I Cry Gray Mountains on the Moon: (Literary Objects)
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A collection of 198 Literary Objects. Autobiography, fiction, literary experiments, spanning over twenty years of writing. The first three entries:
One Saturday morning amidst cartoons and commercials I stuck my tongue out far as I could, closed my eyes, touched the tip to the screen scooted back licking everywhere inside my mouth. Then got on my knees shuffled up and pressed the top of my tongue flat on the screen for half-a-minute. That night I had nightmares::::the screen cracking and me dissolving. The next morning I named the flavor 'Silver.'
In the evenings Mom would say 'Looks like you kids've been fingerpainting the tv again.' She'd go grab the Windex and the towel from the refrigerator handle.
I smell glasses when I take them from the cupboard. They contain an odor of mustiness and usage::::such contradictions are always sweet.
I rinse them under tap water
I mistook a stain on my sheet for a potato chip.
William Fairbrother
born april 10, 1956, la jolla, california, 10:10 pm. was santa claus in the sixth grade christmas play. played little league, pop warner football, huffy basketball, track and field, swimming. hand bitten by a bear at yellowstone. read a lot, wrote silly poems and very short stories. learned to cook. became a boyscout, a mormon. trips and vacations to baja. read thurber. took up photography. watched television and movies and plays. took up surfing, skateboarding, biking, made surfboards. immigrated by ship with mom to sydney australia. bondi beach. painting and literature and world history. played tennis, rugby, painted, read shakespeare... learned to drive. was homeless. flew back home to california. graduated high school. played golf, went skiing. read a lot, wrote a lot, surfed a lot. worked in restaurants - all positions. attended community college: literature, theatre (buddy ashbrook), art history, native american studies. plays produced. read symbolists, dadaists, and from there back and forth through all of world literature. played on the badminton team. became editor of the college literary magazine. won the bravura award for poetry. lived with a woman and her daughter. attended university of hawaii, lihue, painting, art history, sociology. moved back to california. amateur surfing competitions up and down coast. one professional contest - seaside heights, new jersey. saw charles bernstein, william burroughs, jim carroll. attended ucsd - literature/writing (reinhard lettau, ron silliman, bram dijkstra, bobbie louise hawkins, paul dresman +), art history (moira roth +), playwriting (adele shank, paul foster) and directing (alan schneider), performance art (alan kaprow, elanor antin, jerome rothenberg). plays produced and poetry readings various uc colleges. many surf trips to hawaii and mexico. lived in vw van. lived with several different women. met ferlinghetti. moved to colorado - worked as handyman at the rolf institute, worked in restaurants. ginsberg liked one poem. went snowboarding. lived with mom holding her hand while she died of bone cancer. moved to chicago. moved back to colorado. lived in willis, texas. lived in baja california sur in a tent on the beach with a girlfriend from chicago. moved back to california. moved to denmark. after two months married a woman (an artist) with a young daughter - they had a son. opened the first state-controlled organic restaurant in europe, in copenhagen: "southern california mexican natural foods" - after two years went out of business. traveled some in europe. placed second in denmark's surfing championships. wrote a lot. worked as chef in a 700 seat restaurant. published several chapbooks of poetry, quite a few poems online - both english and danish. created own website: 'virtualitch'. after 10 years of marriage got divorced. became a cobbler at a medieval tourist center. once son turned 18 moved back to california - sacramento. (after 20 years in europe). worked as a librarian at the rudolf steiner teacher's school, then many cooking jobs downtown and midtown. off and on homelessness. attacked by an idiot with a knife - 10 surgeries - lost use of right hand... currently homeless
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