Michael Brown's Blog – September 2011 Archive (6)

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Man in Black

The bare bulb flickers in a noirish way casting an asemic language of black and white chevrons on a long-unpainted wall, reminding you of a bicycle rider peddling from the scene of a crime. Then, you recall the hotel clerk brandishing your debt like a prescription for some unfamiliar ache in the gut. Did he think it correct to expose one’s weakness to all like that, and would he devote so much attention to its resolution? When you heard the man in the street preach in his old-fashioned way, you… Continue

Added by Michael Brown on September 26, 2011 at 1:19am — 13 Comments

You Were There

We prepared for months, and when the time came to travel, we moved unprepared--some of us. It did not matter as there would not have been nearly enough time to carry out all that had filled our agendas. Only the golden seeped through, but it must have been enough. Enough, I say, because we have not stopped talking about our time together, and perhaps enough because it has left us fetching more to fill in blank spots. Something spiritual drifted through that space; something more corporeal than… Continue

Added by Michael Brown on September 24, 2011 at 7:52pm — 11 Comments

A Silly Rant on Seriousness

I want to say something here about perpetually sad-looking actors, two in particular. Kristen Stewart, she from the abysmal Twilight Saga, has only one expression, which apparently she has had most of her life, so that even when she’s happy she doesn’t appear to be. Remembering her as a young girl in The Panic Room with Jodie Foster as her mom, I recall finding it so difficult to care if they both survived, though I was rooting for Jodie to come out of the room, alone if need… Continue

Added by Michael Brown on September 18, 2011 at 9:18pm — 10 Comments

Fifty-Two Cubed

Herewith, a third collection for anyone interested in reading (or re-reading) some of what has been posted here over the last year or so. This kind of thing is a vanity project. I just like the way Issuu makes the work look. Too, these little projects serve as milestones for me. I won't be offended if this garners few or no comments. But I would enjoy seeing others presenting their sixes all dressed up and ready to paint the town.

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Added by Michael Brown on September 17, 2011 at 2:13pm — 3 Comments

Syllabus

Unit 1

What they want us to learn is how to correct their mistakes. Parents and teachers who have experimented and come up empty-handed are the first to express a disdain that their progeny might be free to do the same, and thus do their damnedest to shape the young into models of themselves who without being culpable will nevertheless bear their parents’ burden and likewise their guilt. However, never let any outsider administer the laying of guilt. That is strictly a… Continue

Added by Michael Brown on September 17, 2011 at 10:36am — 7 Comments

Old Photograph

There’s me looking handsome, young, and full of invisible seed. I’m a lover for hire with a feather up my ass, the unspoken equivalent of randy desire. You can see that in the raised eyebrow and the edge of a smile. What may not be evident, due to cropping, is I’m rolling weed, my chief source of entertainment in those days. Intending a quick comparison, I raise my eyes to the wall mirror, but they get stuck in a glued observance. Only the raised eyebrow persists.

Added by Michael Brown on September 17, 2011 at 6:54am — 9 Comments

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