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Poem Devoted to Gulling

poem devoted to gulling from

culled to confront peeling poem

squired at Culloden acquire

motivated poem poem tried

and motivated sullen or

emulsifying omen declared for

going porcelain devoured by golem

separated at origin loam of

her my assortment corroborated

by home base security devoted

to gulling from caul to front eel

poem soured at birth flayed poem

motor poem talking at air poem and

loquacious ornamental or emotive

homing missile declared for having

poor sibling gouged out by owl

emasculated at home orison friar

of my resort her menthol collected

sorted by scored banal emblem

polizeiwissenschaft heft polearm

devoted to foxing bevel cold arm

bone cold ode a choir mode to fade

poem poem tired and enervated poem

sold to sod in flaxen cloven foreign

goring pores sailing devout edge by

gold lead separated reverse lamp

offer her my condolences

exacerbated by fraught by secular

boss devoted to looking haggard

forward haggard forces to convene

actuary actual eden pleated more

to void poem triumph of poem

and more elevated song of poem

or stultified men cared about

gin or port or wine libated by

good gang of chaps rated best

at onanism laying low of her

my ass or tenament cornered

baited to home of bad guys

secure locution devoted to

gilling flensed from coal

to bisect gaping poem wired

at dredged depth writhing

at sea level sea gulping or

an ancient with bends I don’t

care or mind groaning at

swollen paper erased

or rinsed out foam of

daze hurts or her my

sorry sir your purse

meant for curtailment meant

for bees a curator poem

devoted to gulling

The Film Needs to Be Slower and Duller at the Start

My favorite opera is Wozzeck because I would explode

my lame body to mean power.

My favorite fist is the big grey one grinding

mollusks into sand because I always dreamed

of being run down by a jeep crossing the cobblestone

drive-way three blocks down from my apartment.


My fondless dream is alone in a zone.

Hence my sitting being maudlin on the rim of a can

with no bottom. This as well is a trap.


My second favorite opera is Watch the Throne because

I don’t know the meaning of forms.

With stolen car-keys I might power-lock the doors

of the million white pick-up trucks prowling this city.

The streets can choke on subjects

tipped off of an axis.


The tiniest man with a goatee I’ve ever seen

crosses with an Orange Crush humming

You must be a decent person, he says,

to the trap, you must be a truly very good person.


(
quote: No I don’t~ listen to their wasted lines/ but my eyes

wide open and I see the signs [] BAY-bee..!.) medley: Minor lakes

where qualities dam up a narrow chute or channel. 


I don’t know the guy, dripping back and back into outest,

but thanks anyway!

Nobody Has Ever Cut Anything From Andrei Rublev

a fact about the use of dead birds in medieval mystery plays is taken from Patti McCarthy’s poem ‘(p)salter’

—-

in a mystery play

somebody dies on a sidewalk

somebody checks for pulse with big

motion and says birds jerked up-

wards with strings


spectrum fever is the ray I’m speaking,

by the way. were I bug it would be blood

I’d be drinking with my clogged proboscis.

orange black and red like Andrei

Rublev.


asked a friar, hey, what saint is this

trapped in sausage casing or

some swollen nipple?

pointing urgently at Рождество Христово—


reader, I was banned from the archive for life.

I was acephalite as beaten up by beguines,

they kicked my ass all the way back to Chalcedon, and


that evening, baby wasps erupted from my chest cavity

or screwed off my ascetic limbs during dancing.

and the worst part was, it was representational.


In Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky really truly

shot an actual horse in the neck and pushed it

down the stairs! he made a cow wear an asbestos coat—

I too became a kind of wood-land Calvinist

living lady-like beneath a meniscus.


by which I mean—water and politics

bathing one another before language—

that’s how I learnt it, at least,


back in my signifying days. (this 2000s single-related article is a stub.

you can help wikipedia by expanding it. )

Cotton Mather Eats a Spider

Lord, stamp […] on my eyeballs.

-Jonathan Edwards, 


poem beginning My Life had stood- a Loaded Gun

referred to by date of composition in conversation

rescinding backwards towards Sansloy, Leviathan,

unattractive anonymous arch-bishop bludgeoned to death

in Bruges by 13th century Scots who spell souvreignty

with a u and one e.


my girlfriend passed through Amherst by AMTRAK and hesitated

by the window to possibly wave at David W. Pritchard,

who also spelled archaically in Sovreign Woods.

after reading Susan Howe in its crust, old senator

Territory laid upon me emphatic thumb, aimed

along an infirm limb (B- biceps at best) and said

unto some backwoods aleph BANG

with usurped mouth, ironic hair-cut, vessel ridden like a Concord train.

Ballad of Misc. Georgia Dentist

Somebody’s father was a southern doctor

salvaged in the middle of the night by sheriffs

driving drunk back to the small wooden jail

to sign “massive coronary” over “head wound”

or “throat effaced, bobbing weakly over the chest.”


Somebody’s father’s car emerging from the woods

with his pale hand at rest on rare deer. His next tract,

his head-lights a vote cast in a lead box with ten holes.

To sign the critique from a 1954 Chrysler Town &

Country with two-tone blue scheme sighing wow,

now I’M what I’d call a CAR!


Somebody’s auto-critique was thrown out in a run-off.

Someone’s prescription said sublime subject of violence,

and was signed glass round-top bottle with rubber dropper.

Three mayors were marching through a town car

with torches. Somebody’s father was a southern doctor

drowned in a medicine cabinet stocked with sea-urchins.

Somebody’s father was ideal in a head-lock. He says

personality is a very depressing thing to have.

leaning up very suave against his gun-case.


Appearing at the side-door covered in blood and barnacles,

which was fine, somebody’s window collapsed

when confronted with the notion of bricks.

Somebody filled in a temporary root canal

with hundreds of extremely tiny cotton balls.

Country born at night-time sucking brine from a can.

This is one of many ways of obtaining cool medicine. 

Public Joy in Merryland

At the “Beggar’s Benison,” the sons

of the Scottish middle-class masturbated

into a tin platter to demonstrate music for use.


A variety of smugglers, Jacobites,

sons of second-rank families, the club

met at Castle Dreel, in Anstruther Wester,

to drink, read pornographic novels out loud,

and generally voice their ressentiment

amongst a group of peers.


Their motto was “be fruitful and multiply” but

they came on cold tin. The “test platter” bears the legend

THE WAY OF A MAN WITH A MAID.


The filigree penis on the inside of the platter

is very poorly drawn.

It lies laterally inside a sort of tesseract-vulva

in a way no two body parts have ever

intersected. A free-floating clitoris appears

to observe from an indeterminate space. 


The men of the Beggar’s Benison, curiously,

do not seem to have participated in the general

sexual liberty of contemporary social clubs.

However, the official minutes of a 1734 meeting mentions

one of feminine gender aged 17 hired

for one sovereign, fat and well developed.


She stepped in the closet nude and was allowed

to come in with her face half covered.

She spread wide upon a sheet

first before

and then behind:

every Knight passed in turn


and surveyed the Secrets of Nature.”


The Merryland books, of which

the library at Castle Dreel held several,

were a strain of erotic literature

in which anatomy was recast as topography.

The “Utrs,” writes Thomas Stretzer,

“is remarkable for expanding infinitely,

the more it is filled.” The State of Bettyland, (1684)

is an island farmed by men.


Receding back to Spenser, a chasm

filled with records of the kings of England.


There is a history of such colonizations

of the feminized body in English literature,

made explicitly bawdy by these early modern authors.

A map implies a space that exists as a body of water

implies, reefs, shoals, harbors. I argued at the bar

that a map is a priori an instrument of violence.

I couldn’t really explain myself well.

I heard of a long German poem about Antarctica

but I couldn’t find it online.


A territory is a fun thing to imagine,

but space as it exists is never mere object.

One member of the Beggar’s Benison was

in charge of tracking water depths throughout the year

for the entire County of Fife.


By all accounts he performed his job very well.


We might admire the remove at which our Beggars

set themselves—stop short of scraping the plate,

taking notes, the ritual of myriad semens mingling

beneath a white cloth, “engendering nothing.”

We might not admire them at all.


“Some falls on stony ground,” local wits

may or may not have noted.


An article notes their “legend is touching

in its simplicity.”


As with all historical documents,

we shall be content to observe from polite distance.

LIST OF ALL CAPITALIZED WORDS IN ‘GROTHENDIECK INEQUALITIES’

A poem about obsession with incommensurability is coming. In the mean time here are all the capitalized words from it. They demonstrate the point pretty well. They are arranged in an ‘aesthetically nice way.’

GROTHENDIECK INEQUALITIES By Chris Schaeffer A The Alexander Grothendieck LIES ALGEBA Dynkinovy When Grothendieck He When Pyrenees Grothendieck


He He Grothendieck Galois He I I Grothendieck I I I I I I Grothendieck


He In An A Grothendieck Grothendieck Grothendieck Grothendieck Pyrenees He C.F.S. Hahnemann C. Darwin W. Whitman B. Riemann R. Ramakrishna R.M. Bucke P.A. Kropotkine E. Carpenter S. Freud R. Steiner M.K. Gandhi S. Freud P. Teilhard Chardin A.S. Neill J. Krishnamurti M. Legaut F. Carresquer Solvic Arbeiter Angelstellter Berefung Grothendieck TV CRYSTAL SET


Grothendieck Grothendieck Paris Hanoi

Lecture


Grothendieck Grothendieck Grothendieck One Weils Ecole Normale Superieure Bourbaki


Anyway Grothendieck Gone


No Unpleasant First Pyrenees Fiddling


And One Grothendieck’s Pryenees Set Set Carthage Set Grothendieck Who Grothendieck Grothendieck Grothendieck Contacted Through DX DX Grothendieck Nicholas Bourbaki Theorie Ensembles DANGEROUS BEND Z Donald Knuth Bourbaki Metafont Grothendieck I Prynees We’re Grothendieck I Wonderful Grothendieck Samson Delilah Tunes Redis Grothendieck Grothendieck Gloire Dagon Grothendieck Grothendieck Euripides Aeschylus K-Theory Grothendieck Grothendieck Juuuuuuuuuh-teeeeeeeehhhh-muhh


I I Derrida Le Paon Pyrenees


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La Clef Songes Les Mutants Die Mutantan THE KEY TO DREAMS Tout Reveur Reveur Glauben Schenken Grothendieck God Grothendieck Grothendieck Hanoi Prynees Dieu Grothendieck I Richmond Virginia I Grothendieck Grothendieck’s Montpellier Voyage Memphis Hanoi Pyrenees Very Own I I I Aspect Mission I I’ll Grothendieck Canada I I I I’m Grothendieck


Pyrenees Pyrenees I Grothendieck


Aspect Mission I I Grothendieck Grothendieck I Grothendieck I Grothendieck French Grothendieck Voyage Memphis Grothendieck Grothendick Grothendieck


THE MUTANTS I DNA DNA Africanized Africanized Africanized Western Europe Asia Africa As North America European Since Americas The Ruttner DNA African A European M European C Mideast O The He Jesus Eucharist Eucharist


Grothendieck Pryenees Holy Spirit English OED


For Thousand Bees

Hard’ned Toils Exercise

They Ease Vice

Which Temperance

That Extravagance

They Tree

Blest Content Honesty


When Asian With Marvel The Champions The Swarm Wikipedia Caliban The Tempest Trinculo I Grothendieck Record Grothendieck Grothendieck His His Legal Grothendieck Grothendieck


Grothendieck


C.F.S Hahnemann C. Darwin W. Whitman B. Riemann Ramakrishna R.M. Bucke P.A. Kropotkine E. Carpenter S. Freud R. Steiner M.K. Gandhi P. Teilhard Chardin A.S. Neill N. Fujii J. Krishnamurti M. Legaut F. Carresquer Solvic Les Mutants


Contrary Recoltes Semailles Grothendieck Therefore The Grothendieck Recoltes Semailles La Clef Songes Les Mutants Recoltes Semailles La Clef We Grothendieck I XY AB CD


SURVIVRE ET VIVRE Bourbaki I Pryenees I I I’m  I Martian Cantor Normale Cantor Cantor Cantor’s Cantor I Cantor Cantor Shakespeare Pyrene Pyrene Herakles She Bebryx Pyrenees Grothendieck Pliny Elder Pyrene Lusitania Grotendieck Pan Set Hanoi A Mistreated Given Riven The Grothendieck Pyrenees Pyrenees Herakles Pyrenees Impossible Samson Delilah I Samson Delilah On Delilah Delilah In French Which I Grothendieck I Hanoi Pyrenees He Signaling Barefoot Grothendieck Grothendieck Grothendieck Bourbaki His Nantucketers Geryon His IHES Judaism Buddhism Pyrenees Grothendieck Buddy Rich The Beast Goes On Cathy I I When Grothendieck’s Grothendieck