I wanna be a Vivian.

[jwyche]

I've been reading and rereading John Ashbery's Girls on the Run, which was inspired by the artwork of Henry Darger, an apparently nuts guy who worked as a janitor his whole life, all the while toiling away at a sort of never-ending graphic novel about little girls called the Vivians.

I fucking love Girls on the Run. For real. Here is a little piece of it:

"Dearest, we had waited for this star,
the marriage couldn't take place without it. A louse
drags its lonely way up to the end of a porcupine quill, expires,
and can we have heard anything? I mean the paced breathing just
outdoors,
and then inside, it's just squalid and quiet,
nothing more. I have a bowl of cherry syrup."

I have a bowl of cherry syrup? Who ends stanzas that way??? Ah bliss. I love it, truly.
To get to the point, I took this picture and processed it while thinking about all that and now I give it forth to you, world, just to see how many copyright toes I can step on with one entry.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

i love your creativity :)

[(Anonymous)]

where did you get this picture? from the book?

[frostapostraphe.livejournal.com]

Hahah no, I took this at the Chinese restaurant right across from that Target off of Paseo n I-25. They have a Mickey hanging up on the other door, but Minnie's prettier.

[buddhafinger.livejournal.com]

Star, louse, quill, squalid. Marvellous wordage.

[frostapostraphe.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the cherry syrup. :)

[(Anonymous)]

youu said bliss!!! I love it! that is one of my two favorite words!

[la-guinevere.livejournal.com]

glittery minnie - teh awesome. we have a million of those stuck everywhere during chinese new year XD

[frostapostraphe.livejournal.com]

Psh.

Lucky.