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almost i rushed from home to tell you this almost i rushed from home to tell you this this too shall pass friday february 15 2013 also social elegy i too am profoundly connected to this person who died way back when i want you to really know it feel it later remark that your heart begged no more please how you ignored it punk hunk of meat holding in gory glamour your certain death ha you could entertain then thoughts of brazil and base jumping and sweaty assignations with whoever lives in the apartment upstairs imagine what it would be to fall into nothing the excitement of another s oblivion see i am bound to that which erases to a brick wall to the weird heat of a strange bedroom light which is not light her touch will mark you you know it you know it forever i think i mentioned how often i weep and the blindness that comes then i m sure i have shared this testimony it is terrifying to unhinge my mouth but i do posted by paul at 2 36 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday june 23 2012 posted by paul at 12 12 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday april 03 2012 my grandfather my grandfather paul fred bohanon died friday in georgia almost eight hours away i couldn t make it back for his funeral today and it s depressing all my childhood he was a mythic figure a wwii veteran a businessman an alcoholic a father and so forth when i was maybe ten he allowed me to drive old trucks around chickamauga georgia motorcycles too the prologue of my memoir is about him or at least about the very certain odds of danger s lottery sooner or later our frailty is revealed often mercilessly a year after i broke my neck rip my grandfather as he was just about universally known was found in the floor of his kitchen a massive stroke having detonated within his brain he could no longer speak except to say goddammit and for twenty five years that was his word for the world along the way he lost both legs amputated due to gangrene stole his son s truck and drove it to florida i was living in tuscaloosa when that news came in that he d disappeared and what could we do but ruefully laugh and much that there s no need to recount here this brief note does him an injustice conveying no real hint of the wildman he had been all his life but in many ways i think i became a writer because of him at least in part i owe him this mindfulness tonight far away posted by paul at 8 38 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday february 14 2012 new for when you are down about various ignominious fates o bike thief in las vegas run to ground on tv by a one legged cop i will tell nobody of the shame which racked you made your mugshot a study of failed ambition aplenty but i should be honest whatever you felt however you rawly ached it won t be found here let us be clear i m making you up assigning your heart grand disappointment naming you russell or leonard maybe estus not all at once but as my mood goes i speak good advice to you with great authority in the moment you re knocked from the suburban kid s mountain bike and how could you take it you re clobbered by the young veteran his lungs about to explode into the clip on microphone i d like to step in with my mouth full of the obvious you do not want to be this when i broke my neck fez capped shriners came to our house looking old and white and sad they gave me a tv and my brother an orange foam football twenty five years later that set went dark forever and nobody would repair it i think of the day i went with my brother in his horrible camaro to buy a new television he helped me stand bracing my knees against his then we turned to the unfolded wheelchair over my brother s shoulder i could see an old man watching maybe he was a shriner too ready to come over offer his strength can i help you son when i said no his face was grave i looked down to see that my jeans had fallen and my legs were white in the sun which is a way of saying that i was half naked in a best buy parking lot once don t forget the pained old man the crappy camaro the shriners who occasioned it all well not all i too was knocked from a bike from a life once upon a time russell foolish thief i think of you each time i m caught posted by paul at 1 35 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday november 05 2011 the thought of the catacombs is was reckoning just about the best album r e m ever made maybe so i find i m still lagging behind all possible verb tenses these days this is not a complaint back from less than twenty four hours in new jersey thank you so much to a truly wonderful host of nice people at brookdale community college i had a wonderful if frenetic time there i spent a few moments on the beach pleased with the ruckus of the lapping waves i hadn t expected to stay on the beach and down the street old bars where springsteen came up we only drove by them still i fancied to feel a little of the boss and then there was tony soprano the poster in the lobby for a bus tour tempted no time amtrak never looked at my i d it is no real secret i love my kindle the new model is pretty fantastic lighter slimmer pared back i often do readings with it and just read a lot of that these days charlottesville is wonderful beautiful in this autumn a little like a dream posted by paul at 7 21 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 02 2011 kjv the link is for subscribers only but i m happy and thrilled to say that my poem after damascus is part of a feature on the king james bible in the june issue of harper s posted by paul at 10 48 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 18 2011 uva i m thrilled and honored to say that this fall i ll be joining the faculty of the creative writing program at the university of virginia posted by paul at 5 43 pm 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me paul paul guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir his debut the resurrection of the body and the ruin of the world was awarded the 2002 new issues poetry prize his second collection notes for my body double was awarded the 2006 prairie schooner book prize his third collection my index of slightly horrifying knowledge was published by ecco press harpercollins in 2008 his fourth collection because everything is terrible was published by diode editions his poems have appeared in harper s the paris review poetry tin house the kenyon review and elsewhere his memoir one more theory about happiness was published by ecco in may 2010 and selected for the barnes noble discover great new writers program the recipient of a 2011 guggenheim fellowship and a 2007 whiting writers award guest lives in charlottesville virginia view my complete profile links sterling lord literistic blue flower arts buy one more theory about happiness from amazon buy one more theory about happiness from ecco buy my index of slightly horrifying knowledge from amazon buy my index of slightly horrifying knowledge from ecco follow me on twitter facebook group page for one more theory about happiness victoria chang mark doty suzanne frischkorn jeannine hall gailey collin kelley paul lisicky diane lockward rebecca loudon keith montesano matthew nienow oliver de la paz darby sanders wendy wisner this much ado c dale young poetry daily verse daily twitter updates twitter updates follow me on twitter followers