Amen, Xtina, my bullshit detector is running 24/7. Especially in the presence of:

1. Republicans
2. Unthinking, Lazy Connoisseurship
3. People who use the word "chicks"
4. I-get-off-on-looking-at-myself-as-a-poet-walking-around-in-my-own-poem
5. Haiku-like imagery
6. Cloying lyricism, female or male ("just one of the ____s")
7. Social Darwinism
8. People who read things "straight up"
9. Hipsters (especially indie-rock hipsters)
10. Cynicism (see #s 1, 7, and 9)

I love watching my mind contradict itself as I'm trying to draw up categories. As if you were on this side of the line or that side of the line. There is no line, there's just "I'm in a grumpy mood today." Even Baudelaire realized the spleen would pass. Why am I telling you this, you are not even here. You-know-who said that.

Last night I drove through huge puddles of rain to interview a photographer out in Gloucester, and that was nice: the rain, the photographer, the images, the dark (see #s 2, 4, and 6).

Comments

[Stephen Baraban]

Hi, Tim, what's wrong with haiku-like imagery. What does that mean to you? Isn't the swift, loving naming of some phenomenon? Doesn't it connect with the New American Poetry, especially Larry Eigner, who loved haiku?

[Mark L.]

What is the purpose of taxonomy?

[Tim]

It depends on whether you're asking me or Stephen. If you're asking me, I'd rather we just go get a beer and talk about it sometime in person.

[Bibliogal]

Same Q. here: what's wrong with Haiku-like imagery??

[Tim]

Did anybody actually *read* my post? Maybe it's not clear what I was trying to say...shall I get out my poems with haiku-like imagery in them and show you?