Audience Participation

Something's happening.

I need your most profane blessings.

That's all.

notes from under the el

white van parked on 21st street: across the hood in backwards writing, ECNELAVIBMA

"if you're happy and you know it clap your hands, if you're happy and you know it clap your hands, if you're happy and you know it then your face will surely show it if you're happy and you know it clap your hands. BOING hello!" ice cream man circa 7:19 p.m.

bars on windows = house arrest

Trapeze, Pt. 1

Lumber knees knocking on wood (together). Or, in other translations: From an uncomfortable height. A child circled above Tio Loco's shouting head. "¡Helicóptero!" The bird still alive with buckshot in wing given to gravity.

V: & that is?
E: Pinprick X 90 million, down instead of in.
V: That heavy?
E: Yes.
V: Will I be?
E: That’s for Old Man Later to tell, but he lost his voicebox in the drought. It’s a standard from outside of Fable: he who, voiceless, knows but cannot speak.
V: The opposite of Buddha?
E: No, that’s he who speaks but will never know.

The world, widened, no longer differentiates between up and down, to fall and to stand. Only one rope. You have no choice but to remain on, fish somersaulting around you.

V: Is that what womb means?
E: Only babies know. Ask the cord before it’s cut.

Adjective of the Day

Wife-sore, from yet another found spam poetry sentence.
Usage: 'That we believe,' snorted the cultivator's wife-sore eyes.
Please leave your own definition below.

Daily Updates (insignificant variety)

1. I can no longer walk. I waddle (The Kid is due in 3 days).
2. Nesting including finishing Direct Action Ethnography syllabus and cleaning 2 out of 5 rooms in the house, including scrubbing the screen windows. I shouldn't have to tell you that this is highly irregular.
3. A leaf appeared in the bottom of my granola. (see Fig. 1)
4. Box Of Rainbows liberated from Salvation Army. (see Fig. 2)

etymology for you language nerds

Ecology was coined in 1873 by German badboy evolutionary theorist & artist Ernst Haeckel, from the Greek oikos, or household, home. He knowingly manipulated drawings of embryos to prove his theories, but we don't mind, because he understands the word HOME and his drawings are gorgeous.

neu musiks

the house is gutters dripping urban rain
the mind racked overloaded coal freight train
the heart is a museum frought with blue pike angler’s knots
where bison stuffed with silicon dodge cowboys’ deadpan shots

come stand within a circle drawn with oil & broken glass
our guts still stained with pesticides & crowbars in our grasps
until we rise to smash the pale face of this dirty town
(in self fulfilling lexicon) the deal has been let down

Mayor Daley's Graffiti Busters

strike at 6:50 a.m. (loud as El).
so, no more GERM.
at least the writer was quiet.

Just One More, & Then I'll Stop. Promise.

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The blues had been sung. A page turned, a chapter ended. Tremearne



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More Spam Poetry!

These spams have been my favorite reading lately. S. says that someone must be writing them and sending them out from Columbia, but I don't think so, because the rest of the email says:

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Subject: Re: test hi

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They looked stricken by my revelation, stepped aside and conversed in
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You decide for yourself.

Please To Help Identify This Happy Chinese Blocks, or What The Hell Is This?

Found Spam Poetry 3

From: "aila vernon" avieroark@chocofan.com
Subject: I know this!
Sent to: Columbia email

Text: ague-faced moss-covered expansion pipe
sweating iron life-infatuate dispatch writing
Anti-ibsenite chamois skin Cardinalis datarius
fishtail burner freight rate toddy ladle
hair sorter semi-independence Mentone man
de-ethicization soul-forsaken bluecoat boys
set piece blubber lamp state-making
cod liver Post-paleolithic art museum

Found Spam Poetry 2

From: "Claud Field"
Subject: jerkily inhibit
Sent to: Columbia email


Text: Just the mighty strength to take, the imagination and idealism to seethem and reach for them. They showit first in one form and then in another. It seemed to have been quarried by brute force for individualpurpose. WILLARD: To get some things to the world you must yourself get the thingmany times multiplied.
That would be thought from a higher plane. But we do it,mostly, without either due thought or skill. In keeping physically clean we do not worry about vermin, nor even thinkabout them.
It does seem, ran one of our earliest automatic writings, as if you onearth scramble so much.
You dont know howpiffling words are when you work in substance instead.
They had therequisite character, training and mating. That is why all this exhortation for this life, why theydont wait until we go over there. I dontfeel as much at home as I did in all that nice warm cozy Tanner stuff . That is vitalized thinking, a creativethinking.
We are forced to vigilance in excluding smalltensions of the muscles.
Anything you giveyour attention to is magnetically yours. At once,without delay, replace the undesirable combination.
A voluntary medium with control of her own mentalcondition would be invaluable. This is gained by daily breathing space ofassociation with the spirit. The stiffness of the humanly educated mindis a great problem to overcome.
It is an experiment to avoid the difficulties of relayingmessages so far.
We seem to have to play little games like that. I had a feeling of beingexperimented on, said Betty herself another time. There isnt anylet-there-be process of creation or building.

Found Spam Poetry

From: Olive Crosby
Subject heading: no-show.
Sent to: Columbia email

Text: The men who make the shells and the guns and the planes. FARM VOICE: Strike it up on your fiddle, Billy. Wewould pay it again, Herr Reichschancellor. We see them grow big and free, taking rights for granted. With a great pricewe bought this freedom. We have much need for future courage and endurance. Were the guys who take cars apart and put them together, justfor fun. We see them grow big and free, taking rights for granted. After Pearl Harbor they were raised higher. There was a towncalled Lidice, Adolf Hitler. NARRATOR: These are only a few, Herr Reichschancellor. Sorry I cant show you more but Im working on a new soundeffect. And because we were ready, we are getting all-out production ofthe war crops we need. Theyre pretty good words forThanksgiving Day. All right, mister, you started it rolling. NARRATOR: It had to be planned out ahead. Let us speak outsome of the things that are in our hearts. And we came in late and we had to borrow otherfolks equipment because ours wasnt ready. Only this time, the building will be bigger than anything weveever tried. If Ido get through, I will have had the satisfaction of knowing thatI did try to do a mans job. We see them grow big and free, taking rights for granted.