sketchy sketcher

So my friend told me I should accompany every poem I write now with a sketch, because I'm trying to be a better sketcher. So, here's what I've come up with so far.

the correct way to prepare a pan:

for cooking eggs.

It's a little heat to start,

to whet the pan, and a great
hunger for the meal at hand

undressing, as the melting butter
browns and starts to burn.

for frying chicken,

it's no longer subtle. Oil keeps

the meat in check and bread crumbs

neat the fine

edges between over raw and over

loved, since fire loves its prey
and heat is always first hand.

for french toast

the lesson is in how much and enough

sugar, milk and eggs one needs to come out

sweet. The dosage for dipping the bread

depends on the delectation of specific tongues

-tied in delight. Imagine you are the one, waiting

for the sugar-rush, but prepared to salt to taste.

the bends

will snap your prick in half,

will unwind your long thin

breath and turn you over.

your lungs will explode.

it's no good, surfacing.

*SWIPE* 14ourteen

March 10, 2008, 3:01 pm
Seven More Sins, Thanks to Vatican
By Mike Nizza
Lust, gluttony, greed and the rest of the seven deadly sins gathered in the 6th century will have to get used to a modern companion. A Vatican official has articulated seven new categories of sin “due to the phenomenon of globalization.”
“While sin used to concern mostly the individual, today it has mainly a social resonance,” Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti told L’Osservatore Romano, Vatican City’s local paper. Bloomberg News parsed his remarks into a clip-n-savable list:
1. “Bioethical” violations such as birth control
2. “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty
The message, according to a leading scholar on Catholic thought talking to BBC News, was meant as a reality check to priests “not sufficiently attuned to some of the real evils in our world.” There is more to life than following the Ten Commandments, it would seem.



back to me: the vatican is declaring something as sinful that they themselves describe as "morally dubious?" Isn't that syntactically nonsense?

And, while we're at it, looks like the Catholic Church really wants some more members.

WHO CARES??!?!?!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/books/05fake.html?8dpc

goodnight, friends, goodnight.

Lepner’s Pond

1. approaching lepner at sunset

like a UFO made out of lipstick, Lepner offends
the eye, a pillar of tangerine in chocolate reality

no, wait, stop. He can’t.

Like Jesus fog, Lepner is a rock wrapped around
the water wrapped around the fog. Eleven times himself,
he divides and conquers, he is something else boy.

2.) From the distance,

he reddens, hueing up again, purpling
like busted fingernails. He shifts, he snuggles
into color, he wears things. Clothing is an
artifact of nakedness, it is a necessity of nudity,
rather than a consequence of bodies.
his pond, sullen, looking on.

3.) the garden of saints
like everything you were too afraid to confront,
the pond divides, segments, geometrizes,
in factors of seven, making cubism of St. Andrew’s
upside down toes, driving triangle nails through Thomas’ toes.

like everything you were afraid of, the water has
teeth, Lepner has teeth, everything in the world,
blurred blue, now orthodontic. Earth is

an overbite, waiting for an almighty corrective,
something fixable, something willing to fix.
like everything you fear, the divine science
is bejawed, an event horizon of bone.

Kneeling to conserve spelling, a rosary of
Darwin, a Hail Mary for String Theory,
Let’s hear it for closeness, for the backing, for
everything you are afraid of,
rising, blue, painting you.

4.) fog
no gene pool could possibly deliver you.