Monday, January 28th, 2013
alex gildzen | listening to music with Rufus Wainwright’s arm
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I spent the day in Albuquerque beginning the pre-cataloging of his papers. I filled 9 boxes with correspondence & manuscripts. there were letters from Paul Metcalf, Jonathan Williams, Theodore Enslin, Kell Robertson, Tony Moffeit. & thousands of poems handwritten in notebooks on sheets of paper on almost anything he had handy [...]
Mugs
so it’s a sunny saturday
& I’m reading Todd Moore
(Dillinger as a pre-Bogart Bogart)
& I’m drinking Moka Java
from the tan mug with blue lines
that got me thru Kent ayems
& I’m wondering how
the thing we drink from
shares a word meaning face
so I throw Moore on the floor
& get out my college Webster’s
mug n. [...]