…. / It is dark & I go / It is dark & I don’t go / I go & I don’t go / It is dark / & I go / & I don’t go / The work of heaven or hell: to somehow / become aware of a howling in the motors / It could be that one is a strand / lengthways on a cloth / crossed by another / together / sagging under a heavy weight / Have a little atole, / a few tortillas / Here’s a shot of the rum you like / to keep your eyes open. Perhaps cats who release live prey in our houses are trying to give us some practice, to hone our hunting skills. For the love of God, Montressor! In a blizzard, once, you saw a truck filled with cattle overturning. It went down on its side, sliding. It was all silver. Like music. The woman at the shop played Florence and the Machine the whole 6 hours. Spongebob t-shirts in Tahrir Square. I have no pencils, back off / I am in 85 Google+ circles / this is silence, bird poop / … / trudge up. / U are with my car and in my car and I am someone who doesn’t have bibles. Hello it’s me this is the fear. Who goes hither and so on? Why. Therefore. Hey. Ballet on spring board. The razor blade on. Could life be a bit more Disney? Anselm’s gone home again? Archetype: corpses. Archetype: sacrifice. My life in dialogue form: -But is it not lonely? -Yes. -But is that a bit much? I mean, horror, post apocalypse AND my little pony? [This doll, called the Android of Albertus Magnus, according to the testimony of writers of the time was so intelligent that Albert consulted with her on all important occasions; unfortunately, out of meta-misogyny, one of his students smashed her to bits.] I looked, Jared, the Playmobil Security Check Point is out of stock. At first I thought: this must be some spoof Amazon. What was most amazing was the “People who bought this also bought …”: a Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer, Playmobil police stuff, Playmobil Safe Crackers (thieves), a fresh whole rabbit, a gallon of milk, some books (one of which is called How to Avoid Huge Ships, which is *actually* about how to avoid huge ships), music by Tinsley Ellis, Uranium Ore (“useful for testing Geiger counters”); a Pimp Kid’s Costume, a Playmobil Asian Family ... this check-point was reviewed by 121 customers, too ... 121. Lee, I have trouble believing this is a coincidence ... [pause] OK. I’m a former librarian, I looked it up. According to Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America by Takayuki Tatsumi, her book is an homage to Oshima’s Empire of the Senses; I don’t remember Senseless but according to Tatsumi the plot of the film shows up (unattributed, of course, but that’s just KA’s working method). I'd have to see the movie and (re?)read the book (I can never remember which of KA’s books I’ve read). I obviously should do both. Not just to answer this ... OK. This is or is not to say, Caramel should not be pushed to a point of bitterness. Witch picture fell off of the wall. The bony-fence cereal. He sees a squirrel-bat on the way to school. To translate a whole book by translating only its final page! I’d rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess. I don’t want to be sea foam. I live in Minneapolis. Your birdhouse is not even middle class. It doesn’t have tinsel pinecones. Maybe I can cast a spell on it? New episodes of Wicked Tuna. He said he was a fool. He beat his breast. He bit his fingers. And if the light is applied / spin the crystal at the base of the brain / the stem, or tongue / could this will be / absorption or erasure of / all latches? Don’t buck me off in the river, dog. My heart My heart My heart My heart My heart My heart My heart My heart It beats all irregular like. “My heart is where it belongs.”
[Note: Sources: Jerome Rothenberg, “A Dream Narrative”, “Praise Poems for the Old Coalition”, in A Cruel Nirvana; Clark Coolidge, The Crystal Text; Edgar Garcia, “Obsidian Bits”, “Ohmaxac: The Cross Trails”, in Boundary Loot; Maria Álvares Jimenez, Me’ Avrila, “Calling the Dead to Supper”, Munda Tostón, “Feeding the Black Dog”, in Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Woman (ed. and tr. Ambar Past); ?? Thomas, as quoted in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Pedagogy of Buddhism” in Touching Feeling, as quoted in Tech Support Poetry, FB post, 19 Jan 013; Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amondillado”, as quoted in MB West, FB comment, 19 Jan 013 (which is Poe’s b’day); Rauan Klassnik, “A cracked tooth …”, at Typo 13; Bett, “landing has been a fog …”, at bett’s blog, 19 Jan 013; JBR (I read about them somewhere, apparently they’re quite popular in Egypt for some reason); Donna Kuhn, “the sea is still there”, at experiential-experimental-literature, 19 Jan 013; Donna Kuhn, “u have a warped skull”, at experiential-experimental-literature, 11 Jan 013; Stina Kajaso, “Wallander”, at SONOFDAD, 19 Jan 013; JBR (re: Anselm Hollo, per a reputable source); “The Android of Albertus Magnus”, at Languagehat, 19 Jan 013; JBR (the original has “tired of her incessant chattering”); JBR, re Jared Schickling, FB post, 19 Jan 013; JBR, FB comment, 19 Jan 013; JBR FB comment, 19 Jan 013 (Lee = Lee Ann Roripaugh); Cynthia Arrieu-King, “Belonging”, at Typo 13; JBR; Laynie Browne, “Bea’s Notebook”, at Typo 13; Erín Moure: “Borges’ translation of Ulysses: Or of the last page of Ulysses as a translation of Ulysses”, at Jacket2, 8 Jan 013 (Borges’ translation can be found at el Malpensante);The European Graduate School; Feng Sun Chen, “letter / which life?”, at *, 19 Jan 013; ad for show on USA, 19 Jan 013 approx 8:40 PST; JBR; Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard, as quoted in Michael Lally, “Time for Another Real Quote”, at Lally’s Alley, 19 Jan 013]
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