NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE ~

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T O U R

JUSTICE ~

R E A D      M E

RICHARD PRINCE ~

AGNES MARTIN ~

GEORGE CONDO ~

GERHARD RICHTER ~

ARCHIVE ~

F U R T H E R

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LUKE KELLY ~

LONNIE JOHNSON ~

TWENTY MILLION WITNESSES ~

Satire from The Borowitz Report

Twenty Million Witnesses Come Forward Claiming They Saw Kavanaugh Lie Under Oath

By Andy Borowitz

1:13 P.M.

Photograph by Saul Loeb / Bloomberg / Getty

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—As the F.B.I. hurries to complete its supplemental background check of the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, twenty million witnesses have come forward claiming that they saw Kavanaugh lie under oath.

According to the witnesses, they can remember the place where they saw Kavanaugh lie, a hearing room in the United States Senate, and the exact date and time, this past Thursday afternoon.

Despite the striking similarity of their stories, the twenty million witnesses to Kavanaugh’s mendacity said that they were having trouble getting in touch with the F.B.I., even though lying to the Senate is a federal crime and thus within the Bureau’s jurisdiction.

“I called my local F.B.I. office and was told to call the Bureau’s toll-free tip line,” Harland Dorrinson, a resident of Toledo, Ohio, said. “I did that, but the mailbox for Kavanaugh tips was full.”

Carol Foyler, a Mobile, Alabama, resident who said that she, too, witnessed Kavanaugh lie under oath, expressed frustration at the artificial deadline of the F.B.I.’s probe. “One week is not nearly enough time to interview twenty million people,” she said.

In Washington, Senator Lindsey Graham furiously rejected the witnesses’ version of events, arguing, “This is a classic case of he-said/twenty million said.”

“If lying in the United States Senate is a crime, none of us is safe,” Graham added.

• Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling author of “The 50 Funniest American Writers,” and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news, for newyorker.com.

JESSE WINCHESTER ~

HEAVEN LAKE (1) ~

Starting next Monday the

Birdhouse will show

all the poems from

Bob's most recent

book of poems

BUD POWELL ~

MICHAEL HELLER ~

Orion In December

                            Charles Burchfield's painting and note

"tortured by a multitude of thoughts,"


he lay awake, looking at luminous sky


"black studded caves" of night


first two emerging stars


then a third, Orion's belt


"peace and comfort"


came with recognition,


with resolution and familiarity,


"some Being saying 'All is well' "


                                                 .   .   .



This night, Orion


enormous in the East


—tremulous sky


pines dark

against starlight

—the constellations


no longer testify

even as they offer

"diadems"


the word cries out

thrall of space


but legato to emptiness


learning


that brought us close,


companionate


with loneliness


even as we pointed


to clustered stars


in those dark nights,


soulless nights


of stellar distances



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Michael Heller
DIANOIA
Night boat Books
2016

JASPER JOHNS ~

Yale
2017

I CAN'T QUIT YOU, BABY ~

O T I S     R U S H

M A R T Y     B A L I N

F  A  R  E  W  E  L  L

BE WITH ~

Field flecked purple with nightshade

and lupine. Ruby-throated bird

at the bottlebrush bloom. One's

own mediocrity sharpens it.





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Forrest Gander
Be With
New Directions
2018

ABODE ~

Meanwhile, back to Thursday. I’m sure at age 14, where Kavanaugh likes to begin things, he was a good boy, a good son, to his dominating judge mother with the frizzled bleach blonde hair and the somewhat submissive father Kavanaugh obviously looked up to. You want to honor this boy who mowed lawns and tried to use his parents as fine role models. There is no doubt he is compulsive and worked against his own type to achieve what he had for goals, and without a doubt he has suffered psychologically with these pressures, which came on in full display during his Thursday combative tour de force. There we saw Scott Fitzgerald’s Crack-Up in full force inelegance. In fact, with both Ms Ford, and Kavanaugh’s primal testimonies we seemed to have a moment of exorcism where we saw the 15 year old girl Chrissie appear in the voice and even appearance (in and out) of Ms Ford, and damn straight we saw the petulant, preppy, jock swagger 17 year old Kavanaugh. It was astonishing to see. This is what human science has forecasted when rock bottom is reached with identity. I don’t know about you, but two minutes into Ms Ford’s testimony, and agony, Susan and I both had tears welling up in our eyes. For her, for us, for everybody. It was a declarative human moment. In Kavanaugh, straightening his name plate, his paper work, anal to a fault when he arrived at the table to begin his testimony, I said to Susan, “Here he comes and the game face is on.” He then proceeded to prove to everyone why he should never be a judge, a coach, or a teacher, anywhere. He should return home to Ashley and his two daughters and rebuild what is probably a ruined abode.

photo

New York Times

THE BOOK ~

Translated by Aaron Kerner

R E A D      M E

David R. Godine

2018

NIGHT HAWKS ~

Scribner

 2018

Charles Johnson Reads "Night Hawks," an Original Short Story from Humanities Washington on Vimeo.