https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-1852-week-of-nbsp-01-02-12 en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:15:29 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13085-a-man-in-love-goes-for-a-hike https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13085-a-man-in-love-goes-for-a-hike Plures Mens Mercieca, Andrew Mosquitobytes Volume 15: Penitus Visum - 2012 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:50:03 GMT /section-812-mosquitobytes-volume-15-penitus#comments 6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13085 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13085 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13085 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13072-family-man https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13072-family-man  I find myself admiring the pen rather than words, its variegated casement or nib-flow; and this backlit screen of electronic wizardry: I ponder its fonts and textual functionality. I'm all for analysis these days: deconstruction, modelling, proto-typing. My triumphs are financial reconciliation, home economics, savvy investment. I can understand why the old man was prone to talk over my teenage melodies; pass comment on vocal style or production rather than sit until the music moved. I prefer parkland to moors now. Seldom stray from paths. Have forgotten the sad starry gutters. Find the suburbs soothing. Prune roses. Moderate and mediate. Abandon my bloody outbursts. I grow politic, vigilant for any advantage. I've bitten my tongue. Unclenched my fists. Knuckled down. Faced facts. Stiffened my resolve within a weathered skin. So I can watch my children dance. Be content. Clap-happy at their antics. It's not denial but containment: some utterly fierce and final beauty must surely still lurk beneath it all just prohibited and inappropriate: for their sake I learn to drip-feed love; sure and slow-burning, I self-regulate by measured degrees my relative truth, custodian now of the sweet bird of youth - kindling old flames to fire the future, doused by a new-found ocean of tears. ... more u668857 The Personal Space of U668857 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:37:00 GMT /section-449-the-personal-space-of-u668857#comments 10 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13072 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13072 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13072 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13076-a-suite-of-nothings https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13076-a-suite-of-nothings As I speak the words imprinted on your never mind, a chorus of phones wrings out indifference and hangs it in my closet. The first flush of youth pales to nonchalance, washed away by semantic swirls excreting vapid trails in wasted space.   The voice of reason floats another corpulent anomaly and settles on your bed, expecting redress. In the beginning, it was good; ergo it was not. It was all good, incomparably so, until goodness saw the light and sank its teeth into my ulterior motif. Hysteria repeats itself, its lust for life a copulative tissue that belies the taste of failure; a message mixed in rhetoric becomes forbidden fruit of echolalia. ... more laura doom Monkey sperm Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:07:15 GMT /section-534-monkey-sperm#comments 4 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13076 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13076 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13076 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13086-the-king-and-his-mistress https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13086-the-king-and-his-mistress Plures Mens Mercieca, Andrew Mosquitobytes Volume 15: Penitus Visum - 2012 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:16:43 GMT /section-812-mosquitobytes-volume-15-penitus#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13086 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13086 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13086 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13084-a-man-falls-asleep-whilst-reading-de-sade https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13084-a-man-falls-asleep-whilst-reading-de-sade Plures Mens Mercieca, Andrew Mosquitobytes Volume 15: Penitus Visum - 2012 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:49:50 GMT /section-812-mosquitobytes-volume-15-penitus#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13084 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13084 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13084 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13060-splitting https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13060-splitting A smug relief to hear he might be cheating: not me; not us; not yet. We had our doubts when she dissembled at the Resident's Meeting, concocting "business trips" for his whereabouts. They lose; we win. Is this how you compare? Perhaps, if us, you’d merely mouth good riddance, resigned, relieved; too cold to have a care; your "C'est la vie" a last indifference. But if you did ask why, I’d sigh the need to fabricate a time - a distant day some random summer hence; when meeting, we’d be strangers struck beside a river, say, or under parkland trees; amazed to find our lost beginning shock us into rewind.  ... more u668857 The Personal Space of U668857 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:42:10 GMT /section-449-the-personal-space-of-u668857#comments 10 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13060 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13060 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13060 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13078-great-to-hear-from-so-many-people https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13078-great-to-hear-from-so-many-people Obviously there isn't a mad rush of everyone returning, but there has been a steady stream and a a lot of nice notes welcoming the return of Shakespeare's Monkeys Stephan Anstey Site News Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:18:55 GMT /section-11-site-news#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13078 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13078 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13078 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13067-winter-sanctuary https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13067-winter-sanctuary My most recent poem Laurie Blum POETRY Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:07:56 GMT /section-798-poetry#comments 12 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13067 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13067 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13067 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13062-flavors-in-a-scotch-on-the-rocks https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13062-flavors-in-a-scotch-on-the-rocks In some esteem, I've seen the way A virtue fades, not mine to stay but one, though, every now and then I'd fare it well a better friend.   Christy Wells Christy's Space Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:02:55 GMT /section-816-christy-s-space#comments 7 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13062 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13062 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13062 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13068-pale-is-the-heart https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13068-pale-is-the-heart (One of my most popular poems) Laurie Blum POETRY Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:59:50 GMT /section-798-poetry#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13068 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13068 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13068 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13074-a-minor-treatise-on-cliche https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13074-a-minor-treatise-on-cliche How do you decide when to use or not use cliche? The most important thing to understand is what cliche is: replacement of thought with a shorthand representation of thought. Technically, I suppose, all writing is just that, but in the case of cliche, it's a bit more insidious. The tendency of many of us is to whip right through the thought and jot it down. Cliches are shortcuts. Instead of forming the whole thought, we skip right ahead to the description of the thought neatly provided by common words and phrases. This is the antithesis of poetry, where the thought itself is supposed to be examined and presented in a unique way. So, it is correct to say, 'it's fine to use them with a twist' -- because then what you're doing is taking advantage of the audience's prediliction to jump to conclusions based on cliche, and then leading them down a new path and opening up a new line of thought. When a cliche merely fits in the line, both literally and metaphorically, it is the sign of a lazy writer. ... more Stephan Anstey Just a Nastey Journal Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:59:28 GMT /section-30-just-a-nastey-journal#comments 10 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13074 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13074 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13074 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13064-haiku-for-winter https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13064-haiku-for-winter lips in the mirror form the lyrics silence   awake in the dark wondering what would have been if sleep held on  a perfect banana half-eaten a chimp in the mirror clean foot dirty mouth both bit tasteless mother's old journal father's story in outline form half a poem half a sketch half an hour crying a daisy in the road by the post office forgotten by everyone else giant splash icy slush  closed 'til next year, shucks little girl in blue  polkadots and pink barrettes  singing my future two orange kittens curled up together ignore tiny teacups ... more Stephan Anstey Beside the Point Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:29:02 GMT /section-822-beside-the-point#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13064 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13064 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13064 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13063-upon-realizing-winter https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-13063-upon-realizing-winter we, the sun, eat the dark star by star, for you dear moon for you dear moon, the blue sky the gray sky, the every breeze we, the sun, sip the dark night by night, for you dear moon for you dear moon, green fingers reach to warm earth, to mountain top we, the sun, dance the dark wave by wave, for you dear moon for you dear moon, the abyss the behemoth, the only deep we, the sun, become the dark word by word, for you dear moon for you.   Stephan Anstey Beside the Point Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:42:16 GMT /section-822-beside-the-point#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/13063 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/13063 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A13063