January 2012
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Update from the trenches of the workweek
Tuesday:
My patient, LB, is 103 years old. She has Einsteinian hair and Beethovian hearing. She is not merely frail: she is a wisp, she is a quiet exhalation of a body. Her eyes are huge in her thin face. She’s shockingly lucid and cogent- until she isn’t. She becomes incensed and wants to know where her dinner guests are. She cannot believe how rude it is of them: you invite people...
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“What can be explained is not poetry.”
– W.B. Yeats (via bodasdesangre)
THEREFORE
What cannot be explained is poetry.
Poetry can be explained as that which cannot be explained.
Poetry can be explained, so poetry is not poetry.
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Now hold the goddamn phone just a minute. I’ve been mulling over this very... 