Christian Molenaar

Category: Nothings

  • This Staggering May Day

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    In fact, I’m improving.This staggering May Day—Lacking your presenceA solid week—I nonetheless hearYour telephone voiceIn a luxury of trust,A swell of thanksMy memory bearsNo precedent for.Further, I seemNear sane in the mirrorsI’ve passed since dawn. Read more

  • White Telephone

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    The day Rome was founded, April 21, but April 21, 1937. And so it was movies and Rome and babies and Mussolini and Papa the great industrialist, all together for a photograph. Read more

  • Hardly One Copy Would Sell Here

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    Rejection letter sent to Gertrude Stein by A. C. Fifield, April 19, 1912 Read more

  • Manhunt Through Maryland

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    At first the sound had no meaning.The shot came from the balcony,as if the play had sprung an annex,and I, John Sleeper Clarke,pictured stars through oak scaffoldsas the news traveled overthe chairscape like a stain. Read more

  • Background Music

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    Tove Jansson, Sun City Read more

  • Ash Wednesday Feast

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    In 1818 the Paschal Full Moon fell on Saturday, March 21st, making March 22nd the earliest ever Easter Sunday (by both the Western (Gregorian) and the Orthodox (Julian) calendar), a date which will not recur until 2285. So why does Tokarczuk pick March 1st for Ash Wednesday, which would place Easter on the impossibly early… Read more

  • It Seems a Pity

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    Stanley Elkin, Boswell Read more

  • Bloodletting

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    On the 25th March, 18—, a very strange occurrence took place in St Petersburg. On the Ascension Avenue there lived a barber of the name of Ivan Jakovlevitch. He had lost his family name, and on his sign-board, on which was depicted the head of a gentleman with one cheek soaped, the only inscription to… Read more

  • Roadblock Riddle

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  • Insidious and Cruel

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    The coming of spring is insidious and cruel. The mist pervades my throat as it melted the crystal my voice was. I am weak, and I much preferred the hard agreement of our truce of gauntlets. Read more

Thought:

“I thought Zen poems
were supposed to sound wise.

Now I’m going to buy
as much beer as five dollars

can buy and drink it
right here on the sofa.”

Maggie Nelson | “A Misunderstanding”

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