Greg Correll

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Greg Correll

Greg Correll
Location
New Paltz, New York, US
Birthday
September 21
Title
Founder, Chief of Deselopy (small packages); Editor (doesthismakesense.com)
Company
small packages, inc.
Bio
I write.

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Editor’s Pick
FEBRUARY 9, 2012 11:27PM

i am all here

 

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Who do I inhabit?

 

Am I a small Mis-step or

a god-almighty Quake,

reaching for a spoon?

 

Am I an inner tremble 

rising from deep in skin or 

a cataclysm under 

blooded rudderless sponge?

 

Am I essential tremor 

and ordinary collapse,

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012 12:05AM

for rocky


We rattle through Brooklyn under the elevated M train, that brown and unlovely line. Anonymous in a rented van, we are moving Rocky's portfolios, her chair and bed and etceteras, her bags of things, to her Manhattan FIT dorm. They took the subway in after/

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JANUARY 19, 2012 12:14AM

Found

Today four mild doctors on the Upright East Side, four Mosi from Mt. Sinai, tell me it's Parkinson's.

No. It's not.

They turn my hands and watch me walk, hold one arm and elbow while making me touch finger to thumb, and they nod and query – did you know you do/… Read full post »
JANUARY 6, 2012 10:06AM

safety quiz

Instructions

Use a sharp Number Two pencil. Read all the questions carefully. Find the best answer and write its letter in the margin next to the question. You can re-use any of the answers if you think they apply. None of this counts on your final grade, but we willRead full post »
DECEMBER 27, 2011 11:40PM

bold daughters


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I like bold daughters who speak their mind,
make a firm declaration, and
strike out on their own road.

I like bold daughters who hesitate just enough,
daven just a little, to be balanced and nimble along the way,
to be sure-footed in the inevitable ruts and gravel and rain.

I
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DECEMBER 20, 2011 10:55AM

persistent stick

barrell hammer, drawing by Greg Correll


I become a writer in this room 
a pure flame in a tinderbox 
a shattered limb with a sole green bud 
a sonic boom in a hollow tomb 
a phosphoric lotus under crushing tides 
my broken hand pulls stainless wire 
deadly thin and set within 
a line of… Read full post »
DECEMBER 18, 2011 5:44PM

Trampled by Rudolph

(to the tune of "Here Comes Santa Claus")

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Here comes Santa Claus 

Breaking all the laws

Speeding in his sleigh!

 

If you don't want to be

Trampled by Rudolph

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DECEMBER 14, 2011 3:13PM

kissing distance

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At kissing distance 

we love attentive eyes 

the fold on the jaw near the ear 

the slope of a shoulder 

the velvet feel of a cheek 

 

we love as if breath and skin and beat

are one

 

age and color and plumbing

disappointment and grief and raw

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DECEMBER 8, 2011 12:24PM

Last night with Salon

It was a great event. So much energy, so many quick wits. I had no alcohol, so I could keep up. Cranky Cuss is right: Emily is sweet, attentive, and has a harried look, like someone who reads way too many OS posts every day. I can't imagine the intellectual challenge, and workload,… Read full post »

DECEMBER 4, 2011 5:46PM

Kourtney and Kim Occupy Manhattan

 

Waddling away from the helicopter, Kim teetered in the gusting wind, and dropped her $32,000 custom-made Louis Vuitton ostrich-hatchling-skin size-all bag, spilling $27,000 worth of dna-matched whipped-civit-cat makeup, a $58,000 ruby-encrusted iPhone, a ziploc bag of invaluable pharmaceutical… Read full post »

NOVEMBER 30, 2011 6:45PM

creation myth

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Once upon a time there was no time
and god was like every other god: 
all of them fine, and any and every was divine.
Being was just Be.

No thing but hum. Every one keen.

Then god who was not God in no time at all
felt a ripple… Read full post »

NOVEMBER 5, 2011 1:14AM

I will roll your trousers up

Have I a tower by the sea
where piny cliffs tumble
to the combed spray and pocketed sand,
and will there be books?

Flat on my back after a day's false labor
I want a comma cove inside,
all wild breakers far away,/… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 14, 2011 10:44AM

Occupy Woodstock

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OK, so a lot of the demonstrators were from Woodstock, right next door. But we demonstrated in nearby Kingston, on our own actual Wall Street, in front of the Wells Fargo Office. Besides, Woodstock is already occupied, and for over forty years.

GreedIsNotGood Kingston, New York, is in Ulster County,…

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OCTOBER 10, 2011 10:29AM

her honey-smack smile

I.

Before her
love was
tender regard of an other
in the cold face of an other
and I lived in the margins of death's book.

Her art, her blurt,
her intrusion into me
is still now, still present.

It is in the word I want.
It is how she/… Read full post »
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 11:33AM

grip foot

 

Punished, locked in the backyard, leaning on the dandelion fork, I watch my two bare feet. I love bare feet.

I squinch the Kansas crabgrass. I love the yuck, the chlorophyll stain, God's smeary paint on my boy toes. 

I have the grip-foot: grass stuck in slender, cringing… Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 10:25AM

a prayer to hour devourer

O Fralkus Omni-Popey,
O Great Abridged-to-Nowhere and Digressive Textuaa,
O Limited Characters of Unlimited Assertions,
O Holy Hexadecimal 3B5998, the FB Blue,
O Towering and Shimmering Wall of Sacred Vapidity,
O Ephors of Infinite You- and Me-dia Without Citation,
O Hour Devourer,
O FB! Hear my ple/… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 8:09AM

7 Questions: Massimo Pigliucci

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I went to hear Massimo Pigliucci at SUNY Ulster on May 5th. He's promoting his current book, "Nonsense on Stilts: HowRead full post »

Editor’s Pick
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011 8:31PM

A Chirrier Terrehuahua

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I start, apish, at the puppy.

"You're a repetitive little jerk," I tell her. I don't blink. She doesn't blink back. I hate dogs.

I hate having to train a seven-month-old anything.  This is the last one, goddamnit.

"You're the last one," I say straight into those yellow Chihuahuan/… Read full post »
AUGUST 23, 2011 9:52AM

Open Letter to Salon's Lind

Edited from a letter in response to Michael Lind's recent post about Humanism

I love that you wrote about this, Michael. I sometimes think there is a "cone of silence" around secular and Humanist writing. It's as if it doesn't exist. So kudos on noticing and taking it seriously.… Read full post »

AUGUST 12, 2011 12:04PM

Critical Thinking Podcasts

 

We live in an amazing time. Today, most private citizens in first-world countries – heck, anyone with their own computers or a local public library – have access to podcasts about logic, reason, rationality, critical thinking, science, and scholarship of all kinds. Yale's free onli… Read full post »

I say, I try to say: I didn't understand, I didn't grow up. I didn't know how much...

Wet are my hands, my arms, my cheeks and my chin, all kinds of wet: fresh ropey wet from my nose like a river

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AUGUST 9, 2011 3:12PM

Free Will is an Illusion

Free will is an illusion. Operationally, it exists at the local level – I "choose" to go left instead of right – but it does not actually exist.

We cannot choose to do anything other than those things that a human ape can do, on planet Earth, limited by the physical laws… Read full post »

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JULY 15, 2011 12:20PM

say yes

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You know that sensation when you repeat a familiar word until it becomes alien and new? And then you can't see the familiar anymore, and the letters themselves threaten to become squiggles and arbitrary marks, and we sense our three-year-old selves peering out through tired eyes?

Do this for… Read full post »

QuotesBloody 

Civility is not the same thing as "nice". The right to be anonymous online, by choice and where allowed locally, I applaud. The "right" to crap on people online, to endlessly and pointlessly attack and demean, in the inane name of "winning" a point,… Read full post »

JUNE 27, 2011 12:26PM

Our children can't save us

Crippled, mean and crazy. I can see that now. That's what I had growing up. At the time, though, it was just mom and dad. Their marriage was a...well, a thing. An ordinary 1950s thing. You know, that thing we now call in social services to fix.

They laughed together, sometimes. He/… Read full post »