Tag Archives: Cut-Up Writing

The Derelict Web And he must hold on to the sink and stand firmly on his left leg because his right leg is useless. It doesn’t respond to his command all Henry can manage is to drag it along and … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The city of Boston will ramp up protections for bike lanes, including cracking down on illegal parking, and more broadly revive other street safety programs following the death of a City Hall transportation planner … Continue reading →

Dream: Bushwa Bill Barrens The god of the godless oversees this place.  There is no lodestar here. All is coal, bituminous and gas fires. Everyone wears a sheen of black. Coal dust and gas floats through the atmosphere. The air is … Continue reading →

Popcorn Double Feature (redux) Various ideas for your book: Include a scene at the rheumy palace —  Maybe a nonfiction setting on shipwrecked cay.  Maybe not. Use these words liberally: Ablation; asperity; cassocks; chasubles;  hooded cowls; astringent; incursive; afflux; minikin; Grand … Continue reading →

Meanings Change A mathematical effusion —Léger’s mythopaiea —The opposite of apposite.A case of disturbing halitosisLike a cage full of false alarms announced. So herewith, and henceforth, I —Eye affix my afflatusTo my dominant hand. I, too, spend my time breathingAnd … Continue reading →

Carbuncles I woke up coveredWith eyes — Carbuncles in my sockets. The displacement of trashLanguage leads home — A place that doesn’t existAnymore. What I’m Reading: The dying swan, whose screams are sweet to hear,Oozes the black blood that writes … Continue reading →

Softcover Words Read this “How to…” bookand communicate in softcover wordsyour hardcover deeds — herding sheep and goats,lying with packs of dogs,theorizing  yersinia pestis theorems,and puzzling though a sheafof sanity assassins. Read about the coughingand sneezing of the infected.Eat stands of banana, … Continue reading →

Duchampeum The kings and queens surroundedby swift nudesapropos of little sistertorn in tatters. Stripped bare by bachelorstrailing coffee mills and paradigms —siphoning a network of stoppages —nine curving lines. Dust breeding hideousnoise and a farewell to Florine —Apollinaire enameled —by … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week There is no pointIn doing anything,There is no resistingThe monstrous godWho devoursHis own children. — Fernando Pessoa / “Ode I” Cars are, without exaggeration, one of the most significant and negative environmental, political, social, … Continue reading →

(They Hope) All we do is theatrical resistance —Without direct action — Elaborate gesturesOf a futility profound. A pantomime —Enervated and impotent — A room full of brumeIn my vise-like brain. Fight fight confront confrontResist resist resist — Resistance is … Continue reading →