Wednesday, October 10, 2018

NOTHINGNESS GIVES RISE TO ME, from PREPARATIONS


FROM PREPARATIONS:-
with Michael McClure's 'wet plank'


NOTHINGNESS GIVES RISE TO ME


MONKEY MIND BUILDS CATHEDRALS
NEWS NEVER CHANGES
A PATRIARCH SAYS THERE IS NO
MOMENT OF EMOTIONAL PASSION


THERE ARE THREE THINGS
I
MOVIES OUT THERE
THE PARADE GOES ON
EXPERIENCE IS WEIGHTLESS
I KNOW EMPTINESS
EMPTINESS IS A FORM
THE SMELL OF MORNING INCENSE


REXROTH BELIEVES EVERYTHING
THE SCARLET-HEADED WOODPECKER
WITH SOFT FLEXIBLE MIND
THE WHTIE HANDS WITH LONG FINGERS


THE PINK OF DAWN IS GONE
SILENCE IS A ROAR
A DOE CROSSING THE STREET
– A LITTLE NAKED OF EGO


NOR DOES KNOWLEDGE CHANGE
DESPITE FASCINATION
DARK PATHS ARE THE WAY
NOT TO THINK OF BUDDHA


BEAUTEOUS ONE, GIVE ME
THE SHAPE OF MY THOUGHTS
A SMALL INSECT CRIPPLEDLY HOBBLES
THE CLEAR CENTER IS PRESENT


CALM MAKES A FRAME
EACH RAINDROP IS AN INSTANT
STUDY OF SELF PEELS OFFENSIVELY


I MAKE MY CENTER IN DELUSION



IMF Warns of Financial Crisis.

World Economic Outlook, October 2018: Challenges to Steady Growth

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Roberto Rossellini Quote


With explicit reference to Francis of Assisi, Rossellini said “I'm always for the 'crazy' people [. . .]. My aspiration, my great dream, is that each person be himself, with all the risks this entails, including the risk of being crazy [. . .] If you're authentically yourself, you have such a load of honesty that it must per force lead to something. From a very humble position you can face everything and you can revise the whole conception of the universe.” Cited in Tag Gallagher's Preface to Roberto Rossellini, My Method: Writings and Interviews, ed. Adriano Aprà, trans. Annapaola Cancogni, NY: Marsillio, 1992, p. xi.