http://www.magicdog.com performed by experts under controlled conditions Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:45:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en friday sonnet (#160: on the record) you don't have to be an idiot but it helps, well-known people & the wavelength changes, iterating like crazy, but it's only a hostage crisis if the tv says so. next we tour the world & list grievances & begin to repeat ourselves, joining the irrelevance brigade. any room that you're ... http://www.magicdog.com/archives/2010/03/12/2511 friday sonnet (#159: palatial) the lunch shift checks out we go gallery no we go back to our desks first we stop & later, not exactly hating life, not loving it either, bang in the middle of meh, we sit alone in stillness, each tree does that too but we create problems & inherit, her face will ... http://www.magicdog.com/archives/2010/03/12/2510 friday sonnet (#158: made them cry) over-abundance of virtue, we can't see the monastery for the hairshirts & completely tribal, home tree burns while we argue about whose fault it is. chances are, we started it. strengths as weaknesses, faults glossed over & never addressed. we put more paper over the cracks, now we're decorative & ornamental, lacking only ... http://www.magicdog.com/archives/2010/03/12/2509 friday sonnet (#157: truckstop ramen) an hour later, you rethink dinner plans & your other bright ideas, bowels on fire as the kids fight sleep. hot bath, then sex & drinking, you wake to sinuses blocked & hana, who arrived in the night. drift downstairs for coffee & a first cigarette, stomach still unconvinced. it would have helped ... http://www.magicdog.com/archives/2010/03/12/2507 friday sonnet (#156: drinking song) each work that aims at relative misinterpretation is equally erroneous. completeness / observe the relation in practice. not all of these of each to the other. the distinction? the other discusses its application & not one treats of moral & of human conduct, while the other of political philosophy / once more, one gives us ... http://www.magicdog.com/archives/2010/03/12/2506