Saturday commute clv: A sociable buoyancy

A spar running out
from ship's stem
to which forestays
are fastened.

   I note how Apple's domestic lexicon

   tracks with the Oxford English Dic-

   tionary's definition of a bowsprit,

   with no litigation over plagiarism.

   Thinking different, yielding to the

   temptations of conformity, or going

   soft in concessions to convenience?

J.B. Sykes

  editor

The Concise Oxford

  Dictionary of Current

  English

Oxford University Press, 1964©

    

Suppose it were Friday clviii: Commanded to wear a sun hat

     I was the age shown in the

     picture shown, but somehow

     was denied the obligation.

     Such is the peculiarity of

     certain liberties, to har-

     bor sleeper cells of their

     correction; but the timing

     of adjustment is too often

     in the hands of the illib-

     eral disciplinarian, plot-

     ting out of sight. Permis-

     sive nannies are to cancer

     as oblivious Congresses to

     corrupted, volatile Presi-

     dents. Complicit in a way.

Edouard Boubat
Portugal
1958

Origins of Wednesday lxxvi: Jamie wears a cinder in his eye

Jamie, the name the editors accept

for a menswear model on-line these

days, is wearing a sweatshirt by a

designer whose name escapes us and

a T-shirt by the redoubtable Gior-

gio Armani. Doubtful as it may ap-

pear, in the bucolic setting where

he finds himself, he seems to have

drawn a cinder to his eye: a local

blaze, presumably its contributor,

or possibly dozens of them, aloft.

Contrary to Republican dogma, such

carbons aren't actually all rinsed

offstage by the janitorship of our 

Lord, but hover, atmospheric mael-

stroms, settling at random here or

there, dispersing their benevolent

kernels where they may. The coming

weekend is the anniversary of that

carbonizing celebration, for which 

Charlottesville, Virginia was div-

inely appointed as witness, of the

indomitable valor of white racism.

This year the same troupe will re-

convene, more auspiciously than we

can calculate, at the White House.

Tourists are urged to bring visas,

and a damp gym towel, if possible.

Cy Twombly
The Four Seasons
  Summer
1993-1994
Collection MoMA

I like the hour when, honestly

     all that's on my

     mind, is the coffee

     I'll have at breakfast