Tag Archives: language

my life in public restrooms

2009/03/23 – 16:36

This is me reading an excerpt from my autobiography, which is still in the making and will probably remain that way for at least a few more years.

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me, reading to you.

2009/01/25 – 03:07

Two-video blog of Erik reading “Tenth and Juniper”

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(ex) teaching manifesto

2009/01/06 – 00:44

in order to address the experiences of another, we must humble ourselves before their complexity and before our own. We might use what we know of our experiences to empathize with another, but it is imperative not to universalize those experiences, and not to disregard or try to dispose of those differences that will always exist between discrete ways of getting along in the world.

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cryptorchid

2008/12/20 – 07:26

video post of short poem as youtubecast from the room of Erik, Jackson, and Santiago

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excerpt

2008/12/16 – 06:17

why should garishness get all the glory if making the bed is not its own courageous act what with danger beating softly across the loose weave of the very blanket which takes care of you at night.

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sag mir was das war

2008/12/13 – 04:33

sedimented against garroted mounts
iterate rheumatic warbirds although surely
defects are signal wishes
archaic riots

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the myth of representationalism

2008/12/10 – 05:28

sanitation engineers poke at dying embers left in the street or the broken stone embryology failed to account for the strings of epochs blown in burial notices

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a lesser light

2008/12/05 – 04:00

portable villianous art for rapt jailers
eviscerate appalled droves vital limbs–slaked felon
will fashion lucky furred hymns

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types at flies

2008/11/29 – 22:05

soldiered benignly
underground
cistern

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refraining from content or pointing at weathermen

2008/11/28 – 22:59

a car dealership closes on fourteenth street disgusted but clamoring for starry-eyed decorous lechery crisply ushered into red blaring sirened silence. cavernous swell you toss coins excoriated rumors due north northeast duly noted deep chested my heart’s rhythm jumpy since we scrambled ten of us fifty of them the once bustling square in cities tenderfaced [...]

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