Showing posts with label party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label party. Show all posts

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Party Behaviors

 At the party, a light turned on
inside one woman and it shone
through her skin and shirt.

A man brought a private 
darkness with him. He climbed
inside it but still we heard his voice.

One person bent the air,
warping what we saw
making things seem to wiggle,

making us giggle. And some of
a verbose fellow's words became
visible and rose to the ceiling,

full of gas, helium, perhaps.
Only briefly did I become a 
turtle so as to be left alone. 

Hans Ostrom

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Hosting a Holiday Party



 (there are gathering you want to have, and then gatherings you more or less must have)





So: so-so society came by my abode
to socialize, leastwise that was the alleged
point of it-all. It-all included greetings,
seatings, standing, talking, offering, listening,
thanking, pleasing.   Things deeply in our minds
stayed deeply, did not venture into air or other
minds by any means.  I socialize because I
pretend it’s pleasurable and play, not
measurable and work.  Socio-lie-zing
is a good thing, if only because solitude,
my preference, needs points of reference
and departure, and departure is what society
undertook after it looked at its watch
and said, This has been but we must be,
thanks for your hospitality, see you
later, thanks again, goodbye.  Sighing,
breathing, much relieving—guide me
to my quiet lair.

Hans Ostrom, 2012