"Under the Ash Mounds"

Art unperturbed by the times. Like in an earthquake, all your books fall on the floor & this person just goes on pontificating, while you crawl into a closet & wonder if they are imperviously dense, a congenital disdainer of subway handles, superhumanly calm, or something else--& they're not telling this all-important thing.

02 09 04

"The shadows of Hiroshima are very disturbing. I would say that it is entirely appropriate, in this sense, that Yasusada's form, a faint shadow of shadows, has proven disturbing in its own small way." --Kent Johnson, interview

So there will be civil war--the Reds against the Blues. Are there a million handguns in this country? Watch them be used. And what do we produce anymore, really, except anger & hatred & thrashing despair? And what a relief it would be, to finally have an enemy we can get our hands on.

02 17 04