like a brown bird nesting in a texaco sign i got a point of view

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songs by the sads - picture from cali dewitt

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frank's dinner w/ old friends. goodness abounds over salmon & risotto.

Two by Grossman

Carnivore

At the base of his brain he documents
margins
that keep his salary high and divides

everyone who works for him into job descriptions.
They're all part
of the same Plan
and what they do reflects what he earns.

In good
times he doesn't believe in welfare.
In bad
times he lays them off
one after another reducing their severance

which puts extra dollars in his pocket.
He's a real cost cutter
and does a fine job for the Corporation

and when he travels can go first class.

The Mire

Yeats called it a mire
he said there was nothing human greater
than a gold dome. He

wasn't a very good poet and would not have been a businessman.
In the filaments of every person after money

there are little beads of gold small domes


"its a wicked world / thats why no one wants to leave it" - dewars ad campaign


harpers:

estimated median personal wealth worldwide: $2,161
average number of legos owned by each person worldwide: 75


good things:
+ teenage teardrops
+ zs
+ dfw/mark leyner at 36 minutes
+ barr
+ peter
+ porest