Daniel Bailey's Blog, page 40

everything is right with the world

found this on my desktop



drawing by bryan coffelt


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also, this is gonna be sweet


it's an audio zine edited by peter cavanaugh. i'll be on there along with these people (list taken from Christopher Newgent's blog): Christopher Newgent, "...Sam Edmonds, Eric Johnson, Adam Drent, David Peak, Liza Rose, Brandon Will, Galen Dekemper, Ted Barrow, maybe a Hawaiian girl from one of Peter's classes, and a few others."

this little guy features heavily in ...

mark leidner is pretty awesome/funny

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things i have in common with nicolas cage (based on the wikipedia article on nicolas cage)

we are both american

we are both "white" males

the pronoun "he," which is applied to nicolas cage throughout the article, can be applied to me

we are both presently "active"

we both enjoy science fiction

roger ebert says nic cage's acting always seems "so earnest," which i feel might apply to my poetry as well

nicolas cage once dated a woman named "elizabeth"

i plan on naming a son after superman's birthname, which nicolas cage has already done

we are both published

we have both been friends with a pe...

THE DRUNK SONNETS + art

i have 16 copies of THE DRUNK SONNETS to sell. i will autograph the copies. i will also draw a picture of your favorite alcoholic beverage or your favorite rapper on a piece of notebook paper that has been pre-soaked in cheap gin.



deal of the century, says i.

while supplies last.

$10

i drew a picture of rabbit turds

going to write a poem directly into this here blog, print a physical copy of the blog, set the blog/poem on interminable fire, mail it to the pope

every asshole should be bigger than the asshole before it
it is like a mirror inside you, said some goofy dude
who can't even spell his own name. i know what he meant
he meant shove a mountain up your foot.
dr. scholls.

lemon bars sprouting from the earth. shuffle board
lemon bars for teeth. long haired chihuahuas a-fluttering
lemon bars poisoned with pledge. hot whale orgy

this is simultaneously a death threat to the president
and a thank you letter to my mom for birthing me

you are simultaneously an...

i don't like updating my blog because when i do it's out of a sense of obligation

hello. i plan on titling my next book "poems to read out loud with your mouth" but i also plan on never writing that book.

so hello.

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here's something that makes life a little more tiny like you can hold it in your palm and let it expand some.






i feel like saying, good grief, out loud. i'm not sure if it's even necessary. the fact that necessity is even an issue, at times, seems a little unfair.






if you stood in the back of a mile-deep cave and whispered, would someone standing at the mouth of the cave be able to hear it?






***book stuff***

christopher newgent is giving you a chance to win a free, signed copy of the drunk sonnets.

*...

exhausto-blog 3000

this blog be written in a state o' exhaustion.

also, it promises to be boring enough to exhaust the reader. this is another of my methods of trying to lose readers.

classes start in a couple days. this means that pretty soon i'll start knowing what day of the week it is again.

these are the three classes i'm signed up for:

1 - poetry workshop, no doi. matthew cooperman leads workshop this semester.
2 - "in the american grain." i think it has something to do with america and words and maybe the pro...

today i flew on a plane