The X-47B marks a paradigm shift in warfare. Once upon a time the artificial limb, or the tool, et cet was the prosthesis. Now you are. Let the walls bear up the angle of the floor. Let the mice be tragic and roughly whispered. We have to live. My nephew’s on the paleo diet, drinking stone light and eating lard. Now I see some giant black thunderclouds we are steering away from and I wish I were on the ground in the seaside town we are now flying over pawing through a used book store.
grey whiteness of fog against invisible
plane of ridge, green of leaf on branch
in foreground, sound of wave in channel
For this reason, it is right to ask, what laws are just to be promulgated? “Only particular dogs”, the headless mannequins, walking twenty days to meet a phantom pain: a tiny blue egg arranged on a ladder with rat bells, as in, You hear rat bells all along the wall, as in, A bee-shape you keep in mothballs with acetaminophen. “The frequencies keep you running in complicated patterns; the streets are irregular.” “The veins of the network scatter and recombine in your biology.” Email me the name and contact info for your cardiologist. Once you go to prison, you never really come back.
shiny eggs toned down by dusk to the edge of a cottoned gong
dusky fossil sonata rippling toward impoverished fringes
comatose in paradise, but happy, happy
Who is the baby “ripping the morning glories 3 times from the pot”? Massless light won’t quite slant. So what if it doesn't work, so what? You can’t eradicate words meaning violence. That green U.F.O. light inside the copier. Backwards and forwards, forward and back. I don’t know how my stomach digests food, transforms it to energy and muscle, or channels the proper vitamins to the proper glands. Who is this little guy? He doesn’t know either. The cock missed the asterism of the gem. Grounded meal is a celestial mirror; axis mundi lies in a yard tended by an unregenerate astrolabe, the other element braced in a dun husk. The undersong of the “economic cosmos” is heard in the meadow where the herbicides work swift harm for a margin like inharmonic blue prairie fires. But we will never know what he meant by the ‘two-handed engine at the door’. What I’m trying to say: that it is a mark of these dark and difficult times that the populace at large is neither aware nor concerned about what Celan meant by ‘encounter’. Pause all Obon prosopopoeia. “For someone who knows their Martian, this is a beauty. It’s gorgeous.” The point is that the very process through which necessity arises out of necessity is a contingent process. If there is an intended audience, ARK CODEX ±0 is for any conscious being that comes after the wipeout spawned this language to dig its own mass grave, leaving only the original intent to communicate to sprout in the aftermath. “The Sky is Aqua on Thursday Nights.” Alfred Jarry was fond of this quotation from Leibniz: “Perception is only a hallucination that is true. That’s why I’m getting people from all around the world. Because I’m ground zero for ‘Implantosaur.’”
[Note: SPD Spring 012 Catalog #11. Sources: W.J. Hennigan, “New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who's accountable?”, at LA Times, 26 Jan 012 (“The X-47B marks a paradigm shift in warfare, one that is likely to have far-reaching consequences. With the drone’s ability to be flown autonomously by onboard computers, it could usher in an era when death and destruction can be dealt by machines operating semi-independently.” I guess “semi-independently” means that once upon a time there was a programmer somewhere … oh, it also means that if a human is paying attention, s/he could override the program …); JBR; Amy King, as quoted in John Ashbery, SPD Spring 012 catalog blurb for King’s I Want to Make You Safe; JBR; Nick Flynn, SPD Spring 012 catalog blurb for Michael Klein, then, we were still living; JBR (hey, Drew!); Matthew Zapruder, “I Drink Bronze Light”, at PEN.org; JBR; Stephen Ratcliffe, “1.26”, at Temporality, 26 Jan 012; Laura Buckerton, “Letter on Laws and Numbers”, in Sean Bonney, Four Letters / Jennifer Cooke, Pocahontis Mildew, Danny Hayward, Laura Buckerton, Four Comments; Debora Kuan, “Turne”, “How to Take Black-and-White Pictures”, “Confessions of Porcelain Animals” at Reading Between A&B; Jena Osman, The Network, as quoted in Siobhan Phillips, “All Together Now: How Description Fosters Connection”, at Boston Review, Jan/Feb 012; daughter Rose, phone call, 27 Jan 012 approx 10:20 PST; Christopher Glazek, “Raise the crime rate”, at n+1, 26 Jan 012 (one very interesting bit: “In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of articles in the New York Review of Books, the Justice Department finally released an estimate of the prevalence of sexual abuse in penitentiaries. The reliance on filed complaints appeared to understate the problem. For 2008, for example, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000. That’s 216,000 victims, not instances. These victims are often assaulted multiple times over the course of the year. The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008, likely making the United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women.”); Camille Martin, “Six Sonnets”, at Moria Poetry; JBR; Joanne Kyger, as quoted in William Keckler, “I Really Love Joanne Kyger’s Poetry”, at Joe Brainard’s Pyjamas (The Sequel), 26 Jan 012; Del Ray Cross, “mdlxx”, at Anachronizms, 26 Jan 012; That green … the copier: William Keckler, “Valentine”, at Joe Brainard’s Pyjamas (The Sequel), 26 Jan 012; JBR; John Olson, “Veho Comitatus”, at Tillalala Chronicles, 26 Jan 012; Reitha Pattison, “Fables”, IX, XIV, as quoted in Richard Owens, “REITHA PATTISON HER FABLES”, at Damn the Caesars, 20 Apr 011; Stanley Fish, and John Armstrong, as quoted in Armstrong’s “Reitha Pattison and the superbly obscure”, at Bebrowed’s Blog, 26 Jan 012; Rosa Van Hewnsbergen, Inebriate Debris; Jacob Sloan, “Pieces Of Planet Mars Landed In Africa Last Summer”, at Disinformation, 26 Jan 012; Chris Horner, “Mind the Gap. Žižek, Hegel and the Metaphysics of Contingency”, at Ernst Blog, 25 Jan 012; “Ark Codex – art/prose”, at gobbet, 25 Jan 012; Geof Huth, dbqp, 26 Jan 012; Adam Dant and Donald Parsnips, as quoted at Bureau of Subliminal Images, London Institute of ‘Pataphysics; William Keckler, “People Searching for "Implantosaur" (One from North America)”, at Joe Brainard’s Pyjamas (The Sequel), 25 Jan 012]
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