On Flying and Crying

Pixie Remix

Wednesday August 3, 2011

Die Forelle Remix

Wednesday August 3, 2011

- crying mantra -

Monday March 7, 2011

i cry when i am tired
i cry at cnn
i cry when i am posing
i cry about the distance to my family
i cry when i think about my dad’s future
i cry about the relationship between my dad and my brother
i can cry when i am really happy,
i cry when my heart is open
i cry at art inside and that i can’t express my experience to the artist
i cry when i am selfish
i cry when my goddaughter hugs me
i cry when i feel the universe is too big
i cry because of true love
i cry because of everything
i cry because of true love
i cry when i see a love story
i cry when i hear sensible music
i cry after a huge orgasm
i cry after a huge orgasm
i cry when i hear chello
i cry when i really feel that someone loves me
i cry when i have an ethical dilemma,
i cry when i have to make a decision and see no solution
i cry at the ifs
i cry of exhaustion
i cry at my face
i cry at orphans
i cry watching sad movies
i cry at true stories
i cry at injustice
i cry for no reason
i cry watching happy movies
i cry because of a heightened hormone level
i cry imagining someone dying
i cry when someone’s elses father dies
i cry because of beauty
i cry because i feel left behind
i cry when i am lonely
i cry

Rene Magritte

Wednesday December 22, 2010
Friday December 10, 2010
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chinese poet Tu Fu:

Brimmed Whole

A river moon only feet away, storm-lanterns

alight late in the second watch….Serene

flock of fists on sand —egrets asleep when

a fish leaps in the boat’s wake, shivering, cry.

Translated by David Hinton

Friday December 10, 2010

September 4th, 2003 (Grafton, Illinois on the Mississippi River)

Wednesday December 8, 2010

On september 4th 2003 while picking up garbage on the Mississippi river I was hit in the face by an Asian Flying Carp.  I had to get 9 stitches and I was billed 2000 US dollars.  The species were introduced to the eco system in the 1990’s to help manage imbalanced algae levels.  As the story goes the non-native species introduced to the foreign eco system becomes the invasive, unstoppable and irreversible species.  20 years later the US and Canada are still taking desperate measures to stop the carp from invading the great lakes.  While my personal anecdote is rather funny it is in fact a consequence of an environmental tragedy.  These Asian flying carp are metaphorical representations of many horrific happenings in the world.  By displacing them from their natural habitat they were made into essentially helpless monsters accused of ruthless invasion.  

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