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Bought 4/24/2019 on recommendation of Geoffrey Royce.
The water’s a mossy green where the sunlight hits, but outside the direct sunlight the water’s a sooty brown, almost black.
Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”
Five hundred thousand lives ended in the blinding white flash.
October twenty-first— Ten years since the end.
Tuesday’s the last I used brown sugar.
Brown sugar
Dr. Simka
Rock Creek Park
Scotch ’n’ Soda.
Simka is holistic—he believes the building blocks to a healthy, productive lifestyle already exist within me but that I have to learn how to stack the blocks in a new way.
I lie deadened and listen, wishing my bed were a sinkhole and that I’d somehow die.
Gavril
the ten-year anniversary of Pittsburgh demoted to postjump news.
the scorched earth like a black harelip on the mouth of the Appalachian Mountains.
Gavril lives in Ivy City,
the Pittsburgh mushroom cloud
grew up in Prague, a scene-star installation artist by the time he was seventeen,
I told him if he wants pastoral imagery, then Wordsworth’s a better bet than Frost,
“Georgetown,” she says. “Ph.D. 20th-Century American Modernism. I’m a Plathist—”
scenesters
John Dominic Crossan. “My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”
the ads are better at knowing what I want than I am
an eagle-stamped shield topped by castle parapets.
the 54C—South Side to Oakland.
Nakama, Piper’s Pub, Fat Head’s.
the edge of Shadyside.
The Georgian Apartment
every tree marked with a SmartTag:
the busway gully
the paraphernalia of attaining highs vivid enough to make the streams real,
Dialysis with dopamine stims and a pack upgrade to the Adware that’s reconditioned my cravings—”
a drug abuse felony
!!
“If you don’t have that Lux shit, you burn it out and fry your head,”
We’ve all lost everything. We haven’t been uniquely chosen to suffer—”
John Berryman’s Dream Songs
“And you visit the Archive of Pittsburgh through your Adware, to relive your life there, and you use stimulants to heighten your experience of the City—”
“You don’t want to die,”
healthy immersion.
You don’t want to die.”
Do less Facebook, Do more Faithbook.
His knee-jerk reaction was to prescribe Zoloft and sign off on pharmaceutical app reconditioning.
Change is possible, Dominic, but it has to be a total change, body and soul—a reawakening. You, for instance.
I don’t believe group therapy will help you. I don’t believe Zoloft is a responsible long-term solution. These methods are a foundation built on sand, meant to treat symptoms, not the underlying causes.
Kramerbooks & Afterwords for dinner—a café and bookstore, a haunt of students and the chic intelligentsia, young professionals, writers.
“Waverly,”
He can release you from all these restraints, freeing you to take care of your own health, find your own change, pursue your own happiness.
a survivor of Pittsburgh, chair of the Human-Computer Interaction program at Carnegie Mellon, work in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology for DARPA. Developer of something called precognitive bypass communication.
Christ buoyancy
