Loose Leaf Notes

1. I’ve never been a Florence Nightingale type. I’m more of a Jerry Seinfeld.

2. I’ve done years of therapy. I use dreams to inform me and write poetry as case notes.

3. I’ve never been a Mother Theresa type. More of a nutty professor.

4. My life is like a library book / being read to the end / where the plot thickens / and all fines are forgiven / There is no spoiler / to heaven’s cliff hanger / I trust the author / and write my own chapter -Read Cliffhanger in its entirety HERE.

5. Frank Kafka on writing: “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”  Franz Kafka

6. “Kafka’s Hat: With the rain falling / surgically against the roof, / I ate a dish of ice cream / that looked like Kafka’s hat. / It was a dish of ice cream / tasting like an operating table / with the patient staring / up at the ceiling.” Richard Brautigan

7. Heard on a Psychedelics Today and long covid podcast: “Not only patients with long covid but anyone suffering with a chronic neuropathic condition – those neuro networks get really strong because that patient is practicing those symptoms every day.

8. Me (who deals with a non-covid long haul post viral syndrome) to Joe, who recently broke his toe: “are you still practicing that your toe hurts?”

9. Now that a phone call is just a tap away, I don’t know anyone’s phone number in my head, except my own because I often have to call it from my landline to find my phone.

10. I’ve been very interested in how Milkweed goes from this.

11. To this: making seed pods.

12. Does it grow corn? Yes, and weeds.

13. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”   Isaac Asi

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