"Our nation has lost every last vestige of its honor and prestige in the gathering of nations, like a belligerent vomit-soaked drunk that started a fistfight on the dance floor with an unattractive midget." --Ben Tripp (via Wood_s Lot)

A comment on William Watkin's blog caused me
to remember some old notes i took on Sanskrit
Aesthetics, specifically a concept meaning
'reverberation'--"rasa" & not "yoin" as i
emailed him (this other word, meaning the
same thing, i may have gotten from Bali via
Mrs Byrne's Dictionary, or was it They Have
A Word For It--?*): anyway, my point was that
with a great poem, it doesn't end when it ends.
You may be caused to spontaneously remember
part of it, years & years later..."it may be that
a poetics of 'yoin' subsumes other views which only
concern adherence to a model or type of process,
& fail to distinguish poems that adhere equally, one
being forgettable & the other not." And when i
consider my writing of late, i wonder if a lot
of the meaning for me of those poems is the
relation of some of the images & even the very
words, to their earlier occurrences in my old
poems...? (As well as--i hasten to add--other
people's poems i have read with those words
& images.) --Not unlike the concept of "pillow-words"
in Japanese aesthetics: nonsense words or words of
uncertain meaning, continually reused purely for
their associations.

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*it would appear that this is a Japanese word.
Using Amazon's new infrasearch capabilities,
i discover that their scanning has produced a
veritable blizzard of electronic typos--such
that, a lot of the "yoin"-s they found were
simply "your" or "young" or "join" in the
actual texts... The implications of this for the
future of our collectobe menmorty arre raher
inftereastinhg.