Reality Sammich
Yvonne Liu (yvonneliu@yahoo.com)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:01:49 -0700 (PDT)
> Dear all,
>
> Upon the suggestion of some friends,
> I have decided to form an e-zine,
> formally known as "Reality Sammich."
>
> I have written up a very rough draft
> and statement manifesto communista.
>
> I'd appreciate any and all comments,
> as well as contributions.
>
> I will keep all posted as to my efforts.
>
> BTW, Can someone suggest a host to
> sponsor the domain?
> I'd like to have www.realitysammich.com
> but I realize I'm not as powerful as
> the almighty Zeus,
> so I'd appreciate help in this direction as well.
>
> Cheerz,
> _Yvonne_
>
> ============================================
>
> REALITY SAMMICH
> Between heaven and hell.
>
>
> " ... A naked lunch is natural to us,
> we eat reality sandwiches.
> But allegories are so much lettuce.
> Don't hide the madness ... "
>
> - Allen Ginsburg (1954)
>
>
> STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
>
> A e-magazine that strives to fill the spaces between.
>
> Keeping Things Whole
> By Mark Strand
>
> In a field
> I am the absence
> of field.
> This is
> always the case.
> Wherever I am
> I am what is missing.
>
> When I walk
> I part the air
> and always
> the air moves in
> to fill the spaces
> where my body's been.
>
> We all have reasons
> for moving.
> I move
> to keep things whole.
>
>
> Departments
>
>
> (1) Muzik
>
> Reviews of concerts, orchestral movements, and mob momentum.
> Interviews with ppl of dubious stature, questions about their personal
> hygiene.
> Highly prejudiced opines about the state of music affairs.
>
>
> (2) Words
>
> What world weary worries must one weather?
> Where would weirdos assemble?
> Who will we worship Wednesdays?
>
>
> (3) Happenings
>
> Random or cyclical events occurring in and out of the New York City
> metropolitan area.
> They may or may not include electric kool aid acid trips, psychedelic
> food fests, hallucinogenic block parties, Sideshow Mermaid Parades,
> and all that general goodness and bliss.
>
>
> (4) Aspects of Eve
>
> By Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
>
> To have been one
> of many ribs
> and to be chosen.
>
> To grow into something
> quite different
> knocking finally
> as a bone knocks
> on the closed gates of the garden-
> which unexpectedly
> open.
>
>
> (5) Brotherhood / Hermandad
>
> by Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
>
> Homage to Claudius Ptolemy / Homenaje a Claudio Ptolomeo
>
> I am a man: little do I last
> and the night is enormous.
> But I look up:
> the stars write.
> Unknowing I understand:
> I too am written,
> and at this very moment
> someone spells me out.
>
> Soy hombre: duro poco
> y es enorme la noche.
> Pero miro hacia arriba:
> las estrellas escriben.
> Sin entender comprendo:
> tambien soy escritura
> y en este mismo instante
> alguien me deletrea.
>
>
> (6) Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
>
> (Excerpt)
>
> By Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
>
> Among twenty snowy mountains,
> The only moving thing
> Was the eye of the blackbird...
>
> The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
> It was a small part of the pantomime...
>
> I do not know which to prefer,
> The beauty of inflections
> Or the beauty of innuendoes,
> The blackbird whistling
> Or just after.
>
>
> (7) Hedgehog
>
> By Chu Chen Po (9th century)
> Translated from Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth
>
> He ambles along like a walking pin cushion,
> Stops and curls up like a chestnut burr.
> He’s not worried because he’s so little.
> Nobody is going to slap him around.
==
" A naked lunch is natural to us,
we eat reality sandwiches.
But allegories are so much lettuce.
Don't hide the madness. "
-- Allen Ginsburg (1954)
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