Pre-Owned Discount DVDs at Dollar General & Other Places

[rowens]

The ice finally broke on the Yugosha River
after a deep, sturdy winter;
I know this because a friend that lives there
sent me a picture, in the first slushy moments
while the sun slanted against the empty water.

I remembered it when I looked through the rows,
rows and stacks, stacks of rows of movies,
caseless in yellow paper sleeves
with clear parts showing the DVD
like the clear parts of Dorito bags
that used to show you what you were getting.

Something that would remind me of cold weather
and night, like Fargo, or, I think,
that one called The Night Listener,
or the swedish vampire movie with the little girl
and the boy where he's getting bullied.
I thought of The Thing, or one I saw one time
with Ron Perlman and a team of scientists
somewhere in Alaska.

I thought they would have Gremlins or something like that,
though I already have that one;
but they had I [heart] Huckabees which I liked
in my philosophical days.

So I went home and watched the vampire movie,
because they did have that.

[newsclippings]

You took the next step and made mindless musings readable.

[billy]

i enjoyed the winter train of thought and the trip though some horror classics.

the 1st stanza was the best for me though the rest was okay as well

[Erthona]

Seems to need more sticky stuff, like the glue they use to paste on DVD labels when you get them in boxes and not just sleeves of pirated movies. Not that movies shouldn't be pirated; which really is a victimless crime, unless you count the losses to mega corporations, and multimillion dollar stockholders. By the time the loss (which is taken as a tax loss anyway) trickles down to average stock holders the effect could be counted in pennies using less than the full complement of fingers on one hand. You know the type, rich people, that the government calls middle class, who see most if not all of the profits from stock eaten up by taxes, kind of riding on the coattails of the Sisyphean archetype, or some other academic word that has nothing to do with reality and the poor who have nothing much the government can take, and who the government calls lower class, as if their humanity is somehow worth less than the humanity of the giant tit called the middle class, or the extremely rich, who the government labels as tax free because their money is the engine that powers the economy, which of course is another of those academic metaphors that has nothing to do with reality...mostly.

dale the poor

[rayheinrich]

Seems to need more sticky stuff, like the glue they use to paste on DVD labels when you get them in boxes and not just sleeves of pirated movies. Not that movies shouldn't be pirated; which really is a victimless crime, unless you count the losses to mega corporations, and multimillion dollar stockholders. By the time the loss (which is taken as a tax loss anyway) trickles down to average stock holders the effect could be counted in pennies using less than the full complement of fingers on one hand. You know the type, rich people, that the government calls middle class, who see most if not all of the profits from stock eaten up by taxes, kind of riding on the coattails of the Sisyphean archetype, or some other academic word that has nothing to do with reality and the poor who have nothing much the government can take, and who the government calls lower class, as if their humanity is somehow worth less than the humanity of the giant tit called the middle class, or the extremely rich, who the government labels as tax free because their money is the engine that powers the economy, which of course is another of those academic metaphors that has nothing to do with reality...mostly.

dale the poor

Poetry demarcated in blue.
The rich are vampires; there is no right one to let in.

[Erthona]

"The rich are vampires; there is no right one to let in. "

Yes, but they can suck you dry from far away, using their hypnotic mind control to convince you that you must have the next...whatever. And so you find your money gone, and nothing real in exchange, except a false sense of superiority, or as they say in the trade, "Dick Augmentation!"

dale the poor

[rowens]

I don't care about money. Only nerds and attractive people need it.

[Keith]

The first stanza had me on the hook...but I got away, if you could condense S2 S3 and S4 into two stanzas and return me to the Yugosha river before the close I would have been back on the hook. Best Keith

[rowens]

That was somewhat my intention. That the speaker was more interested in watching a movie than actual things out in the world. Besides, all he had was a picture of it anyway.

I could write a poem about the river. But it would have a different theme than bargain DVDs. The rows of DVDs were the yellow flowers in this nature poem.

[rayheinrich]

The ice finally broke on the Yugosha River
after a deep, sturdy winter;
I know this because a friend that lives there
sent me a picture, in the first slushy moments
while the sun slanted against the empty water.

I remembered it when I looked through the rows,
rows and stacks, stacks of rows of movies,
caseless in yellow paper sleeves
with clear parts showing the DVD
like the clear parts of Dorito bags
that used to show you what you were getting.

Something that would remind me of cold weather
and night, like Fargo, or, I think,
that one called The Night Listener,
or the swedish vampire movie with the little girl
and the boy where he's getting bullied.
I thought of The Thing, or one I saw one time
with Ron Perlman and a team of scientists
somewhere in Alaska.

I thought they would have Gremlins or something like that,
though I already have that one;
but they had I [heart] Huckabees which I liked
in my philosophical days.

So I went home and watched the vampire movie,
because they did have that.

Forgive me, I was so distracted by wealth and vampires that
I forgot to mention your poem. What I especially liked was
how you used the titles/films as symbols of meaning, as the
language you used to write the poem. So much resonance!
(Have written a note to myself, must remember this.)

[Erthona]

I don't care about money. Only nerds and attractive people need it.

As Hesse noted in Siddhartha, one only cares about money, for itself, once one has it. People without money care about being fed...

dale@dollar.general/tuesday/evening

[rowens]

I'm good at waiting, thinking and fasting. I'm not as good at fasting as I used to be, but sometimes I don't have a choice.

[Erthona]

Forced fasting is just called starving. I don't do that well. When I worked at the hospital, my check would often be a negative number due to all the money they were taking out for experimental government programs, but my gross would be too high for food stamps. I would raid the snack areas on each floor and get these small peanut-butter and jelly packets. I would mix them together in a cup and est that. Kind of like a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich without the bread, that and a large cup of ice to chew on would get me through the day. It wasn't living, but it wasn't starving.

dale@saintmarks.center/for/the/undilating

[rowens]

Last week I had a whole stock of canned tuna fish. This week I have a bag of store brand chex mix, and a box of salisbury steak I've been saving for a special occasion.

[Erthona]

Wow, they have Salisbury steak in a box, I'll have to steal some...er, uh, I mean buy some next time I'm at the grocery store. I have to save what tuna I get for the cat, or he will attack my privates when I am sleeping, because he can smell it on my breath and know I didn't give him some...sometimes it's almost worth it.All this talk of food is making hungry, I'm going to have to go make me a cockroach pie, with maybe half a can of tuna mixed in...or maybe peanut-butter.


dale@HEB.grocerystore/forzenfoodsaisle/...withabigcoaton/

[newsclippings]

In college I would save all my money for alcohol instead of food. These days I kinda just don't eat. Not really sure what's up.

[rowens]

When I have money I buy things, when I don't have money I write things. Some might rather I had money than write, but it seems little difference to me. They should just give me money or shut up.

[Erthona]

Probably either stomach cancer, analrexia or bulklemia.

dale@hospitalsuckingfreeinternet.waitingroom