Here’s the first poem I read at the BPC on Saturday. It’s called Osculation.
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funny experience today: art and reality
Today I was showing my CEP students the DVD “Art City: Making it in Manhattan,” a wonderful documentary that features such art luminaries as Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Elizabeth Murray, and Ashley Bickerton. In the beginning of the film, an art critic named Jerry Saltz introduces himself, saying “I’m an art critic,” and giving his phone number rather rapidly.
I made it a listening exercise for students to note down the phone number he mentioned. When we were checking answers, it seemed that their version was one digit different from what I had heard.
We could have listened again to that section of the video, but I decided that there was a more interesting way to find out which was the correct phone number: by actually calling it. First I tried my version. It rang and rang: no answer. Then I tried the students’ version, and to my surprise, a male voice answered:
Hello?
Is this Jerry Saltz?
Yes it is!
Oh, excellent! My students here at Pratt were just watching the video of Art City in which you give your phone number and we wanted to see if it worked.
He was effusive. He said he loved Pratt, that he was a Pratt person, and wanted to know what my students were studying, and mentioned that the film was made twenty years ago, and I said that it was extraordinary that he still had the same phone number. At the end of our brief conversation, he said something like “I love you: art conquers fear,” or something like that.
Then I held up my iPhone and had all my students shout HI to him.
So that’s my funny experience for the day. Can you match that?
L=A=N=G Po’s Long Run? Or time for a new moment? Mesmer & Gordon discuss….
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FOR EXPRESSION
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put on your husband pants
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When I’m infatuated
When I’m infatuated with someone, of course I want several things, but more than anything, what I really want is just to sit next to him (or, less often, her).
A Treatise on Testicles
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p.s. This is a work of appropriated collage and so it must be said that the convictions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the arranger.
silver paper hat
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Dear Fellow Eunuchs
Dear Fellow Eunuchs,
there seems to be a lot of
misunderstanding. A lot of
people may be isolated and
seeking connection to the
(eunuch’s) neo-vagina,
going so far as to tape
appropriately shaped objects
to the groin area, but really
analysis is never the role
of intellectual eunuchs or
chauvinistic meatheads.
Nothing makes a beer
taste better than a lot of
hot naked women around,
rendering a bright and
intelligent man into a withering
eunuch. Eunuch is Spanish word
for HOT! Luv U baby! Let’s dress up!
Ladies, say “no” to having uneven and
teeth-like lips! I’m more of a
Rasputin-type cult myself.
Just a Special Din
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