Monday, May 30, 2005 POSTSCRIPTUM -- ‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more.’ -William Shakespeare- -- ‘Look at you’ ‘That cloud is fake’ ‘Face the driver menacing you’ ‘I’m feeding on a glimpse’ ‘Matter is colorless’ ‘Specs aside, I’m convinced’ ‘The bush speaks- the bird inside is flawed’ ‘Green, or any other stroke of genius ’ ‘Tape unattended’ ‘Slowly turning, fast absorbing’ ‘Steps governed by rotation’ ‘Martin says the call is off’ ‘The way she lifts her arm’ ‘The dog stops sniffing eastward’ ‘Crossing, but not passing’ ‘Since you suggested we’re ageless’ ‘Changing makes and registration numbers’ ‘Rising to her feet; a quiet sensual prompt’ ‘Above: swifts, monarchs and planes’ ‘Classic- but a cracked image’ ‘Cats faking the prowl’ ‘My concern is your unresponsiveness’ ‘Teddy bear- if when, as ever’ ‘The smile counts, positions are immaterial’ ‘Dare, she said’ ‘Wet liquid fish, mating’ ‘I would not stake that claim, it has already been clenched’ ‘Bare upper arms, copper tan limbs- black cocktail dress’ ‘In spite of advanced construction, the void remains’ ‘The wrong location, the wrong intersection’ ‘Smacked, totally’ ‘A card game, out of arm’s length’ ‘Freckled girls, cleared from memory’ ‘Sticks, spires, and chimneys’ ‘Flames, and high contrast shadows’ ‘Celestial intermezzo’ ‘The moon pool’ ‘Incendiary- privileged boroughs’ ‘Unnoticeable gloss’ ‘Noon’s whistling poplars’ ‘Pain travels by proxy’ ‘You have not moved for minutes’ ‘Sentences are piling up, clogging speech’ ‘Beads, charms, and big insects’ ‘Two people at odds, slowly approaching one another’ ‘Long protracted silences, faces barely twitching’ ‘Angular or extended movements’ ‘A car passing at regular intervals’ ‘Subdued voices, muffled sounds at close distance’ ‘Teens gathering, closely monitoring the yard’ ‘Blue and purple- stifled naked flesh’ ‘Words, just words. None spoke to me’ ‘Time, fading’ ‘The bus arrived, spilling its contents onto the sandy road’ ‘Intermittently, the voices of blackbirds, passing through the car window’ ‘Ill matched couples’ ‘He started without a plan, his hand drifting across the paper- asymmetrical’ ‘Gazing up straight into the harsh sunlight; the young girl’s head appeared severed from her body’ ‘Most of them- if not all failed’ ‘Porn’s adjunct’ ‘Streets perplexed by the blaze, fell silent’ ‘Black unscrupulous birds. Tough, and uncommonly resilient’ ‘For weeks, if not months- I scaled the same trajectory’ ‘In a surprising and deft maneuver; the insect landed on my palm and folded its wings’ ‘For a while- incrementally- a convoy of chance had passed under my eyes’ ‘Slowly I began to recognize the pattern’ ‘No need to mention the sensual descriptions of food’ ‘Stack after stack of roughly depicted nudes engaged- or engaging in the act, were shredded’ ‘The dogs, partly submerged at the lake’s edge, seemed to be waiting for a cue’ ‘Division was rampant within the staff, different fractions staying aloft from one another’ ‘By preference, black. Bonito!’ ‘Cerebral, unconvincing’ ‘The color of the sea reminiscent of Amazon streams’ ‘Crows, breathing hard. Beaks ajar’ ‘Other reasons- wholly different ideas’ ‘Nothing remained but a gray fleck absorbed by the crowds’ ‘Reclining, a detached look on her face- her body arched upwards, legs slightly apart’ ‘A smirk- inherent to experienced waiters’ ‘As soon as the recording started, the bird chirped enthusiastically’ ‘All of us like the good son’ ‘Twirling in the yard, replete in satin slacks, she showed off her new trainers’ ‘Prim ponytail notwithstanding, she’s a complete butch’ ‘In exile, time passing is relative to memory’ ‘Chest growth’ ‘In hindsight- a gesture that still lingers in memory today, although her touch does not’ ‘In the mold of cartoon captions; the CEO’s remarks were sharp, singular, and bi-directional’ ‘Assuming but not demanding authority’ ‘The blue over yonder’ ‘Red- like fake kisses, tango and totalitarianism’ ‘In minds reside plots, collisions, whispers and intoxication’ ‘Least known, lest private’ ‘Information foxholes, so to speak’ ‘The story revolves around the narrator’s moral dilemma’ ‘Years ago maybe, I don’t really know’ ‘Shared conventions, sacred views’ ‘The still unfinished biographies of Hitler, Stalin and Mao’ ‘A cunning appropriation of bad taste! Excellent timing’ ‘A flush of stolen passwords’ ‘Maybe we should grant them some more time?’ ‘Neon headlights’ ‘The writer wants to read’ ‘The smallest sounds and voices, even when conducted in a whisper- were clearly audible’ ‘Known, yet unknowing’ ‘Irving- and the tomb of destruction’ ‘The TV viewer perceived the animated globe as the depiction of a couple embracing’ ‘Immense melancholia’ ‘The secret sharer of your thoughts’ ‘A brief statement wrought by idle hands’ ‘The repetition of comparison’ ‘A second take’ ‘Sense and insight’ ‘The nation’s slouch’ ‘Counting’ ‘A conversation mumbled in hues of dark gray’ ‘An auction at Swann’s’ ‘The past- both absent and present’ ‘The decay of thoughts and feelings’ ‘A return to saturated sleep’ -- posted by Walter at 5/30/2005