soup...

at work on another Kyger tape (continued from last Monday)...

"the Latin Poet's are Cambells' Soup" —Philip Whalen (from a list given to Kyger on "what books to read")...seems like the males in Kyger's life were always giving her lists...a few tapes back Kyger read a list of "things you should be doing" written by Snyder to Kyger back in the late 60's early 70's...

right now, Kyger is playing a recording of Philip Whalen reading his poem "Self Portrait Sad"...

the no drink, no smoke stricture was going well until (not a complaint) fiction writer Adam Barker stopped by the apartment last night with a huge bottle of Shiraz in tow...we drank, we smoked we watched Arrested Development...then i started feeling sick...then i poured out the rest of my wine and went to bed...then i woke up at 3 AM on what felt like my deathbed...sweaty, achy, delusional, snotty, coughy etc...back to bed until i woke up again at 8:30 AM feeling refreshed, dewy, non snotty, non coughy and lucid!!!...it was one of those over night battles...some unknown germ VS. my immune system...i must say, my immune system whooped that ass...go t-cells!...i seem to get these a lot...like, my body is teetering on either being REALLY sick or flash-flood sick...my immune system (it really does rock) usually tips the scales to the latter with the cellular blitzkrieg...i'm a healthy boy!

...currenttly listening Kyger listening to a recording of Philip Whalen reading his poem "Dream Pantomime"