orangefrobro:

What a b what a b what a beauty
What a b what a b what a a
What a beauty beauty be
What a beauty beauty be
What a beauty beauty beauty be be be
What a be what a b what a beauty
What a b what a b what a a
What a be be be be be
What a be be be be be
What a be be be be be be be a beauty be be be
What a beauty.

(via tweedarms)

bartleby-company:

Morpurgo - Marinetti - Il Fuoco delle Piramidi (by Iliazd)

some of my best friends are concrete poetry.

(via thegameofart)

We aren’t going to be long-lined about this
Or the poetic equivalent of dramatic
And it’s Tumblr that capitalizes the first letter
Of every line, I want to make that clear

It’s the “holidays” (read: Christmas with respectful, deferential exceptions if you’ve got your own other thing
But it’s Christmas that’s ubiquitous and uquittably the baseline
Like grass or asphalt)

So what that means is you miss someone
Or you’re with someone you would miss if you weren’t
But if so then you are probably at
Each other’s throats
Because that’s the way it often so often works
(where “works” is in quotes implied because
it is dysfunctional as they come)
You might be better missing them

Give it a human break if you can
Remember
To

Because this is how expectations
Own us. Humans. Never shall it be
All that we might hope it.
Hope is perfect as no night can ever be

The exchange of money for
Goods is always handy. And never adequate.

This occurs to me on the road.
Families proximate
Love practically set aside for logistics in raising
Rituals enshrined in catalogs
To a most intimate group choreography
Carving
Stocking
Presents
Joy(?)

Just another night.
Best to
Make it a
Good one on its
Own not some
Commercial epic.

Mikl-em, 2012.12.24.
Top of mind, riding in the Mazda 3

“Many interactive exhibits at the Oakland Museum. Wonderful places to sit and look and add your thoughts.” Via my friends at gallerystar (who make kick-ass software for art galleries)

staff:

A gift for New York verse enthusiasts: Tumblr and Knopf Books are sponsoring “A Celebration of Poetry” at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe on Monday, April 23. Featured readers include Poet Laureate Philip Levine, 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith, and two poets from the Tumblr community, namely Saeed Jones and Karolina Manko. The event is open to the public and starts at 7pm. Meanwhile, check out more poetry on Tumblr.

Happy poetry month! If you are in NYC tumblr’s co-sponsoring this

“Building the Inside Outside” by mikl-em (read by the same).

This is a poem that I wrote/read 9 years or so ago at 21 Grand in Oakland. I have a couple old readings which i made mp3s of way back when. It’s not the best recording, but I think it’s passable.

It’s of a sort of content-less poem I like to write. All implication, no fact. All candy bar wrapper which makes its own candy with no actual ingredients. In this case it’s political gesture or signification and no real concept or critique, which makes its own critique.

And by that I mean also that it is supposed to be fun as a priority. And funny.

When I re-listened to it recently, I realized it was oddly apt (my favorite kind of apt) given our weird political moment.