coffy's New Writeups

Aurora Borealis (idea)

2001-07-29T04:29:18Z

A cosmic wind scattered
the light-seeds.

They fell into the lake
and we lost them.

Except for a few that I saw
in your palm.

You lit cigarettes
and told me
you needed
something unholy
to keep you down here
on this rock next to me.

But I'd given up the habit
of standing on the ground

so I took from you instead
stalks of white light to chew.

They were juicy and fat
from the holding
and we sat
in the cold while I sucked
them to nothing.

"It won't be long,"
you told me
"before the streetlights
eat them all."

Tell me again why it is that I love (idea)

2001-07-29T04:23:08Z

Tell me again why it is that I love
asphalt in the rain,
the obscene color swill of oil-slicks
the pressure of the cars outside my window
the immature green genitals of springtime
the look of a man who is trying not to cry
the way light falls over the course of hours,
always heaving up again with tired stubborness.

I am like that light
throwing up words
again to watch them scatter

never was quite satisfied
with the stone images in churches

thought I'd take the sadder way
and re-invent God myself.

as if I could baptize everything in my
cock-eyed vision of grace.

A picture is worth a thousand words (idea)

2001-06-11T00:12:04Z

There are, however, a limitless number of pictures within a word. Words are shadows and suggestions--they have a formal element, of course, and a denotation. But the visualization of meaning is in no way rigid. If I say the word "chair" to you it might cause you to think about your grandmother's rocking chair and the way she read to you as a child (isn't that sweet?). Or you might think about the chair in your living room that you've had sex on numerous times when your roomate wasn't around. Or you might imagine that you have fixed in your mind the Platonic form of "chair"--a perfect representation of a chair's very chair-ness.

Only a few examples, of course.

That's why reading is essentially a creative processand (perhaps) why the book is almost always better than the movie on which it is based. :)

My correspondence with the Westboro Baptist Church (idea)

2001-06-10T19:34:58Z

I don't have the inclination to talk to people whose chief mode of discussion involves spewing Biblical quotes out of context. It seems to me that whoever wrote the answers to the godhatesfags.com faq doesn't have the reflective capacity to be anything other than a well-trained parrot. However, among the many glaring contradictions in this person's account, one just chews me to the bone: that is, his assertion that "We don't hate fags; God hates fags." As if a hatemonger as pedantic and stubborn as this one has no personal involvement in anything he says. This comment is particularly bad considering that in the same breath, the writer asserts that he is in fact called upon to hate everyone who God hates--but that this is a "perfect spiritual hatred," rather than "fickle human hatred".

The only way to reconcile the contradiction would be to regard the writer as inhuman.

Which doesn't seem that far off to me.

Spaghetti Sauce (idea)

2001-06-03T17:31:30Z

Tips and Tricks from a bonafide (partial) Italian:

If you're using canned tomatoes, always use the Italian type, not the regular round ones. The quality of your sauce will above all depend on the quality of the tomatoes you use.

Always add salt at the end of the recipe. Taste the sauce first! As it cooks down, it becomes more concentrated--and the less salt you will probably need.
Most tomato sauces (unless of course they are no-cook) taste best if they have simmered for at least two hours.

Simmer the sauce on low heat. You'll ruin it if you try to cook it down too quickly.

Don't go easy on the herbs. Bland sauce is the pits.

Add a bit of sugar to taste. (Yes, sugar.) I know it sounds weird, but it's the secret ingredient, short of adding a teaspoonful of human blood.

Cooking sauce like making love, involves attention to detail, time (the longer the better), patience and a worshipful attitude.

That's why we Italians are the authority on both. :P

botulinonia (idea)

2001-06-03T17:05:05Z

Involves using a sausage as a dildo. It's unclear whether the term includes the use of other pork products for sexual purposes.

Sexual deviants...putting a whole new spin on the term meat injection.