Archive for July 2003

Doing Things

By Joshua Chalifour, 24 July 2003

X - Get up!
Y - No, get off me
X - Why don’t you just stand up?
Y - Nevermind me.
X - Don’t you remember–the list?

Listening to Grappelli

By Joshua Chalifour, 9 July 2003

Grappelli is in a corner
of the apartment

his sound pervades the place,
though He evades it completely.

like he slipped in
when the curtains wavered forward
like his notes slip past
their green cloth corners.

–he’s in the room
I’m watching the curtain swing

some more.
Grapelli smiles a little with
fingerish ease.

the curtains role–
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Too Many Birds in Montréal?

By Joshua Chalifour, 6 July 2003

Suppose there were no rules in the parks? Anything could happen–public indecency, everyday, right there and exposed to our eyes.