In the House of the Hangman 1130

A piece of magic butcher paper. I’d like to see us imitating whales’ beautiful, moving, mysterious speech. There’s always a time lapse in reading; and so we are all the silhouettes of each other’s ideas of fireflies. Except: we aren’t all silhouettes of each other’s ideas of fireflies. Sometimes we cease to be apart and begin to be together in a way that is (and is not) like a dump cake. I am bothered by our inability to escape from frames, and so the cover art disturbs me. (And so we clap and clap and clap but the house lights never come on in the concert hall and eventually all the musicians have loosened their bows, emptied their spit valves, packed; the stage has been struck, mopped, and we are clapping and clapping and waiting for the lights and they never come on and so we just sleep in our chairs for the rest of forever.) Oh nooooooooooooo! Not Funtown. But: “Please, don’t cry. Talk is only architecture.” Might some funny bits actually get funnier in translation? In George Saunders’s “Pastoralia,” a character is paid to impersonate a cave man at a theme park, his employers providing a freshly-killed goat to roast daily, until one morning he goes to the usual spot and finds it “goatless.” Among the many possible renderings, Saunders’s German translator chose ziegenleer, a lofty-sounding melding of “goat” and “void” with no exact equivalent in English. My grandmother’s hands are pure rocks. Suddenly he said something about totemism to the woman. She knew he liked to photograph banana plants. A Japanese planted a banana on Basho’s grave. She remembered it when she heard her partner speak about the totem. (The woman looked Japanese but was probably an Indian.) Because Basho means banana plant in Japanese. Speaking only for myself, Lebbeus is a canonical figure in the West — and I mean a West not of aristocratic intrigue, dominating armies, and regal blood-lines but of travelers, heretics, outsiders, peripheral exploratory figures whose missives and maps from the edges of things always chip away at the doomed fortifications of the people who thought the world not only was ownable, but that it was theirs. Lebbeus Woods is the West. William S. Burroughs is the West. Giordano Bruno is the West. Audre Lorde is the West. William Blake is the West. For that matter, H.P. Lovecraft is the West — like in BAD HISTORY: It is a beautiful gray ironic day, with forecasted clouds in the depthless background to complement the bold relief of our vacant enterprise. These vertical lines simply partition the competing claims of our orchestrated interests, held in on all sides by work cycles of habit and stability. Then our private spheres burgeon out until even we are redeemed! Each sphere comes complete with a view, but that view will never get around this corner. Under the oversized roof of the world, trade in materials has fashioned a culture for all – Home is where
xxxxxxxxxxxxx I hide out, guns drawn
xxxxxxx waiting for Adobe Flash Player
xxxxxxxxxxxxx or a phone call to slip
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx abstract money out of my abstract
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx image of myself. Tried to define
xxxxxxx a tree and realized
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I don’t know much about
xxxxxxxxxxxxx whose definitions I’ve been
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx borrowing to steal some fire-
xxxxxxx breathing into a complacent
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx system just for getting
everything over with.
What would Captain Kirk do? oh, oh, fuck you, fuck you, bitch … [Goddess abruptly discards God’s huge hard-on.] GODDESS: a moneyshot. what gumption. Children die, never mind, let’s. jam. iklwa! mm iklwa! ah up an atom ahah / ah ah ah / one, two, a million.

[Note: Sources: JBR, re: gift from Bhanu Kapil rec’d via mail, 30 Oct 012; Marya Berry via Michael Joseph, FB post, 30 Oct 012; J M Gamble, and Joel Brouwer, And So, as quoted in Gamble’s “25 Points: And So”, at HTMLGIANT, 30 Oct 012; Anne Gorrick, FB comments, 30 Feb 012; Jascha Hoffman, as quoted in “Lack of Goat”, at Languagehat, 30 Oct 012; Leticia Luna, “Firefly”, in Wounded Days and Other Poems (tr. Toshiya Kamei); Sérgio Medieros, “A TOTEM …” in Vegetal Sex (tr. Raymond L Bianchi); Geoff Manaugh, “Lebbeus Woods, 1940-2012”, at BLDG/BLOG, 30 Oct 012; JBR; Barrett Watten, Bad History, as quoted in Michael Kelleher, “Aimless Reading: The W’s Part 7 (Barrett Watten), at Pearlblossom Highway, 30 Oct 012; Mark Wallace, “Home is where I hide out”, as quoted in “Vertaallab 36 Mark Wallace – Home is where I hide out”, at ooteoote, 28 Dec 012; “N P Snow”, Get Gay!, at Bad Press]

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