Monday, February 2, 2009

Tell It Slant...and Slithering




Your perfect happiness is--clasping cerulean
As it crawled along the side of the road.
Underneath of homeless signs I've overlooked,
Eager to return to the stove's boiling pot,
This blue plastic snake, that you washed
In your black volcanic soap--yes, the exhaust,
The traffic was advancing at a crawl--your waving
Arm and bent divining rod wears away error.
Just when I cease to lose sight of the focus
The morning's cobbling of blue pills in a drug crisis
These sideways corrections of the therapist,


Our travels are, as such, lengthwise and legless.



14 comments:

Σφιγξ said...

How I would currently express this past month, "doing the crawl."

Σφιγξ said...

Unrelated, although often anticipated:

http://stardate.org/

Σφιγξ said...

http://www.northwestherps.com/skiltonianus.html

Σφιγξ said...

"Cerulean" is a color I love to see and say. I relish the opportunity to unpack it.

Diazepam, a South American warbler, are cerulean.

Σφιγξ said...

http://www.1ameds.net/images/dipezona10all.jpg

It makes the WHO's Essential Drugs list.

Σφιγξ said...

For the expanding pharmacopeia
/pharmacopoeia, and nothing else.

I was looking at an article, "The True Cost of Generic Drugs" and I was trying to decide if the tesselated blue pills were valiums, but scored-side down.

Like this:
http://www.kmhk.kmu.edu.tw/medhome/Intra_med/med_o/search/images/d/diazepam2mg2.jpg

Σφιγξ said...

Ah, Schiffermüller's "fire blue"

Σφιγξ said...

www.cabinetmagazine.org

Σφιγξ said...

http://books.google.com/books?id=OTOFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT67&dq=Ancient+Evenings+snake&hl=en&output=html_text&sa=X&ei=N1k-VJKtDIXEggTFhIKACg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA

Σφιγξ said...

http://online.wsj.com/articles/meryle-secrest-reveals-the-truth-behind-the-legend-of-designer-elsa-schiaparelli-1413307251

A see a translation here.

Σφιγξ said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Z2FH1eoV0

Σφιγξ said...

Pharmacological management of anxiety is a lesser cure than dealing with the root causes. For me, it is delay and/or confusion.

Σφιγξ said...

https://books.google.com/books?id=f54lEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA97&dq=Pump+pump+pump+%22the+single+ventricle+is+at+least+partially+divided+by+a+wall-like+septum%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ov2=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjl4MjwzNT_AhWcD1kFHSsYB3YQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Pump%20pump%20pump%20%22the%20single%20ventricle%20is%20at%20least%20partially%20divided%20by%20a%20wall-like%20septum%22&f=false

Σφιγξ said...

https://books.google.com/books?id=vbFVEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

When I go back to work Thursday, we will have three LVADs and I will have charge and a student. Whew! Lvads require q4 documentation as inpatients and sterile dressing changes. Blood. Antibiotics, often.