Autopoiesis CLXVIII (“Your star a god of lead arrives …”)

Your star a god of lead arrives. Once the oracle has been consulted and the date of the festival announced, all the extant shrine paintings within the ancient city are effaced from the walls.

A fleshrise through brain coil follows the dry heave of

the fuck backward zero. There are lots of different

“After Neruda”-questions, each one teems with a regret like “Later that / day it rained / (I know from / the poem)” …

… Riding a wasp’s white off-white clouds up the white surfy

glare.  The June strawberries you’d melted down to jam play out of tune

because the Lotus-eaters are changed into a bull. Mountain head-top thousand door one by one hands-push-door open.

“Let me hang around the Fresno Fish Store, which my grandfather started in 1912, the first in all of Fresno, and which everyone naturally came to – ‘ethnic’ Italians, Germans, Basques, Armenians, Portuguese, Irish, etc., and of course all of us ‘colored’ people: black, Chinese, Mexican, Filipino, etc. The poetry, the music, the library of congress of a people”. Used stroke-of-midnight dealer lugs blowup hunger alphabet

back inside. The osmosis in the soul begins

intoning a mad “zero drag”* (*see Zygmunt Bauman, Consuming Life, introduction. What’s your drag coefficient?) and I

repeat it (what’s your pataphor?). I meet a Question from

an antique land, who says: two vast and trunk-

less legs  (‘What is a person?’ … ara, okàn, èmí, orí). Dios mio! Complicities replies: perhaps those

are the guests, “a game, a toy, and an experimental tool to learn about life, real and artificial”, in those thousand and one deterritorializations. (“Our next Inquiry must be, what are the several virtues? and what actions flow from them? and towards what ‘objects’?”)

[Note: A Spectrum of Other Instances, 1-27, is about to be released (wanna copy? Contact me: j at johnbr dot com; 10 bucks or trade); what better than to rewrite it? A variety of rewrite methods will be used. Line length will no longer be constrained to more/less 10 syllables. This is no. 1: method: N-replacement (N=noun; replacement=anything I want it to), using 14 books mostly from the library’s new book shelf. Occasionally verbs are messed with (but only within certain “appropriate” limits; e.g., paint in line 1 becomes effaced because the sentence in which I found it also includes the word paintings). Gillian Allnutt, “Saturnian”, in How the Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems; Bolaji Campbell, Painting for the Gods: Art and Aesthetics of Yoruba Religious Murals; Jake Berry, “Rattlesnake Disc”, in Brambu Drezi Book One; David Trinidad, “After Neruda”, “A Regret”, in The Late Show; Jeremy Reed, “Max”, in This Is How You Disappear; Randy Blasing, “Out of Eden”, and somewhere on a page I’ve lost, in Choice Words: Poems 1970-2005; Apollodorus, Library (trs. R Scott Smith and Stephen M Trzaskoma), in Apollodorus’ Library and Hyginus’ Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology; Tu Mu, “Passing the Huaqing Palace”, Yunte Huang’s “[Radical Translation]”, in SHI: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry (not from new book shelf but on my desk …); Yunte Huang, ““My grandparents on my mother’s side …””, in Cribs (not from new book shelf, but on my desk …); Adam Czerniawski,  “Discourse on Poetry”, “Words and Dust”, in The Invention of Poetry: Selected Poems (tr. Iain Higgins); Alice Notley, in In the Pines somewhere, I lost the page; Zygmunt Bauman, Consuming Life, introduction; pataphor: “The pataphor is an unusually extended metaphor invented by writer Pablo Lopez, based on Alfred Jarry's “science” of ’pataphysics. As Jarry claimed that ’pataphysics existed “as far from metaphysics as metaphysics extends from regular reality,” a pataphor attempts to create a figure of speech that exists as far from metaphor as metaphor exists from non-figurative language. Whereas a metaphor is the comparison of a real object or event with a seemingly unrelated subject in order to emphasize the similarities between the two, the pataphor uses the newly created metaphorical similarity as a reality with which to base itself. In going beyond mere ornamentation of the original idea, the pataphor seeks to describe a new and separate world, in which an idea or aspect of a concept has taken on a life of its own. Like ’pataphysics itself, pataphors essentially describe two degrees of separation from reality (rather than merely one degree of separation, which is the world of metaphors and metaphysics). The pataphor may also be said to function as a critical tool, describing the world of “assumptions based on assumptions,” such as belief systems or rhetoric run amok.” see ’Pataphysics (Wikipedia);  Segun Gbadegesin, “Ènìyàn: The Yoruba concept of a person”, in The African Philosophy Reader 2nd ed (eds. P H Coetzee and A P J Roux); Richard Doyle, Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living; Frances Hutcheson, A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy, in Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria, with A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy (ed. Luigi Turco)]

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[Satoko]

Despite the burden of a two-week falmiy vacation to England and France, where I will be lucky enough to meet some of the most illustrious and talented blogging writers on the planet, I am going to try writing a poem a day for the month of April. Or at least 30 poems during the month. If I happen to to 15 on airplanes and 15 at other times, whatever.The same commitment last year led to the creation of the Unlucky 26. I doubt I'll find such rare inspiration this year, but it will be fun (and probably exhausting) trying.

[Zezo]

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