Atoms Seconds
"I want to split your infinitive!"
"I want you too!"
8/7/07
10:06 a.m.
"I want to split your infinitive!"
"I want you too!"
8/7/07
10:06 a.m.
posted by Obie Quiet at 10:03 AM
Sunday, July 08, 2007
About Me
- Name: Obie Quiet
- Location: Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
Obediah Michael Smith has published 18 books of poems, a short novel and a cassette recording of his poems. At University of Miami and University of the West Indies, Cavehill, Barbados, he has done writers workshops with Lorna Goodison, Earl Lovelace, Grace Nichols, Merle Collins, and Mervyn Morris. He is a 1971 graduate of St. Anne’s School. He attended Memphis State University, 1973 to 1976 and majored in Speech and Drama and Biology. He has a B.A. Degree in Dramatics and Speech from Fisk University. Employed by The Ministry of Education, he taught English Language and Literature in high schools on New Providence, on Grand Bahama and on Inagua. In 1989, for six months, he lived in Paris, France and studied French at L’Alliance Francaise. He has two daughters and two sons. He is at present, for a time, residing in Mexico City.
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2 Comments:
quite complex and appropriate. amazing how you have poems to defend your beliefs when needed.
How amazing the enormous breadth and depth responses such as these indicate that you possess and in what extreme extreme contrast to the narrow minded fool you'd seem to be when personal interaction arises or is involved. It would feel like a horse or a vehicle you were in or on which went or could go ever so swiftly and then called upon to move another way or in another direction and an abrupt halt. Ir is as if you had one set of gears and were devoid of another very necessary set entirely. My immediate reaction is to want to turn you in - desiring or needing an exchange or my money back. But you are certainly not a vehicle or the sort of transportation one can or I could live with. Here you are, exceptional in one way or in one area but otherwise a total setback - right next to useless. I certainly do not imagine your being able to be fixed. I certainly do not have the time nor patience to hang around while it was or for the possibility of it or your being fixed. I need to be able to fly out and back and about NOW. What use can I make therefore or what use have I for transportation or a vehicle that is or seems just jacked up - just entirely FUCKED UP? It is as drastic as that when factored into my immediate needs or into the complement I need immediately. I will conclude with a reference to E equals MC squared. Here we are or I am with something as imperative as a war to win - as a war to end and I have taken you on as a partner and instead of your enhancing the possibilities of my success, you undermine the possibilities of my succeeding. I am or was foolish though to expect different though because as precocious as you are and as ready to provide one note of feedback or another, I always detected something negative - always the need to contradict - to undo, to undermine - always something distasteful and unpleasant about your demeanor, manner, remarks. It was always there and though you are capable to shifting to lovely, that need to undo and to undermine - that distrust and not to be trusted element always is and always was lingering and lurking - no, not in the background but quite near the surface - right up front always. Maybe I imagined it were possible to convert you. Maybe because I was sexually turned on and possibly still am, I was willing to withstand whatever it took to get at you- or to you- or to have you sexually. That might be why I have stayed with you this long. That might be why I have invested so much. Maybe you are right after all to regard me and all my gestures with suspicion. Maybe I am up to no good and all I have are ulterior motives. I know though that you turn me off as much as you turn me on. You always have. I suppose you always will.
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