the Whole Garden Will Bow

The Final Poem of Charles Bukowski

Remy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:49:40 +0000

oh, forgive me For Whom the Bell Tolls,
oh, forgive me Man who walked on water,
oh, forgive me little old woman who lived in a shoe,
oh, forgive me the mountain that roared at midnight,
oh, forgive me the dumb sounds of night and day and death,
oh, forgive me the death of the last beautiful panther,
oh, forgive me all the sunken ships and defeated armies,
this is my first FAX POEM.
It’s too late:
I have been
smitten.

[faxed to his publisher 18 days before death]

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or Listen to Tom Waits read Bukowski’s The Laughing Heart

Film Notes : Mission : Impossible – Ghost Protocol

Remy — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:53:48 +0000

In some ways J.J. Abrams broke the franchise with his contribution to the franchise. When he set up the impossible infiltration scene, the bread, butter and staple of such films, but then skipped it, jumping to its frenzied, improvised escape, the world was forever changed. To go back as though it never happened, to depict every little impossible scenario, feels tired now. The individual pieces are great, the skyscraper scene, the climactic battle, but the string tying them together is lacking.

The Template for All Human Languages : The Leipzig–Jakarta List

Remy — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:23:31 +0000

The Leipzig–Jakarta list is a 100-word word list used by linguists to test the degree of chronological separation of languages by comparing words that are resistant to borrowing.

ant
arm/hand
ash
back
big
bird
to bite
bitter
black
blood
to blow
bone
breast
to burn (intransitive)
to carry
child (reciprocal of parent)
to come
to crush/to grind
to cry/to weep
to do/to make
dog
drink
ear
to eat
egg
eye
to fall
far
fire
fish
flesh/meat
fly
to give
to go
good
hair
hard
he/she/it/him/her
to hear
heavy
to hide
to hit/to beat
horn
house
I/me
in
knee
to know
to laugh
leaf
leg/foot
liver
long
louse
mouth
name
navel
neck
new
night
nose
not
old
one
rain
red
root
rope
to run
salt
sand
to say
to see
shade/shadow
skin/hide
small
smoke
soil
to stand
star
stone/rock
to suck
sweet
tail
to take
thick
thigh
this
to tie
tongue
tooth
water
what?
who?
wide
wind
wing
wood
yesterday
you (singular)

Poetry Magazine : January : 2012

Remy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:00:04 +0000

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Martial 1.101 by David Ferry

First Miracle by A.E. Stallings + a line:

“Nothing but the white vowels of the wind”

Lost to View by Stephen Edgar

Also be sure to read Clive James’ excellent essay on technique

People Do Amazing Things : the Rube Goldberg Machine

Remy — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:09:44 +0000

Top Search Terms for theWholeGardenWillBow : All Time

Remy — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:06:54 +0000

batman 3 : 40,964
tim tebow : 36,273
julian beever : 34,040
tom waits : 22,854
spongebob : 17,737
matthew mcconaughey : 13,796
dirty projectors : 13,124
shaved bear : 12,481
amazing photography : 11,135
sidewalk art : 10,900
ellen page : 9,105
joanna newsom : 8,479
neko case : 8,336
trees : 7,977
amazing things : 7,557
ashton kutcher : 6,019
martin schongauer : 5,405
gustav klimt : 5,179
mark tansey : 5,128
3d art : 4,581

AS OF : 1/1/12

One Letter Poems : for Aaron Belz : After Aaron Belz

Remy — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:27:47 +0000

Fit

Or Not

What I Said When She Announced She Was Pregnant/Irascible/Leaving

What I Said When She Announced She Could Speak Spanish

The Next Thing I Said When She Announced She Could Speak Spanish

What Jose Said When I Mis-Sang the First Line of the National Anthem

Nought

One Letter Poems by Aaron Belz

NaNoTweeMo : The Needle Thief Dreams of Spears

Remy — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:59:22 +0000

The Needle Thief Dreams of Spears

a Twittah Novel by Remy Wilkins

1 “Hello, anybody here?” No sound. I enter anyway. I’m buds with Tom and Peggy, they won’t mind. I’m just returning a book.

2 I place the book on the kitchen table. Leaving I see a chocolate cake. They won’t mind. Plate-Fork-Knife-Slice of Cake.

3 Getting milk, I see a tupperware of braised pork, potatoes, green beans. No one wants leftovers. Only one serving anyway.

4 Forgot to lock the door. Shut the curtains too. Just cause Tom left it open for me doesn’t mean he wants weirdos here too.

5At the stove to caramelize onions. But uncorking a Malbec, I spill on my shirt. Unacceptable, gotta look nice if Tom returns.

6 Nice bathroom. Almost scrub out wine. Shirt is posh w/pink stripe. Shower has 3 heads. I hit it before my afternoon din-din.

7 Once showered I hear the doorknob rattling. I call the cops, find a towel the size of a bed, doublewrap myself and descend.

8 The thief picks the lock, I hide. I yell and dive at his knees when he enters. I mean she. Thief knocked out by hall table.

9 Thief dressed in business casual. Odd, but no time to think. Gotta call the fire department. Caramelized onion kitchen fire.

10 Cops arrive after fire dept. Useless jerks. I see Tom and Peg standing next door. They musta moved over the weekend. Crap.

11 I grab the book off the table. Running through the smoke, I exit out the back. Decide to save a really nice potted ficus.

12 Hope the CSI unit doesn’t DNA test. Shoulda poured Clorex down the shower drain to be safe. Wish I’d double flushed too.

13 Through a window I climb into Tom’s new house. Return the book. Then grab an overcoat to wear home. Check for undies too.

14 From Tom’s bedroom window I see them putting the thief/homeowner in the ambulance. No way can Tom fit into these corduroys.

15 With a new pair of pants, shoes, overcoat and ficus plant I slip out into the commotion. Wait, that’s not Tom. Where am I?

Follow me on the Twittah

Woody Guthrie’s New Year Rulin’s : New Year’s Resolutions

Remy — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:12:47 +0000

NEW YEAR’S RULIN’S 1942

1. WORK MORE AND BETTER
2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE
3. WASH TEETH IF ANY
4. SHAVE
5. TAKE BATH
6. EAT GOOD – FRUIT – VEGETABLES – MILK
7. DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY
8. WRITE A SONG A DAY
9. WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES – LOOK GOOD
10. SHINE SHOES
11. CHANGE SOCKS
12. CHANGE BED CLOTHES OFTEN
13. READ LOTS GOOD BOOKS
14. LISTEN TO RADIO A LOT
15. LEARN PEOPLE BETTER
16. KEEP RANCHO CLEAN
17. DON’T GET LONESOME
18. STAY GLAD
19. KEEP HOPING MACHINE RUNNING
20. DREAM GOOD
21. BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY
22. SAVE DOUGH
23. HAVE COMPANY BUT DON’T WASTE TIME
24. SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY
25. PLAY AND SING GOOD
26. DANCE BETTER
27. HELP WIN WAR – BEAT FASCISM
28. LOVE MAMA
29. LOVE PAPA
30. LOVE PETE
31. LOVE EVERYBODY
32. MAKE UP YOUR MIND
33. WAKE UP AND FIGHT

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