The Market migrates; the Market scatters across the Metroplex.
The Market dreams my carcass onto the highway, groans
a few blocks deeper into my neighborhood.
Dusk pales
at its hemline.
Copper light scores the westside of my chokeberry tree;
rush-hour trafficopters
buzz over live oaks …
First it was the leaf tumbling down as I walked to the bus stop, then it was the woman falling back in the aisle. Another woman made both of her dogs, huge Rottweilers, heel and sit on the curb even though the light was green. We are indeed a long way away from “petals on a wet, black bough.” “Every move / you make is on / the jumbotron, / and the stadium’s filled.” So who owns death TV? Is accuracy famous? The crowd is willing, but the heart still leaks. The only metric on the threshold of a dousing in the iceless river is fluidity. Who sanctions inner space? Copy that. The cop said your ear is bleeding / in my back pocket a picture of Meher Baba a New York School membership card signed by Ted Berrigan an I double W membership book
Waving — drinking / thinking / sinking — as one
this is work — real — vital — of mass — of struggle
I see myself across a dark room
Let the hydro stay down
grope for edges in the weakening murk.
If you can't hear me screaming like a monkey, you are clearly not doing your job. My greatest fantasy has always been to print a book on a dead rat. Let the proboscis enter the epidermis and bring an infusion with the potential to wake up. But it all gets even creepier still — stirring deep outside us there’s perishing, or something looming under legal methods, jet black wigs [once again dehiscing — out along the lines and routers] watch the eyes peel back [becoming natural gas]. But biochemist Chen-Yu Zhang of Nanjing University suspected that foreign microRNA might also be present. Memento mori. “Let the unicorn go through you.” The translations are, on the whole, bulky, didactic and forlorn; I reserve them for another reader. But now I only feel my face and neck burning. I’m not enough revelated, or I’m just not. Paterno died, in the nick of time. You like it here don’t you? What about the logic of the dial-up, the logic of the bad connection, the logic of the YouTube faith-healing account? You ask what I mean by ‘us all’, yet I mean by ‘us all’ what I said: all of us, everyone, and everybody; and that includes the billions joining us, very quickly now. Yet the greater point, if you like, with deconstruction from the beginning was to see if the master might be departed from, and how. You appeared to ask me what revolution in particular I want (though in many ways I reject the terms of the question), yet the revolution in particular I want would be, to start with, a practical-theoretical zooming out and in on der Klasse Gespenster. There IS a spoon. This is a round stone, about the size of my head. Orson Welles. I see the Harry Lime figure. Authentic? In-authentic? Neither. Are you kidding? Is it not? Sure it isn’t. So who, what? Watteau’s Gilles, Stan Laurel? No. Yes. I don’t know. Why, then, are there not vast ethnographic tomes about American or British rites of passage, with long chapters about forms and paperwork?
[Note: SPD Spring 012 catalog #8 (tho I only got partway thru H). Sources: Susan Briante, “The End of Another Creature”, “Scrap Metal”, at quoted in David Hadbawnik, “Interview with Susan Briante”, at Primitive Information, 9 Dec 011; David Hadbawnik, Field Work Notes, Songs Poems 1997-2010, Zach Finch, Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”, as quoted in Finch’s “‘A speck of behavior, a fleck of culture’: A review of ‘Field Work: Notes, Songs, Poems, 1997–2010’”, at Jacket2; JBR; William S Burroughs, Carl Weissner, and Claude Pélieu; Sheila E Murphy, “haibun (Unceasing tree light …)”, at experiential-experimental-literature, 22 Jan 012; Phil Hall, “An Apprenticeship Ends”, “Variorum”, at Jacket 37; JBR; William Keckler, “If”, at Joe Brainard’s Pyjamas (The Sequel), 22 Jan 011; kari edwards, “intro”, and Rob Halpern, “from Music for Porn”, as quoted in “FEATURED POET: ROB HALPERN / PRESENTED BY kari edwards”, at Galatea Resurrects 1; Sarah Stanley, “Top 100 Stories: #18: Genome of Vegetables Remains Active After You Eat Them”, at Discover, Jan/Feb 012 (“Call it a new twist on the old saw, “you are what you eat.” In September a Chinese team reported that fragments of genetic material known as microRNAs are making their way from vegetables into the human bloodstream. Even more surprising, these bits of plant genome may have health consequences, suggesting that some biomolecules can remain active even after digestion. MicroRNAs native to humans were first identified in blood just three years ago; they seem to help regulate gene activity. But biochemist Chen-Yu Zhang of Nanjing University suspected that foreign microRNA might also be present. “I had the crazy idea to check for nonhuman molecules,” Zhang says. He and his team tested hundreds of volunteers and found about 50 different kinds of plant microRNAs in their blood samples. The scientists noticed that one such molecule, called MIR168a — which is abundant in rice and plays a role in plant development—paired up with a piece of human RNA that helps remove “bad” LDL cholesterol from the bloodstream. Follow-up tests in human cell cultures confirmed that MIR168a interferes with production of a cholesterol-clearing protein. And an experiment with mice showed that LDL cholesterol stuck around longer in the blood of the animals who had eaten rice than in those who had not.”); JBR; Grazia (Naropa counselor), and Bhanu Kapil, as quoted in Kapil’s “Unicorn Vista”, at Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi?, 22 Jan 012; Matt Hart, “I could’ve sworn there was something I needed to tell you”, “Elephant”, at Konundrum Engine Literary Review; JBR; Joe Luna, “Statement for YBT (Harry Sanderson, Riyo Nemeth, Dominik Dvorak), at All Over the Grid, 31 Jul 011; Jonty Tiplady, “AN OPEN LETTER TO KESTON SUTHERLAND (20/1/12)”, at Jonty Tiplady.com; Timothy Morton, “There IS a Spoon”, at Ecology without Nature, 22 Jan 012; Marisha Chamberlain, as quoted in H L Hix, “Marisha Chamberlain”, at In Quire, 22 Jan 012; Ken Bolton, “(The) Kirkman Guide To The Bars Of Europe: their music, their service, views etcetera”, David Graeber, “Beyond Power/Knowledge”, as seen at wood s lot, 22 Jan 012]
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