Aaron Johnson

It is beautiful, yes, but it is beautiful because of what it masks, not in spite of it.

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More Problems with Avatar...


  A fascinating and, I think, helpful perspective: www.newstatesman.com/film/2010/03/avatar-reality-love-couple-sex... I essentially agree with these criticisms of Avatar (for this reason, I find the film extremely troubling on many levels, from an integral ethical perspective), and... Read More

Zealot


 The Matheson Brothers exchange nervous glances in the back of the car as I stare numbly through the rear window at the little lights going back-and-forth, back-and-forth from phosphorescent red to phosphorescent blue....... Read More

Final Cry


The dog that always barks, manic and severe, when Henry turns around the bend of Osprey Court and begins the long passage through rows of gleaming-white, square-box houses until he finally lights upon the box he now claims as his own is, this time, silent.   He wonders what might... Read More

For Control and Comparison Purposes


For control and comparison purposes, were used HDPE films of 7 mils and 9 mils thickness. 1 is a side elevation view of the preferred aspirating device of the present invention; Further, the laminate is suitable for the topsheet of feminine hygiene products,... Read More

Curtain


I’m chasing a phantom... She is not an idealization, for she is before and beyond concept... When I was young, she climbed into the seat of my soul... Operating the chimes and cogs with ease... She’s been there in the face of every woman with whom I fell in love...... Read More

... Fries with That...


 Big Mind, Big Apple....

Successor to the Lineage


[Poet's Note: I'm working on a spec pilot script for a television show called Diana Durbeyfield and the Glorious God Police.  This is a poem about the title character, who was partially inspired by Stuart Davis' Sexy Messiah]...  ... Diana Durbeyfield... Real... Believing...... Read More

Who?


There's a demon in the elevator of the hotel down the street.   Every year exactly fourteen people are swallowed in darkness and forgotten.   Last year, there were what's-his-name and what's-her-face, among others, completely ripped from the fabric of reality.   This hotel... Read More