In the House of the Hangman 349

A cause célèbre places my hand on the lever, delivers the lemon bead, wrung from wet-nap to my tongue overlaid with thirst. I throw a knife at the sleeper astride the balloon, blue lids with the mystic stretch gone out. My dozen angry blood cells were frowning in the jury box. Having nothing to say, I said ... [unintelligible]. The truth is you're always looking through a tube. Could we have those trees cleared out of the way? And the houses, volcanoes, empires? The natural panorama is false, the shadows it casts are so many useless plenitudes. __ Greetings lovely people. I’m reminded of Bruce Lee at this point, who developed a “style without style.” Are we talking “optional apocalypse” or the hapless subject of the hegemon, whom Ashbery locates elsewhere, wandering in a beautiful, eye-catching 20th-century skyscape with clouds, wires, and utility poles, soaring up while moving down, into a gooeyness and gumminess, a thickness of texture, hard, ungiving and indigestible — “clump — bends trill a jam” “mid punt egg zero” “copra stewage” “globule” — suddenly a black light bulb appears, radiating light. It’s one of those aha moments, or one of those nuh-uh moments. In 2003, for instance, two tribal militias planned and implemented a campaign called “Effacer Le Tableau”, in which they systematically exterminated local forest pygmies. In the age of “fair and balanced” media, chicks dig war, right? It is thus that the Fate of the Commons and Autonomy itself is an Imperative Function of the Efficacy of the Poets’ Song. Will their Lyrics be well enough Advanced to Hijack the Technoitopian Scheming of the Imperial Regime? Can a Pringle really DIE? “Let the cold flow with its silence of scythes, / I’ll not ululate here in a ‘no’ that’s empty...” This pathway does not allow for cortical processing. For 100 years, maybe 3000, a lack the sequence must undo, overturning postponement our wanting’s askance with preposterous now. Why these baubles, hyperactive conduits into the chaos of our lost-at-sea? A 400-year-old Japanese Buddhist temple has solved the problem of graveyard over-crowding. Mourners swipe a smart card encoded with loved ones’ data. The ashes are then conveyor belted to the Space of Peace. After 10 minutes and 42 seconds queuing most people in the UK lose it entirely. In 2010, 6.1 trillion text messages were sent worldwide. 41% of young people in Spain are presently unemployed. How do we arrive at our judgments about “good” and “bad” in art, music, and writing? [I don’t know about the rest of you, but for months now I’ve been walking around saying, “My tits break.”] Oh, really? I figured out what those little sticks are that I sometimes find around the burners. They’re burnt pieces of uncooked spaghetti.

[Note: Source: stuff somehow related to the rest of the “The EDGE BOOKS/ABRAHAM LINCOLN/WEST WIND REVIEW AWP Reading, Saturday February 5th, 5 PM” reading people. And. Jae Choi, “Harry Houdini”, Anthony Madrid, “I Have Passed Too Many Years Around Cool Designing People”, “I Wanted To Be An Angel”, in The Iowa Review, 1 Dec 010, as seen at Encyclopedia.com (Emily Liebowitz); Barrett Watten, “Mode Z”, as quoted in Tony Tost, “BLOWING UP JUST TO SAY SOMETHING TO US: K. SILEM MOHAMMAD AND THE SUB-POETICS OF FLARF”, at Fascicle 1 (K. Silem Mohammad); email from Brainmail, rec’d 24 Jan 011 5:43 AM; S C Hickman, “Philosophy and Magnanimity - The Generous Gesture - Style without Style”, at Dark Chemistry, 24 Jan 011; JBR; Chris Nealon, “John Ashbery’s Optional Apocalypse”, at National Poetry Foundation Mesh (Chris Nealon); Steven Fama, “Mel Nichols, “Catalytic Exteriorization Phenemenon””, at The Glade of Theoric Ornithic Hermetica, 22 Nov 09 (Mel Nichols); Charles Bernstein, quoting Clark Coolidge, as quoted in Tom Orange, “Arrangement and Density: A Context for Early Clark Coolidge”, at Jacket 13 (Tom Orange); Cildo Miereles, Obscura Luz, 1982, in Cildo Miereles (ed. Guy Brett); JBR; Geoffrey Clarfield, as quoted in Pierre Joris, “Pygmy Holocaust”, at Nomadics, 24 Jan 011; Adam Roberts, Drew Gardner, “Chicks Dig War”, Justin Katko, “Death of Pringle”, in Roberts’ “Flarf: Poetry Meme-Surfs With Kanye West and the LOLCats”, at The Atlantic, 3 Nov 010 (Adam Roberts); Stephane Mallarmé, My Books, as quoted in S C Hickman, “Alphonso Lingis: The Sensual Carnality of Objects”, Dark Chemistry, 24 Jan 011; an article in The New York Times, titled “Using Rats to Trace Anatomy of Fear, Biology of Emotion”, as quoted in Deirdre Kovac, “Rod Smith: In Memory of My Theories (O Books, 1996)”, at EPC (Rod Smith); R M Berry, Barbara Hamby, blurbs for Sandra Simonds, Warsaw Bikini, at Bloof Books (Sandra Simonds); R D Pohl, “Flarf poetry: From the outhouse to the art house”, at Buffalo News.com, 2 Jul 09 (Gary Sullivan); JBR;“Awww-Man Cops: More Anna Vitale”, at Wolf in a Field, March 010 (Anna Vitale); Ryan Walker, “avwetshbavr”, at Bathybius, 18 Jan 011 (Ryan Walker)]

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