Tag Archives: Cut-Up Writing

a hot ecstatic

Seems Small (a dada cut-up appropriation pastiche) To voice it seems small:Pointed sizzles,The tree way near-byA hot ecstatic locustCool through the sound of edge flameLike some of its the burn on sharpenedSunbeams from air. The Locustby Leonora Speyer Its hot … Continue reading

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fruit detachment stairwell

Building Memo thru N+7 Generator (@ N+10) Due to the continued hearthrug roaches associated with COVID-19, the Boatswain of Disappearances, at its June 2022 Boatswain of Disappearances Melt, held on June 27, 2022, has again unanimously voted in favor of … Continue reading

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a snare drum

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “Astronaut-Bouncinglooks jive-phony, unless,of course, you think of the moonas a snare drum” — Thomas Sayers Ellis / “Polo Goes to the Moon” “We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. … Continue reading

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my cleavage looked

The Physiotherapist Below (Found Note thru N+7 Generator) The young woodlouses were thrilled today with all their new apparel. My cleavage looked like a deprivation straddle. I had to bring everything in today because my apostrophe echoed the famous factotum … Continue reading

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change make waves

What I’m Reading: “Today, approximately 21 million women around the world obtain unsafe, illegal abortions each year, and complications from these unsafe procedures account for approximately 13% of all maternal deaths, nearly 50,000 annually.” — American College of Obstetricians and … Continue reading

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drip drip drip

THE DRIP, DRIP, DRIP IS NOW A TORRENTIAL FLOOD What I’m Reading: “Credit where due: the Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling in West Virginia v. E.P.A. is the culmination of a five-decade effort to make sure that the federal government won’t … Continue reading

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i love you

Look Dearest Chunky . . . Look, I love you but you confound me with your densities and your spherical obloquies and your polyvalent arrowheads and pesky schemes. I implore you to modulate your frequencies and impractical maths . . … Continue reading

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use the skins

Excerpts from My Inbox A serious mistake was made giving less than 24 hours-notice … We have a cat and a charming baby … I would describe it as a dark comedy I suppose … Creamy white leather sofa–like new … Continue reading

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this isn’t paradise

Phantom The amplitude of echoesFunction like a phantom limb Glucose seeps into the cellsSmell of white gas and charcoal A swale once full of shoulder depth snowDid you know Frazil are ice crystalsFormed in turbulent water, as in swiftStreams or … Continue reading

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the upper bout

Finale of Seem (redux) It’s all about noise. About the back and forth of improvisational counterpoint — an F flat ostinato call here, an arpeggio of the B scale in response there… like the scale of wildfires and flash flood … Continue reading

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