Poetry Museum: Randomness Theory

Mariana Oswald

Jackson Mac Low's  poetry attempts to create order in the random spaces of meaning.   He, to some, is considered a fraud, and to others he is a genius.   One can not deny that his fame has created a solid punch in  the gut to modern poetry. (I found him in  my postmodern anthology of poetry.)  His performances which were featured in Turnips Music Notes, is an attempting to exercise "invention, tact, courtesy, and 'virtuosity with out ego tripping,'"

Trope Market

In the network, in the ruin,
flashing classics gravitate,
snared, encumbered voicelessly.

Teak enticements seek, leaping
fan-shaped arras corners
snore among in backward dispatch.

Panels glow, grown, territorialize
fetishistically in nacreous
instantaneity spookily shod.

Jackson Mac Low,1983

Read a Critique of Jackson Mac Low from Poem Hunter. 

Men Naked in the Woods: Reading Proverbs

I had my Bar Mitzvah in the backyard of my house on 421 Bowen Street.  The biggest question I asked: "What makes me an adult?"  "What equips me to be able to read Torah now?"  "What good are the proverbs?" "What good is Truth in my young mind?"  So this was my Breshit, my beginning.

Proverbs served as an instructional manual for a young man beginning his quest.  The elders of a tradition gave a young man a road map of the world, these are Proverbs.  The best way to read Proverbs is to let the overall message wash over you.  You will drown, if you attempt to live each point as a rule for living.  However, if you listen to them and let them wash over you, like a wave, then you will learn how to joyfully live.    

Elie Wiesel describes the Torah's Truth with a cut to the spleen:

It was with the twenty two letters of the aleph-beth that God created the world, Take care of them and they will take care of you.  They will go with you everywhere.  They will make you laugh and cry.  Or rahter, they will cry when you cry and laugh when you laugh, and if you are worthy of it, they will allow you into hidden sanctuaries where all becomes..."
Wiesel, Elie All Rivers Run to the Sea (New York: Alfred A Knopf 1995), 10.

Benjamin Franklin wrote,
What you bring away from the Bible depends to some exten on what you carry to it. 

 I have found that the best way to listen to proverbs is from an audio C.D..  Find a C.D. that the message will not be lost due to annoyance in the readers rendering.  

Interest of the Saturday Afternoon Club

Cirque de Paris (18 avenue de la Motte Picquet) is where Ernest Hemingway dragged his wives to watch grown men throw punches in professional bouts.

Toast were made, they reaised glasses of schnapps and spritzy white wine made by Germans in Oklahoma.

The Ty Cobb drink is:
One shot Southern Comfort
Water
Honey
Stir in the Southern Comfort into the water and honey.