Monthly Archives: December 2008

Poets: the new novelists

Posted on December 31, 2008 by riverwriter

The Internet is rewiring our brains, according to Nicholas Carr’s July/August 2008 Atlantic Monthly article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”—I agree with Carr. Carr’s thesis is that hypertext links, like the one in the previous sentence, which give us instant … Continue reading →

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Sitting in a three-armed gown (fourth revision)

Posted on December 29, 2008 by riverwriter

The technician in the aqua lab coat summoned the balding guy with the slightly bleeding shunt in the crook of his arm, with whom I had commiserated about the insipid iodine cocktail we were both sipping: he departed clutching at … Continue reading →

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hesi—

Posted on December 28, 2008 by riverwriter

There are dreams I could conjure in these lines— walk on Mars kiss a willing stranger wear a diamond drive a Maserati cut a throat— but blood dictates another course: And so I will not kiss you Princess nor bind … Continue reading →

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