day of rest

1) This long interview with Bernadette Mayer by Adam Fitzgerald is one of the best I've ever read, with anybody. AF: So the correlation between suffering and art, that’s a myth? BM: [Laugh] I laugh at those ideas. It seems trivial to make that comparison. It trivializes both the art and the suffering. I mean, really, you have to suffer to make art? Give me a break. 2) I'm quite taken with this poem (among others) from Ron Padgett's newish How Long: I'll Get Back to You What was I thinking about a few minutes ago when another through swept me away? Can't I have (pepper) several thoughts at the same time (carnival midway) or go back and forth between (hyphen) them? I guess so! But since people (ooga) don't like that kind of thinking (factory) we don't do it (doghouse) much. I never wanted to live (tree) in a doghouse. Now to get back (folking map) to that earlier thought. (President is guarding it.) (No sense in asking him for it.) It had something to do with numbers (flying up all over the place) and how (smoke) sequence has properties that (gleaming faucets) induce certain thoughts and feelings, such as reassurance. I guess that's a good argument for linearity. Don't you prefer linearity in the long run (Low clouds over the winter field.)