“Out of Office AutoReply …” (Autopoiesis 2.9)

Out of Office AutoReply: If you drop the weapon maybe. --------- -------------------. A

look on the child’s face as if running through a trashy jungle with her tiny broken penis out. That's

true, you could hang your hat on the wind, and when you opened your mouth it was like True or false: I LIKED THOSE PEOPLE, EVEN THE MOST HATEFUL AMONG THEM. This

is not the “Oh!” of Eureka! but the “O” of a

vocative.                                But the thing

that worries me most

                         is that even in this neighborhood

if you wave to someone

                              they don’t wave back

                                …

What are they thinking?

                                 Are they scared?

                                                            Scared of

waving people? An

acre of soil might contain 130 pounds each of algae and protozoa, 890 lbs. of insects, nearly 900 pounds of earthworms and about 2,000 pounds each of bacteria and fungi as well as  … mega processes … the soil is charged I say, with iron, so you might have tasted its slightly bloody meat flavor. ‘Thought

is in the mouth’ wrote Tristan Tzara. There’s Leonardo’s dream, one he dreamt when an infant and recorded in his notebooks and which is recounted by Freud in his ‘psychobiography’ of the artist. A bird – a kite – flies in through the window, into the bedroom where he Leonardo sleeping, and it thrusts its tail into his mouth. Otherness of ‘I’, sky bursting in on him through the medium of this bird. Is this consciousness, as if it were something out there? Flight bursts into a room and is trapped here. Leonardo’s dream – you could interpret it as something exciting; mouth-flights, flights

of, flights of, flights of, flights of, prayers that leave tears in their objects of devotion, loosening, overlapping, frbrloping [huh?] an intimate proximity other

than. The same thing applies to the other who enlightens us, notably through desire, as is the case for the

sun, the “forming

blank”: if you want to know what you look like stick your face in the blind mirror and feel the mirror with your

face. Is there water in water? “Once you try to embrace an absolute geometric circle the naked loss stays with you like a picture echoing.” Here’s

a “funny story”: When I was alive I would type like this    the three fingers of the right hand

and the two of the left    or hold a pear    thus    or

take the skin off a cucumber with a device in the right hand and the pleasure

of the [illegible]

flesh          “what feeds me to ashes”         “it’s a little scraped up and it has
a lot of”         the tree collects moisture in this case rain sweat blood urine
stinging eyes open she------random not random from the closest

[…]

------of an age to------
opening eyes------from

[…]


fur yanked off

[Note: Sources: except as noted, this is the 1st of 3 sonnets in which I will work through On: Contemporary Practice (eds. Michael Cross, Thom Donovan & Kyle Schlesinger). Since there are 21 articles in On, I will use the 1st 7 here, the 2nd 7 in the next, and, well, duh. Angela Genusa, “DISSOLVE TO: Ext. Merry-Go-Round”, at Fiddling While Rome Burns, 8 Nov 08; Yedda Morrison, Girl Scout Nation, as quoted in Taylor Brady, “A Few Possible Trailheads for Hikers in Girl Scout Nation”; Aaron Kunin, The Mandarins; Elias Canetti, The Torch in My Ear, as quoted in Kunin (typed w/caps lock on); Brandon Brown, “Reflections on the Human Voice and the Poetry of Dana Ward With Special Reference to Pindar”; Bernadette Mayer, “Summer Solstice 2006”, in Poetry State Forest; Brenda Iijima, in CA Conrad & Brenda Iijima, “An Interlude on Poetics as Dirt”; John Welch, “Something About It”, at LitTeR; Michael Cross, “Tearing at the Veil: Some Thoughts on Donovan’s Devotions”; Luce Irigaray, Sharing the World; Thom Donovan, quoting Madeline Gins, Helen Keller or Arakawa, in “A Work of the Actual: On Brenda Iijima”, my description of Cildo Meireles’ Espelho Cego/Blind Mirror, 1970; Eli Drabman, “On Michael Cross”; Jack Spicer, as quoted by Cross, as quoted by Drabman; Omo Bob, email, 9 Nov 08, 8:46 a.m.; Tim Atkins, “215 for – as all – for & for Koto”, in Hilson; Michael Cross, in Drabman; Alan Gilbert, quoting DJ /Rupture quoting someone, “Challenging Transmissions: DJ /Rupture Breaks the Global Beat”; Brenda Iijima, Rabbit Lesson]

Comments

[Bob]

Here's a funny story: the last time I mentioned WEAPONS in my "Out Of Office Reply" my manager got all bent out of shape and I had to go to counseling and then they got this thing called a "T-R-O"... so, bro, I know where you're comin' from!

[John Bloomberg-Rissman]

What's a T-R-O?

[bea]

this is a strange heaven of words.

[John Bloomberg-Rissman]

Oh, I get it ...

[John Bloomberg-Rissman]

The oh I get it is for Bob. This thank you is for Bea ...