My friend Alan Jacobs recently quoted Zadie Smith: “To speak personally, the very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
Newspaper + Marker = Poetry. Buy the book.
A great sheep
The Pasture
How to improve
The picture, the word
This year
After I made this one I was reminded of Joe Brainard’s New Year poem “1970,” quoted in Ron Padgett’s biography:
1970
is a good year
if for no other reason
than just because
I’m tired of complaining
Keep charts and complain
I made this blackout back in 2010, but it came to mind last night when I was finishing up Malcolm Harris’s book about millennials, Kids These Days, and I read this sentence: “The First Amendment gives us the right to get together and complain until things change or we get too tired to keep going.”
What’s being woven
Some party
The future calls
“I can’t be a pessimist,” James Baldwin said, “because I am alive.”
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