Factotum

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start.

This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your own mind.
It could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean derision.
It could mean mockery. Isolation.

Isolation
is the gift. All the others are tests of your endurance. Of how much
you really want to do it. And you’ll do it, despite rejection in the
worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.

If you’re going to try, go all the way.

There’s
no other feeling like that, you will be alone with the gods and the
nights will flame with fire. You’ll ride life straight to perfect
laughter.
It’s the only good fight there is.

The four hundred hour work week

Ein ganz großartiges Gedicht von Robert Bruces indischen, chinesischen und schimpansischen Kollegen:
Robert Bruce | Knife Gun Pen | The Four Hundred-Hour Workweek

Around six months ago
I began outsourcing
the writing of poems
to an Indian call center

My account executive there
placed me with a fine young
gentleman working the phone
from his home in a
suburb of Calcutta

It took some time
and several false starts
but he’s finally
coming around
figuring out my style
understanding the
complicated culture
that is
American
Poetry

Fortsetzung hier.
Zum bessere Verständnis: 4HWW.

Eistage

(Gigantisches Bild (cc) Jessica DeWinter)

Hey
Eismann!
Gib mir sofort mein Eis zurück
Sonst schlag ich dir
die Fresse ein.

NTV

(Bild (cc) sepulture)

NTV - ihr geht mir auf den Geist
ich kann Euch nicht mehr seh´n
meine Antenne
ist abgebrochen.

Hundstage

Der Hund der Hure
hat mich gebissen
Le chien de la pute
ich mag ihn nicht.