Loose Leaf Notes

1. Who’s is it?

2. “Poem” comes from the Greek poíēma, meaning a “thing made,” and a poet is defined in ancient terms as “a maker of things.” So if a poem is a thing made, what kind of thing is it? – From What is a Poem, The Atlantic

3. The weight of a deadline is determined by the size of the writer’s block.

4. After creating my Land Shark Pencil Holder, I looked up pencil holder images on google and they all were far less creative than mine, except for THIS Hemingway version.

5. Elon Musk revealed that he has Asperger’s Syndrome on Saturday Night Live this week, saying, “I’m actually making history tonight as the first person with Asperger’s to host SNL Or at least the first to admit it.” But Dan Aykroyd, an early cast member who also later hosted, also has Asperger’s.

6. It’s for You.

7. Poets don’t wax poetic about the assault / on credibility, decency and the rule of law  / They don’t write verses / about the virus of violence  / or the super spreader leader of lies  / They rarely mention his name / or the variant threats that still remain / They don’t write elegies / on the loss of peace and normalcy…Even poets are at a loss for words.  Read The Stolen Years in its entirety HERE. 

8. But they do. Here’s one: What January 6th, 2021 showed:  January 6th, 2021 showed / Different rules for different players / They sowed. / The delicacy of decency / They erode. / The cognitive dissonance / They owned. / The ‘we had no choice’ / They moaned. / The dead lady’s body / They hoe’d. / Sold her a dream — hook, line and sinker / She bought with her life. / Consider these mere pixels / A tribute to the watching thinkers / That can still see a lie for a lie. – Maziar Ghaderi

9. There is actually a glossary of adjectives to describe Donald Trump HERE.

10. I’ll never forgot that Jaws was the movie that scared me within moments of the movie starting and that Saving Private Ryan had me crying in the first few minutes.

11. A kiss is when the bocce ball you throw ends up touching the pallino target ball and you get an extra game point. “Mama Gonna Knock You Out.” That’s what my friend Chris said when it was my turn to throw. – More from This is the Way We Roll and How We Kiss HERE. 

12. “One might argue that the page is just a metaphor for all that can’t be put on it.” – From What is a Poem, The Atlantic

13. “We have art so that we shall not die of reality.” – Friedrich Neitzsche

__________Thirteen Thursday