Paul Attinello

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  • work… ing

    meeting. meeting. meeting. angry clash. meeting. meeting. meeting.home. uninterested in much. trying to do real work on paper for next week.meeting. meeting. lunch in staff room. meeting. meeting. meeting. meeting. home. DVD player is broken, can’t play movies. Trying to tell me something?meeting. meeting. meeting. meeting. meeting. meeting. So, these seven habits of highly successful…

  • The Exodus

    (fragments from an ancient manuscript) [This was, strangely enough, my first published poem, back in 1990; at the time it was an obvious response to the disintegration of arts funding under the Reagan and Bush administrations, and the trials of artists who were regarded as inappropriately shocking to be funded by the National Endowment for…

  • Looking for a Place

    [1991] This is the third apartment I’ve seen today; it doesn’t look too bad, the rent is only mildly outrageous. The paper with the landlord’s number is damp and crumpled in my hand, and the backs of my thighs are so tired; it’s clear that I’ll have to give up on my Los Angeles hamstrings…

  • Good things

    (a) A second meeting with Melinda, the psychologist from the HIV clinic and my friend. (There was a long delay between our first and second meetings this time, because her mother died; when we were walking out we paused in the summer sunshine and she told me, tears in her eyes but calm, about her…

  • Weight

    I apologize, again, that the entries for the past month or so have been so distinctly unhappy. Of course that is in a general context of me as a depressed, disappointed, angry person who has been especially upset by my life circumstances over the past five years (even more than in the other dark stretches…

  • Small broken things

    The weather is beautiful, the past three days. Clear, sunny – not at all hot of course, it’s barely 70 or so, but ideal. For the locals they think this is hot – one said to me yesterday that it was tropical: I just rolled my eyes and said, no, this is not tropical. It’s…

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