twofer’s account

‘seems to feel the need
to alternately praise
and spank’ – Rushdie

logging on
to twitter – another
me appears

‘just hanging out,
limning
about books’

‘a Bendel bonnet
a Shakespeare sonnet
Mickey Mouse’

the reader – ‘comparing
sea bass to shark, [ . . . ]
fish sticks to trout amandine’

bluebirds sing a name
‘Michiko Kakutani’
in a forest of bluebirds

a Van Gogh
‘blooming in a lush garden
lit by the Mediterranean’

‘tonight’s sunset -
a predictable array
of orange and red’

‘following each other
my [selves] stop
when it thunders’

self-enacting
phoenix born from fiery egg
born from phoenix dust

I ‘compare
a Givenchy frock
to a hand-sewn apron’

140 characters
‘airy and graceful as a Vivaldi
Pastorella’

‘“while explicating
the writer loses control
with willful hipness”’

‘snap your finger
stop the world’ -
writer writes

‘I can’t understand
the intention of
[virtual] reality’

the narrator, ‘a big, friendly
hound, waiting, head cocked,
for an emotional biscuit’

‘All day long
[writing a line]
that wasn’t [in] my head’

Kakutani!
‘Another [one],
Another something-or-other!’

two pearls, one oyster
oceans over necks of swine
one oyster, two pearls

‘please stop impersonating
me. I am me.’
@ActualNYTMK