As/Is







10.09.2004



not commerce
but the world
not the word
everything

the dirt that brings wonder
to something that goes further
something out of politeness
something not commerce

the world
not the word
everything

a partial affirmation
bringing to wonder
an entire department store of affirmations
self distinguishing
self relating
self-congratulatory
opposite givings
gving rise to another opposite
giving another
not a connections to notions
but a new level of devotion
a dream job
backed by engineering shadows

I am not imagining this
imagining a bar code

not a partial
a catch all
not just commerce
a bar code
an ideal
addresses before kidnapping
a bar code
before the fall of rome
before the fall of night

naming doing proceeding
the rain besides a white chicken
besides a plastic pink
radio blaring
fleeting moments
banging steel
teflon bullets

not just commerce
a full stop
of 50 or so semicolons

something landscape
something zero
doing descent
doing gone
a moment
behind myself
behind
I can go no further
passing things that comes to pass

not commerce
but the world
not the word
an offering
not a partial
a single
not a unit
the unimagined
not an ideal
a partial
gone before being imagined
something not commerce
the world
not the word
an offering

something turned to salt
then back
years of undergrowth
something in the landscape
something zero
50 or so semicolons

a pillar of fire
commerce and a pillar of fire
a pillar of fire
and a pillar of desire

punch and judy
not practical
a notion
which does not mean
a system like egalitarianism
something like production quotas
something just beneath the breath
intelligence gone to the dogs
gone to the pound
gone hard core

not a partial
a doctrine
something salt
a pillar of fire
interchangeable subject and objects
equality over the republic
overseeing the over seer
overseeing a department store of
self distinguishing self relating
self-congratulatory
giving praise to another
not connections to notions
but a new level of devotion
a dream job
backed by engineering shadows

I am not imaging this
imagining a bar code
imagining not a partial
a catch all

a dreamed status quo
a department store of affirmations
hoping my face meets the chap-stick of life
the way a day goes by
a doctrine turned to salt a
not commerce
but the world
not the word
everything