Modernman

The Inner Ear

"What care I how time advances?
  I am drinking ale today."

Lines on Ale, Edgar Allen Poe

Lake Tahoe, Nevada                                                                                M. Hill 2013

Giraffe Sculptures at Living Treasures Animal Park

The Inner Ear

  The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
                                                                      -Willem de Kooning

Dingle Peninsula                                                      M. Hill 2008

Dublin Nightclub                                                         M. Hill 2008

Potcakes                                                                                                              M. Hill

The Inner Ear

Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training.
- Anna Freud

Eureka Springs, Ark.                                                                                     M. Hill 2013

Eureka Springs, Ark.                                                                                  M. Hill 2013

 

Mayakovsky- A Poet in the Revolution

Edward J. Brown

Princeton University Press

Princeton, N.J., 1973

 



 

"The body of Mayakovsky's work might be usefully investigated as an 'encyclopedia' of Russian life in the early twentieth century and as an auxiliary guide to the history of the Soviet period."

"The study of his poetry is in a sense an investigation of the poet's mind itself, of the ways it experiences the world and how it gives form and expression to that experience."

                                                           -from Introductory Remarks

　

"How do you dare call yourself a poet

and gaily chirrup like a quail

Today

you must

use brass knuckles

and cut yourself into the world's skull"

                                                      -Mayakovsky

Ho-Hum Motel, Reno, Nevada                                                        M. Hill 2013

Lake Tahoe, Nevada                                                                         M. Hill 2013

White Buffalo Behind Bars



        The White Buffalo was taken into protective

      custody after threats were made against the

          future of the American Dream by the

            acting government on Wall Street.





"Walt Whitman"                                                Matthew Brady



You Want To Be a Poet

You want to be a poet? What are your credentials?

Well I speak and read and write.

I have a pen.

(I used to steal them in third grade)

I like paper and I know what the word "treacley" means.

I become angry with anyone or anything,

Righteously and indignantly.

My degree is in an unrelated field.

Played a little rock and roll.

I am an American and can be any damned thing I please.

I hear the muses whisper.

I despise the "workaday world" and other stultifying cliches

     about "the way it is".

I reinvent myself every day.

I write dance drink until I can't move.

Most poetry bores me.

I baled hay, smelled sweet clover in the dewy morn,

Smelled magnolia blossoms in the thick Texas air,

Drank moonshine,

Drove 95 mph,

Cried from broken heart over laughing women,

Walked home in the rain,

Narrowly escaped death more than once,

On the highway, in the river,

Shouted at the sky, danced in tribute to the moon and clouds,

Got on the bus,

Saw sunrise at 30,000 feet,

I hear violins, see shadowy figures, smell raspberries where there are none.

I get writer's cramp.

I drink at 3 a.m. and laugh at the radio.

I get up and go to work.

I go home and go to sleep.

I dream.

I don't need credentials.

I was born a poet.

I feel anti-social.

12-5-02

Mike Hill

The Inner Ear

Luck is not chance-

It's toil-

Fortune's expensive smile

Is earned-

Emily Dickinson

The Street



Australian Storefront                                          M. Hill 2002





The Inner Ear

"I do not sleep to dream,
but dream to change the world."

-Martin Carter