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timely cohabitation advice

"First big job is to conquer self! Know the ideal. Do apply it in self. Learn to live with self and you'll learn to live with others. People are not different from yourself. They have ideas also and they may be just as near right as self. But there is an ideal way. How? Living with others."

- Edgar Cayce

orange song

native, "flaschdance"

orange song

this orange song

makes me

smell leaves

burning, cool

massachusetts

fall night. hearth

of the heart of

this autumn town.

main street leaves,

streetlight pale, peel

off towards the lake

heading home.

good to know for when i get my doggy

around the corner on van brunt in red hook.

samhain

cobble hill representing for halloween.

oldies guy

have seen this dude in my old neighborhood for years.

always cruising around, blaring oldies, totally stoked.

big ups!

A Place To Be In Harmony from russel fong on Vimeo.

the dark tailor

The Dark Tailor

The dark tailor goes through a lot

in Boston. My dad's birth cost him

his wife, who bleeds to death one hot

August night. He is a widower

and keeps on sewing suits and skirts,

this immigrant born in the blur

of the Pale. I still invent his face,

his fury and his height, his nose

and speech. If only I could race

up the tenement steps to his door,

knock and say, ''I'm Billy, I'm ten,

you are my unseen ancestor,

I want to have some fun with you

before you die." He is amazed,

gives me a cunning look, and spews

some stupid crap about my dad,

yet feeds me. I pick up his iron,

fire the stove, and he gets mad

and tries to thrash me, but I skate

out of his reach, bouncing around,

duck in the closet, smash some plates.

He breaks up laughing. Finally

we talk like grown-ups and forget

our lives. Maybe he thinks of me

some evening. I often invent

the dark tailor stitching this suit

I'm wearing now, and we lament.

WILLIS BARNSTONE

New Letters

Volume 75, No. 4

advice

help

In the hope, in the associations, in the directing; not by long precepts, but by the living example; ye may bring harmony to many. For thy presence oft brings peace to others, when they will not even admit it. But it must be within self first, before ye may give it to others.

Edgar Cayce Reading 2376-4

i remember this

i remember this

the last guy

to tattoo me

died. i

didn't know him

well. he was

a friend of

a friend. not

anonymous,

but almost.

whenever the beak

of the bird breaks

beyond my sleeve,

i remember this.

agnostic front lip sync

super weird cable access show. agnostic front "plays along" to their victim in pain cassette.

number 1 with a bullet

ridiculous 1 million fps slow motion bullet strikes.

back to work

"You'll try to expand your professional activity and at the same time manage your finances carefully; your efforts will be quickly rewarded. Your sense of business and transactions will seem somewhat blunted; don't force your talent, wait some time for recovering all your efficiency. Know that reading is for your mind an indispensable food. Don't read good books: there're really too many of them; only read the best ones. You won't spare your pains in order to improve your purchasing power."