Tag Archives: Cut-Up Writing

minute of elation

Elation in Elisions The odious neglect of the scab Crab Nebula yelling: I Zimbra, I Zimbra, dada, dada, dada, doo! At the Cabaret Voltaire after hours parties degenerate into clean well lighted chess matches in top hat and overcoated teas … Continue reading

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the the: dadaismus nihilismus

the the (the voiced dental fricative version) “… a Dada life will include by definition pranks, buffoonery, masking, deranged senses, intoxication, sabotage, taboo breaking, playing childish and/or dangerous games, waking up dead gods, and not taking education seriously.” — Andrei … Continue reading

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officer shot her

turn on the news (blackout #101421) police officer killingtime shot women datingwhen they returned home officer shot herchest dead relationshipexpected “… I’m definitely not interested in this idea that there are blank issues, like women’s issues or black issues. If … Continue reading

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like the egg

“So I’m interested in where love goes awry or where people use violence as an excuse for love. And I’m interested in seeing how that comes out in my poems, because it’s where I can keep asking myself questions.” — … Continue reading

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photographs plastic toys

the cult the leap— woodnailsstaplestapephotographsplastic toysfake flowerspaper “Frisky the Clown has a new act for the kids;He smothers them using foam.” — Kenneth Jarrett Singleton / “The Conceptual Circus”

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propelling the day

Fingertips I’ve come untetheredThree days lost and out of sortsNow the correction Sitting on the trainThe snow blows blinding outsideHeavy wet and sad The Wailers’ singles in my earsProvide the syncopationPropelling the day On the balconyIn yellow afternoon lightA thrush … Continue reading

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out of tune

Bile-Yellow (redux) The refulgent quality of my psychopomp is only surpassed by my staring into the sun. Psychopomp? Who the hell needs to be led in? I often stare into the sun. It’s the only way I know to calm … Continue reading

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long magnified acts

(silence) (silence) 33 frames longmagnifiedacts as a valve national anthem plays (fade to back) “The words are growing in the field, and they hover above the page. They’re like flowers, and I pick the ones I like. My eye is … Continue reading

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future of fragments

plagues causeda futureof fragments 50 millionfaults “It was not the least of our misfortunes that with our infection, when it ceased, there did not cease the spirit of strife and contention, slander and reproach, which was the great troubles of … Continue reading

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stop gap measure

stop gap stop. xxxxxxx gap. here is a stop gap measure for the continuing plague xxx. xxx. xxx. “You see again how far awayevery thing is from every other thing.” — Louise Glück / “Telescope”

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