In the House of the Hangman 1190

Chocolate cake, rubber wands, calypso in plaster, a static emitter, a length of butter, the state in darkness, a crumpled-up tongue mess, Blake’s compass, the golden rectangle, body by Fisher, a Balthus land letter, all my tomorrows in a single vein of sand, or sound, or stilled light. Better you reach out and grasp it and touch it to your mask. True of false: there is no mass-produced human. My search has been totally harshed by carnival midway images, hairy skinny; I touched a dying goldfish’s fins with coffee and lo – it lived. “Here come the ampersands.” What is post-orgasm disgust? Water rocks are slow. I mean, shape-shifting malleable, gelatinous forms are orbiting Earth at this very moment -- assembling and disassembling, growing as they are bombarded by magnetic pulses. One who drinks thru a straw is becoming a bird. Birds sing thru the syrinx — ‘In our age of depleted-uranium warfare, we have an obligation to challenge the military body counts that consistently underestimate (in advance and in retrospect) the true toll of waging high-tech wars.’ Filet of coelacanth with courgette flowers … Mesozoic muthafuckas … Esquerita and the Voolas … “Animated skins possessed by demon spirits” … Bbbbbbbbbbrbrbrbrbrb … awawawawawawawaaaaaah! A-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mow-mow Papa-oom-mow-mow! You’ll be a slave forever … to my precision blanket vegetable tablet spyderware and reverbstorm. Why is everyone in Seattle trying to fucking say hello to me all the time, do I look friendly, no I certainly do not. Man, those are some fine fine vegetables. What is Greek for frog? Ham, the autumn day, oh how genuine! Honk, the mailed rose.

MICKING CATCHUP, MAYNASE 
CATCHUP, MAYNASE, COTTEN 
CATCHUP, MAYNASE, COTTEN, HAMBERGER 
CACHUP, MAYNASE, COTTEN, HAMBERGER, WIG HAIR 
MICKING PINK SAUCE PUTTING OVER MY CHEST ARMS 
MICKING PINK SAUCE PUTTING IT OVER MY HAMBERGER TAPED FACE 
MAKING ONE SIDE OF MY HAED LARGER THEN THE OTHER

COVERING MY LEGS IN MAYNASE 
COVERING MY DICK IN MAYNASE 

PUTING HAMBERGER MICKTURE IN MY SHORTS 
FILLING MY PAINTS WITH CATCHUP HAMBERGER 
INCLUDE MY DICK WORKING CARFULLLY WITH IT 
SHAVING MY LEGS APPLYING MAYNASE AFTER 
CUTTING MY MY WIG 
EATING THE HAIR 
MY FACE BECOMED HAIRY 
SHAVING MY LEGS ON THE TABLE-LONG PERIOD 
FILLING MY PAINTS WHILE I AM ON THE TABLE 

HUMOR
YOU THINK IAM FUNNY
STANDING AT THE TABLE _I PERFORM AT THE LEVAL OF THE TABLE ON THE BODY PARRT AT THE LEVAL OF THE TABLE CROTON HIGH YOU MIGHT SAY 

HAMBERGER ON MY ARMS 
HAMBERGER NEAR MY ASS - IN MY SHORTS 

MAYNSE ON MY ARMS NECK AND SHOULDERS 
MAYNSE ON MY LEGS 
HAMBERGER BUTER TAPED TO MY FACE ONE SIDE 

LET THEM SEE THAT I AM PUTTING HAMBERGER IN MY MOUTH 

CUTTING HAIR OF WIG 
SHAVING HAIR ON LEGS SHEST 
PUTTING HAMBERGER ON MY HEAD 

MIXING HAMBERGER_ BUTTER_ MAYNSE_ 

MAKING FLASH SUBSTENCE 

MAKING IT XXXXXX SMOOTH 

CHANGING CLOSE COVERING OLD LAYER UP 

SLOWING DOWN TO GET INTO AN ACTION 

CAN NOT THINK ABOUT PEAPLE XXXXX MUST ONLY GET INTO ACTION IT IS IMPORTANT THAT I DO ACTION, STATEMENT OF ART 

[Note: Clark Coolidge, The Crystal Text; JBR: tv commercial for Sleep Number Beds, overheard on TNT 7 Jan 013 approx. 2:08 PM PST; Anne Gorrick, “Our Secular Rituals on Cubist Stairs”, at Blackbox Manifold 9; JBR, but see Jesse Glass, FB post, 7 Jan 013; Michael Donaghy, as quoted in Chris Hamilton-Emery, FB post, 7 Jan 013; Jackie Wang, “questions i’ve been asking myself about sex and eroticism”, at Ballerinas Dance With Machine Guns, 7 Jan 013; Alice Notley, “Small Room of Unmade Mosaic”, at Ballerinas Dance With Machine Guns, 7 Jan 013; JBR; “The Self-Assembling Particles That Come from InSPACE”, at Science Daily, 7 Jan 013; Ramón Gómez de la Serna, as quoted in Paul E Nelson, “78. Wren and Whale Surrender”, at Paul E Nelson, 7 Jan 013; JBR; Rob Nixon, as quoted in Derek Gregory, “‘imagination bodies forth …’”, at Geographical Imaginations, 7 Jan 013 (“Who is counting the staggered deaths that civilians and soldiers suffer from depleted uranium ingested or blown across the desert? Who is counting the belated fatalities from unexploded cluster bombs that lie in wait for months of years, metastasizing into landmines? Who is counting deaths from chemical residues left behind by so-called pinpoint bombing, residues that turn into foreign insurgents, infiltrating native rivers and poisoning the food chains? Who is counting the victims of genetic deterioration – the stillborn, malformed infants conceived by parents whose DNA has been scrambled by war’s toxins?” I would add: who is counting the non-human deaths? It’s not just about us); David Britton and John Coulthart, Lord Horror: Reverbstorm, as seen at Atelier Coulthart; Emmi Schatz, FB comment, 7 Jan 013; Savoy Books blurb (which quotes The Trashmen, Surfin’ Bird) for the Britton and Coulthart, as quoted in John Coulthart, “Reverbstorm on sale”, at feuilleton, 7 Jan 013; Sarah McCarry, “Some Books I Have Been Reading Lately”, at The Rejectionist, 7 Jan 013; Ken Myer, in conversation, 7 Jan 013; Kenneth Koch, When The Sun Tries to Go On, as quoted in Tom Orange, “Arrangement and Density: A Context for Early Clark Coolidge”, at Jacket 13; Paul McCarthy, HEAD SHOP/SHOP HEAD: Works 1966-2006, as quoted in “Scuffy Global Chancre // Blank White”, at bright stupid confetti, 7 Jan 013]

Comments

[Ed Baker]

just a day or so ago re:read Guy Davenport's
A BALTHUS NOTEBOOK

Balthus suer could do landscapes ... one that he did is considered the "perfect" landscape....
and
"ketsup" / "catchup" is spelled CATSUP !

it was changed to "ketsup" acuase
all the little kiddies might think that they were eating cats !
did you know
that in EVERY school in the USA they consider catsup a vegetable
(that fulfills the veggies per day GOVERNMENT requirement ? catsup is a little tomato and lots of salt and sugar !

between being "politically correct" and the garbage that we call "food" now wonder we are ALL fucked-up !

[Ed Baker]

I think that that Balthus landscape that i was thinking of is this one:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y_3-UYdrsJk/TybNQSh3TGI/AAAAAAAAHG4/gNvoguM43lQ/s1600/4+balthus,+large+landscape+with+a+tree.jpg

It is in one of the Balthus books that I have and I just found out that the hardback book that i have is selling for $231 !

JEESH ! I must have $12 million worth of books and (counting my own pieces) and art here !!!

[john]

Hi, Ed. I took McCarthy's own spellings ... as for Balthus, I've never thought of him as a landscape painter before but that is one gorgeous painting, and it looks just like a Balthus. Schwitters also painted landscapes, but they have no clear relationship to his MERZ-work.

As for cat/ket/etc, yes, no wonder we're so fucked up.

[Ed Baker]

Balthus seems most known for his view/paintings of young, innocent girls ..(nothing prurient OR pornographic about any of them..

if you check out Claude Roy's BALTHUS you'll see that he was predominately a landscape painter.... sort of does "Chinese-ish" / Romantic "stuff

one of my favorites is his Girl at a Window he was, I think married to a Japanese girl named Setsuko

there is also (which I have but have not read as I am not too keen on biographies but this one is "a must read") Nicholas Fox Weber's biography, Balthus.
Balthus also painted many, many, many still lives...
in fact, to my eye/mind all of his portraits (of young girls are
pretty-much "still lifes"...

skip the internet links AND that Wikipeedia crap and go to the two books I mentioned... the first 20 pages of the Weber bio just "grabbed me"

whatever remember what Braque wrote : The only valid thing in art is that which cannot be explained." and what Wilde said:

"I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction."

p.s. book launch of that Samperi trilogy ... all three in one volume... I think March 10, at Beyond Baroque.. ( they the same BB as of I know from the 70's ?... I think that they were in venice Beach). you gonna drop in ?

[john]

Ed, thanks for getting Balthus on my active radar. I will have to do some library exploring now. As for Beyond Baroque, yes, it's the same. Don't know if I'll get in for the Samperi launch (it's about 75 miles from where I live) but I will buy the books as soon as they're available.

Oh, and I wonder if Stevens had that Wilde quote in mind when he thought up the supreme fiction ...

[Ed Baker]

not sure what Stevens "had in mind"
(which "Stevens" ? which "mind" ?
(not ever sure, even, of what I have in "mind"
until I "pin 'it' down as an either / and
which leads me into a dis:cussion of
"either OR" (this OR that) verses (get it? poems)
this - AND - that (art AND poems)
which brings be to the pointy that we are discussing: fiction

I look at "it-all" as little more than (my)
autobiographical factoring
AND
my fictional autobiography

.... either way that dichotomy suades...

read the first, say, 74 pages of Hazony's new book ...

especially 'soak-up' what of mere t e s t a m e n t
is sold as fact: as
the Whole Truth and nothing BUT the Truth

... nice to be having a meaning-full
discussion here.... and IN THE OPEN
where ARE other voices ? jerking-off into their
own computers ? and /or pushing the "delete" button
whenever a comment is critical of THEM ?

I guess that any-boddhi with something-to-say has their own blog
and says it there ?

[john]

ITH hasn't been generating many comments these days Ed. I think all the conversation has moved to Facebook and Instagram and "places" like that. I am always really happy when you comment here.

[Ed Baker]

well
"off-the-wall 'comment's" iz my middle name !

it s just a damn shame that
- the computer corrects my spelling
- deletes my cuss-words and re:aranges my sintax ....

like those who read my poems OR look at my art

I am NOT responsible for their understanding OR intelligence...

or thieire piss-ant sesneces of humor ...

as my last Muse used to say back in 1969:
"silence is the worst reply"
then in 2003 (the last time I saw her) she added:
"all you think about is sex. KISS ME ! "

[john]

"as my last Muse used to say back in 1969:
"silence is the worst reply"
then in 2003 (the last time I saw her) she added:
"all you think about is sex. KISS ME ! ""

Not that I want to be thinking about death or anything, but that would be a perfect epitaph.

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