As/Is

3.25.2009

Live Poetry

This is a recording of me (Desmond Swords) made in Damar Hall, July 2006, when I was part of that years Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, an annual scheme in which emerging poets are given an opportunity to workshop and read their poetry under the aegis of Poetry Ireland.

posted by Coirí Filíochta on Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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Desmond, so lovely to hear your brilliance aloud, no less. I thank you for placing the recording here. Great, kudos, Sheila

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3.21.2009

what are the chances

now some suggest
will there be any
well,actually that's
the beauty of this

no original ______ is
in no mood after the
huge blowup, so with
no skin in the game

what are the chances
well that could be a
problem, and just retro-
active, and these private

and if they participate
and they don't like that
so, but, but, private
parties are nervous

and chances are they're
gonna get some, well yeah
we'll probably get a little
finger-pointing, he only

found out about these last
and his old job, now last
week, acknowledged that
the first conversation,

staggering and devastating
it doesn't work, and what
you are guaranteeing, he
says given these, must

rethink, so you go 15 min.
of fuel left, but we can
and we can, and we are
in fact, in order to grow

does not flinch, but the
toughest thing is thinking

thankyou very much
you're welcome

posted by Jean Vengua on Saturday, March 21, 2009

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approximate

time is typing this. time was, am I always thinking too much. time and i think and i
and regrets crop up. regret is a verb. is a verb. is like, and is something like. and is approximately like to a flower. little bit pointing to affectations of flowers and speaking. a time approximate. following so closely at your heels. affecting by referencing like unto. is like closeness. preferably sex. referencing a librarian. a reference librarian. nothing more you say, unless you say sex with a librarian. but there is emotion. an emotional transaction among librarians in a great library. a great, great, library, with shelves framed in rococco, collecting the world's great works. the genius works. granted, the geniuses. with hours and time to do. we grant them hours of genuine work. and genius living lifestyle. it is a style of life to aspire. similar to inspire, and aspirate. a fragile living and you want to do it with recognized style. that is shaping an i. thinking too much. and something like anything you can think of. time approximate. almost there. almost.

posted by Jean Vengua on Saturday, March 21, 2009

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Ha! Clever, you.

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3.19.2009

time is a result of sound sounds distance is the music of a sound in a space even after the consideration sound has stopped absorbing form is quite different than become speed is the thing of sound in a room after the perspective has played assumption is the most well following is the method of sound after a note has stopped being superimposed illumination is perceived when a sound is added off various types of material in a closed surface field is almost always kept short time is known speech is the size of cut measurements from the persist in like a form form is measured on a flatter sound instrument is low enough to be sound extremes time is when sound becomes even after the number of the sound has stopped well is multiple space is multiplied into two parts recording is weak to form of sound kind is result is often confined absorption is audible the word hall has its beats in surface assumption is first information is the suitable and surrounding out of significant sound is even reduced consideration is become wind of a sound absorption back to its amount in dependent strength and time experience to be already active boundary is a boundary of the amount of time sound repetition is already become listening is disappeared in the following steps information is reflections time is considered in concert of repetition sound field in the room and mainly effect definitely does not change even if the sound is often introduced using a more or less simple persistence experience is enough distance perspective sonar is a desirable collection collection following in very sonar systems wind is a very well known effect that is present in almost all our processing echoes music is to allow the entire sound speech into daunting acoustics such that the size of a compromise examined by the number of wind is added to the sound the mass become very to hear and it is harder to hear that one effect lives information is inherent if a random segment of sound is to be low much in the room reflection is added by attending the tactical lives of that hall frequency is the result of sound utilizing a described space method is measured using the distance method as for the consideration analysis of complex flatter during the same information is an important world for very common parts carefully as it is the number speed auditorium is sound that is reviewed from provides in the flatter field is the same combination of an audible strength that persists more sometimes required with time image is a due thing decay is much more feedback than a simple information persistence file is not great surface is cut off slowly decay is often controlled by the halls of the experiment multiple is due equalization is an active size that can only be result is slightly introduced by sounding is superimposed from an unambiguous collection utilizing with the first positional set of reflections made during world target is reflected by sound dying back and flat from one dependent surface to another multiple is great for music in listening acoustics boundary is the lag reverberation is added harder in the problem segment is created to be considered by reflection surface microphone image is sometimes called the room effect phenomenon is a very common and often proportional word in our performances perspective is not become but may be ceased become by some information is the result of the many steps of a sound that cause a room music is spaced as the consideration of sound due to non image sounds after the room of sound has stopped multiple is controlled in time bottom is given ambience is already dying in collection is not a question of a simple bottom of the order detection is a note between the two perspectives reduced in the image analysis is very unambiguous lag is more entire more important than the total sound time order is required kind is much suitable the kind of music in the hall analysis is also everywhere important proportional lag in that it surfaces distance information boundary is turned on by performances in the room acoustics and has wind is part of the note of a compromise in a well effect is repeated for music experiment is a form of significant beats effect is known as time and the problem is often to get enough of it is turned off sonar is stopped a slowly decreasing sound that has after the sound blurred size is weak in every closed space surface is due to continued form types size is divided to a small physical volume reflecting the slope time is present analysis is not very important problem is reverberation of two informations is a repeated part of any audio experience effect is quite described by number the world is in almost is often considered as an active effect within a room

posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 19, 2009

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3.17.2009

mud

bullet
paint it’s
panting it is

full shorter should
‘bout ethic
(s)

anchor
in bay
waking as delay’d (that’s awake)

lace’em up beep
beep beep
beep

once
sirens call
womb’d it’s fly

“how’s
your lawn
growing today, heh?”

bermuda

posted by harry k stammer on Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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3.16.2009

outside my evening window is a fake rooster

unprotected hearing
cheats the public
of resplendent
major sevenths

just between us boylets
let's be frank awhile
it's cozy to avoid
bereavement when and if

nobody's pastured
anybody's foghorn
and the dowry's
perky magi are asleep

what're we going to tell
the national inquirers
what we did
on our spring break

posted by Sheila Murphy on Monday, March 16, 2009

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falga topa situ plor

in dorfidio chum ranga plota sorgh
to shew blo widicle
tomata gingerious to wit
plum futanto blotto wickeep
so loratu gama lam

posted by Sheila Murphy on Monday, March 16, 2009

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3.14.2009

the possible

how does it feel this grief
thing (the conversation went like that)
funny, i mean, how often do you
fall apart, in retrospect;

funny

no pressure now, except
the normal desperation of
happiness, of weekends and
clinging tightly to each event

Aquafina on the table
Dog snuffling along the floor
like a pig, the computer
displaying mastery

things I could never imagine
fevers, principalities, "purple-
veined" child, "trifolium"

Whalen's PAY NO ATTENTION TO ME

What was he thinking?

What do you expect?

"I just don't understand you, I'm really stumped."
look, now I'm quoting you, but you're dead.

I want tea.

"Are you asking (permission)?"

"No I'm telling you"

I say it with a smile / I say it with a smile, but
sometimes I'd rather ask / sometimes I'd rather be told
this is possible, this is not, be quiet now

lay down. close your eyes.

posted by Jean Vengua on Saturday, March 14, 2009

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S topography

natch you reminisce squeak vastly
when not if
and in the qualms you just perspire
a grazing impulse fathers
manhood, let's say,
craft and sugar
plows and plants
the damself
magniffs
shoreline sure as guilt
quilted for good
framed gollygagged
won too buck shoepaste
clamp down (own) on derailed pumice
twice the vanguard
needed
hop to train in figure
wonderful
and find the filter
that estranges
you from this one
photomangerie
to twelve into
your foreground
piles of paving
shoveled
to the doorline
of the frame

posted by Sheila Murphy on Saturday, March 14, 2009

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3.13.2009

Suspended In Binary


Transients on the binary exit
Pinging the social conscious

Hermits in the underpass
convulsing with wiki needles

Boolean children
plucking heart strings

Shaggy shamans
trimming their face books

The fake bleeding avatar
lusting for fake vampire bytes

The faithful faking zeitgeist
pinging my conscience

My spammed ego
googling denial.

posted by keed on Friday, March 13, 2009

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Yes we can all (myself encluded) get caught up with such.I like this, you.

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When You Replicate My Habitat, Invite Me Home

egg
yolk prints
upon my tray

what lasts may
be anticipation
sure

chapter
and verse
silent reverberation or

opposing viewpoint qualified
not quite
quantified

posted by Sheila Murphy on Friday, March 13, 2009

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3.11.2009

socks

(soup) “in

the pot” arm

elbow sore

ring finger

“just to boiling”

bent’n

tight (ly)

“it’s the green

gray”

claim’t (absolute)

less ‘nality

tighter (less)

drip finger(s)

lip

posted by harry k stammer on Wednesday, March 11, 2009

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3.07.2009

tabloids

tweaked swede
photoshops
frowning eyewear


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nebulous suede
tarantulates hi room
of absence's combover


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ufos find pottywater zombies
everest away to apathy where
200 masochists palace together


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sleepwalking archangels
fart counterfeit saucers
into confetti-shaped cures


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desdemona's icehound sues
the microscopic sword-swallower

posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 07, 2009

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now you're cookin'

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3.05.2009

You're Shedding Apostrophes

You're shedding apostrophes
Now I see your face
Without the cloth
That becomes you in its absence.

I respect the flexibility
of your being with
and still without.
So little still reminds me of myself.

You've let the remnants
of your former state rain down
autumnally until the floor
accumulates a collective wealth.

Homogeneity is nice when you remember
to enjoy belonging. Daylight
assumes significance, while night
softens the complexities you gathered and let go.

posted by Sheila Murphy on Thursday, March 05, 2009

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