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some overly complicated valentine's day cards (both real and imagined)
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- a rockin'-heart e-card
- sent via amazon. the heart lobs up and down as the card bubbles a
merry tune. the whole thing is so garish that it's almost deleted. but
that would be a mistake. one click reveals classified nuclear secrets of
the chinese, french, and canadian governments.
- on seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful april morning
- illustrated, typeset, and hand-bound, but not professionally so. two
layers of paper for each page -- inside, the illustrations on pale green
parchment, and outside, the text on translucent blue vellum.
- a tan, smooth card
- of human skin, stretched on a frame of recycled aluminum. a small,
heart-shaped mole is bristly with hairs. the message, written in 18th
century cursive with a dip pen, invites the reader to drinks on the
townspeople.
- a drunken, sloppy, dribbling note
- declaring neverending love. how permanently we forget.
- music
- that old rodgers and hart tune, a cappella. rehearsed for over
two months, finished in less than two minutes. sappy as all git out.
appreciated, but not reciprocated.
- me
- wearing bulky sweater, camped in front of your very bourgeois
one-level brick house in bloomington, indiana. with me is a transportable
shrine, containing all your books and interviews. let me in, please, i
bang on your door. i will write, self-consciously, about the experience
later, in an attempt to dull the creepiness.
- seven-course dinner
- with beluga caviar, a delicate oyster soup, pumpkin-stuffed
beet-and-spinach ravioli, and a berry torte. homemade. i suppose this
isn't really a card.
- two tickets to rome
- rome, pennsylvania, that is. population four hundred and seventy
five in 1990. bed, breakfast, antique-shopping, and the like.
- fires of the alaskan wilderness
- burning with the fuel of newly opened oil reserves. words in the
flame are visible from orbiting spacecraft. they declare: "oh gale my
love! this is how my heart feels for you! you and the elderly in
california!"
- this
- for you, just you. happy valentine's.