Think I’ll listen to Owl Brain Atlas a lot. It might be translucent. MI’s Self-Destruct Fuze for submunitions, which exceeds DOD requirements for UXO (UneXploded Ordnance) duds, provides friendly forces with a clean operating area after the firing ends. The weather is fine in Ulan Bator and also in Oaxaca, in the dark irritation of the eyes. In the wheat stalks there are insects vaccinated against bread. In the camel’s belly there are blind highways. Do I sleep in a cube of white flames? OUT OUT. At the risk of overmining objects, I would like to treat them as events.
One unlinks glass head
and
periphery reversing in snails moment
the hinged Euridice
metanoia of void eardrum may early nothing their
own first
lyre its glass held through
the happen Reality once under glass holocaust
a
proportion ringed in swirled merely
the heave expands
I must contextualize. When I woke up I was nightmaring … someone turned around and they were without a face. I knew who it was. The face looked scratched out and it was horrible. Before going back to sleep Levinas came to me by way of Judith Butler — lunatuna / fluttering / below belly. Where did she get that sticker of the puking unicorn? Future virtue in this sense will consist in being as consciously hypocritical as possible. Lyric, says Ariel, is the barcode of the dead. Because I am stuck in the lotus position, I’m a kindle that spreads jungle fire like Amazon, the practice of coloring cluster munitions the same shade as aerial food drops, a crowded afternoon of insect life / in ditches and swamps. He then proceeded to have a replica of the work fabricated on a 3D ZPrinter 650. The result is a quite good monochromatic reproduction that is full of the brushstrokes and textures that until recently we thought we couldn’t so easily reproduce. What if you had a very long book and made it longer? With (!x==[33]) .UNFO seeks to indexically lengthen the world’s most monumental texts through failed software operations. “Ich das Wir, und Wir, das Ich ist.” This formulation “is the work of all and each,” which is also a formulation of Spirit considered in its active dimension. “My pulse falls through subtracted space.” As j/j puts it, “The organ was a real turkey heart that I kept with me in a hand made ‘coffin’ in my jeans pocket for a year while it deteriorated. I kept it in salt to keep it from smelling.” And the professor asked me: Is The Waste Land a sociological document? I dreamed I was a mini person and a normal sized guy put me in the freezer at a super marker to watch me freeze to death. So to save myself I tore into a package of frozen corn & built an igloo with the corn to stay warm. “Because if substance is excluded as the way to experience existence, then how many ways are there to subsist? That is what I am interested in.” Study the proliferate shape of the scar. “I caramelize the situation.”
[Note: This is the 1st in a series of 26. Since SPD just announced that the Spring 012 print catalog would be its last, I’ll honor it and all the past catalogs (they’ve been important to me) by sampling as many of this issue’s “Poetry, Prose Poetry and Cross-Genre Writing” authors (and/or the blurbs for them) as I can. Today’s special is “A”. But of course there will be other stuff … there’s always the “and”. Sources: JBR (Owl Brain Atlas is an album by JD Nelson. See Free Music Archive); Samuel Ace & Maureen Seaton “Secret 16 (bomblet), from Part II of Stealth: Untitled (Key)”, at EAOGH 5; Geoff Tuck, “Christian Mayer and Geoff Tuck (on the ground and to the dogs), at Notes on Looking, 15 Jan 012; Etel Adnan, “XXXVI from The Arab Apocalypse”, at Poetry Foundation, and “Time, Desire and Fog”, at Blithe, 1 Aug 04; Levi R Bryant, “Of Events and Objects”, at Larval Subjects, 15 Jan 011; Charles Alexander, “Pushing Water 23: for Jackson Mac Low”, at EOAGH 2; Jackie Wang, “Yesterday I did not touch the internet and it was good. …”, at Ballerinas Dance With Machine Guns, 15 Jan 012; alurista, “Luna”, as quoted in Armando Rendón, “Tunaluna: Selections from a new book by Alurista”, at Somos en escrito, 8 Aug 010; JBR, but see Stina Kajaso, “Fransesca”, at SONOFDAD, 15 Jan 012; Timothy Morton, “Nietzsche and Hypocrisy”, at Ecology without Nature, 15 Jan 012; Patrick Pritchett, Lyrics for the Lost Book of Ariel, as quoted in Timothy Morton, “Oh Patrick”, at Ecology without Nature, 15 Jan 012; Nick Demske, “I’m hot”, at BOMBLOG, 15 Jan 012; Noah Eli Gordon, The Source, as quoted in Michael Leong, “Noah Eli Gordon’s Radiant Node”, at Hyperallergenic, 15 Jan 012; Hrag Vartanian, “When Paintings Are Easily Reproduced”, at Hyperallrgenic, 11 Jan 012 (re: Alfred Steiner’s “Erased Schulnik (Diptych)” (2010)); blurb for UNFO (Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization), (!x==[33]), at Blanc Press; Georg Friedrich Hegel, Jason Read, as quoted in Read’s “Finite Dialectics: Hegel in Balibar's Citoyen Sujet”, at Unemployed Negativity, 15 Jan 012; Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Brandon Brown, The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, as quoted in Laura Woltag, “Favorite Things 2011: Laura Woltag”, at The Disinhibitor, 15 Jan 012; Eileen Tabios, and j/j hastain, as quoted in Tabios’ “The Salted Heart”, at The Blind Chatelaine’s Keys, 15 Jan 012; Peter Sherburn-Zimmer, “The Man Who Erased His Own Memory”, at experiential-experimental-literature, 15 Jan 012; Julia Cohen, “Frozen Food Isle Press”, at $650 Apartment for $650, 20 Dec 011; Bruno Latour or Graham Harman, as quoted in PE, “Popular Prince and the Wolf quotes”, at ANTHEM, 20 Dec 011; a quote from somewhere in Almost Island (Special Issue: Style), at Almost Island]
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