Nico Vassilakis


INBETWEEN

     
     the formalities 
     receiving      
     I think 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     "your light is... "   
     never 
     more of me 
     in the middle 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     magnets 
     pictures  
     snaps   
     what falls  
     tumble, yellow area      
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     I'm never anywhere 
     chaos works      
     'or' 
     twenty pennies 
     standing 
     the next morning 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     inventing
     up  and
     shuddering 
     beyond 
     an uptight net 
     inside scissor holes
     array 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     OK
     a gigasecond 
     a radio 
     I am capable of 
     nothing 
     between 
     my head  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     1. the formalities of     an / inbetween     
     2. how you receive      
     3. I think of the small
     4. "your light is              lit..........light"   
     5.  (but) / never / through it
     6.  more of me disappears / and so on. 
     10. seven eight nine 
     11. in the middle of / duality    
     12. the magnets / of an inbetween
     13. pictures / the sun / makes bone   dry 
     14. it / snaps / the  / despair /             that accumulates 
     15. what falls outside / will become / undesirable
     16. tumble, yellow area, tyranny / demosthenes / cajole     
     17. I'm never anywhere correctly     
     18. chaos works its way / in     
     19. the / conjunctive    'or' 
     20. twenty pennies 
     21. an island / threatened / by sharks
     22. beer-food / friends / the next             morning 
     23. invent
     24. up / down 
     25. shuddering / to think
     26. shuddering 
     27. beyond familiarity
     28. get caught I get / in an uptight 
     29. in a coat / inside scissor holes
     30. t / his / dis / array 
     31. OKAY
     32. a billion seconds 
     33. a radio                      or / an instrument 
     34. I am capable of / grotesque self-involvement
     35. nothing inbetween nothing / is          more of a donut 
     36. walking between the cars
     37. my head now / tilts 
     38. a suitable rock     
     39. the tongues emerge     
     40. or / every said / wrung / on the bus
     
     
     j says it came to him first      I explain to many 
     particular people  / the formalities of an / inbetween     
     how you receive / becomes an issue     
     I think of large (autumnal) clouds   I devise invisible schematics 
     "your light is lit / from another light"   
     a reenactment / brings you the door /   (and) / (but) /     never 
     / through it
     I got trouble in my rent     now      when I sleep / more of me
     disappears / and so on...
     I am located / in the (   x   ) of / any given duality    
     j said / -you could live inside      there-        between  
     traffic signs / between the two     suddenly / I was living in / 
     this   slit     
     more than 5 thousand languages / have existed       
     I draw pictures / the sun / makes bone dry by 
     noon
      it / snaps  / the smelly neck / ofthe mundane /that 
     accumulates umulates
     I draw / a two to 4 hour / radius     what falls outside / it / 
     will become / undesirable
     pencil, tuna / carmichael    pin cushion, streetlight   light / 
     tumble, yellow area, tyranny / demosthenes / cajole     I look 
     forward / to my friends  
     I am here / never anywhere correctly     
     chaos works its way /   in time     
     the / conjunctive 'or' / conveys / or / I suffer indecision  
     20pennies / 15pennies & 1nickel / 1dime, 1nickel, & 5pennies  
     despair  makes /  an island / threatened / by sharks
     our    events / consist of / beer-food
     re / invent
     up agn / down again
     shuddering / to think
     shuddering / violent
     lost / beyond familiarity
     get caught I get / in an uptight net / that catches uptights / 
     like me 
     my arms /         in a coat / my fingers /        inside scissor 
     holes
     this / dis / may / con / tain / way / not / know / ing / say
     OKAY, BE THERE
     a billion seconds old
     makes / a radio / or / an instrument / behind the wall
     I go to sleep / thinking / what the pages look like / what 
     sequence's best / what impact, if any, I'll have             
     nothing inbetween nothing / is more of a donut / than anything 
     I must, for a moment, / suspend myself 
     the way my head now /tilts 
     I find a suitable rock     I'm nervous about settling in
     the tongues rarely emerge     I draw two horizontals 
     or / every said / is wrong / waiting on the bus
     
     1. j says it came to him first / which is (in) itself / a    
     surprise / for ten years of thinking it / my own / it becomes 
     something other / not    my own        I referred (intuit) 
     to it (into it) / as dream information / or even / a secret of 
     high import / I called it my jungian, / my perceived, / my 
     worldly word thing    {the image that employs a concept / can 
     become or is after time / indelible}     I explain to many 
     particular people / the formalities of an / inbetween             
     (3 heads in a city) the museum's paperweight exhibit "flip 
     the lid and spill yr marbles"
     
     2. reception. how you receive / becomes an issue     I 
     fail utterly in describing / vastness / or / the bend in 
     airwave / or / even how breath repeatssssssssssssss
     
     3. perhaps abundance / can define / by having more / detail 
     (to consider) / deciding       I think of large  (autumnal) clouds     
     / I devise invisible schematics or / am attracted to the small
     
     4. ~curtis leaves me a note~ / "your light is lit / from another 
     light"  and indeed / I am an amalgam / of gestures     my 
     light is lit / by your light / is lit by yet / another     it's 
     somehow disturbing / like one lost / in a vat of whole numbers            
     this unrelated room has / pillows hanging from    the ceiling
     
     5. if a complete visual example / were obtainable /I'd have 
     no reason to / express (a thing et. al.)           a reenactment 
     / brings you to the door / and (but) never / through it
     
     6. I got trouble in my rent     a family needs healthy food / 
     and healthy food costs     now when I sleep / more of me 
     disappears / and so on...
     
     7. when I visit / I go through my old desk   -a mini 
     bowie knife / -lincoln pennies through 1974 / -a few music 
     posters / -an unfinished model battleship / -an eighth grader's 
     book of phone #'s / -a picture of willis reed / -seeds in the 
     creases of my double albums
     
     8. I am involved in
     simultaneous / conversation     to the (my) left / is 
     something heavily coded / or / to the (my) right / are 
     facts pertaining to anything / available     I've had them 
     in the mirror / speaking out both sides of my mouth
     
     9. during / at nightowl's / under stars / on a walk / the block / 
     I trigger devices / those motion detectors / they light up 
     1017 Pleasant Drive / 1019 Pleasant Drive / 1021 Pleasant Drive / 
     1023 Pleasant Drive / 1025 Pleasant Drive     
     I walk along the front yards / and they / light up     this is 
     where / I spent my 2ndeleven years
     
     10. tenacious tendon tenor tents of tungsten / might / help     
     multiply your    middle    initial / by how many times a day / 
     your eyes blur 
     
     11. I am located / in the    middle    of / any given 
     duality    I navigate / the equator / resilient to the lure 
     of / the poles
     
     12. it began near the hallucination)     j said / look at 
     that (space) / inside there / between         the stop / and the 
     do not enter signs / -you could live there-     they were 
     mounted on the same post / facing opposite directions / with no 
     more than 3 inches / between the two   suddenly / I was 
     living in / this very slit     I explain to many particular 
     people / the magnets / of an       inbetween
     
     13. more than 5000 languages / existed on the planet     
     words extinct / in less than a hundred years     it can happen 
     faster    I draw pictures / the sun / makes bone dry by noon
     
     14. love      making making / snaps the snaps / the smelly neck / 
     the neck ofthe mundane / mounting mundane despair / 
     disrepair despair / that accumulates accumulates
     
     15. I'm asked to  draw / a 2 to 4 hour / radius around / where I 
     live          this will contain / everyone I know         
     everything I need / will be in / this  circle       what falls 
     outside / it / will become /undesirable
     
     16. reprints, double prints / double exposures, posters / 
     pamphlets, xeroxing & saddle stitch / bookstores, library 
     science / the archiving #2 pencil, tuna / carmichael, pin cushion, 
     traffic light / tumble, yellow area, tyranny / demosthenes / 
     cajole              I look forward / to my friends /            
     under the large limb of a tree
     
     17. I am here / because of some failure or /      I am delighting     
     I believe, / then I derive     I'm never anywhere correctly     
     (is)           withdrawn or unsettled / uneasy or weakened by 
     transit / immobile from lack of declaration, / paranoid / or 
     generally alienated
     
     18. in time / chaos works its way /into any fortress     verging 
     / on catharsis / or total disinterest
     
     19. using the / conjunctive 'or' / shows one  root / the dilemma 
     by conveying / optimism / or / I suffer indecision / and 
     forgetfulness
     
     20. twenty pennies / four nickels / two dimes / two nickels & one 
     dime / three nickels & five pennies / one dime & ten pennies / 
     fifteen pennies & one nickel / one dime, one nickel, & five 
     pennies / two nickels & ten pennies
     
     21. despair  works its way in  it makes / what I'm standing 
     on /        an           island / threatened / by sharks
     
     22. our neighborhood / is in a form of flux / our social events / 
     consist of / beer-food / for friends / that / are either / 
     arriving or / departing / the next morning / on some / airline or 
     / other
     
     23. reinvent / window
     
     24. up again / down agn
     
     25. shuddering / (in order) / to think
     
     26. shuddering / violently
     
     27. I become irretrievable / I stop communicating /..... silent / 
     lost / beyond familiarity
     
     28. get caught I get / in an uptight net / that catches uptights / 
     like me / so when I'm snagged / I'm strung (fastened) / 
     on the sun / and made to heal through the day
     
     29. places / hide faces     my arms / in a coat / my 
     fingers / inside scissor holes
     
     30. this / dis / array / may / con / tain / way /
     of / not / know / ing / say
     
     31. HEY OKAY, BE RIGHT THERE
     
     32. I am over a billion seconds old
     
     33. my head / in pillow     makes / a radio / distant     or / an 
     instrument / behind the wall
     
     34. imagined projects / fill my head     I go to sleep / thinking 
     / what the pages look like / what sequence is best / what impact, 
     if any, I'll have   I am capable of / grotesque self-
     involvement
     
     35. nothing inbetween nothing / is more of a donut / than 
     anything / can cease to predict / like 
     
     36. to get anywhere / on a train     I must, for a moment, / 
     suspend myself / walking between the cars
     
     37. the way my head now / tilts / at the end of a day
     
     38. I find a suitable rock     I'm nervous about settling in     I 
     hope these few rocks / will reach the page
     
     39. the mirror is an arrangement              the tongues rarely 
     emerge     I draw two horizontals /      and live between          
     them / waveless 
     
     40. or / every said / is wrung / wrong /      waiting on the 
     bus
     
     50 WATERS ARE A PUDDLE IS A PUZZLE
     
     we aspire to live 
     or unconsciously do it
     to climb the funicular
     to breathe the what 
     what is a point? 
     "...is that which has no part" 
     
     (as one is read, the previous is freed)
     
     1. catalonians are hot heads 
     
     2. many retail items are deceptively cheap to make 
     
     3. overtones excite the listener 
     
     4. the combination of red and green make your eyes wiggle 
     
     5. children are active. and since they are small lose their heat 
     quickly
     
     6. collaborative multicultural projects receive government funding 
     
     7. the back of the human body is a vast relatively unused region 
     
     8. when leaves of grass are cut, the very first compound that 
     suffers from the change is chlorophyll 
     
     9. the inventor of the ball point pen is dead 
     
     10. forms are interchangeable 
     
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     several seasons pass and the exterior alters markedly
     
     to be possible
     we aspire or raise our possibility heads
     toward 
     the perimeter as potential is caked over
     with chance variables seeking one another
     
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     11. the divining rod makes its way toward moisture
     
     12. laundry takes roughly an hour and a half
     
     13. gravity causes planets to contract
     
     14. his color was the result of several coats of white paint and 
     enamel applied to what was originally a very ordinary elephant.
     
     15. migration paths became skewed creating thousands of some 
     creature or other to come in contact with human beings
     
     15a. tarot is for the flaky, easily crumbled, mica or shale type 
     
     15b.in the solarium flies land on the widest available leaf.
     the female mosquito flaps her wings 500 times a second.
     there is almost always anxiety about what awaits you there.
     the curvature of the structure magnifies that sound.
     this inclination also allows for moist glass ring music.
     the armonium was an instrument invented by benjamin franklin.
     music was composed specifically for the armonium.
     lose of hearing and shattered nerves made it a short-lived 
     endeavor.
     
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     a recent moratorium includes water. the pacific. also beeswax. 
     included. i love her for that. 
     
     the shaky clarification brought 
     found imperfection
     
     what becomes of the vowelvariable, subjectvariable, & 
     variablevariable.
     
     plankton covers that manufactured surface.
     technique is fabrizio, buttalent
     is the amount of weight a person can carry
     on their backs
     
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     i lose that one
     comprehension 
     slipping away
     a kind of too thick awareness
     
     my boy gives a bomb
     he drops it on my head
     and it splatters on his mother as well
     
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     nap
     then fly
     
     some intended corruption
     comes
     
     a drinking friend of 300 pints 
     
     the writing appears
     primarily unrehearsed 
     then
     
     the so many revisionisms
     
     a walk I would walk-a-walk forever
     
     the weight of it restricts such a thing
     
     quixote on my knee
     the windmill of his eyes dilating
     
     dust is about destruction
     and the good thing lasts longer than we know
     
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     STANDING
     
     1.
     
     within the line, is the life of breath, TO BE    an immediacy                                  
     it is the buckling             
     
     and the line breaks...      
     releasing light 
     
     2.
     
     the line contains light                                        
     
     so the line will stretch
     
     it is adventure 
     
     or the light is encased in the hollow of a figurine                                                      
     or it is dark enjambment 
     
     the line is history  
     
     it can shroud 
                                      
     this line is a rock capturing my locution 
     i am inside the rock
     
     the line has many histories
     
     3.
     
     form is a house that holds light 
     the line is a place to land                         
     is the life of breath, TO BE                                 
     and the line again will break in two
     
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     SKIN
     
     1
     the drama of the rocks is of the skin doubly by its wonderments 
     and flexibility.
     to bend to coerce to subjugate the body to movement, our plight of 
     waking.
     notice! the skin! that sensible
     glove plying our head with information. a universe, 
     containing our
     systemic workings. the skin, a membrane, sustaining our vessel.
     
     now, if you were to swallow light, would it act as antenna. 
     i have no idea, but i do know 
     what an itch is and the pleasure of scratching. i know 
     temperature. i know the
     intentions of some sounds. i know the tongue is used for both 
     texture and taste.
     
     
     what dream has the drumskin speaking in shudders of colliding 
     light. what
     surface can be engineered to inform our histories. 
     notice! the skin!
     a contoured map of the amalgam of human endeavor. it means 
     fucking. it means 
     babies. it means skin propagating more skin. it's a thought 
     inextricably linked to skin.
     that is - an idea wrapped in an epidermis we call home.
     
          epi being upon, at, or 
     close to
                                              derm being layers of 
     tissue forming true skin
     of the animal
     of the us
     of the animal of us
     
                          we
                              as it is
                  touch, contact, contract, apply derm onto one another
                                                                                         
     the sperm the egg the zygote
     firm in finding the birth church of silent blooming
     out-stretched because we can stretch
     elastic as to accommodate a variety of shapes
     
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     we are creatures, hairless creatures donning the death ray. a 
     death ray that
     is eye of greed not true yawn of blackhole. 
     
     the sun, foe of skin, will be merciless. both horus and sekhmet 
     will peck
     and tear our body. hawk sun and war lioness will fill themselves 
     with 
     the human meal. they will devour the negative skins, make pure 
     what is sullied, and
     finally, nurse us back to our most potent fetal state.
     
     2
     
     sing skin                                          
     sing your skin                              
     sing the thing
                                                                                                                
     that makes your skin
                                                                                                                          
     come alive
     absorbing yellow sun
     absorbing light information
                                                equating that nature 
     with your nature
                                                        with this 
     nature before you
     
     be outpost
     be lighthouse
     be spontaneous receptor of curlicue energy sprites
     be all this
                 but notice! the skin!
                                        how it proposes a line of 
     thinness
     a marriage of inner and outer
                              how it is a sponge
                                                 that absorbs then 
     translates
     
     and then notice how social skin can be
     how death and skin and sex and gender understand pain
                                                                                                              
     and what little gain has come
                                                                                             
     what little gain has come
     
     
     
     the book of skin shows frailty and how we bleed deep red.
     the book of skin 
     has pages that heal, directing us to construct one new body. 
     one giant flesh.
     
     kin kin a family of skin that's been within the fin that breaks 
     the plane
                                                             of 
     infinite waves
     dear kin mammal
     dear kin mama
                            do me in and keep me there
                                                                      
     where light is as it was and is again
     within
                a blessing of true skin
                that photosynthetic layer
                                                       we name
                                                                       
     child of informed tissue
     
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     sax 20fox 21
     fruit 1030                                  gnu 425
     afraid 1242                                  decor 1237
     moist 1456
     
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     voice from the diaphragm or it lets no semen in.
     two trees grow, literally, in the same spot.
     tracing utensils & triangular shadow, the conifer & the deciduous, 
     a camel & paper airplanes.
     what root there is
     is
     what
     root
     is shown
     as the one will always fall to inevitable mitosis
     and the two seek each other, magnetized toward one another.
     more often than not, aspects of relations
     get lost in the
     several cracked eggs of routine
     it can hurt that way
     
     a clarinet too dissolves into the letters of its name,
     it makes music or a voice of element.
     in a house nearest the amplifier is another house
     where things happen and distinctions are made between
     accumulates and a cumulus cloud
     
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     she is deep gold moist sarcophagus
     this may be how long i last
     the mounted sentinel thrashing in the cotton
     the thing falling into fractions
     i am somewhere else writing this
     the narrow nature approaches a wider nature
     the ease of travel between houses of air
     it's unparalleled yet it exceeds nothing
     freely through the dark of the body
     
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     16. chile's geography makes transportation difficult and costly.
     
     17. the top bulb was filled with sand which trickled down into the 
     bottom bulb.
     
     18. what begins will soon be consumed by its own thunderous 
     momentum resulting in any number of possibilities - mostly 
     advantageous.
     
     19. the law of camp fire girls: worship god, seek beauty, give 
     service, pursue knowledge, be trustworthy, hold on to health, 
     glorify work, & be happy.
     
     20. "y're only as good as you can dance after the song is done"
     
     21. a dancer said that same thing, but different than how my 
     friend did.
     
     22. when we touch a lump of sugar to the coffee in a cup, the 
     liquid at once rises and spreads throughout the sugar.
     
     23. twelve o'clock noon at night 
     
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     HINGE THE CROW
     
     Hinge-elixir
     
     maple syrup 
     waitress 
     may I trouble you for...
     
     and look
     my deflated guitar
     
     Hinge-jazz
     
     when my head's in your horn
     
     I hop to your music
     like hot stone 
     
     Hinge-dream
     
     I begin staring
     I can't help it
     I begin expanding
     
     then I burst
     
     shards of me
     form into the crow
     
     Hinge-humming
     
     I spread my wings up there where other birds
     extend up there and there is a circle up there
     of wings around the earth there up there
     
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     24. edge hill was the first battle of the war.
     
     25. madame curie always hoped that radium would have a beautiful 
     color.
     
     26. no two brains are quite the same.
     
     27. the sun loses about four million tons of heat every second.
     
     28. "the exercise of singing is delightful to nature and good to 
     preserve the health of man."
     
     29. the sounds involved in near ventriloquism are produced almost 
     entirely in front of the mouth just behind the teeth and up a 
     little way in the nasal passage.
     
     30. now life begins again! thought the tree.
     
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     information can be that
     reconnoitered fleck
     introduced again, which is to say
     left out
     corporeally
     with its clear kirlian
     imprint
     in tact
     
     it is these atrocities
     finite in contrast
     to their ebullient counterpart
     it is these systemic gliches
     these slants of focus
     brought downward
     languish
     lush in potential
     and despair
     
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     no names2ablutionQ is a marker
     six times it became
     that summer or now askance
     in this birth tube but apnea
     be dense electrically
     a kind of gasping
     can you hear mefog horn
     coming to the child
     a six pack of X'sno frills
     a doubled bathing of light
     and Q is naturally a marker
     
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     Since
     then
     there havent been many changes
     It's all design
     and the ability to consume
     The bough is still wet with black
     early morning mist
     My I is small as an indistinguishable
     might be
     The back stairs will pose a problem 
     the larger he gets
     He is a reference 
     If you leave now  the tug-of-war
     will lose balance 
     The marchers line the street,
     they proceed from the opening gate 
     It is a weekend event
     The thoroughfare, otherwise desolate,
     will thrive 
     The animals sense activity, though a parade
     is, I'm sure, not on their mind
     
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     31. the very reason scratching stops an itch is because you're 
     hurting yourself.
     
     32. in some countries, the phrase is not 'blind as a bat' but 
     'blind as a bat in sunlight'.
     
     33. early in the 20th century, the u.s. weather bureau termed the 
     highest and wispiest form of cloud, cloud nine. nowadays, 
     meteorologists call the highest clouds noctilucents.
     
     34. the fourth finger of the left hand was selected as the ring 
     finger in the third century b.c., it was thought that a nerve ran 
     directly from this finger to the heart.
     
     35. if the throat is properly aligned with the stomach, the sword 
     swallower can take a blade two feet long.
     
     36. the longest word in the english language is 
     'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis', which describes a 
     lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter 
     or a similar fine dust.
     
     37. if a highway is odd-numbered, then it will take you north or 
     south. if it's even-numbered - like route 66 - you can travel east 
     and west.
     
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     if you if
     then what
     
     stick your hand in
     
     make sure it's deep and soily
     
     confine nothing
     
     consider what's needed for permanence
     the value of your weight
     
     
     then let control fall down 
     let that tether go 
     
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     grab the clavicle like you would a handlebar. obscure what 
     ornamental aspects may be visible. begin with computer generated 
     gyrations. say a precipice can deceive by its very nature. 
     denounce what is pronounceable. adhere the curve to a forward of 
     purpose. calamity was to be conveyed in color. britain. a sigh of 
     recognition followed by longevity of geometric shape. that 
     erstwhile path through the forest claims its place. as now a 
     furnace or the possibility of one. no harm comes to the one who 
     follows the crevice. a spotted elbow lunge festival.languid as a 
     middle name. the tentacles very loosely at your side. there are no  
     tracing paper tablets. i catch myself waiting for lights more. a 
     word whispered in earnest. colander flatulent transition webs. or 
     slow commotion.
     
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     did it digit
     or did it not
     so that it couldn't go through the hole
     
     phlegm
     for instance
     can be hurled
     just the right distance to activate alarms
     
     
     it is
     a simple diagram
     and simpler yet execution
     
     the flags snap suddenly 
     when the breeze comes over the lake
     
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     38. moisture surrounds smoke particles.the word smog is a 
     combination of smoke and fog. 
     
     39. his family car was a green and yellow packard. they kissed and 
     slept together on the bleachers. his sister bent his trombone.
     
     40. no glue or other binding agency is added, as the hoof itself 
     contains a large amount of natural glue. the mixture is poured 
     into dies. the dies are heated and then chilled. when the buttons 
     are removed from the dies, they are filed, drilled and polished.
     
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     from the core of the thing flares shoot up 50 ft. and then 
     extinguish. the bridge unfolds releasing the seven needed 
     elements. the great dissolving disk with plugs. a face squeezed, 
     pinched, and twisted to suit a concentric fashion. find me 
     approaching or find me at all. the geese, hovering evenly in "v" 
     formation, ride the planet's arc. leaning toward the faucet the 
     cupped hands hold water like information. the plugs look for an 
     electrical source, an outlet from which to relay the complete 
     message. the yellow-white stain of light is food.
     
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     from our hair laughter true will come and so soon and so sun
     that light
     in my far off head
     decidingthese things
     pieces of each other
     the visibility of
     the possibility
     
     I change it
     I ="it" ="ti"
     I
     c = i
     changwith no e
     
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     if plasma
     were
     a location
     we'd
     be
     in constant
     adrift
     transfixed
     on
     the orig(in)
     of    
     transition
     transmitted
     through
     gesture
     
     this hand waving
     toward you
     
     no other business comes near or is as central a theme as this 
     inbetween. parenthetical, as in caught inside ( ). between two 
     stations anything can happen. turbulence. vibration ex nihilo. 
     coincidence. thermodynamic phenomenon. sporadic mysticism. mental 
     invasions.
     
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     right now the form of her remains. she walks in this room. reaches 
     over to turn the dial. there are no birds gathering about her head 
     and shoulders. there is no sand, just vast rolls of carpet. the 
     radio broadcasts her favorite program. bowls of half eaten miso 
     soup fill the room. her fingerprint is nearly audible as she 
     passes it over a nail sticking out the wall. hooray! we yell. lets 
     yank the curtains down, lets let the sun in! the spiders and 
     termites are caught unawares. there is sudden exodus. life runs 
     for shade. last call, he says, last call. the telephone, the 
     lights, the bar rag moving closer. cleaning. her far away look. 
     there on the floor surrounded by scissors, glue, and a thousand 
     cut outs. it is summer now. a new season. when we learn to forget. 
     she will be home soon. i can stop talking to this window.
     
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     41. every state in the union produces corn.
     
     42. a certain amount of study of human beings seems to suggest 
     that different colors differ in their effect on the nervous 
     system.
     
     43. oceans are constantly evaporating and the oyster, which 
     becomes adult in three years, is said to be capable of laying 60 
     million eggs a year.
     
     44. a personal foul is called when there is illegal contact with 
     one's opponent.
     
     45. deep down in the flower is another tiny structure, which we 
     may call the female germ of life. 
     
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     the number of years some animals live
     
     rabbit..........5horse.........30
     sheep...........12camel.........40
     cat.............13lion..........40
     dog.............15elephant......100
     goat............15whale.........100
     cow.............25crocodile.....300
     pig.............25tortoise......350
     
     the number of years some birds live
     
     wren............3canary........24
     thrush..........10crane.........24
     robin...........12peacock.......24
     blackbird.......12skylark.......30
     hen.............14goose.........50
     goldfinch.......15pelican.......50
     partridge.......15parrot........60
     pheasant........15heron.........60
     lark............18crow..........100
     nightingale.....18swan..........100
     pigeon..........20eagle.........100
     
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     is a season of death
     as adventuredizzyingis upon you
     calling the outline never the name
     so independent of anythingit gives small incomplete death
     for the fitting of piecesshort of formulating
     just enough to live alongsidelicking the pronounced ear
     saying things close to dyingit is a season as a chair we sit on
     
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     panels of rain
     a panel of rains
     falls
     
     my first turkey 
     plummets
     into the relics
     quickly among the upanishad
     
     the book spells it - the very eye stem changes
     
     your visions are here now 
     
     a life is salt or short
     so as the skin quickens
     is chased by many angles
     
     and air offers no destination
     no as destination
     no as a way of elaborating
     
     at what range is it first audible?
     
     i hold a word
     like flower isotope
     and pin it to the sky
     
     or the possibility of disproving light
     
     the new system is an overheard one
     quietly absorbing its meaning
     
     the lattice work melts
     and adrenalin erupts everywhere
     
     to find anew the blue of circles forming above the head
     
     
                                     A
                                 raiL Bonding
                        supposinG    Formation
                            damageD     Sluice
                              farM       Willow
                                  Quark Cooling
                              formeR   Kitchen
                                 ajaX Housing
                                     Zooming
     
     i slide it through to find
     a certain adventure
     
     ten suns squeezed into a dot
     traveling in water
     and utopian divisions of power and labor
     
     the silent blue construction
     a dome made thinner from the inside
     
     sitting by the window
     you open the latch and
     fly away toward dissolution
     
     anm
             bulb   dread
          doubled   projector
     
     the brain of a peach
     
     rudiments of an alphabet
     
     the great dissolving disk and the completed message
     
     her lovers, she said, are all around her everywhere
     
     electromagnetics alters you forever
     
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     ingisingisingis ing
     
     i   n   gi n gi   n   g
     
     i  n  gi  n  gi  n  g
     
     i n gi   n   gi n g
     
     inginging
     
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     GUTTERAL OR PUNCTUAL AS IN INUNCIATE YOUR "N" OR IN THE JOCULAR 
     SIT UP AND CLEAN THOSE DISHES IS HOW THE APPARATUS SPEAKS WE HAVE 
     NO PATIENCE FOR A LACK OF EMPATHIC COMMUNICATION IT COMES TO US 
     LIKE CLOUDS GET CAUGHT BY MOUNTAIN PEAKS YOUR INCOME BRACKET 
     SICKENS ME SO DO YOUR ACCOUTREMENTS THIS IS THE LAST OF IT AND SO
     
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     46. no advantage is gained by the sea it approaches cautiously as 
     unrelated minutia become a predictable nuisance
     
     47. in 1940, U.S. railroads carried 62% of the total freight 
     between cities. in 1940 motor trucks carried about 8% of intercity 
     freight. in 1940 air lines carried only 2% of passenger business 
     
     48. she lived and wrote at home until her death, and in her later 
     years saw very few people  
     
     49. this is how algae surround their intended or suffocate their 
     intentions. the force of one-celled organisms. their miasmic and 
     amorphous house. to unite and conquer without mercy. it was a 
     story told many hundreds of centuries ago
     
     50. a predictable nuisance becomes a charm. 
     
     a) cheetahs can run up to 75 mph
     b) a chameleons tongue is longer than its whole body
     c) a black panther is a type of leopard
     d) there are 71 rings in a complimentary slinky from ivars
     e) different spots mean different things
     f) the difference between alligators and crocodiles is that when 
     the mouth closes only an alligator's teeth show
     g) the red spot is a storm 
     h) which animals have to be oiled? mice, because they squeak
     i) when is a car like a frog? when it's being towed
     j) a steel nail is made of iron and carbon
     k) one-two cha-cha-cha means one-two cha-cha-cha
     l) the first letter of the book is 'h'
     m) there is a way to record what people are saying by measuring 
     the vibrations of their voice on a window pane
     n) the sphinx has no nose, has had its nose eaten by time
     o) prel, the shampoo, is denser than vegetable oil
     p) on batman, victor buono upon hearing the gong of a bell 
     transformed into king tut
     q) one-two cha cha cha means three-four cha cha cha
     r) fool's gold
     s) water has been found in meteors
     t) when you've finished eating, put your knife and fork close 
     together with handles pointing directly toward you or toward your 
     right arm
     u) thousands of years ago humans could move their outer ear 
     forward to catch sounds more easily
     v) to improve his voice and lungs, demosthenes shouted against the 
     roar of the waves and orated while running uphill
     w) the white zone is for loading and unloading
     x) you can rearrange the letters in spiro agnew's name to spell 
     'grow a penis'
     y) the whipping top that can be made to "snore" is a great prize
     z) ice is a faint blue
     

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