bend of bay

more than words

    Thursday, March 11, 4:06 pm

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    bend of bay features a changing selection of prose, poetry, images and other projects. It takes its name from the opening line of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce:

    riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

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    “How far my efforts agree with those of other philosophers I will not decide. Indeed what I have here written makes no claim to novelty in points of detail; and therefore I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.”

    - Ludwig Wittgenstein


    Did you tell, Marcel

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Ellis Island

Never had spaghetti before coming to America. It took twelve days.
Botany Hill. Mr. Lang.
Always very nice to me that Mr. Lang.
Coming to America.
Didn’t see the statue.
Never had spaghetti before coming to America.
It took twelve days.
Doesn’t choke it fattens you.
Two plus two.
I could do long division by decimals.
Night School. Mr. Lang.
Always very nice to me that Mr. Lang.
Coming to America.
It took twelve days.
Must have been a lot of chickens in America,
I thought,
passing shacks and shacks crossing New Jersey.
Didn’t see the statue.
Can’t talk but can explain what it means.
It took twelve days,
coming to America.
I Never had spaghetti before coming to America.

First published in The Quarterly
C 1989