a h bramhall, abramhall@isone.com
it could be what the sailor said, namely: the trees have a deference that the sea never offers. one could write that down, thinking of a place where actions resume perfect strictness, and wonder, finally, what energy arises with the sun? the testing becomes prosaic so often, why bother addressing that? here's the situation, simple as flight. a smack of amazement because a squirrel fell 40 feet to land on pavement, land with the suddenness of a moment by itself, and then this strange visionary scampers away, no earth gravity too mighty for the moment of that landing, that crash of real earth. not to answer everything that way, just a tide of amazement because music has timely friends, and they all, like this squirrel, melt along. there was something, you see, about that squirrel's fall from that oak's branch, an impression of a squirrel's time.
beth, emgar@uswest.net
sailor
i wanderd
alone in my
own littul
towr
nd waitid
to see
what othrs
wud bring
to me
i wanderd
alone in th
magic green
forest
n saw
evrything
that i
wantid
to see
nd i cum
home to
the rushing
sea
ndlay
with yu
in heavn
bill bissett
too small not seen
sweep clean full emotion
your donkey piled upon him
softer than felt penetrate the
we'll have no worry what's to be done
I wanted to write about towers, their thickness and protrusions, there split against the sky, look at the picture at the first pages, thick as birch, stirring the heavens with stirring tales
,I wanted to write, get rid of myself, shed my skin, I wonder, could I do this, could I shed my skin, I wonder who am I, what is the form of the animal, what are animals on this St. Joshua's day, when the Spirits of the Air come in as well, caressing the rake and the rest of us...
,stalk
,Come to think of it, the light is off the jar, morose escapation comfilling the startling abbreviation for her avatar undoing. why, when one pseudonym will do, does ambiguity outline the shadows in a dark room. No one looking or should they be?
,"play with yourself, there, when no one is looking" closure abrupt. closure assumed. closure alias.
,Closure trails discomfort. No glove that fits just right. When the words don't come easily, not just right, is this closure?
Sound breaks at the watchtower, filled the village
your love
knew the ashes
dissolved
and smeared
cold
radiant reds mixed
in my heart
returned from
profuse tears
I await
book after book
upon your
gracious efforts
showed only
a faded river flows
by this man
he misses heaven
buried alive
hidden in the middle
with the
sudden curled willow
crisscrosses
when their luck runs out
flustering the season
everyone talks force of pleasure
a pearl
quite empty
not having seen your lover
"play with yourself, there, when no one is looking" closure abrupt. closure assumed. closure alias.
,
Closure trails discomfort. No glove that fits just right. When the words don't come easily, not just right, is this closure?
I opened a window after many months.
Pryed it open with my handless bleeding stumps.
I whispered one thousand things and waited.
He replied.
I love.
I miss.
And closed the window.
Closure trails discomfort
discomfort trails denial
denial trails disbelief
disbelief trails hope
hope trails love
love trails you.
you hide in closure
Alas.
filled the village "play with yourself, there, when no one is looking" closure abrupt. closure assumed. closure alias.
village filled with sounds of watchtower breaking
as ever anybody
saved from flame
ash to ash and dust to dust
grin to grimace ear to ear
like cream
alizarin to macintosh
ah heart
permanently blinded
looks to seers
I await
look after look
from your
spacious eyes
known only
as jaded sliver glows
by river bank
a bending willow
sips life
from passing river
with the
sudden whirl of current
a kiss tosses
and the willow sprouts
a mustering of reason
forces everyone to bury treasure
a whirl
like pool
you say its over
everyone handles the distribution until YOURS is just a syndrome or something left behind. a marginal entry or entreaty or why is what is lost lost? too much thinking, wishing here was the only time and what you give me is YOURS but who can say, all confused with the benefits of anonyminity. words that are mine are supposed to be YOURS. the difficulties are obvious.
,
Homogenized. You and Yours.
Pasturized.You and Yours.
Sterilized.You and Yours.
Safe For Public Consumption.You and Yours.
I am not a Public.You and Yours.
I am one human being. You and Yours.
You are not the voice of the Public. You and Yours.
You are one human being.You and Yours.
Notice how it rhymes with loves and wars? You that one, that other. Yours that which belongs to that one that other. Who is that one that yours that other? Is it you?
Yours is anon.
Here's a
jug of the best times.
Each season
waits for no man.
Bright pale far-reaching
transcendent
this scene
comes thru the window.
Unable to say something
no one's my own shadow.
Days and
ambition thinking
until dawn.
Depressed right thru impossible.
I find seldom can flower now.
Wild decay back where time goes by.
A noble simple old family
all in one place.
hardship stirs
the village dogs bark
rising beyond delight
lacking the hopeless prosperity
hugging with enthusiasm the sick
idle breath filled with tears
dampen the brilliance in deliberations
still another drift songdragon
sounds of hidden mist
trap, trap, scatter water, deva-like
amorous season forced to part
dreams can't reach a perfect time
seize the wind, see nothing
dreams reach
seize, see
what is to be
Blind in dreams and siezed by nothing.
Free to touch and touched by nothing.
Above. All Above.
Not like eagle, or a cloud or sun like nothing.
Above.
Essensing to past the point of bare essentials.
Existentessening to past the point point blank
of I want to just give thanks.
Existsinging past the point of song
but in the frame of song.
Past right or wrong.
Above.
In Love.
giving thanks to the gravitational constant
which may or may not be holding me here
and giving thanks to the acceleration of gravity
and the beauty of electrons ignoring the dark pull
dragging the screen along, might as well take the hole thing
this is the easiest way to reach you, light shining in your eyes
this is the sound of running gravity, holding me in your arms
he's saying
this isn't much, or more
naturally, he says
this is what I have. and she replies. and that's
that possibility enlarged, enraged, invaded and
held to the highest scale of
understanding. it's a
difficulty to make
anything clear, yet on this mountaintop
it is the most
important thing. waiting, as if
the clouds
made more sense
than ever. possibly
they do.
the peace end, until it breaks
the throw thru the change
of electric parsimonious lose the
trip to the station. meanwhile
dragging behind lost
with the whipping sound
first to declare
out of it. the thanklessness
covers dismay, mighty
fighters feign
their way. a mix up of
execution. who strangely
boasts of the
latest facts? strident as
normal. drastic
the language, thrown
for a loop. unable or until.
the legislative bungle
strews the path
monstrous. a change has
humanity reeling, down pus
poisoned. but only
words of regret, only words dogmatic
exchange. chance
lightning. not a grazing or only
language. or what but only
human exchange. unsatisfied
again with the
results
Development of our literature
whose cobwebs over the stubble, vigorous grown lame
people reveled in the album sentiments, the spectres
lovely as fantasy, less felt, aversion for immortals.
Luke-warm Venus, pretty but stuffed-out
strings to break whose ghosts controlled poetry.
Genuine lyric with no serious belief --
dissolving pictures overflowing, mocked, disgusted.
Expression of love the literature in glaring dissonances,
street songs of self-consciousness (idle love and dream life)
mocks an original, transporting the sphinx of poetry.
These songs indicate the era of dissolution
has begun.
anything small
can be made
smaller
Above.
Its undefiable.
Because.
Therefore unsatisfiable.
You thought it would be in the words.
All liable.
The words can never be the gold.
Too pliable.
Labia is a label. Scrotum is a table. Fuck a verb. Is is a noun. Here is not now noun unless verbatum.
Go. Take it. Deconstruct it to the atom. Build a machine strap it to a Unix's Unic and break the atom of the verb the noun. Then take a picture of the spirit.
You search the Spirit? With Spit? With Spite?
Ah free of it.
I go above.
any claim is
human form,
agog
at the
threshhold
of doubt
Go gone above. To not speak of . The word no longer tastes on my tongue. The word no longer sings in my ear. The word no longer sees in my eyes. The word no longer touches my hand. The word no longer smells. The word has robbed it. is anished from my vocabulary, is xpunged from my dictonary, isappeared from every song and poem, labour is lost. And so forth.
ice grove
of no travellers
withered river
an old man
looks like a hedgehog
his boat deep
in mud, coming home
to his bramble
village
the wife casts
envious eyes
her career ruined
by a bagful of poems
whose manipulation
shall startle inexhaustible melodies
the tallest trees
suddenly forget words
fires howl
sketched on the wind
we understand
they built it
(village, poems, melodies)
for what clan
Nothing owing. None. To no one.
None to speak of. Not to no one.
Not to no one . Not known.
Not to no one. Not knowing.
Not to know one. Not wanting knowing.
Nothing owed or owing.
No nought. No ought either.
Only small iiii's running in the wrong direction.
Whatever made you think I was anything more than what I am.
Whatever made me think you were just the man.
Perhaps it wasn't thinking.
The loss contiues like the search for infinity.
I will not write you poetry
I don't know how.
Don't try to teach me.
Whatever made you think.
I know.
What I know I will have to know alone.
I know.
Alone I will not be anyone else's wish
for what I cannot be. Ya see?
nobody like you.
,no body, like you.
extra! extra!, sweet gamine, J
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the newspaper distance
if mapped out
travels to a place
during which a machine
frequented by animals
caused the breaking of excessive flow
a defect caused by prolonged time
in the immediate future
-------------------------------------
the future immediacy
becomes distracting: no
wonder the disjunction
chorus:
my wide black hat
pulled my sleeves
over your eyes
in the darkness
fell the leaves
machine:
recostumed down over
darkness the leaves
melting from rafters
did not see her cock
chorus:
a hundred nights lacked dizziness
carved my pain in his breast
machine (softly under its breath):
last night his unsatisfied love turned my wits
and life will pile into a towering of Entering
way:
way....
I did it I did I did
I dressed for it
I did it didn't I
a virgin in reverse
the backward bride
full tilt full ride
black bra black garterbelt black stockings
black camisole just for the feel of it
black dress black bride
from head to toe
from my black hair
to my black heel
I did it did it didn't I
I dared I dressed I even guessed
you wouldn't be the darer
you wouldn't dare to come
I'd be too black to face in daylight
or maybe through some hole in the dark
you caught the small white of my frozen face
de-laced de luded de faced de nuded
2 spectacular
too arrival/departure
to being hampered
too lingerie girl
2 bells of sequins
to eloquent
to mirror bees
too courage brief
2 shelves from labor
One day the pocket will subdivide.
One may the pocket will subdivide.
One day toe pocket will subdivide.
One day tho pocket will subdivide.
One day the socket will subdivide.
One day the sucket will subdivide.
One day the soaket will subdivide.
One day the sochet will subdivide.
One day the pockit will subdivide.
One day the pocked will subdivide.
One day the pocket nill subdivide.
One day the pocket wall subdivide.
One day the pocket wiel subdivide.
One day the pocket wilt subdivide.
One day the pocket will hubdivide.
One day the pocket will sobdivide.
One day the pocket will suxdivide.
One day the pocket will subjivide.
One day the pocket will subduvide.
One day the pocket will subdiride.
One day the pocket will subdivode.
One day the pocket will subdivile.
One day the pocket will subdivile
I've been working with numbers; try
primes 10000 100000 > zz; xxd -r zz > yy and you will be amazed at having discovered the secret of the universe. I'm revealing this for the first time here.
Arise, the Genesis of the Light and the Dark Offering,the
thousand suns! God within god and infinite balance delights.
The Elemental Stallion/water over the breeze and Luck's sweet
victory? The forces of hell, living by faith and the sinking
ship of cruel Intentions...oh bliss. God watches a portion of
the disappearence. Atomic brass knuckles up into the 1st ass-
hole! The felines know Eternity or a clown hangs a mime in
the Void Orgy of Anti-Ethical Essence! Be warned. The angels
decay!
THE LOVEANDWAR PROJECT IS NOW THE LOVEANDWAR MUSEUM
STARRING
VIRTUAL IDOLS (among others)
Jennifer - sexy, furious, mountain and valley personified
Julu - Jennifer beneath the sheets
Nikuko - from Oita, now Brooklyn
Alan - desperately appearing
Cybele - an arrival: AvatarPop HyperDiva = obsessed gendernoise
Desire Desire - behind the curtains: the heart of poet manque transfigured
Sally - a latecomer with a heart of gold!
and ANYONE ELSE - with or without any of the above - you might have in mind!
BUT WHO SAYS THESE PEOPLE ARE DEAD? I FOR ONE DON'T BELIEVE IT OR ANYTHING ELSE; THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! THEY LIVE LIKE YOU OR ME; THEY'RE DORMANT PERHAPS, WAITING THE THAWING OF THE ICE, THE FURIOUS HEAT OF THE SUN TO INVAGINATE THEIR LIMBS, EYEHOLES, MOUTH-HOLES, MAKE THEM LIVE. IT'S TOO MUCH TO ASK! THEY'RE NOT DEAD, THEY'RE NOT BURIED!
- JENNIFER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
be'twe'en theory s[c]ore andAND seeking
suppressed flatter pata-being
t(h)inker as nothing
amonster normal subthings
malok, p.o.box 41 Waukau WI 54980
I questioned Jennifer later that night.Her uncertain mood
(damn! that's shitty writing!) I laughed while the blood
burst out. Check the brain to die? All fetishes fulfilled!
HAPPINESS MAY BE HIGH-ENERGY FAIL-SAFE FEAR OF HYPOCRISY
WHAT IS DEATH HAVING TROUBLE WITH WORDS? better eat those
Now that you've imagined it, a monster of the past most
brainless last seconds...thank you for trusting absolutely
Nothing! Emergency Gas! Take my pre-approved love juice!
malok, p.o.box 41 Waukau WI 54980
I questioned Jennifer later that night.Her uncertain mood
(damn! that's shitty writing!) I laughed while the blood
burst out. Check the brain to die? All fetishes fulfilled!
HAPPINESS MAY BE HIGH-ENERGY FAIL-SAFE FEAR OF HYPOCRISY
WHAT IS DEATH HAVING TROUBLE WITH WORDS? better eat those
Now that you've imagined it, a monster of the past most
brainless last seconds...thank you for trusting absolutely
Nothing! Emergency Gas! Take my pre-approved love juice!
Jennifer questioned herself later that night, again. She was trying to think of 2000 characters. Or 2000 characters x 2. She thought Shakespeare's characters would do. But then she thought Shakespeare might not even be Shakespeare himself, and this is bloody problematic, or bone marrow dead. Won't work, because it doesn't go along with mystery math, or braving through a thicket of furze prose, or fun flashing, or giddy frolicking, or letter arrangements, or Molly's clothesline quandaries, and so, if Shakespeare isn't real, neither are his characters, and they just can't be entered into this box.
What is the fascination with chains and links and language, and the meanings of the sign, the symbol? Emergency gas. There's nothing to do with that, because it's emergency related, and words aren't gaseous, because they have
"what are these
remembered in such a way that it has meaning for you, you, and yours.
What is the fascination with chains and links and language, and the meanings of the sign,
I play shakuhachi; there's no lost note. These are shakuhachi in miniature - notice the tonal adjustment on one of the instruments, the additional small hole. What might have survived back then, of bamboo, when a shakuhachi barely lasts a decade or two today, unless cared for? Certainly not in the ground. These people DANCED - never forget their dancing -
lester bop
it was a new bridge she danced on and THAT probably accounted for its treacherous footing which is why she slipped and fell.
It was forever to the earth.
It was im media te to the stars.
In Inside John Malkovich you cannot see the stars or hear very much music when you are inside John Malkovich's head. This is very strange, and when he talks it makes a lot of noise because you are so very close because you are inside his head right behind the eyes, I think where the brain is. It's very huge amount of noise, but Bjork does an awesome song at the end and it really comes alive and makes the film really good for me.
if not
When I went inside John Malkovich's head, I became like some little sort of cell, i think a cell of a puppet, and i floated around. There were these platelet like things to grab on to if you wanted to stop and look at something up close. I think that was at the reception, and they had these sticks and they poked a whole bunch of food on them.
a sequel
because it winds and rewinds, because it loops as if failure, floored, because it's there, anywhere, the Picture of a Landscape, Landscape Picture, portrait, Heiner Muller's work, where the reading is the telling of it, the reading from the sign or symbol which can be unraveled, disheveled, in any direction - why, I said, this is Jennifer's having all the time in the world, the literal collapse, bracketing of things, until that is, she's dispersed with the Net and the hard drives, with the files and the videotapes, with deteriorations unforeseen as universe colds to a halt
the avatar moved slightly, breaking the stillness of the moment.
as ever in the i as ever ever in the i as ever in the i as ever ever ever in the eye as ever in the eye ever in the eye ever eye ever eye ever ever ever in the eye as in the eye in the eye i as ever in the eye ever ever ever in the ever eye i ever in the ever eye ever eye in the ever ever ever eye
It was late. He pushed the chair back and turned away from
I am Jennifer, I have come for you; you can @smell me, you can @touch me, you can @have me, you can enter the code, you can write the code, you can BE the code!
the passion of me
rain words
city of seewalls embrace a friendly poet in the storm of confusion the rain came down and i was wet.
nearing the end of both these projects, which have been amazing for me, along with the traceroute project, these thick writings, these moments, turmoils, roilings, alan
Meticulously recording all the lowly animals drawn by these waters, they are locked into the evolving species of time.
What's mine is yours. You won't take this of course. I'll submit and you'll reject me. I expect this. Still...I know that I shall be disappointed when it happens.
gravity in & of the thing
CORPSES LIQUIDATED POETRY
winds of silence
WHICH WAY DO THE POCKETS POINT?
ffffffffffffffffffffffffff
Message to my own mind
and as the lights filter down
Type your comments below. Click
"Create" when you're done.
(2000 characters max)
,
walok, p.o. box 54 Maukau WI 41980
letters, and the letters have each other. Urgency maybe. An air of urgency. That's better. It's possible, Jennifer thought, that the reason she can't quite grasp the hoopla is because she never enjoyed doing cross-word puzzles. Words going everywhere, the dictionary kind, names of birds in Africa, flying every which way, horizontal and vertical, in and out of each other, and it really doesn't make any sense.
words, straining at
sense, you
the consequence" -- L Zukofsky, probably misremembered
the symbol? Remember literary device as a seclusionist caterwaul? The field of the text
sprigging everywhere & nowhere, one theory couldn't possibly sensify Range & its abberations.
It is probably best if I keep silent, my anti-matter metatheories blasphemed against a wall
of interpretation. I'd settle for a world where experience remains experience & not its
dialectical sucubi. I, next time I get the chance & have a moment free, propose to create
a text which will naturally divide itself, position its individual words on fenceposts in
Tibet, Turkey, Tunisa & Toledo, right where the crows perch.
,

Chinese archeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the oldest known playable musical instrument, a seven-holed flute fashioned 9,000 years ago from the hollow wing bone of a large bird.
The instrument, about nine inches long, is the best preserved of six
intact flutes found with fragments of about 30 others at Jiahu, a remarkably rich but little-known archeological site in the Yellow River valley in Henan Province in central China. Radiocarbon dating shows the site was occupied for 1,300 years beginning around 7000 B.C., during the early Neolithic period in China.
Listen:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/450000/audio/_454594_flutes.ram
lost as well - the recording (I've had it on my hard drive for a while) seems slow, ceremonial, as if that was the style _then_ - I wanted to hear the notes pushed to the limit, ecstatic dances, hungers -
lester blow
lester skronk
lester crow
lester come
lester go
not
not if
not
if not
not not
if not
then
maybe
I just ate the cherry tomatoes because i wasn't really hungry. And the server puppet got mad at me and said that
i'm not suppose to be taking those tomatoes off the sticks. But I already ate all of them. Then I floated by a room and tried looking in there to see what they were doing, but some big scary puppet was behind me and pushed me, and I went flying, and I bumped into everybody, and they thought it was my fault, so if I were you, I'd go inside John Malcovich on a slow night. Because it can be a little scary, if you aren't hungry. But it is so worth it because it makes you think about so many things.
"porte aperte"
Il faut que je m'en aille, I must go
sometime,vous pouvez bien rester
encore un moment, sure you can stay
a bit longer, before they shoot you,
and you stabbed with a knife your boss
and then did the same to his underling
and then you raped your wife and shot her
three events like out of a gothic cluedo
(trade mark)and je ne peux pas rester
in this place, knowing that it is a video,
doesn't help, and following a popular newscaster,
if I rewind the scenes, the wife is picked
up from the ground and driven home,
the knife is plucked out of the underling,
and a promotion is surely on the way for saving
the life of the boss, en attendez-vous encore?
to bring back the dead, to outdo Christ and Lazarus,
Causons donc un peu pendant que nous sommes seules,
Would you, would you save such a criminal? Or
would you just turn up the volume, the open door
opens a bit wider, to let in the possibilities,
if not, why not, not, not if, not, then maybe.
it glanced back over its shoulder and its pupils contracted
slightly as it's gaze seemed to meet her own. she shivered,and the
cold moved across her back like an alien hand. it just wasnt possible,
she told herself over, and over. it just couldnt be! it was an avatar.
a zombie. one of the undead dead of the binary world. not a real person.
it's gaze was unblinking, it held her fast as any chain. it had ancient eyes, in a young face, and that was part of the fascination. She tried to look away,
but couldnt seem to manage.
seconds later, the world she knew disintegrated as the avatar spoke. to her.
'hello, jennifer....i wait for you...i want for you...'
moniter to stretch, loosen his cramped muscles and flex his
tired hands. the clock on the wall of the apartment said four
and he wondered where the time had gone, having but a vague
recollection of an earlier time and different space. He glanced
back over his shoulder at the screen, at the image of the
woman. she was beautiful beyond believing, her perfect form
a testimony to the multiculural expectations and the code warrior
that had created her. So real in her gestures, appearance that
it was easy to forget, she was just an avatar, just a dream. No meat,
just a memory of meat. No marrow of bone, but a hollow reed.
Her eyes seemed to met his, and in that moment, she lived in more than
his dreams. He whispered "Jennifer..I wait for you...I want for you..."
OH THE WONDER OF BEAUTIFUL WRITING!
I am taken with you, I crawl naked in front of you, I give you all of me, you can @see all of me,
close your eyes, close your eyes, close your eyes
the indifference of the machine
the passion of me
the indifference of the machine
the passion of me
the the indifference of the machine
the difference between me and the machine
passion
rains descend
desending raining
send rain des ing
desrain cends
thinking of you.
Our mission is to prove that task oriented and carefully planned devises, no matter how small the invention, is greater than all the disparate animals swimming angrily together in the murky waters of their existence. These hooks, that have the power to manage the wayward beasts, link six departments that stand proudly together forming the institution of our perception. Pay attention to these instructions and learn this form of control: mind over the bodies. It is only a day to tie one hook, times five, with two days of rest between.
I don't think I've ever done this before. There's always something new. A first time.
constant thanks may or may not
be the easiest way
ignoring acceleration
dragging me here
to you sound of light shining
this is the thanks
of gravity giving and giving
your eyes the hole the dark pull
your arms reach holding me
might as well take in the gravity
and the beauty
running to electrons
along the screen,
holding to
this which is
the gravitational.
poetry poetry
corpses corpses
corpses signal
corpses mechanical
corpses liquidated
liquidated poetry
silence spoke to me today
it whispered my name in a shrill.
a deafening silence
entered my brain
and untamed my breathless ocean
echoing
softly again.
tardy Astraea the Horse-Leech And Lamp-Eyed Mare Head living 'twixt
four and six, your fathomed blood flowers their Christ! you're the veins
turning dry quarter shapes, O how the Fall harnessed my
veins down, slow-rising naked heart turns spider-tongued
Napoleon's skullcap is a flat tiger boning me crane-flat beneath the skin,
my shabby tail's mechanical fruit gone All Loud Worm -
Mr. Hole and the rest of the dead are walking like a mothered Spring, their
fingers are now syllabic levers, the sea-gut Summer's tomb
weathers the powder of your Sargasso smile, our original fishes bough is
alight with drowned fuses, the dark her shawl brides is my address,
my poison address can dry up any oasis, my promise spat between the blood
forks... shows zeroes are only nerves? each tear (babys fair frigid) was
darkness-froth in tides, these soils rub Devils hives
tickled tithings O not kissing whats in the milk and O fetching no string
for the blood-multiplying bone berry, Mr. Hole's bright-eyed chiming mouth
punctual as The Flood as he chimes:
"What wolf threw you, you fool Thessalian?"
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http://virginiapoems.blogspot.com
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I wrote myself a message today
with all good intentions to read it,
but as most things go in my brain
it just faded away.
and the highway melts
my cigarette drops to the floor...