DICTIONARIES and OTHER BEAUTIFUL MACHINES
Let's illustrate absurdity
through purposelessness and collage
through clean lines, bare surfaces, and a sense of space that speaks of
the machine-age aesthetic
Define it in terms of its formal properties: an abstract machine
Animal dreams can have several different meanings
To dream of machinery, denotes you will undertake some project
To give medicine to others, denotes that you will work to injure someone
To whiten the finished works, they are soaked in turpentine for a day, boiled in water
Theoretically, this should work, although there are still some things that we will never love
like a purple color, which sometimes disappears by fusion
but reappears in a smoky flume
These verbs mean to intervene unasked in your affairs
He told me I was lazy, but then in the same breath he said I was doing a good job
He alluded to the lemons painted
on the reels of slot machines or "one-armed bandits"
Proximity and the sentence
might resonate like mixed-media jackdaws
who take photographs and carry machine guns
Riah means "flowing"
Derived from word rhea, Rhea is wife of Saturn in Greek mythology, mother of Rome
She was also a sound machine
She lights up like a pinball machine in a gorgeous Victorian gown
Audio swallows are superb flying machines
To see a vending machine in your dream represents
the things that are just
sick-leave, knowledge baggage, change put into a vending machine
There are three forms:
washing machine, Put the clothes in the red washing machine
swimming pool, What a beautiful swimming pool!
And one unknown form
I have omitted rare words and rare plurals
in your Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
There is a machine for adding numbers
There are beautiful words that I rarely see outside the dictionary
and several species of venomous serpents
There is a word that can substitute for almost every word in a sentence
from a combination of mutagen, nanomachines, and Japanese tentacle porn
The one firm object in a turbulent world
I want to assure you that
this expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities
This machine will make a mask inset with emeralds
To see or use a washing machine in your dream suggests that you are underappreciated
Informal working, erratically and inconsistently; unreliable
a temperamental sewing machine
a bubble in a coat of paint
The melancholy android and the psychology of sacred machines
Some dictionaries have only a few thousand words
others have more than 250,000
A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail another, often larger object
or illimitable space or sempiternal truth
Nothing could give me more infinite pleasure than to see you win
An attachment on a reaping machine that ties grain in bundles
with the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it
Transmitting light, heat, or other radiation
there are stars for radial drilling machines, radiant garden cities
Let make a device for regulating tautness
of which the ultimate etymology is uncertain
In the center was a large green star
and all over the four quarters were sewn spangles
that glittered with patternicity
The tendency to find meaning may be compared with
a so called false positive in other test situations
The brain is a facial recognition, storage, and recall machine - and it is very good at it
Inches from each other, the officers chat while waiting for
an act of a gumball falling from the gumball machine onto the floor after a coin is inserted
Another expensive bundle of accident dragged screaming
or insects by every possible means
The next day, your body is transformed into a ravenous eating machine
It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms
and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life
"the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella"
Vague and inaccurate
on various levels of unfolding or nesting
loosening the soil and destroying weeds
A moving part of a machine for holding or shifting another part
to an evaporating dish
not corresponding to acknowledged facts
or the criteria of ghosts and other imagined fanning machines
SONNET 9 - He said, "I'm drinking the beautiful Scotch."
My beauty has a Black Friday velocity. My beauty has the attributes of the Number 8, men and
women who dance like birds and salmon herds, the South West Wind, The Maltese Falcon and
Farewell, My Lovely. My email account had a dark and twisted fantasy about Walmart and a diary
mask ammo kit. The moon is enough for us in Spanish, even when death goes undetected by
Beauticontrol ™ His everythings were shallow, not a cough in a carload. But there were shy
violets, birds - skylit, scarlet. It's so beautiful there and the trout are great. Why waste money on fire
prevention when prayer rallies can generate actual cash? When Cocteau was asked what he would
rescue if his house burned with all his precious objects inside, he said he'd rescue the fire. My
beauty burned on April 16, 2007. A fire came near my parents' house once. My mom was in Florida,
so I called my dad and asked he what he'd packed. "How do you pack a life?", he said, "I'm drinking
the beautiful Scotch." Good lord, he was drunk!
