Such Is My Asylum

Wordplay as balm for disgust
Language as defense mechanism
Wit as refuge from despair
Poetry as exorcism

Poetry, A Playlist

A soundtrack for this note. (spotify version)

• Poetry Man by Phoebe Snow
  Her delicate voice is everything
• Poetry by Roy Hargrove (featuring Q-Tip and Erykah Badu)
  The late Roy Hargrove is sorely missed.

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The book is done.

This note concludes a second collection of toli, mostly poems written with furious intent over six weeks early last year. Hopefully it will escape hypertext into physical form sometime soon.

I call it Internal Displacement.

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Timing is everything
Observers are worried

File under: Small Things, culture, whimsy, comfort, language, strategy, humour, satire, observation, perception, poetry, Observers are worried, toli