23 Nov 2006, 9:10pm
Writing
by David

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What Rough Beast

Where is the next official moment?
Apprise me of it.
Can you see me when you look down?
Can you see my head?
Can you count the 100,000 plus hairs
that are said to grow there?
Here is a grey one. Here is another.

I’ve tried living in peace.
Making lists.
I’ve even loved the pictures.
Some of them are lovely; they are.
The surfaces of most things
are lovely.

But this sofa.
I mean this stage.
Bars of my cage.
I haven’t been able to pull them apart,
not for a long time.

I go clowning through my life.
What do you think of the sad lion
that you see before you?
Are you my keeper?
Are you my keeper?
Are you my keeper?

19 Nov 2006, 9:09pm
Writing
by David

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Hôtel Nouvel

I think it’s nice now

just never felt that the lobby could hold
You sleeping and me sleeping
Still in our chairs this much later
After the gondola light of downtown pullses
into the glass doors.

At ten o’clock. At 2 o’clock
The Porters’ carts
Brush by now and some are
Neatly arranged by the elevator
(burnished glow in the elevator
door,tallow,You going over/upsetting a lamp
)

I’m trying
I say now it’s no crisis

But the out-of-town couple ready to check in
for the day
They’re looking rather defiant. Happy

you say
Everything is set
Give me that key junior

He has his hand on her neck.
She’s not backing into his knee, exactly.
Not backing.
Though we couldn’t tell, very well,
from this sleepy angle,
whether they were walking,
Or waltzing

But 20 stories above
It’s Less confused
The clean sheets and the hot water
The good view
not a concern of ethics
Not many colors;sculpting
Reds and bronzes
Same in the tapestries on the walls

And on the walls
Which are just
a few feet away

18 Nov 2006, 12:30am
Other
by David

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Concordance

So I found this cool SQL query, that counts the number of occurrences of specific words in a database. Here’s what I’ve pulled so far, for dummy.