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I Am Not a Writer

31 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Mark Snyder in poetry

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flarf, Inspired Kathy, poetry, writing

Today I discovered I am not a writer.

Sure I try- 300 words a day.

I consider myself to be a pretty conservative reader
and admit there are fairy tales & books with happy endings.

A strange imprisonment.

I try not to let them get to me.

I am a real person.

I’m a biter.

I’m in love with my husband and kids.
(I promised my family I wouldn’t talk about my nose ring.)

I am a reluctant bachelorette.

I am currently writing the second book. This one takes place right after the events of the first book.
Zak and Lisabeth put their void where prohibited by law.

I enjoy reading, acting, portrait painting, directing plays, cooking, planning elaborate parties and chasing my lucky bird.

This is embarrassing since I am among friends.

I grew up in Maine.

I’m planning to write a collective voice of nagging naysay that convinces me that I might as well just pack up my typewriter and go home.

Does that mean I’m working in public relations at General Electric?

I’m a procrastinator.
I’m a speaker.
I am an English writer, not a British one.
I’m a pussy.
I am dashingly handsome.
I’m a doctor.

I’m not the only one bothered by letting guilt finally force me to do something, anything…

I’m not a writer.

 

– by Inspired Kathy (author of iamareader.com), the authors of several other web pages whose identities were lost in the creation of this flarf poem, and Mark Snyder.

Stateless

31 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Mark Snyder in poetry

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aleatoric, poetry

 

artist question

vexed writers-

a luxuriant leitmotif

most unsettling,

a foreshortened image

challenging death,

timelessly feeling.

 

a secretive confidante,

sinuously sacrificial war-

explosive suicide,

vivid ashes

trifling displacement.

 

grandiose bureaucratic neighbors

with embittered humor.

 

anonymously stateless fugitives.

 

Landscape

31 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Mark Snyder in Art, painting

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abstract, art

image

Acrylic on canvas, 18″ x 24″
December 31, 2012

Degenerate Art

30 Sunday Dec 2012

Posted by Mark Snyder in Art, painting

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abstract, art, color field, Degenerate Art, Entartete Kunst

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Acrylic on canvas, 18″ x 24″
December 30, 2012

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Still Life by Sam Taylor-Wood

27 Thursday Dec 2012

Posted by Mark Snyder in Uncategorized

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art, Sam Taylor-Wood, still life

Still Life by Sam Taylor-Wood

I spent the day with my kids at the North Carolina Museum of Art.  They had (among other things) a special exhibition of still life paintings from Cezanne, Renoir, O’Keefe, etc.  A *lot* of paintings of fruit bowls and baskets.  

Toward the end of the exhibition there was a monitor playing this film.  After viewing it (twice) we went backwards and looked at all those other fruit bowls again.  As you might expect, the film had a dramatic effect on how I saw the other paintings.  

 

Monochrome #5 (purple)

26 Wednesday Dec 2012

Posted by Mark Snyder in Art, painting

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art, monochrome, painting, purple

image

Acrylic on canvas, 18″ x 24″
December 26, 2012

Fearful symmetry

22 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by Mark Snyder in poetry

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aleatoric, poetry

hungry,

fearful symmetry-

snarling,

dying centerpiece,

confrontation-

wary celebration,

overwhelming feast.

 

chasms,

lust narrative.

 

lamentable

faith experimenter,

promiscuous essence:

curiosity,

imagination,

spirituality,

exploitation.

 

misleading,

wrecked,

wounded.

 

remorseless

animal ingenuity,

reflex error

perfectly alternates activity.

 

magical bioluminescent

affectionate genuine

wrested meaning.

 

We need nothing higher.

 

Monochrome #4 (lavender)

22 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by Mark Snyder in Art, painting

≈ 5 Comments

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abstract, color field, lavender, painting

image

Acrylic on canvas, 18″ x 24″
December 22, 2012

Monochrome #3 (red)

22 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by Mark Snyder in Art, painting

≈ 2 Comments

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abstract, monochrome, painting, red

image

Acrylic on canvas, 18″ x 24″
December 22, 2012

Monochrome #2 (blue)

22 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by Mark Snyder in Art, painting

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abstract, blue, monochrome, painting

image

Acrylic on canvas, 18″ x 24″
December 22, 2012

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