A wind of eight thousand kilometres per hour! NoLie MRI, whose name evokes a walk-in strip-mall dental clinic, suggests that the technique may even be used for “risk reduction in dating.” He never sleeps, he says. He says he’ll never die. His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the philosopher. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. SMOORG MOORGLA HUP-LA! HUP-LA! SMOORGLA MOOERÉ. I mean, I’ve broken both legs, my arms in several places, I have a broken backbone, I’m aware they’re operating on me. Also, can you call someone your friend if you once spent a lot of time hanging out with his wax sculpture? I say “yes”. This is my wiki-page reinterpreted by gizoogle. This is my bonsai LEGO. Injuries to mute swans’ hips are more frequent than suspected but are under-recorded because of difficulties in diagnosis. Now then, there was a crematorium in Pilaw with scrambled eggs. Ships ships ships ... Shapeshifting from lizard to human form is great for controlling Earth so you can mine gold to save your dying homeworld, but it’s not so great for your skin. There’s a guy who lives near my apartment in a literal pile of garbage, and he staples photocopies of his headshot around the neighborhood, and his website is listed as “YouTube.com,” and I googled him and his only friends in the entire world were some pigeons, but then animal control came and killed them and fuckckkkkkk did you know that Mercury is in retrograde right now? Me too, and I really, really shouldn’t know that. Desperate, he decides to leave town, take the first train and admits: “I know that doing this is very literary, I know, moreover, that the trains are very literary” – means of transport were also infected by the disease. A subsequent trip to Chile brings no relief – traveling in a small plane, he can only remember Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who delivered letters flying over the same mountains. The character evokes countless other authors on the way: Danilo Kiš, Pablo Neruda, Alejandra Pizarnik. To insects – sensual lust … was how I began my talk … On Paradise … at the local library … It would be a nuns-only audience … I knew … ! So I’d donned my habit … wore a ton of More Spirit than Flesh make-up … And … brought props … props in my large portable closet … l’Armoire Secrete … Got to the library assembly room … Fuck … the one … only … person in the audience … my husband … Who … I knew … ! always preferred I get right to the … Thus … Paradise is sex sans bodies … Paradise: Travesty … Mechanical birds … Exegetes … Was I losing … ? Quickly to witticisms … The audience member … the audience member was … demanding to see the inside … of l’Armoire Secrete … Fuck … I … I began fumbling … with the golden lock …
[Note: Sources: Pedro Salinas, “Far West” (tr. David Lee Garrison), in Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity (eds. Jed Rasula and Tim Conley); Jena Osman, “Popular Science”, at Triple Canopy, 26 Nov 012 (quoting an article in Psychology Today?); David Winters, “About”, at Dinu Lipatti’s Bones; Alexei Kruchenykh, “Suicide Circus” (trs. Jack Hirschman, Alexander Kohav, and Venyamin Tseytlin), in Rasula and Conley; JBR; Inga Žolude, “Excerpt from the novel Warm Earth (Silta zeme)”, (tr. Suzanne McQuade), at Euronews; Jenny Lawson, “It’s probably not racist. Or possibly it’s racist to assume it might be racist. I’m sort of fucked either way”, at The Bloggess, 26 Nov 012; JBR, but see Christopher Jobson, “Lego Bonsai Tree by Makoto Azuma”, at Colossal, 26 Nov 012; “Swans Have Crash Landings and Hip Injuries Are More Common Than Previously Thought”, at Science Daily, 26 Dec 012; Dragan Aleksić, “Trade Mark” (tr. Jed Rasula), in Rasula and Conley; Brandon Brown, epigraph to Del Ray Cross, “mcddlxxv”, at Anachronizms, 26 Nov 012; Jacob Sloan, “Shape Shifting Lizard Skin Cream (With Vitamin E)”, at Disinformation, 26 Nov 012; Jamie Lee Curtis Taete, “Reasons Why Los Angeles Is The Worst Place Ever”, at Vice, 26 Nov 012; Lars Iyer, “Nu na banheira, encarando o abismo – por Lars Iyer*” (Portuguese version of his “Nude in the Hot Tub”, tr. back into English by Google), at Revista Serrote, Nov 012 (re: Enrique Vila-Matas, O mal de Montano); Darcie Dennigan, Madame X, as quoted in Elisa Gabbert, “The Poneme: Elliptical Machines”, at Lemon Hound, 23 Nov 012]
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