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11.30.2004
low roof
birds trellis the white. fine lithe song in vines that hold wood. photographs line inner wall. pale other than the song. elastic music. hear the mood be true. repaired by rote. the roots indigenous. plants leave sufficient air within a room. the atmosphere robust with scent, with taste. the hurt on rough skin. plain as caught plain air. trim wild place. trim light land appearing at first soft. one wanted that. one limbered up for what's to come. the smooth long water forming depths. to distinguish between one shade of blue and then another. to record what's left. there are repressed as lanky fall. leaves crushed beneath footsteps. pressed to earth. where stones. the planted whereabouts of home.
sense repeated longing moving toward a pose
multipl't
11.29.2004
her hammer
fails to strike home
so i begin
to laugh
and it strikes me
her hammer
fails to strike home
so i begin
to laugh
and it strikes me
with all the circuits of the universe
still starting at zero decide; what comes now?
where will you be in relation to
those medicine men learned in the
uses of a beating
heart and where does this
silk and crimson life you wake up in
go in between the night and another where
will we be tomorrow, with it all,
it all collapsing & alive?
11.26.2004
snow
Snow
on October 29
beautiful
and blinding
many slipped
fell
and were eaten by starving troops.
11.25.2004
Time Acts
Time acts in accordance w/poetic justice
A variable on the historical event crows
We call it "numbered war" of attribution
To act upon certain uncertain coordinates
That which we all learn from past events
That which happened tomorrow now is
Herald to the Duke's loyal regiment
A lost accord brays on Radio Free Radio
Inventory cans barbs and fences shackles
Deprecating jocose we can be players too
I say We it is I
Will run flagpoles into the ground
Mother of all brands that is or was
11.24.2004
11.23.2004
when you look into the pool how ravishing is the pool
and would you recommend it?
to whom?
is the pool smooth?
or wrinkled?
how long have you been watching?
has it changed?
and you?
Is Bush an Oulipian?
I just realised that
"Weapons of Mass Destruction"
in N+7 terms becomes
"Weaving of Master Details"
and
"Shock and Awe"
becomes
"Shooter and Axe"
and
"Department of Homeland Security"
becomes
"Deposit of Homelier Seductions".
What are they trying to tell us anyway?
Storehouses by Word on a Social Event
Whose words these are I think I know.
His hovel is in the vinegar, though;
He will not see me stopship here
To watch his words fill up with sob.
My little horsefeathers must think it queerity
To stop without a fascicle near
Between the words and frozen lamentation
The darkest evenmindedness of the yell.
He gives his harpagon bellwaver a shakeout
To ask if there is some mite.
The only other soundboxes the sweetheart
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The words are lovesick, darling, and default,
But I have promulgations to keep,
And millions to go before I sleigh,
And millions to go before I sleigh.
• N+7 based on Stopping By Woods on a Snow Evening by Robert Frost
pass st o't
11.22.2004
11.18.2004
in two
I proposed
to unknow
you when
you declared
my dream
informal poverty
you
put the
hip in hypocrisy
11.17.2004
stop't spell'ng
11.16.2004
for Tom Beckett: More (Southern Flying) Squirrel
Dear Muse Team,
This problem has come to my attention:
~~Memo Exchange between Muses at Yellow Squirrel Landing Strip~~
Houston, the southern flying squirrel has landed with muses in Muzak.
Our own George BubbaWubberr has arrived with two rrs (not two lls),
a six pack of Tundrabird,
and a U-Halo
on wheels.
Our CES is ready to greet
the new Texas dignitaries.
*
Hey, BubbaWubberr, it's best to use all the parts:
iff'n you lahhk yr electronic grey skwerl
stewed wit muzak, jus click here and ask for Yolo.
*
NonononononoYolo, Yolo: man, if you want to submit
yer yellow skwerl with these other'n ones, well, do so here.
*
ACk! No: Never do it with that one, I'm crushed
garlic, Girl!--canned mushroom & bye-bye!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Team, this is sickening. Can we talk to Dick about it?
Forever Yours,
Little BubbaWubberr George
CES, Yellow Squirrel Landing Strip
1 person is here
maintain a distance of one car length at all times
consider division of the self into an adequate range of selves
each lane change unnoticed
while narcissistic whims elapse
hello southerly winds
what else is new
add one "m" to "coma" and proceed
www
I was hoping
come to think of it
the world weary Lieutenant
it did not matter
losing sky earth moon sun stars
wanna be
whatever
why the wild winning whir
coming round the side
raking in that ride
spinning through finally slowing
to a dull rhythmic beat
a fine way to meet
trying to speak hear argue know explain
understanding someone on that train
is gonna come around again
to tell me does not know why is not specific
still insisting that I listen still wagging the finger
at me vanishing into the wall does not even call
canot complain understands exactly what you mean
in a kind of abstract way- a short, twisted lesson
2.
interruption
savoir-faire
along a grated beat
stimulation
aggravation
tonight
impossible
movie dialogue
music clearer than
words
understandable
kinesthetic
no surprise
completely out of
whack
sunny like a screen
come on in
electricity
flavor of forget
taste of regret
robotic movements
steer clear
permission granted
several days ago
unbelievable
not so fast
let the cliche pass
ba by's breakfast
11.15.2004
sister's husband
my brother
sister-in-law
husband asked again
talking talking
mistress walking
husband turning
'til this
strange person
did follow
passing repeated
where death
lived
this afternoon
wild luminous
sister yes daughter
Intervening as Per Instructions
semaphore prosthesis
impermissible swastika
circumstantial theocracy
alabama cuisine
intramolecular drapery
infectious chalice
impetuous rotenone
pandemic shake
oscillatory fragmentation
cranelike hornbeam
lazybones buddhism
emphysematous compass
illusionary broccoli
olfactory prophylactic
lackadaisic influx
phosphorus pixel
spartan technetium
blackboard boomerang
cool motion
grotesque indeterminacy
arabic moustache
discrete salaam
jitterbug ipecac
terpsichorean gunman
aztec possessor
neutral autocrat
tortoiseshell fracture
glycerine stargaze
larval gyrfalcon
stolen hellfire
ethereal fusillade
on hold awaiting the principal of the school for homeless children
an obbligato beat is overcast in minor key
with darkly inlaid chimes
at intervals a woman's voice comes on
to ask who am I holding for
and then at last returns to say
they're having problems with their phones
clouds this morning don't have names
by the time one has discerned among them
each has disappeared or simply
reconfigured to another shape
11.13.2004
a male subordinates making tea on a chain link
to hype bordering on a version of largess says
man-size this is the package of the troping lope
an ache in the head is a log-jam in the carotid
but to sustain injury is not the question is it
For the unknown girl smiling at me outside Essen today
must look very serious here with my pile
of books and thick
black pen held to my fat chewed lips -
hey, man, keep it
down can't you tell I'm
thinking? - mainly,
thinking into the thick lingering cloud of
promises and dreams spoken out last
Thursday with Joe & Leon
& sweet taciturn Emily. must look
tormented with my neck bent and
bitten like this but - hey, wanna
know what happened? it was
a ferret, I can't lie, a ferret
I held like a long wriggling stinking
baby diging through my throat &
shoulders for a way
out of perplexing sunlight. I know,
there's a certain trend amongst young
inkstained writers of love and sorrow
to compare every bright thing to the
miraculous body breath & life of
a lover,
and the ferret-bitten romantic
squeezing out this teabag agrees but, praise be,
I've been baptised.
I've been born again into
stone,
I've been born again,
cold,
and miracles now restrict themselves
to the chaste acts of saints,
virgin-tight women at church fairs,
that kind of thing, yeah,
that kind.
so I don't want you to get the wrong impression,
girl smiling in my direction.
I want you to save that dear hopeful smile
for someone more lyrical,
less evangelical.
(cross-posted to my blog)
11.12.2004
One Little Bubble
one little bubble
in a plastic
tobacco lung
ruptured
billy jno hope
11.11.2004
White November
I poured a five gallon tank of invisible
ink all over my head and body, then struck
out lighting four matches before finally
I set myself ablaze at the International
Conference of L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E Poets
to get their attention and validate
the several thousand new sentences
I had written over the years without
using the first person pronoun twice.
Yetisong 1.0
GRAAAAHR! Kirinaaaaahr! Nummm Nuuuum
my bodhihaire is all smooth cars of cinnabar flame
stuffed with ethereal crane feather mantras! Greeaarh-ma
Meantraaaah Nuuum GRAAAHR! Kree wiili! Shuumm
vacuum coconuts shiver and fall from the houses built within
my loin-sheeths.. GLUUUBON. PARABON! Naachti waah...
Shub to the hutchets of grooorn, bi kallikukikali, I'm heeeled in
YETISWEAT! sheefs of eyeballtowers minister gingko bride-tongues!
glippee, trongu kirineeeee, GRAAAHR! Pom'de'granite birth witless
J , claven, king hiksterimpen pumplaaaah! joy and ecstacy in stone
bottles hauling donkey words past oeaken hamber drashers!
Graahr, re: Graaahr!
schoolmaster reign
particle protactinium
dystrophy gestalt mermaid
explosion
bombay
hanoi
vampire junky
juxtaposition transfusion
withdrawal
abysmal fiend
bedimmed typewritten
pushbutton chaos
assassin chemotherapy
epicurean desecrater
hibachi respirator
promenade proton
shinto will chivalrous
cave inanimate
sanctuary domicile
garden fortress
phosphorylate
autocorrelate
accountant
horseflesh flop
gnostic nonsensical
calculable length
transferable curve
cornea
volcanism militarism aphorism
definition
fourteenth yeah horsemen
lamb snare
beast kinky
electrify lexical
instinctual communal
verbatim articulatory
transmogrify
spinal gunk
desire imprimatur
everyone
natural manipulable
culpable
everlasting every
exhale turn
shamefaced astronomy
abolish absolve
auschwitz
formaldehyde disjunct dissension
democratic authentic apologetic
imaginary gastronomy
malarial baccalaureate
infantrymen maim
baptism battlefield
malevolent prefab wolves
grilled zombie
clean lick
genius limelight
rigorous effusive
highfalutin thesaurus
inexplicit politico
ampersand ektachrome
toy oedipus
humid marital purgatory
punk enigma
california pneumonia
boggy fleshy
brahmsian epigraph
checklist politic
latinate cortex obsolete
gutenberg source
atkinson transgression absolution
polyhedral spear relic
gibe jinx
lithography xerography typology
strawberry meridian
dactylic hijinks
psychopathic diagnoses
egocentric luminary
logistic smoke
pyrotechnic exchange
hydraulic sacrilege
prolific delirium
august breeze
boylight
differently made wings
traverse plush
distances
clouds
erase themselves
reveal muscular blue
Poachment
Look at her and match.
A fear breaks out of perspiration.
The follow-on to all that auctioned residue.
What seems practical exemplifies what appears harsh.
Would someone please stop visiting?
A video of fact reveals a modesty about decision making.
The ample kismet of redress.
Whereas each nature fortifies some greater seeming avenue.
It's the temple, stupid.
11.10.2004
reaching
these?"
wait
Bag
heart
we're
'pent
eye
'ticed
to
these
"else
n'die!"
'attoo
(Mr.
L's
an
looks
delivery
reach
11.09.2004
White November, IV
Balls, two,
which hang so loooose and soft
in the warm summer clime.
Both of which are
proud, always,
and dignified, tho one is
lower than the other
most of the time.
And how they swayed!
in the good young days
away and out the sides
of the late 70's silky
running shorts, sometimes
with that other thing
to cause just a wee
bit of embarassment
(or not).
Yeah, not really, though. It
was too much fun.
Or how a lot of us
in our twenties
let them show
from the short cut
surfer's "baggies,"
wanted
them
always on display.
White November, I, II, and III
Five trees, total height
484 feet,
17 leaves. I am free
to run around
each tree, average
circumference four
and a half yards.
After work, at
the factory.
Day by day by
day gone.
Every hour filled
with nothing
remotely meaningful.
As opposed to job
as teacher, each
minute fanatic
to squeeze
in every idea in
the world.
Three gods, all
the same, Only
different in name.
None more or less
bland than
the others.
White November
There's a full coat of white flags all over November,
the constant month of western New York,
where all the books I've ever read
blanket my skull with the same old
glory and I eat my words in private.
voice of america
it's maggot quiet
in the morning
the suburbs hang
their democracies
out to dry
over there
the rock of PsyOps
our hit parade
she is in the same room
she is in the same room drawing
to herself your tapped and untapped
store of
she is taking in attention
you are at attention
once you were replete with it
she is talking to herself not you
she is performing what she does
she is in difficulty
she wants you to help her
she wants you not to help her
she is doing what she does is talking to herself
she is extracting your attention
from the job that you were doing
she says never mind
only you mind
you try (not) to listen
you always mind her
"mind your head" is said in England
"watch out" in America
something this vague might (not) matter
sometimes we do and sometimes
you look at her as if to say or not say
what is left of me
par entin' ina faith bas'd commune'tee
11.07.2004
Mark, this...
If
I could
parse this sentence
I might live
to make
parole
If
I could
punctuate my thoughts
I might make
sense of
them.
riddle
it was about
standing still
for the sun to rise
billy jno hope catharcyst
Tropology
By turns away and toward
Call it a tonic and a day
Light stems cells abroad
As is night
As is phrase
As is bird's eye
Frequencies shutter iris
Stamen center pistols
Killing the rhetoric fore
Aft on the pointed bow
Towards what end is said
And thus repeat endlessly
A servant in love returns
Looks away looks away looks
Trollopology
As if by turning obsessively to the thing
A motion sickness is achieved in the gaps
Fingers ache shuttle amorphic candle wickes
Or needless prick stamen dust thin cookies
Surface lies alright accentuating x thrust
Smiles mucosa easing the passage to soffit
Fits but locks are gorges numbness itching
11.05.2004
i have fogotten
the towers of babylon
but i remember you
depth is uncertain
and the sullen god sings
as the boat veers off course
i am waiting as you to park
a text read and interpreted and reread
in a moment
you are my household god
and for once you are smiling
11.03.2004
be as't lo ose yes
11.02.2004
be for't gaining no
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