John Bloomburg-Rissman
IN THE HOUSE OF THE HANGMAN 1998
And under the bottom line, another line: we know he had weapons of mass destruction because we sold them to him in the first place. A heal, or example heard - how the rayed net soaks need. Remit sentence in a flayed edition, mourning. Unstuck the, copped singular. A kind of we-vapor. "Jesus was a sausage" etc. "Beyond Mountains, More Mountains." The Book of Balance and Harmony says: Because it is one word we think it represents one sort of activity. Strike the prince with your spatula. We have not been happy. Like a cape made from the feathers of a zacuan, from that rare rubber necked bird, we start to come apart the moment we . Consider this, my friends: eagles and tigers, though made from jade, though made from gold, come to the same end, the same rotten place. Divert all steam ships, air-dropped from, wherever. Moon, refrigerate the snowfield gas, the hermit maudit. Some sports they are not arena sports, philosopher. I found myself in a wood of chairs. A hole in the ground. Two shovels. One rake. Part of it was right the Zankou Chicken part / in ten years hair dye and a new set of teeth. I stopped at a booth on the periphery where a person offered tattoos corresponding to academic rank. In other words, why just rely on aftermarket home alterations such as WiFi-blocking paint when you can actually factor signal-blockage into the design of your home in the first place? Space Caviar calls this "a new definition of privacy in the age of sentient appliances." The result is the so-called "RAM House," named for its "movable shields of radar-absorbent material," and it will be on display at the Atelier Clerici in Milan, April 14th -19th. It's safe to say I had no idea what I was about to see. Here there was a male chastity belt, artificial noses made of gold, silver, and ivory, glass eyes in rows and real eyes in jars, artificial hands made of metal and other artificial hands made of ivory, a variety of artificial legs, various anatomical dolls, and phrenological heads; advertisements for treatments and medicines, public health posters warning of a variety of diseases, painted depictions of medical techniques and surgeries, many amulets, votive candles . It wasn't my first encounter with this kind of thing. Years earlier I bought five Victorian glass eyeballs at an antique sale outside of Harvard Square. The dealer told me each eyeball had been made specifically for a client, a perfect match to correspond to the client's real eye. They were hazel and blue and green and light brown and some of them had artfully constructed red veins in the sclera. A hundred of them had been found in an old optometrist's shop that had burned down. The eyeballs were one of the only things to survive. As the dealer told me this, I thought about the people for whom they were intended. Why did they never pick up their eye? Fuck that Living Theater shit. Did you know Judith Malina played a Sunrise Hotel clerk who was later killed by The Savage in the "Duty and Honor" episode of Miami Vice? It's a style one associates with Kevin Davies, or John Ashbery's first books after The Tennis Court Oath in which he begins to use a mellifluous line but lets the waves break on "the regulars at the bar who / are thrashing Thomas Merton / with checkerboard bathescopes / & babblin about nondiscursive / crap. I am a Times reporter. / I kill people, along with the other sportive hucksters who are carping/ to the gunshop retirees in the golden dawn." I mean, if they are lucky, Ahmad and his family will have one meal today: two plates of rice cooked with undrinkable water. Others will have to do with less, perhaps a bowl of spiced water that doubles as a form of soup. "We are being killed here, Yarmouk camp is being annihilated," said Ahmad, who was given a pseudonym to protect his identity. In the finding that could significantly transform recognised opinions of the fact that world is effective, the workforce of astronomers possesses identified that supernovae are not even, although diverse - a discovering that lifts concerns about how precisely significantly 'dark energy' is in your world in addition to just how fast your world is actually widening. Up to now, astrophysicists believed variety 1a supernovae to be evenly vivid in addition to employed them since 'cosmic beacons' to recognise your cosmos. But Milne in addition to his workforce can see that variety 1a supernovae will be more assorted in comparison with recently idea. 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These findings are sure to protein shake upward cosmologists' contemplating and could push those to revise downwards the two fee your world is actually widening in addition to the amount of dark vitality specific to your world. This creators of these studies speed to convey, nevertheless nevertheless, that a lot more info have to be compiled prior to scientists may determine in exactly what approaches the modern findings may impression existing information. It is wrecked, it is sinking. The rusty ship sinks and the desert closes over it and covers it. The desert closes over it and Chile sinks, the dead cornice of the Pacific sinks, the dead prow of the landscapes sinks while the stones that fall on to them cry out that shipwrecked in shadowland without the alphabet or any kind of clue to get us thru the u-shape of life memorizing Shakespeare or just idling in the faint scenes behind Kaiser Permanente it's how we came to be wan beings washed up on Gatsby's lawn O move along, move along, friend, there's nothing to see, don't stand there and try and not see anything either, move along, nothing is too big and too small to move along, the penitents will bathe in soft rainwater, cover their skin with palms full of medicated powder, and the bodies will be robed in gleaming white - total disgrace is stalking us in the canyon with its platter of severed heads. & all that is 100% additive-free, you see, my friend, the noxious flames live in me & into that void the voice reports on another particular which doesn't exist - stop me or save me from such clarity. It's a pronunciation of stems & blessings disguise the structure of a multilevel hierarchical calendar that we believe was used in pre-Han Escondido - entries for the village show must be in by tomorrow, by the way. The other day Cassandra Gillig and I accidentally found ourselves in a carcass shop - "miscellaneous teeth: 25 cents" - and it was such a stylish contemporary place that if poems are like dreams and dreams are like cities: yes and: I dream in architecture and city planning, the peripheries of conference centers, the lower levels of stadiums, in follies and street numbers and skywalks, the way Blake hears the mind-forg'd manacles rather than sees or feels them. The handcuffs are forged in the fires of ideology: but what sound does an ideologically misshaped metal make? It is the discourse of its laws - "some had a map / some had loud keys" - that dronecore / the cartographied - when the speechless things don't answer their silence is a third operation. [Image: A tree turned into architecture by the addition of a door.] With the words "Destination Tokyo" (in fact the only words uttered on the entire album) they introduce "Souzousuru Neji", which sounds like a bunch of machines getting together to jam. This is what extinction looks like. A rhino named Sudan is being guarded by armed rangers in Kenya at 24/7/365 because he is the only male of the northern white rhino subspecies remaining. His species survived for 50 million years. She worked with cheek swabs from a hundred women - her creative peers, artists, collectors, curators, and the like - to form a bacteria collective that will grow for the duration of the show. It's a sort of feminist ecosystem. But the question was about agricultural subsidies for cattle feed and related products, and he just kept on talking, his big clumsy teeth gnashing about in the middle of a dark wormy mess of wires and transistor tubes from which two eyes still stared, huge, unblinking, and grotesquely spherical. The various little mechanisms that had controlled his facial features were also still going, a ring of tiny moving rods and clasps around the edge of his now faceless face, their frantic pump and twist giving the impression of some crustacean or millipede flipped onto its back and desperately failing to right itself. As cogs spun and switches switched, he talked directly into the camera, facing the voting public with that emetically truncated head, as if unaware or unashamed of his sudden nakedness. And as he spoke his hands whirred into one strange and frantic gesture after another, running through all their pre-programmed positions: angry child demanding ice cream, Khrushchev at the UN, Kali, Hindu goddess of time and death. Oh it's all great fun in the corn maze until someone gets lost - earth art, crop circles without the laughs, digging around in Drumheller for Beefheart's "dinosaur cold" - inside the Holy Mountain hopped-up hummingbirds raging on raw honey, oysters & blue moons a passenger with no ID & nothing solid in the dictionary, no per diem, no booking fee, wearing a horse collar, a T-shirt reading "Citizen X" - better a propellered beanie, a New Year's diaper, a Brownie uniform - and if the bones of any shiny Hussar, uncowed by Miranda v. Arizona or the fourth amendment or the by-God Yosemite Sam mudflaps hanging from my ears attempt to stroll unbidden into my library, garage or sugar shack they will end as struts in the drug tunnel, et cetera. But let us now consider John Stump, his "Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz" which has score notations like "release the penguins", "Like a Dirigible" and "Gong duet." By whom was the potato grown? I said I used to headbutt it. If y = potato, and the revolution is given by the formula lozenge(ds), then this can be given the mathematical formula slide down my tongue all started into the start position of where the falling rate dented my car is life in however many shipments packed into crates and then the crates into container units and the units onto ships I sleep, harbouring no delusions, in the morning everything will begin I sleep, harbouring no delusions, in the morning it will begin a certain quantum of surplus value contained therein representing labour but not the labour that we perform or that any individual ever has so much, its tiaras with fascinators. 8FBMUI was therefore a totalising category represented by all goods and produced through determinate production processes. At this time I may not have spoken in this language. A thin hissing sound would have escaped the lips implanted in my thigh but which also is the essential aesthetic shipped two meters to the left.
[Note: Sources: And under the bottom . first place: Jay Ramsay, "Iraq Diary", in Monuments, quoted in Mandy Pannett, "'Inheriting Everything': Monuments by Jay Ramsay", in Tears in the fence 61; A heal ... spatula and & all that is 100% ... pre-Han Escondido -: Rod Smith, "capsized bubbles scott-free & literary love back at the loping topoi", "Everything Can Be Blamed On You", "Beyond Mountains, More Mountains", "New Sonnets", in Music or Honesty; We have not been happy, and It is wrecked . cry out that: Raúl Zurita, "Introductory Note", in Anteparadise (tr. Jack Schmitt), INRI (tr. William Rowe); Like a cape . same rotten place, and total disgrace . severed heads: Nezahualcóyotl "I sense the secret ..." (tr. Forrest Gander), Pablo de Rokha, "The Old Man's Song" (tr. Evan Lavender-Smith), in Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America (sel. Raúl Zurita, ed. Forrest Gander); Divert all steam-ships . one rake and O move along . to move along: MacGregor Card, "The Libertines' Announcement", "Ursus Memento Mori", "Duties of an English Foreign Secretary", "Yield to Total Elation", in Duties of an English Foreign Secretary; Part of it was right . new set of teeth and shipwrecked in shadowland . Gatsby's lawn: Mark Salerno, "So Do I", "Helping Uncle", in Odalisque; I stopped at a booth . academic rank and The other day Cassandra . third operation: Anne Boyer, "On poetry #6, a digression", "On poetry, #6: beauty, the senses, & what must be doubly engineered", at http://anneboyer.tumblr.com/post/116214806217/on-poetry-6-beauty-the-senses-what-must-be Anne Boyer, 11 & 12 Apr 015 ( the former is a cancelled post); In other words, why just rely . April 14th -19th and [Image: A tree . addition of a door]: Geoff Manaugh, http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/signal-blocking-architecture-and.html "Signal-Blocking Architecture and the Faraday Home", http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/arboreal.html "Tree / House", at BLDG/BLOG, 12 Apr 015; at BLDG/BLOG, 11 & 12 Apr 015; It's safe to say . pick up their eye?: Gregory Howard, "The Object is Always Magic: Narrative as Collection", quoted in Dennis Cooper, "Please welcome to the world ... Gregory Howard Hospice (Fiction Collective 2)", at http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2015/04/please-welcome-to-world-gregory-howard.html?zx=68792ff4dc12c15c DC's, 11 Apr 015; Fuck that Living . Miami Vice?: JBR, but see "Judith Malina" at http://miamivice.wikia.com/wiki/Judith_Malina Miami Vice Wiki (JM, RIP); It's a style . golden dawn": Publishers Weekly review / Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Music-Honesty-Rod-Smith/dp/193182407X/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428804423&sr=1-5&keywords=rod+smith blurb for Rod Smith, Music or Honesty; I mean: JBR; if they are lucky . protect his identity: Kareem Shaheen, "'Yarmouk is being annihilated': Palestinians in Syria are left to their fate", at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/10/yarmouk-is-being-annihilated-palestinians-in-syria-are-left-to-their-fate The Guardian, 10 Apr 015 (Yarmouk has experienced 2 yrs of siege from the Assad regime and now has been invaded by ISIS); In the finding that could significantly . impression existing information: Andrew Higgins, "Scientists discover Universe isn't growing as fast as they previously thought", at http://www.theamericanregister.com/scientists-discover-universe-isnt-growing-as-fast-as-they-previously-thought/11659/ The American Register, 12 Apr 015 (some kind of machine translation?); the penitents . gleaming white -: Kwame Dawes, "New Year's Eve in Addis", in Wheels; entries for the village . by tomorrow: Rupert M Loydell, "Ordinary", in Tears in the fence 61; by the way: JBR; With the words "Destination . together to jam: Beach Sloth, "Nisennenmondai - Destination Tokyo", at http://entropymag.org/nisennenmondai-destination-tokyo/ Entropy, 12 Apr 015; This is what extinction . feminist ecosystem: Hrag Vartanian, "Required Reading", http://hyperallergic.com/198570/required-reading-212/ Hyperallergic, 12 Apr 015 (the she in "She worked" = Anicka Yi); But: JBR; the question was about agricultural subsidies . goddess of time and death: Sam Kriss, "Do androids dream of electoral defeat?", at https://samkriss.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/do-androids-dream-of-electoral-defeat/ Idiot Joy Showland, 12 Apr 015; Oh it's all great fun . drug tunnel: Peter Culley, http://www.kswnet.org/kswextra/poetryposterpoem.cfm?ID=296 "The Fourth War", http://www.kswnet.org/kswextra/poetryposterpoem.cfm?ID=286 "A Poem for the Seattle Poets", http://www.kswnet.org/kswextra/poetryposterpoem.cfm?ID=287 "(Popular Characteristics 1800) (Henry Adams)", at Kootenay School of Writing (RIP); et cetera: JBR; But let us now consider . "Gong duet": Greg, "John Stump, composer of Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz", at http://lostinthecloudblog.com/2010/03/13/john-stump-composer-of-faeries-aire-and-death-waltz/ Lost in the Cloud, 13 Mar 010 (hat tip Omo Bob); By whom . to the left: Danny Hayward, "A Family Drama", at http://mountain-press.co.uk/images/family-drama-preface.pdf Mountain Press]
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