As/Is







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.