93. ALL THAT FUCKING AND NO ART

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(May 2005) Joy Harjo’s poem “Remember” concludes with these lines:

Remember you are all people and all people
are you.
Remember you are this universe and this
universe is you.
Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.
Remember language comes from this.
Remember the dance language is, that life is.
Remember.

I am trying to remember, but my life is filled with too goddamn many commitments right now, so I am instead slam dancing at a dizzying pace in a mosh pit of commitments—and the band is definitely NOT playing any Desiderata-like "Remember That You Are One With The Universe" medley.

I did take a break last night to to watch the season finale (sob) of The L Word though, which included this fabulous line:

All that fucking with no art is really rather boring, dear.

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So sometimes clever little poems are too precious and just remind me of Mud’s fratboy dungeon-and-dragon pals and the tedious little verbal arm-wrestling matches they engaged in purely so they could sit around and be pleased with themselves for out-clevering another person. (The very definition of tedious to MEDEAgrrl.)

This clever little poem is kind of interesting though:

SF
by David Lehman

SF stood for Sigmund Freud, or serious folly,
for science fiction in San Francisco, or fear
in the south of France. The system failed.
The siblings fought. So far, such fury,
as if a funereal sequence of sharps and flats
set free a flamboyant signature, sinful, fanatic,
the fire sermon of a secular fundamentalist,
a singular fellow's Symphonie Fantastique.

Students forget the state's favorite son's face.
Sorry, friends, for the screws of fate.
Stage fright seduces the faithful for the subway fare
as slobs fake sobs, suckers flee, salesmen fade.
Sad the fops. Sudden the flip side of fame.
So find the segue. Finish the speculative frame.

SINGING IN SHOWER: Earl “Fatha” Hines’s rendition of "St. James Infirmary Blues"

LISTENING TO: Beethoven’s Theme and 32 Variations in C Minor (discovered after his death, hence no opus number)

READING: Carol Guess’s Switch and Rodale’s Successful Organic Gardening

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