i'll be sharing

Started by jenkins, May 20, 2014, 01:22:41 PM

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jenkins



first book with literally a shout bin conversation

wilder


jenkins

xx

two of the best self-descriptions i've coined are "desperate questions, deeper needs" and "interior validation." yet also i remember after My Autobiography Is My Manifesto: Volume One in 8.5x11", which is still and always will be the most outrageous physical design of my life, one i've already written about making in three other books, and the only book i've made not still on sale, i was talking to my friend who owns it and i was you know so embarrassed about it and he said "isn't it what we most love" and he's actually successful btw and interior validation is true but god the pressure that gets released when a person says a nice thing

WorldForgot

Yesh!! Can't wait to set it beside Larry

jenkins

I'm building a collection of ten poems I'm going to publish on my bday, and I have two friends who will share their own ten. it's just for kicks. I'm sharing this one because it has an Arrival diss

Quote Something Like an Explosion But Not Exactly, Although I'm in Too Much of a Hurry to Stop and Further Explain

I keep suspecting that when I reach the pearly gates Saint Peter
Might ask me if I watched enough Indonesian movies, and I
Must be prepared to tell him that I tried my damn hardest
To watch as many movies as I could. The best life is many lives,

So watch many movies about other lives, since you only live once:
Sheer logic. Every time I begin writing I end up writing about myself.
All of my writing is the continuing adventures of my search for an
Escape from an existential labyrinth. I feel trapped with my life and

I write myself escape routes. I won't die thinking about grammar! I'll die
In an existential maze, with the real exit right around the corner, almost
Made it. I was just about to watch Denis Villeneuve's Arrival but I died
First, oops. No one cares, and I've never committed desperation without

Intentional humor. Never having not been hysterical, I'm used to it.
I'm singing my farewell song as this flaming ship sinks. And what do
The flames matter to a sinking ship? Approaching my end, here I go!
What's inevitable is inevitable, and I'm more a man of lyrics than melody.

Robyn

Love it!!

"I feel trapped with my life and I write myself escape routes."

jenkins

thanks and now you're my favorite

jenkins

this one has a literary reference

QuoteThe Beach Scene

On occasion I want something
Until I have it, and then I regret

Having wanted it. On occasion I
Write a line that doesn't refer

To the previous line. On occasion
I'm trying to flee from a previous

Line. On occasion I'm wanting to find
A way to flee from myself. You know,

I used to treat the epigraph for Sam
Shepard's The One Inside seriously, its

David Foster Wallace quote, "Why
Does no one take you outside and

Tell you what is coming?" But now
I think that question is hilarious.

Have you ever tried to tell someone
What life feels like? And when you

Told them, did they know what to do
With that information? Well, for me

Personally, my feelings are
Abstractions, accidental secret

Riddles that make people scratch
Their noggins if anything. Exactly.

jenkins



title inspired by Nancy drew book titles. this cover keeps reaching a final draft, current

WorldForgot

Fuego!! I did a google search for it as if I could have it teleported onto a bookshelf.

jenkins

xx. my ten poems are done but I can't be like "hey I know we set a later completion date but I'm done now so hurry up" lol right. so now I've gotten around to the title and cover. another cover was brewing but Alessandra threw down her friend's painting and it just does look exactly like the cover of a poetry book to us. it'll be matte 6x9. total poetry book

again, this cover had like five final drafts, and I almost changed this one too but I think I'll leave it. I had been thinking about "The Endless Mystery of Everything Everywhere" or "The Eternal Mystery of Everything Everywhere" and while timelessness does apply to the situation I'm not sure it belongs in the title.

jenkins

this is actually my friend's poem. he's buying a house with his wife and they can't afford LA so they're looking elsewhere. the bold is my emphasis because this line just cracks me up

Quote
We might be moving
out of the city—
already left Hollywood proper a few years back
in favor of the cheaper seats in NoHo
Now we're aiming for cheaper still
this move runs counter to everything I believed in five years ago
hell, even two years ago I was hesitant to move to here
Now we're looking at places like
Lake Hughes
Filmore
Frazier park
the country basically
California country
of which I have experience camping in but not so much like day to day
And like I said, this is unlike the near past me
I never even knew about nature 'til last year and now I can't shut up about it
always telling people how nature's the answer to our troubles
indigenous ways and respect for all things
corporations are a scourge
But look at me, going on about it to you
you've heard all that shit before
You even have your life all figured out
Well, 
           I'm still working things out on my end, but
some future awaits me
Maybe one day
                in a snowy land of California hillbillies you'll see me
standing in the yard
looking as lost and out of place as I am write now

I don't know if "write now" is a typo or not but I don't want to ask him about it so I'm leaving it

WorldForgot

Dang, I like how that unspoolz.

Quote from: jenkins on February 09, 2021, 09:09:41 PM
I don't know if "write now" is a typo or not but I don't want to ask him about it so I'm leaving it

lol ~

jenkins


WorldForgot

Gonna get this later in the month ^_^
Hype to read. Congratz on another release!