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Beware the Blacked-out Money: The Gift of Grift

Beware the Blacked-out Money: The Gift of Grift

Lucinda William’s Hank William’s “I’m So Happy I Found You”

popular songwriting a recipe, everything sturdy
a Hank Williams record is one particular life,

condensed for mass resonance. in his wake—
hit the universal intimate and the intimate it’s pop

a bipolar love song—misery to bliss in a single line
Audrey aborted without telling Hank in every stanza.

“I do” onstage. Williams just had to hold it together
for one last song. she told the audience, “by Hank Williams—

actually, by me and Hank. It’s called ‘I’m So Happy
I Found You.’” She made it to the third verse,

to the words “I’ve never known real happiness,”
before the tears started to come.

(Source: GQ)

Impersonating a Scientist Studying Nature

His sticking point to go to church, an article
(Joseph had dreamed of being a writer)
sign a formal statement that he was not Jesus Christ

offering to be his speechwriter  
caught in the net of three Jesus Christs,
a higher fantasy authority, in order to live

as he had to live. Changing Joseph’s delusions
limits beyond which could not be pushed.
Updated the reader:

in his delusional system of belief …
paranoid type poor … But to say incurable
is to say more about ignorance

than the patient. This study closes with the hope
a small portion of ignorance dispelled.

reissued the Three Christs

(Source: lrb.co.uk)

Circles embryos contain all the elements
he uses them to map
follow these steps, the embryo,
and he starts over.
searching for his algorithm underneath, checking if the theory is airtight.
“I can’t not see that circle,” he says. “It’s tattooed on my brain.

(Source: Wired)

Thinking and Acting as if We Lived in a Pure Market Economy

I.

like a smoking gun
Justice Department’s attention
a probe would fall

II.

internal probe of
sales, Iran worked as a sales
four-hour trades with

III.

sidestep a U.S.
materials show largest
methanol plant world

(Source: bloomberg.com)

Wind was the culprit

Profiting from their ordeal
means an end, and the end back on
the Ocean trip next summer. “If a nice breeze 

a clear sky
nobody is trailing off
love I do feel my own

speck in our universe.”

(Source: The New York Times)

Self-indulged

Everything’s pavlov
take these hats off astronauts
aliens laugh oft

Live sis, (don’t) hit

 

Close to native wo-
men depended on gesture
naïveté shame

What type of people see god in disaster

What type of people see god in disaster