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Excerpts from: mme e

Earlier today I was walking around thinking about Zukofsky’s homophonic Catullus and Melnick’s great Men in Aida, thinking about that element of deterministic but negatively capable cognition. Later on, I realized that I’d left my sunroof open in a rainstorm with a bunch of papers in the front seat, and found a workshop portfolio soaked through with all the ink running. I noticed that on a few pages, a few eye-catching patterns of legibility remained. I’m sure you’re all familiar with radi      os and similar experiments— except while those are acts of mediation and deliberate palimpsest, here nature had stepped in and done a little aleatoric fucking about. Let’s see: tweaked homophonically here and there but in principle as I found it—

Note: Click through for proper formatting. Also— the first fragment is more ‘faithful’ to the procedure, the second is more ‘reconstructed.’ Obviously.

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  do you

                                                            Me

                                                cruc

                                                            ent

                        with                                       sound

            member                        of cruelty

              ell                                                ather

out and

                end                                                on the bag

                    fa     ite                                                thrown

                  a                   Oh,                        ion,’

a lie            less sulk,

                   o                        king sod, fe

vats.

                        d eased into                        coins,

                          the govern                        my

                                      way               to

                       

trick                        finger

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           swag through                       

                        every accident and

                                              cell

            poll

           floater—

            well                                    wasp

            knock and furious stick

            this

            knowledge

            the

                        dictionary            down

                                        creek

                        nur warte nur so

                                       wrecked

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