Sharp guys
2026
Thursday, September 17, 2026
HEARTLAND (LARRY BIRD) ~
Larry Bird didn't participate with any interview
for this book, so the author dug in.
Atria Books, 2026
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Monday, September 14, 2026
IRA SADOFF~
Thank God they're all gone
except for one or two in Clinton Maine
who come home from work
at Scott Paper or Diamond Match
to make a few crank calls
to the only Jew in New England
they can find
These make-shift students of history
whose catalogue of facts include
every Jew who gave a dollar
to elect the current governor
every Jew who'd sell this country out
to the insatiable Israeli state
I know exactly how they feel
when they say they want to smash my face
Someone's cheated them
they want to know who it is
they want to know who makes them beg
It's true Let's Be Fair
it's tough for almost everyone
I exaggerate the facts
to make a point
Just when I thought I could walk to the market
just when Jean the check-out girl
asks me how many cords of wood I chopped
and wishes me a Happy Easter
as if I've lived here all my life
Just when I can walk into the bank
and nod at the tellers who know my name
where I work who lived in my house in 1832
who know to the penny the amount
of my tiny Jewish bank account
Just when I'm sure we can all live together
and I can dine in their saltbox dining rooms
with the melancholy painting of Christ
on the wall their only consolation
just when I can borrow my neighbor's ladder
to repair one of the holes in my roof
I see the town now from the right perspective
the gunner in the glass bubble
of his fighter plane shadowing the tiny man
with the shopping bag and pointy nose
his overcoat two sizes too large for him
skulking from one doorway to the next
trying to make his own way home
I can see he's not one of us
___________________________________
Emotional Traffic
David R. Godine, 1989
Sunday, September 13, 2026
ALICE COLTRANE THE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT ALL DAY~
Bass – Cecil McBee, Jimmy Garrison Drums – Clifford Jarvis, Ed Blackwell Piano, Harp, Percussion – Alice Coltrane Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Fife, Percussion – Pharoah Sanders Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Percussion – Archie Shepp Harmonium – Kumar Kramer Tambura [Tamboura] – Tulsi Recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, February 21, 1971
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Friday, September 11, 2026
JAMES LOOP ~
The End
remember me reader
age thirty four and naked
in a small kitchen
straining spaghetti
while reading the aeneid
to what perilous absurdities
of love and nutriment
would I not stoop
out of the hope of you
Motto
what binds
what breaks
the river
makes
the river
the river
The Alphabet
lucky us as
in its alien shrine
no one, none
boils alone
Universal Ad
sometimes it's just time
for a little something
______________________
James Loop
Metronome
Winter Editions 2026
Thursday, September 10, 2026
ITHELL COLQUHOUN ~
Ithell Colquhoun demonstrating automatic painting on BBC TV's 'The Eye of the Artist' in 1948. Photo: Getty
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Monday, September 7, 2026
Sunday, September 6, 2026
HOT FART IN THE TEMPLE (Ronald Baatz) ~
Rain
like children
running barefoot
Haiku stuck
in the cheap pen
I keep in my overcoat
Falling in her hair
snow knows the perfect path
to her spine
Saturday morning
she pushes a plum
into its own shadow
Dew caressing
a young grasshopper
its whole life ahead of it
In this unbombed part of the world
not so unusual
such huge tulips
Windy cold rain
and whatever blinking
is left in the birdhouse
Dawn
no egg
is ugly
It feels good
inhaling the birds
in the cold morning air
___________________________
Ronald Baatz
Hot Fart in the Temple
Black Fig Press 2025
blackfigpress.wordpress.com
Saturday, September 5, 2026
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