns and silent jesting woods…the crickets began their serenda…timelessness returns to Alridge Rd….the locomotive belches its sigh carrying the agents of death to and fro between Soddom and Gomrorrah…

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It’s all about the information…

I have always know this at least intuitively….years ago my history teacher Ron forman said knowledge is power.nbsp; He taught us to be critical of authority…in aside, I’m watching Hardball and they’re gloating about Bill Clinton’s role in the release from the journalists from North Korea…superficial analysis….mindless pr…american mainline it in their veins…the women are crying…why were they fucking around where they didn’t belong?…but back to the information thing…the radio dream, my novel, is based on that notion…submerging the individual into the collective unconscious…what they call crowd sourcing.

Videopoem Stands For Transparency….

Videopoem stands for transparency…so much is hidden in this world…whether it be politics or the beauty in our backyard, Videopoem seeks to expose it…imagery…music….words…all used to foment aconversation with the world…voice to the voiceless…collage at its foundation and non-linear in its execution, Videopem is not the mindless entertainment of Hollywood…if you want that go elsewere…it never has had the same opening as it stands for being in the present and in the moment…