December 2011
26 posts
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A Lobby Wedding
www.twitter.com/nickorsini …follow me if your friends are getting engaged
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My friends are engaged to be married
to the burdens we all carry and the times
we will never forsake or forget. And love
comes for the coldest of hearts…the most
artistic of art…the best among us and the
worst. We make poetry, not with words but
with the things we say…the words we...
Anonymous asked: How much are tickets to the screening in February?
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Terribly Overgrown
:piano sounds:
it’s always easier to text me or email
I don’t do in-person things too well.
The people you know are shades that don’t
glow…like a sick man’s bedroom… like
a dormitory floor. You can disinfect and
sweep away crumbs, and they may shine
for a moment in time. Function over form
tells me they’ll all be dirty once again.
I wear a tattoo...
WatchA holiday message/greeting from Nick and Ryan at Read at the Show. I’m sorry I stepped all over Ryan’s intro …we don’t rehearse these videos.
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With all our love,
The Read at the Show/Adorkablelife.com Family :)
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Love Letter
I spent today looking at the pictures of the prettiest girls from my town…and wondering where they’d all be right now…at homes or in dorms? In stranger’s beds or sleeping on floors? We love unconditionally in our own ways. They saw me off while I saw everyone content to stay. Some are traveling and some are moving …some got old and got married …some are scraping...
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The Things We Build
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I built an airplane
out of sticks and nests
and when I took off
I left them homeless.
And we are created
so our skin can dry…
And when it’s over,
we’ll have clawed and tried
to make decisions…
…to prolong our lives.
I wasted my heart
filling it up with
the...
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Large
www.twitter.com/nickorsini …give me a follow if you like The Neverending Story
…Largely because your internet personality
makes me sick.
We can change. We can change. We can cash
in our bitter selves to make some change.
Largely because I’m angry…and have been
angry for years. We can look down on a crowd
as we hang from rafters by fingertips. We can
trace moments...
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Real Artists
www.twitter.com/nickorsini …I tweet about Batman and cereal
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A girl flies home for a funeral.
A movie plays to an empty theater.
Cold air moves through Princeton
and I know the campus is empty.
I would go home- my bags are sitting
in the hallway …but they’ll be safe.
And I shut down the radio station,
lock up all the doors. I do some sign
off that no one is close...
idreamofmarley asked: I read your answer to someone about you coming out with a published book of poems. I'm a poet myself and I was wondering, how did you go about getting your poems published?
somewhereseaside asked: Would you ever want to publish a books of your poems?
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Thank god for the punk rock.
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Between the years of 1994 and 1995, I checked out
The Complete Fantastic Four from the library over
one hundred times. My Nerf gun collection was a
sight to behold…rocket launchers and pump action
bows with extra rounds of ammo. And I lived...
lovekelsie asked: Have you ever considered writing a book for someone else or with someone else?
hamiltonsteph asked: I ordered your book last week and ever since I've been hopefully asking if anything came for me to whoever picks up the mail. Very excited to start reading.
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Read at the Show: Can't Hardly Wait Screening!
Hi! So, for all you lucky people in northern New Jersey (and the surrounding area if you’re willing to travel)
On Thursday, February 2nd 2012, I have rented out the Clairidge Theater in Montclair, NJ (on Bloomfield Ave). I’m going to be hosting a film screening in the spirit of everything we represent on this website.
We’ll be showing the classic piece of American cinema:...
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Unmentionable
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Lyrics run around her arms like kids on a playground..
Do you remember the North End? Hiding in that big,
wooden plane…tackling the kids with braces so we
could pretend we were pro wrestlers. Marvel or DC is
the question we’d argue about in the back of my dad’s
pickup truck…and none of...
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Hi. I’m Nick. This poem is called A Year...
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The Year Without Batman
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Next week, on 12/13/11, IMAX theaters across the country will be special screen The Dark Knight Rises trailer. This is a poem about seeing that trailer.
**I linked the poem to my book’s blog because it’s too long for everyone’s dash on here. Read it…it’s a poem about a Batman...
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Cinder Blocks.
www.twitter.com/nickorsini …I will tweet right to your face.
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We are the kind of friends you prop up
on cinder blocks in the garage. All you
ever stripped out is all you ever could
want. And how often are you thanked
for what you do? Probably never at all…
Probably never enough. And on Friday
night when we drove...
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Let's Watch a Movie Sometime
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You can call it unresolved, like the x-ray on my chest..inconclusive, spatter and overall, a general mess. I still have that jacket with the lighter in the pocket. I still try to warm up over a broken car heater. I still haven’t forgotten.
Some people call it damaged. Some will suggest...
polaroidnotes asked: Nick, i just finished your book. You are amazing. Thank you for being you. <3
meghangeraldine asked: "I’m sorry I couldn’t stay. Throughout the course of a life, you won’t be defined by the people who left. You might think you will be, but you won’t…it’s the people who stay who build you up, encourage you, and help you grow." I have no idea what happened between you and that anon, and I don't care to. Just wanted to tell you that what you said...
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Watchhi! This poem is pretty dear to my heart…I try to write about big things…sometimes I write about small things.
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Orange Memory of a Semi-Charmed Life
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A girl asks me to go dancing. Third Eye Blind
comes on to shock 90’s Night to life. I am lost
and found, like a book on a desk…like your
backpack on the ground. And as I try to move,
I can tell she’s been here before…swaying to all
the Jakob Dylans of the world....
Anonymous asked: You used to talk to me a lot and it was nice while it lasted. I've been a very sad person for a long time and for the first time in a while you actually made me happy. I know it was only temporary, but I wished it (or you) would have stayed. You probably won't post this, and thats fine but I just don't want to think about you anymore. I'm failing miserably at it.
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Dry Knuckles.
I saw a picture of a girl standing on a beach…
and it’s a girl I’ve seen, slept next to, cooked for…
And I admit, for the first time, that my eyes don’t
work. She is all cheap, plastic sunglasses and the
the notion of beauty being in the passing of years.
We wrote to each other on the flipped over labels
of cassettes…hers always unclear off the radio.
She...
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