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I was struck by the rightness of a Morandi still life, leading me to believe (again) I could paint something similar, or should try in any case. Are my old oils still any good? Am I better with either color or depth?
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"There's a dead branch out there," she said, pointing out the window.
"You dissembler," he said, raising a knee and tapping it with the opposite hand. Then raising the other knee, tapping it with the other hand. "These are my new calisthenics," he said.
I used to a have a nice anthology
of Beat writings. Poetry, fiction, excerpts.
I got rid of it to raise cash for buying paint.
That was dumb — but very Beat!
As my shepherd,
you’re afraid I’ll fall asleep,
become the late-nite snack of woolen wolves,
invite the midnight chef’s trichinosis
into my star-swirled dreamworld.
But that won’t happen.
I can stay awake anytime.
Because of Van Gogh’s paintings and—
what other reason do I need?
Her naked foot rubs against
the unborn blue of the mattress.
A tiny pair of socks airs out
beneath the open-sky window.
Someone has gone running—
but not very far, and not very hard.
The room might not be so big.
They haven’t slept in it since
they hung his latest painting.
It’s been too hot.
He could close the window, yes.
But that wouldn’t keep
the dog from barking
into all corners of the night.
It doesn’t matter,
he doesn’t need sleep—
he is sure of it. Yet,
he closes his eyes each night,
plays the game anyway;
thinks invariably about
weather patterns, or
his high school graduation.
Sometimes he just listens
to what the house has to say.
Gasping, she awakes to the smell of him;
rolls over and asks,
“What are you doing?”
He stops breathing.
By morning she will have forgotten
ever asking the question.
jopo wrote a poem said
so i make bologna
said staying dark longer
said (what was that
eye-talian phrase you used?)
oh god...i've fried
myself on yet another night,
stayin out longer,
flush with small bills and
reducing my
legal costs by
going to law school?
dance, mon frer, stop
biting your nails. let other
countries make the dollar bills
let us make the art. search for
these terms in google:
miami car dealer suicide and fire.
random is beautiful, e.g.
impatientist painters
burning down buildings
paranoid and planting
their faces in concrete? ...
A painting need not take a long time to paint. A painting can be done in five minutes. We deny ourselves so much good art if we believe great art must take time. Some time, yes. Fifteen minutes, a half an hour. Or, twenty minutes here, twenty minutes there, one painting a week. If we … Continue reading Impatientism
The Writing of John B. Randall 