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The way it spozed to be
Well, today I actually completed the editing on two articles of mine for publication – in addition to handling a number of e-mail requests with dispatch, and making a healthy breakfast (oatmeal with chopped apple and dried cranberries). And all without wearing myself out or staying up until four a.m. Doesn’t sound like much, does…
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Dementia Poets
From 1987 to 1992, I was part of an HIV+ writing workshop in Los Angeles run by the wonderful Terry Wolverton. My main partners in crime were Gil Cuadros (the most successful of the lot, who published his powerful poetry collection City of God with City Lights before he died in 1996), Kevin Martin, and…
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Visited countries
I kind of liked this… simple enough; and graphics are always fun: Fiddled with it a bit; countries where I’ve actually lived (had a home): And, because Europe is interesting to me, and complicated, one for just that ‘continent’ – which incidentally emphasizes the peculiar accidents that have led to me never being inside the…
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Anti-Goethe
Reading, for fun (yes, I should be editing those articles instead), between sneezes (I still have a cold), Beerbohm’s wonderful essay ‘Quia imperfectum’ (1918) from And Even Now. Far funnier and more charming than one would expect, given the topic – which purports at first to be unfinished artworks, but which ends up being Goethe.…
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Interspersed
Overlapping experiences: • have had a cold for three days, groggy and sniffling (sniveling? – that always seemed to be a different sound of course); every once in a while my face crinkles up, I mumble ‘damn’, and sneeze to one side or the other. • the weather is gray and increasingly wintry, but •…
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Dream transformation
A dream, wherein a lesbian relationship which is undergoing changes has been transferred to someone else in my life (I won’t say more, as it would be embarrassing for the parties involved – it has, after all, nothing to do with the people who inhabit the waking world). I ask the older woman about the…
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Paul Attinello 