Little or nothing comes of losing one's cool in the manner of letting the grip of rage tighten around your neck and shoulders and so create the headache that is no less than a battering ram or giant mallet that smashes the last restraint of propriety and frees one to vent the foul odors of disgust, ire, reconstituted bile. This clears a seat on the bus, sure enough, and it can make a line shorter in the market on the busiest Christmas Eve, but there is the cost of conversations one will not have again soon unless they maintain a low profile, the loss of even the small talk that one may well have included in the litany of things that enrage them to paralysis itself. That is the irony, the world's angriest man wholly sufficient with the heat of their verbal tirade becomes a lonely bag of flesh, feeling every pound of the increasing weight as he plies himself with liquor, ale, wax coated snacks, dry cereal eaten in handfuls from the box. The perfect world is a rumor, the facts are what they are.
Some remarks about some things
notes, investigations, digressions galore
Ted Burke
- Location
- San Diego, California,
- Birthday
- July 15
- Title
- Bookseller, writer, musician
- Bio
- Bookseller, musician, writer and poet living and working in San Diego, California. His writing has appeared in the San Diego Reader, Kicks, San Diego Door, Roadwork, Revolt in Style,and City Works.His poems have been included in the anthologies Small Rain: 8 poets from San Diego (1996,DG Wills Books),Ocean Hiway: eight poets in San Diego (1981,Wild Mustard Press) , and is the author of many chapbooks, including Hand Grenade, Open Every Window,No One Home and City Times,limited editions published by his own Old House Press.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Dolly wants to kill you
May 29, 2012 11:15PM - Fuhgeddaboutit - Oy vey! -
Salon.com
May 28, 2012 06:29PM - You can say that again, but
louder
May 27, 2012 10:35AM - On Longwindness
May 25, 2012 10:07PM - A poem about baseball in
Detroit, yay!
May 25, 2012 10:39AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Rand was smitten by
Monroe's persona no less than
any other
star struck kid and
p…”
March 08, 2012 06:46PM - “@George Hoffman:
Actually, Mailer didn't refer
to himself
as
"Aquarius"…”
January 01, 2012 07:12PM - “Mailer's meditation on
violence and evil will not be
every
one's idea of a good
n…”
January 01, 2012 07:07PM - “@Miguella: His
contradictions were what made
his brilliance
exasperating; I
sup…”
December 17, 2011 10:40AM - “Thanks wendy. It's not
that I'm against subjecting a
work to
critical
examination…”
August 14, 2011 06:44PM
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