This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Kids Thousands of Stickers. Enter Roman Ondák’s room of heights. Given the constraints of sphere and room, a single outcome is destined to emerge, but yet requires the participation of dozens if not hundreds of gallery visitors. Despite all of that I’m pretty easily awoken, & all night the cat plays these great, indiscriminate games, batting hair ties across the dark floor for endless hours, & eating from the fern that’s been wasting away for several years becoming a brittle, & starving cascade. I was afraid of my heart once, too. & yet “someone is at the door” to refute my ideas concerning western theater. Not all fruit trees hate you -- just this one. Plato libeled Gorgias to advance his own protofascistesquey agenda. But Sweden’s just recognized file sharing as a religion. I mean, Welcome to the website of the Church of Kopimism! We have been Slashdotted, and are therefore, well, Fatty Arbunkle [not sic, no relation] faked his own death and ended up running a go-cart track in Alabama. But yet they do not sell them at Walgreen’s. I’m starting to think in fives. I’m liking thinking in fives. And Wells Fargo bank transactions, which toss out paint chips in whatever colour you want, like a person who looked up “Flonase” in Ambrose Bierce’s dictionary and found a drypoint of his impertinent navel smiling back at him. I know I’m sprinting home to rummage through my hope chest to discover to which quarter of the Gregorian piechart – Terpischore, perhaps? – “The Missing Month” belongs. Assyria sounds about right to me. The mass forced-migration of populations was a major empire-building strategy for the Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians. Pack everyone up, make them move somewhere new where they’ll be too busy trying to figure out how to survive to revolt and cause problems. Yes it is good. It's fun. I feel that it is there to be among people sometimes like throwing himself down in a school of piranhas, that everything is a glass door that you enter all the time. That’s the 2nd time today I’ve come across ducks. Slash swamp monster Batman. Out with the fort da stuff! Name your black site, I am one of its most ornate torturers: after all, Scandinavian immigrants are zombies that oppress with their “Scandinavian stoicism.” In his portrait of my inauguration he used pills to cover up my eyes! Was he possessed by Art? He didn’t know how to drive! The testimony was made up after eight hours’ brainstorming. It took that long because the suspect was a teenager and didn’t speak English and the officers didn’t speak Laotian and the victim was dead and didn’t speak English either. In a few moments we will be making our way down the aisle to begin our beverage service. Beverages are liquids prepared for human consumption, which not only provide hydration but also signal personal attitudes and cultural affinities. Each beverage bears a unique name and possesses different flavors, which stimulate the chromoreceptors on the tongue (the rounded pink object in your mouth, for those who wonder). Some beverages contain ethanol, a flammable, colorless liquid that also acts as a psychoactive drug. On our flight, the consumption of ethanol requires a minimum age of 21 years, and a minimum wealth of $7. So far, fracking in Ohio’s caused at least 11 earthquakes, so far. All “this shining and this _utter [!].” She keeps it normal and lumpy. Squirming again and again (editing) editing (editing) (editing) something (editing) very (editing). White people need to shut up. Not me, obviously. (Good luck with that.) And probably not you either. But, you know, those white people. I fucking hate those people with every last residue of bile I can muster. Send them back, I say. Maybe “rolling blackouts” ARE “how to live in the galore ...” ... maybe cave dwellers WERE small and hairy and “free-market water.” But maybe we had it all wrong. The turntables date back to the smorgasbord. Maybe not as things, but as “as octopi / on the porch snow / still now a comma / a ticket a timetable.” Or maybe “We are going to get serious [page break] about project management / we are going to spend a lot of money on project / management software to prove it.” Maybe we are. Dallas, for example, seeks to “replicate the Hanging Gardens [of Babylon] / in [organic polymers of high molecular mass derived from petrochemicals].” (“The nose is in low- / central position in lyric space.”) “I believe it is possible to build / a [compost] lighthouse. I’ve written it down.” One’s prom date becomes Cleopatra’s double.
[Note: Sources: Christopher Jobson, “This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids”, “Roman Ondák’s room of heights”, “A Helium-filled Kinetic Drawing Sculpture by Karina Smigla-Bobinski”, at Colossal Art & Design, 1 Jan 012, 2 Nov 010, 16 Aug 011 (“This is What Happens …” concerns Yayoi Kusama, The Obliteration Room); Dana Ward, “Breathlessness”, in “The PEN Poetry Series: Dana Ward”, email rec’d 5 Jan 012, 12:14 PM PST; JBR; Anselm Berrigan, “Tripping with a brain”, at Aerial / Edge; Kevin Davies, “from Lateral Argument”, at Aerial / Edge; JBR; Majestic, “File Sharing Is A Recognized Religion In Sweden”, at Disinformation, 5 Jan 012; JBR; Kopimistafundet (“For the Church of Kopimism, information is holy and copying is a sacrament. Information holds a value, in itself and in what it contains, and the value multiplies through copying. Therefore, copying is central for the organisation and its members. Being recognized by the state of Sweden is a large step for all of kopimi. Hopefully, this is one step towards the day when we can live out our faith without fear of persecution, says Isak Gerson, spiritual leader of the Church of Kopimism. The Church of Kopimism is a religious organisation with roots from 2010. The organisation formalizes a community that’s been well spread for a long time already. The community of kopimi requires no formal membership. You just have to feel a calling to worship what is the holiest of the holiest, information and copy. To do this, we organize kopyactings - religious services - where the kopimists share information with each other through copying and remix. Copy and seed.” (Kopimi is pronounced copy me)); Del Ray Cross, “mclviii”, at Anachronizms, 5 Jan 012; Miles Champion, and Brian Kim Stefans, blurbs for Tim Davis, American Whatever, at Aerial / Edge; an archaeologist friend of Kathy’s, in response to son-in-law Tommy’s query re: the earliest records concerning deportations, in an email to K, 5 Jan 012 approx 2:43 PM PST (I found this via a Google search; The Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, has on exhibit “Gallery 15: ASSYRIA, THE ROD OF MY ANGER: This gallery centers on the Assyrian Empire, despoiler of the kingdom of Israel. A relief from the palace of Sennacheib shows the Assyrian policy of mass deportation, which befell the ten tribes after Assyria conquered Israel. …” Other Google search results date known deportations from Assyria to approx. 722 BCE); Stina Kajaso, “Pantad” (tr. Google Translate), at SONOFDAD, 5 Jan 012; That’s the 2nd … across ducks and fort da: JBR (Kevin Davies and Stina Kajaso (in translation at least) both mention ducks, Kajason has a bit that reminded me of fort da); JBR, but see the Göransson, following; Johannes Göransson, “Science Fiction Movies About Exile”, at Montevidayo, 5 Jan 012; Ian Bogost, “AIRPLANE EXPLANATIONS: Some notes from in-flight”, at Ian Bogost Blog, 5 Jan 012; JBR; Good German, “How Fracking Caused An Ohio Earthquake”, at Disinformation, 5 Jan 012; Terminal Humming, at Aerial / Edge; Richard Seymour, “White people need to shut up”, at Lenin’s Tomb, 5 Jan 012; JBR; Kaia Sand, as quoted in Carolyn Forché’s blurb for Sand’s interval, at Aerial / Edge; K Silem Mohammad, “Malta”, at Aerial / Edge; JBR; Robert Fitterman, and Mel Nichols, as quoted in Fitterman’s blurb for Nichols’ Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon, at Aerial / Edge; Carla Harryman, blurb for K Silem Mohammad, Breathalyzer, at Aerial / Edge; Don Byrd, as quoted in Publisher’s Weekly blurb, and blurb itself, for Don Byrd, The Great Dimestore Centennial, as seen at Amazon; JBR; Wikipedia, “Plastic”; Jed Rasula, This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry]
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