10's, Week 3

10 "Verbal Photographs":

• A bearded man with a guitar strapped around his shoulder stand alone on stage. Under the pot light, he opens his mouth to a three-tiered crowd of over 3,000 people.
• Settled dust coats a white Woman's size 10 Minnetonka box under the bed, locking in the mementos from better days.
• A mountain, erect with food and porcelain, grows larger and grimier between each visit.
• A tangled knot of silver and gold chains settles at the bottom of the grey patent leather purse, engulfed by the black polyester liner, drowning in eyeliner, a wallet, pens, keys, and tampons.
• Three Smart cars parked in a row on East Liberty Street, taking up only two parking spots.
• The two of us hovering over the double sink vanity, spitting out our toothpaste and rinsing off our toothbrushes, almost in unison.
• A fresh row of lines in the carpet from the brush of the vacuum's bristles sweeping over it.
• A swirl of white breaks the solid black liquid as you pour creamer into your cup of coffee.
• Sitting on the futon in grey sweatpants and a grey t-shirt, you peel an orange like a kid opening a Happy Meal.
• An entire closet not filled with clothes, but instead stacked white boxes filled with an elaborate collection of comics.

10 "Treasures":

• "Our teeth have their origin in sharks but later as mammals we acquired lips that could suck and because of those lips that could suck we acquired kisses." --Ernesto Cardenal, Cosmic Canticle
• "If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't." --Michael Pollan, Food Rules
• "Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper." --Michael Pollan, Food Rules
• "Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does." --Michael Pollan, Food Rules
• "Eating what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is better than eating what stands on two legs [fowl], which is better than eating what stands on four legs [cows, pigs, and other mammals]." --Michael Pollan, Food Rules
• "Time's not a clock constantly ticking away present-past present-past but a clock that has ceased to beat. Time doesn't pass, but we pass." --Ernesto Cardenal, Cosmic Canticle
  
• "Only love is revolutionary. Hatred is always reactionary." --Ernesto Cardenal, Cosmic Canticle
  
• "It is said that words alone have specific uses, not sentences.." --Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
• "When you have craved truth as you crave air, then you will know what truth is." --Roland Barthes (quoting a Buddhist Koan), A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
• "Waiting is an enchantment: I have received orders not to move. Waiting for a telephone call is thereby woven out of tiny unavowable interdictions to infinity: I forbid myself to leave the room, to go to the toilet, even to telephone (to keep the line from being busy); I suffer torments if someone else telephones me (for the same reason); I madden myself by the thought that at a certain (imminent) hour I shall have to leave, thereby running the risk of missing the healing call, the return of Mother. All these diversions which solicit me are so many wasted moments for waiting, so many impurities of anxiety. for the anxiety of waiting, in its pure state, requires that I be sitting in a chair within reach of the telephone, without doing anything." --Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments