Have you ever wanted to break up, but didn’t have a good enough reason? I am still fooling around with pens and working on my penmanship. But it feels good to be writing by hand, doing this without digital type. Someday it will be good and legible for you, too. I promise.
Yet another shameless promotion of Pet Poems, using an original drawing and text grabbed from different poems in my new book. I’m passing through Singapore, so if you have a copy and want me to fill it up with personal messages and random thoughts, all you have to do is find me.
Here is another episode with a new drawing, plus a few lines grabbed from different parts of Pet Poems and jammed together.
Some people think ideas are hard to come by. If only they were.
Have you ever been someplace so strange and foreign, where everyone acted so unerringly, so eerily, starched and normal?
I can’t always think of things to say. So we’ll try something else. What does this picture make you think of? Or, just tell me about your day.
Do you live anywhere that birds or other animals move in huge numbers? What do you think of them? Do you move in any human flocks?
Have you ever wondered why a person might wrap her body around with so many stories and excuses and mythologies, when all the fears and secrets she has are perfectly ordinary, perfectly visible anyway?
Have you ever wanted to go someplace you don’t speak the language? Where no one has heard of the place you come from and no one cares? Where the customs seem bizarre but no one thinks to explain them? Where it seems anything you imagine can come true but still some things surprise you? Have [...]
Speaking of doing things that are unsafe, I have been working a lot with paper and with taking pictures of things I draw on paper, and with letting the paper show on the screen. Oh, and there was that thing with the alligator. Are there any life risks you are wavering about? Have there been?
