https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-1356-week-of-05-05-08 en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:34:36 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8473-originality-does-it-exist https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8473-originality-does-it-exist If it's all been said and done before, than what are any of us doing Celticlion A Bunch of Monkeys Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:42:28 GMT /section-587-a-bunch-of-monkeys#comments 13 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8473 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8473 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8473 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8501-a-seagull-on-a-crowded-street https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8501-a-seagull-on-a-crowded-street draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8501 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8501 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8501 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8491-aging https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8491-aging Draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8491 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8491 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8491 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8496-and-me-red-riding-hoodless https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8496-and-me-red-riding-hoodless draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8496 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8496 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8496 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8529-belly-laughs-and-adjectives https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8529-belly-laughs-and-adjectives draft anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8529 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8529 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8529 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8486-blood-in-the-water https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8486-blood-in-the-water   Beneath time's blue umbrella, we sit spinning repeating history, her breath held nearly half a century exhales along with mine; shared smoke surrounds our mouths' found intimacy- lit long ago between sisters of chance. Two flames burning the decaying hope of daughters.   There's blood in the water, she said.   For years, each failing face kept fists hidden beneath skin, knuckles still struck secret worlds of bruised distortion, yet each public eye turned dry for fear of shame. we grew up smiling at our pain, But night grew women ... more Celticlion Loom Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-579-loom#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8486 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8486 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8486 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8499-bold-lies-and-strong-words https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8499-bold-lies-and-strong-words draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8499 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8499 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8499 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8492-brother-s-keeper https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8492-brother-s-keeper draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8492 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8492 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8492 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8500-dealing-with-god-quietly-without-prayer https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8500-dealing-with-god-quietly-without-prayer draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8500 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8500 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8500 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8498-for-the-love-of-sake https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8498-for-the-love-of-sake draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8498 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8498 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8498 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8530-i-am-invisible https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8530-i-am-invisible draft anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8530 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8530 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8530 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8516-perspectives-on-eternity https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8516-perspectives-on-eternity draft anstey Cats with Opposed Thumbs, Chalices of Mucus, and Several other Oddities to Avoid Whilst Poeting Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-509-cats-with-opposed-thumbs-chalices-of-mucus-and-several-other-oddities-to-avoid-whilst-poeting#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8516 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8516 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8516 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1580-poetry-in-the-there-and-when https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1580-poetry-in-the-there-and-when There she is, fat and sickly sweet:the here; the now.held holy by wisemen and sanctifiedin poetry I hate. All from the heart and blessed trueI spit vinegar and pukeon her ass, and call herout, the cunt she is. I dance with tomorrowand every twisted unholysinful dream -- wretched and bleeding. I lick pus from the woundbetween her legsand live there one cum after anotherher back arching as she screamsbegs -- prays for more.and more.and more. You go kiss the sow upon her fetid cheekand call her perfectas critics and cumsuckingpoets are so wont ... more ShannonV Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 8 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/1580 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/1580 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1580 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2084-politely-avoiding-the-word-hag https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2084-politely-avoiding-the-word-hag Friday will be Cheryl's birthdayaccompanied with singing,cake (sadly no singing cakes though),men in uniform,and the general wailingand gnashing of teeth that such things inevitably bring. I will have no compassion for heras she shakes and shudders in fear of gray hairwrinkles and her loudly impending death, because I am dying just as fast as she iswith none of her grace. Ok. That is a lie. I am not only younger,but far more graceful. When she was my age she was busy falling down stairsand breaking her delicate ballerina ankles. ... more Celticlion Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2084 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2084 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2084 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1493-pomp-and-circumstances-beyond-my-control https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1493-pomp-and-circumstances-beyond-my-control when she shouted,"Look who's here!"I looked over my shoulderfor George W. Bush, Fabian,or maybe Keith Richards So I asked her, "George W. Bush?"and she said"Yes, only with longer hair, more facial hair, and a bit taller, and younger. Oh, and he isn't the president, he is a poet." "How very stealthy," I mused aloud anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/1493 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/1493 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1493 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2232-pondering-how-i-m-beaten-down https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2232-pondering-how-i-m-beaten-down i have pounded my feetin time to the goatmandrums on brick streetsin boston on a monday coagulated with throngsof white men and blackmen and white girls andblack girls and browngirls and brown men andyellow girls and yellowmen like another scab to bepicked off society while the goatman drumson buckets and bucketsand pots and potsand kettles and kettlesand papers andthe ground anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2232 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2232 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2232 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1984-pondering-my-association-with-mick-dunn https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1984-pondering-my-association-with-mick-dunn Nearly a third of the blood my heart pumpsbegan as a dream in Ireland. A full eighth slogged downfrom the highlands in red wet effortto make my breath worthy of sunlight. The rest, I've heard was in a songsung by a buxom brunette from walesand a navy man from near ol'London Sloshing about inside of mewith the bits of strangersin the same odd danceall the red blood in the worldhas done since the first bald monkeywalked out of Africa,I hear their rhythmand tribal chantsand remember when my skin was brownmy spear sharp That is all that is ... more anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/1984 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/1984 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1984 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1932-pondering-the-things-we-do-not-ponder https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1932-pondering-the-things-we-do-not-ponder I do not thinki door do notthink but i do. and youi thinkdo notor i thinkyou do not thinkyou do but you do too Celticlion Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/1932 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/1932 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1932 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1052-pondering-your-body https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1052-pondering-your-body for twelve years you grew without meeven breathing the air undreamtthat was me. when you weremad with life. for 35 years you grew without meeven knowing to care untouchedthat was me when you weresad with life. for a moment, your breathing becomes shallowand you blush unspokenthat is me while you arevibrant life. unspokenthat is me anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/1052 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/1052 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1052 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1085-posthumous https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1085-posthumous in a thousand yearswhen my teddybear is in a museumwith a little placard in a language i don't know it will have my nameand say he was mineas if that alone is an achievement i will have died hundreds of years beforeunder mysterious circumstancesand have had an obituary that explainedhow I worked for a bunch of lawyers doing nothing very importanta bunch of people loved me(sort of) and it's all very sad. it will be twenty years laterbefore anyone reads a damned thing I wroteand twenty more before it means anything to anyone. And yes This is what ... more anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/1085 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/1085 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1085