Thursday, August 31, 2017
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Kildeer
("The flight of the Kildeer is strong and rapid, and is at times protracted to a great distance. It skims quite low over the ground, or plays at a great height in the air, particularly during the love season, when you may see these birds performing all sorts of evolutions on wing." audobon.org)
Kildeers, about the size of flickers,
screamed across the pasture, summers.
Their shrieks were very fine, accomplished,
their low, straight routes efficient.
Thank God I didn't try to make them
symbolize or teach: what a bore,
a lugubrious Wordsworthian chore.
No. Just the kildeers, fast fliers,
loud criers, going fast from copse
of oaks to stand of pines.
hans ostrom 2017
Kildeers, about the size of flickers,
screamed across the pasture, summers.
Their shrieks were very fine, accomplished,
their low, straight routes efficient.
Thank God I didn't try to make them
symbolize or teach: what a bore,
a lugubrious Wordsworthian chore.
No. Just the kildeers, fast fliers,
loud criers, going fast from copse
of oaks to stand of pines.
hans ostrom 2017
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Friday, August 25, 2017
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Monday, August 21, 2017
America, Here's the Package
Here's the package: the hair looks
like a collapsed straw pompadour,
the skin like faded naugahyde. The
vocabulary goes zero to sixty and
stops, the attention span the same
in seconds. He can't even fake
empathy. Is delighted to be ignorant
of history, science, economics, politics,
music, art, psychology, law, philosophy.
The White Supremacist road begins
and ends in an abyss of willful ignorance.
It's as if he played Monopoly instead
of learning even the most basic of
human things. He's witless, petty,
dull, and unctuous Couldn't plan a sneeze
after inhaling pepper. Shouldn't
even be president of his local
hate group. Consider how many
White folks still think he's all
right, and that will tell you where we are.
hans ostrom 2017
like a collapsed straw pompadour,
the skin like faded naugahyde. The
vocabulary goes zero to sixty and
stops, the attention span the same
in seconds. He can't even fake
empathy. Is delighted to be ignorant
of history, science, economics, politics,
music, art, psychology, law, philosophy.
The White Supremacist road begins
and ends in an abyss of willful ignorance.
It's as if he played Monopoly instead
of learning even the most basic of
human things. He's witless, petty,
dull, and unctuous Couldn't plan a sneeze
after inhaling pepper. Shouldn't
even be president of his local
hate group. Consider how many
White folks still think he's all
right, and that will tell you where we are.
hans ostrom 2017
Phone Nightspot
Weird night: went to this small
dark bistro, got inside--no one there
but a bartender texting on her phone.
The tables were empty except
for mobile phones, some propped,
some lying flat, two or three or
four per table. One table had just
one phone--sad. I put my phone
on that table so the two could
get to know each other. Went
to the bar, ordered a bourbon,
and said to the woman,
"Start a tab, please, and I'm
buying a round for them all."
Her look soured. The phones
started to buzz, ring, sing,
jangle, and melodize. I said,
"Cheers," and lifted my glass.
hans ostrom 2017
dark bistro, got inside--no one there
but a bartender texting on her phone.
The tables were empty except
for mobile phones, some propped,
some lying flat, two or three or
four per table. One table had just
one phone--sad. I put my phone
on that table so the two could
get to know each other. Went
to the bar, ordered a bourbon,
and said to the woman,
"Start a tab, please, and I'm
buying a round for them all."
Her look soured. The phones
started to buzz, ring, sing,
jangle, and melodize. I said,
"Cheers," and lifted my glass.
hans ostrom 2017
Sunday, August 20, 2017
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