reading in cafe [heavy rain arrives] I sit longer - read Eileen Myles Not ME -'Hot Night' p56 -- ...I have/ no hope for/ my culture now./It prefers fictions/ over journals. It/ doesn't want/ my lives... p59 'Twentieth Century Dinosaur ....whole city seems empty/ of love, just work/ work,work -- Bags under/ everyone's eyes, packages/ under their arms, two/ days after Macy's big/ sale & the blood/ lust still upon them... pp 70-2'Peanut butter' ...Accidentally I/ read all the/ works of Proust./ It was summer/ I was here/ so was he. I...the Free Kelly Michaels poem 1988 --p90 ... Give/ the kids/ to the corporation/ not the/ devil-worshippers/ the corporation/ can stamp/ the child/ early. On/ her wrist/ or in her/ heart... [echoes of Jesuit education or as she says "Grammarschool nuns" & in govt charter-schools employing non-trained teachers ...
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