January 2012
13 posts
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Survivre et Vivre
This poem incorporates language from Amir D. Aczel’s A Strange Wilderness, as well as quotations from Bourbaki member Pierre Cartier’s recollections of Grothendieck and summary of elements of set theory. This is sort of a “B-Side” to a portfolio I recently worked on, and it feels good to get it out of my system.
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Grothendieck was set up in a post-office...
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To Georg Cantor's Discovery of the Bicycle
Its body sleeping,
its body tided over by forms.
It was only as in books for Cantor
divided by abbreviations, by wind,
recovering, recovering, function and fugue»>
bisected by a clean action and laid out
across three or four blocks, before the butcher’s,
the pumphouse, the New Age bookstore, the axel,
the figure moving slightly faster in the opposite
lane »> direction a day like...
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Capitalized Words in the First Six Pages of an...
ghostorballoon:
Sleepwalk Empire Human Facebook I I The Glee Suxxx Lynch’s Sue Sylvester The Begin She This I Any I’m Any I I I I’m I On I Human Twitter I’m Well Like Sue’s Doing It’s Hey I To Indication Steve Buscemi’s Agamben Reader A Reader B Reader C Mr. Buscemi’s HBO We Like Like Like Like Steve Buscemi’s Like Like When Steve Buscemi OkCupid I’ve I I’m I’m I’m In Dreams I Walk With You...
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Adlai and Eagleton, Part 3/3
In this part, everything I meant to write about goes off the rails, and, hard upon a week reading Agamben and Benjamin and St. Paul, takes a sharp turn towards the Biblical. I don’t really know what made me think any of this was a cool idea, or why I decided to ratchet the character assassination of Adlai Stevenson up to, like, 12, but hey, it happened. I’m a little proud of that...
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Digital Chapbook: "Sex as the Theatre of the... →
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Adlai and Eagleton, Part 2
Some fun with rhyme schemes, self-consciously ludic, unfortunately bathetic in all cases. As you may notice, in the last few, the “envoi” (what I’ll call the line from Skidan in lieu of a technical vocabular for sonnet crowns) is elaborated on and made (somewhat iambic) instead of just being tacked on. The alienating effect I wanted to engender through just throwing them on...
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Adlai and Eagleton, Part 1
The first third of a laboriously and absurdly high-concept piece. Ok, so it’s 1) a sonnet crown 2) about presidential and vice-presidential also-rans Adlai Stevenson and Thomas Eagleton foreseeing the eschatological second coming of William Jennings Bryant in moments of personal crisis 3) utilizing as the “crown” lines from Aleksandr Skidan’s ‘The Large Glass’...
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Γαστριμαργία, or: 'When Men My Scythe and Dart...
I’m worried my bike will get stolen. I’m worried my bike will get stolen. I’m worried it might. I dismantle the object, the anchor.
I pin heavy iron bars to the window of the building
and set a passerby on fire. Dogs bark at me—
I steal their bikes, and clobber the point home
with a bone club derived from the proto-Germanic bainan
(bone) and proto-Indo-European bhei (to strike) Sure
when...
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House of Miraculous Recovery
This poem exists due to ‘Bee Thousand’ and probably the last book about Richard Nixon I’ll be reading in the immediate future.
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I heard a rumor about fine ass and pursued it.
I heard: towers above
advisers. Knows more than anyone else. I heard: Foreign Policy = Strength. In a weird dream, girl inserts a cigarette
into the tip of somebody’s penis, swallows it,...
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Poem Revealed by Watching 'Drive' In Reverse
Note: Ryan Gosling has a gun and I’m sorry
I stole all your tricks Note: I’m sorry I slipped up, your tricks
something about “truth value” and I saw a bra
with polka-dots I thought I saw it before Something I Thought I Saw Before: this,
I imagine it within brackets like [ ]—
kind of loathsome, but its funny, I retain
a little crush on odd metal objects
wrenched into space Grammar: big big...
unspecializeart asked: I really like your latest poem. I recently started a new blog for "aleatoric" pieces that are created using machines so I felt a life-sense of symmetry. Or whatever that feeling is. Coincidence? Also, I wrote a poem that mentioned Richard Nixon today because he reminds me of political debate. These life-sense symmetries compelled me to message you, but all I can think to say is that your...
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A Variety of Procedurally Derived Poems
I hesitate to say aleatoric, but— constructed from language cultivated since late November, I think.
o. Nixon falling wildly into a king in awhile
but maybe when I’m Richard Nixon
falling wildly into a candle? o. You told all up n’bunker down against white people
aren’t human.
vain art of the place. o. Incommensurable phallic caste.
genital monster wheel. free poem...
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Books People Read in 2011
one with a ghoul/with a gland on front one evoking ‘semi-regular blue
field between buildings’ as limiting condition
one dressed as a dandy eating
‘breakfast wrap’ aggressively at others book
built in a bunker
and handled delicately
with tongs one that cleans up well
one under hardy salt
one stalwart under crust of salt
book of crimes against book book abandoned to...
