Honestly Mistaken

by Gregory Sherl

I want to buy a plant with a goldfish in its vase. When I water the plant, I’ll
water the fish. It’s sad, so Many plants without fish water. Or is it the
opposite? Do fish long for photosynthesis? When I think fish food I think
Chunky Monkey, I think of Jerry Garcia and I want to smoke the clouds, make
a bong out of an entire apple tree. I’ve been around, it’s called walking.
Sometimes I wonder where you are and I hate wherever are is. I want to buy a
plant with a goldfish in its vase and set it free. Run free I’ll tell the plant. Stop
thinking about thinking. The goldfish will flip-flop like pancakes. The goldfish
will forget it’s flip-flopping every three seconds. What I’m trying to say is I’m
thinking about grown up things. I’m thinking about running into the woods 
and never coming back. 

(Source: leaveittocheever)

Midnight

Every once in a while when I find myself staying up into the early hours, which is just as rare as it is frequent sometimes, a song that usually reminds me of one person suddenly shifts and adopts an entire new context. It’s like the nighttime and the experience of being awake in a house full of sleeping things makes me want to anticipate a new message from you, an exciting one, as they always were. This change to make me think of when I was laying on this couch, listening to these same notes and wondering when I’d realize that it was okay to leave the house and see you. Maybe we’d go to the beach again, I thought.

I’m wondering if this is normal, and maybe if I should abstain from thinking about these things, and those days, too much - but

I don’t mind.

Sometimes I wonder

if you’re really happy playing house

in that rented space

with payments made bi-monthly.

but places like those are hard to come by.

Look at that view.

(with an imagination like that,

the insurance must be sky high.)

No further explanation needed.

May 25

Handel—intermixing with the orange rumble
branch-lopping-service truck—can you
handle me today, full of bounding ideas
and language and poems? I think no,

and I know when my wife gets back from
her haircut she will look ravishing; until then
read a poem, write a poem. Belch. I write:
“here—lyric resonance through the interrogatory,
but repetition falls flat” because while it was
truly a truly wonderful triplet of true feeling,
he wrote “of you” again at the end,
but on purpose, to make us feel flat or upset,
for he cares about something other than beauty
or wants to change it. I want to be him. You want
to be me. We want each other. Let’s do it
right here by the books amidst counterpoint and
polyphony.

(Source: uutpoetry)

(Source: theloversblog)

Today an Indian Chief told me he couldn’t trust me.

I don’t talk enough.

I am dangerous.

While he informed me of his suspicions,

a fly died inside of my coffee

and I found out the hard way.

(Source: clavicola)

Surrealist Breakfast

Fried eggs are not popcorn.
Seaweeds are not eggs.

Many insects are about to die.

The yolk so gold and viscous
runs onto my toast, into my mouth,
onto your mouth,
onto the dreamscape of your nakedness,
superfluous.

Later we will determine
what a bed is
how we can have one
and in what manner
it shall be laid in.

Nothing like breakfast
next to a bag of humongous carrots.

(Source: uutpoetry)

3. Believing we are immune to temptation.

We have far less control over our impulsive desires than we often believe. Sex, food, and drug addictions are extreme examples of this. Many addicts believe they can quit anytime they want, but in reality they are simply lying to themselves. But you don’t have to be an addict to be vulnerable to temptation. Lots of smart people end up impulsively giving in to temptation simply because it’s the easiest way to get rid of it. It sounds ridiculous, but it’s true. If someone wants to get rid of sexual desire, the easiest way is to have sex. If someone wants to get rid of hunger pain, the easiest way is to eat. Restraining from impulsive behavior in the face of temptation is not easy; it takes a great deal of self-control. So be careful, because when we have an inflated sense of control over our impulses, we tend to overexpose ourselves to temptation, which in turn promotes the impulsive behavior we want to avoid.

10 Destructive Faults in Our Way of Thinking

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Richard Russo, Empire Falls

Sitting outside, eating some sort of vegetable gruel, someone is playing guitar quietly, and there’s a tv playing some sitcom just on the other side of a closed window. It’s about to rain again.

Feels like home.