READING LIST
"I do not read just
write."-- P. McManus
For Badi Assad, as long
as she doesn't find out.
CD liner notes: enough to make a grown man cry.
Who IS Badi Assad, Brazilian guitarista,
a goddess and walking wet dream?
The Star-Ledger comics pages
before almost anything: the reflections
of the cat and dog in Mutts,
of the Canadians in For Better or For Worse:
these are far more relevant to my life
than Cheney's dripping fangs
he who preys by moonlit on unwary
little children and servicemen,
this creation even Anne Rice missed.
Solicitations I need to edit,
give us this day our daily crust:
how to build a sound system
for Homeland Security that will seduce
Al Qaeda into mass desertion
or enervating whack-off festivals
when we pipe in the forbidden voice
of Badi Assad (what did I do
with those samples?).
Classroom assignments--Comp, raison d'etre of
the Community College adjunct, desperately seeking
the jewel, the glint behind the eyes, the one
who catches fire and isn't thinking
"I worked all day, why am I even here,
this old fart is gonna bore my ass off."
I can't promise to do that but I'll try.
As for why you're here, any of you,
save your existential questions for after hours.
Read the way I don't.
Write for yourself.
KTW/9-13-05
--
Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
Room SW334
Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538
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