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Qualyxian Quest
Nov 2020
To David Markson. Salud!
Sometimes a book can transform your life
For me it was David Markson
I read him literally thousands of times
While others listened to Kelly Clarkson
Who is this guy? I kept asking
And what have I discovered?
His last four novels, if you call them that
A reading experience like no other
A toast to you, Mr. Markson
And your wisdom way with words
You are now my companion
In this life grown American Absurd
You are a true genius.
Have they heard?
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Qualyxian Quest
Jan 2019
Markson and la gente, presente!
David Markson in Mexico
never really been, so I don’t really know
but Cortez the Killer told me so ...
Tenochtitlan, City on the Lake,
wonder and exile from El Dorado.
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Qualyxian Quest
Dec 2022
Gracias, Senyor Markson
Vincent's eyes were green
Like mine
This can seem a minor point
But it's important to me
(Thank you, Mr. Markson)
Don McLean was wrong.
Green, not China blue.
Vincent, this world is meant for you.
Me too.
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Qualyxian Quest
Oct 2019
I'm trying, Mr. Markson
One must go on working
And one must have patience
Both we wounded west ones
And the mystical Asians
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2023
fog on the bridge
quiet little library
memories in my mind
Coastal California
San Francisco signs
i like misty mountains
oceans gone bluegreen
David Markson books
she and i between
i might sleep till 2
don't know what I'll find
for my future friends
water worlds unwind
Johnny 99!
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Qualyxian Quest
Jun 2021
Melville, Markson, Yo.
How much will get through?
No way to really know
New York City sky
Seattle cedarsnow
I'd like to help my boys
Protect them as they grow
I'd like America
Emily to show
Melville, Markson, Yo.
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Qualyxian Quest
Dec 2023
Markson man
I am moved by David Markson
New York City night
Me on the Dublin bus
2 green lights
Account for Joan of Arc
Account for your unusual books
Als Ick Kan in Portland
Powells. Aye: Gadzooks!
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Qualyxian Quest
May 2020
Markson and the Maid (to go boldly)
readind David Markson again
thinking about France
and this quote
then placing his
beautiful yellow book
back upon my shelf:
"I used to say to them
Go boldly among
The English.
Then I used to
Go boldly myself."
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Qualyxian Quest
Mar 2023
Arigato, Mr. Markson.
The Republican Party circles the drain
Que selah. Selah.
Mr. Markson quite correct
Can't say he didn't warn ya
Rain all day today
Hath the rain a father?
Probably'll rain all night
3 prayers for 2 daughters
Bought a pachinko machine
Let the good times roll!
My childhood in Taiwan
Japan: good for the soul.
Arigato!
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Qualyxian Quest
Sep 2019
One morning with Mr. Markson
one must go on writing
and one must have prime patience
I’ve lived a time in Europe
and longer among the Asians
if I could I surely would
take Venetian vacations
but tonight I think of Trappist 1
and ponder benign divine invasions
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Qualyxian Quest
Oct 2021
95 North
The Jesuit kicked me out
No more Catholic book club for me
I posted Mr. Markson
He didn't like to see
Got my car to travel
Travel quietly
Just live my little life
Prince and Sting cds
No cosmic battle
daily destiny
Soon to see my 3!
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2019
Dear Mr. Markson,
5:37 a.m.
beginning birdsong
is 50 for me late along?
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Qualyxian Quest
Feb 2019
Mr. Markson motivation
cheap hotel, internal pain
dawn again, grey day rain
Als Ick Kan!
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Qualyxian Quest
May 2021
Mi amigo
The ambiguity is my friend
Wait o wait o wait!
My letter to you is destiny
Destiny, not Fate
Emily, Melville, Mr. Markson
The hidden holds the Great
Little way, next step next
2037 is the date.
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Qualyxian Quest
Dec 2022
Dostoyevsky: The Shakespeare of the Lunatic Asylum (David Markson)
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Qualyxian Quest
Jan 2023
Melville. Emily. Markson.
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2023
A Darwinian one from Mr. Markson
I cannot endure to read a line of poetry; I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull it nauseated me.
Says Darwin's Autobiography
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Qualyxian Quest
Oct 2023
Markson. Martel. Melville.
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Qualyxian Quest
Jan 2021
David Markson: Nay Sayer.
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2023
A Buddhist one from Mr. Markson
Avoid the company of women.
What if one of them should speak to us?
Remain very awake, Ananda.
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Qualyxian Quest
Jun 2019
Talkin’ David Markson Blues
so sad the ‘Mercan story
racist violence is not glory
greed indeed just bores me ...
Selah.
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Qualyxian Quest
Jun 2023
Seattle U.
So she sits in the library
Long brown hair
Iced coffee
Embers by Sandor Marai
Last night
She read one of my poems
Dublin. Bangkok. Taipei.
Graphic design
The monk's eyes were closed
Decapitated statues
Kings
Chris Pine
Kings
Sacramento
David Markson
American Decline
Johnny 99
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Qualyxian Quest
May 2023
Markson. Emily. Melville.
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Qualyxian Quest
Jun 2023
One from Mr. Markson
You can't possibly have read all these books.
Not one 10th of them.
I don't suppose you use
Your Sevres China every night!?
This is Not a Novel and Other Novels
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2023
A Protestant one from Mr. Markson
Martin Luther's own words, re the origin at Wittenberg Monastery of the key principles of the Protestant Reformation:
This knowledge the Holy Spirit gave me on the privy in the tower.
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Qualyxian Quest
Aug 2023
David Markson quoting Bertrand Russell
But I did not **** myself
Because I wished to learn more
About mathematics.
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2023
An Irish one from Mr. Markson
I have never been surprised
To find men wicked
But I have often been surprised
To find them unashamed.
Said Jonathan Swift
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Qualyxian Quest
Jun 2023
David Markson's description of Picasso
Drinkin' turpentine
And breathin' Fire.
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2023
An intriguing one from Mr. Markson
Pope Joan
Aka John VII
855 - 858
Who died when taken in childbirth
In a papal procession
From St.Peter's to St. John Lateran
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Qualyxian Quest
Apr 2021
David Markson to his daughter: I am the kind of writer who won't be famous until after death. (Like dearest Emily)
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Qualyxian Quest
Jun 2023
Markson. Mark's son. Sacramento.
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Qualyxian Quest
Dec 2018
gracias, Mr. Markson
vast torrents of reading
both silence and pleading
the Impossible
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2023
True dat, David Markson
Think you Petrarch would have
Written sonnets all his life
If Laura had been his wife?
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Qualyxian Quest
Jun 2023
An Orwellian one from Mr. Markson
As I write this highly civilized people
Are flying overhead trying to **** me.
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Qualyxian Quest
Aug 2020
An Irish one from Mr. Markson
I've never seen a situation so miserable that a police officer couldn't make it worse.
- Brendan Behan
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2019
Merci, Mr. Markson
an unthrift: ah! true, true
but (I hope) also an honest man
no need to candy coat
just want to do the best I can
this world’s a horror story
but other worlds again began
North to the San Juan islands
Peace to the old Cheyenne
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Qualyxian Quest
Jun 2023
Melville. Markson. Santayana.
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