A line from Allen Tate
The colder months are a
chart, a psychological
blueprint for the basics
of both pop & traditional
Chinese medicine. Intro-
duce a few new elements—
the sampling & mixing of
diverse downtown apart-
ments; germination ecology
of the clonal grassland; issues
with city government—&
any incoherence can now be
better understood in terms of
creative interaction between
objects or the careful feeding
of cats to keep them healthy.
***
Utamaro in the Everglades
After the storm
he / gathered
driftwood &
seaweed, sat
back, replayed
their patterns
on the green-
screen of his
mind. Three
geisha took
turns to bring
him tea, each
geta clack a
caesura that
broke his
thoughts be-
fore each
break. Else-
where
flamingos
gathered to
test the re-
shaped edges
of the river.
***
languish
How do you go about creating a language?
Do you start with the I, make it egocentric? Or do you create conjuncted verbs, so that the person is secondary, the action paramount? Do you generate a list of what's about you, name them, add the sensual verbs & create additional adjectives? Do you apply some sort of Grimm's Law, d to th, that sort of thing, so the language is an extension of what currently exists?
Is there a purpose, a reason, for a new language? It also presupposes someone to speak it with or write in it to. Someone who wants to share it with you. You is now I though they are the / same person. Which brings in they, though it's really we, though it's really me broken in two. The interior. The exterior. In that case, what's the word for the entire?
Do I/you/they/we plus plurals where applicable need to be able to define concepts before beginning? Or should the conceptual be shaped by the shape of the language? Should (pronoun) — will (pronouns) exist in a new language? Will (pronoun(s)) shape the language or should the language shape itself? Will itself exist by itself?
She spoke in a way no-one had ever spoken before. Everybody listened. No-one heard.
***
bse
verb
is a
noun
numbers
is
letters
palindrome
is not a
palindrome
silent
word
***
the basis of all later versions
Mendicant friars say all the
repositories are up to date even
though there are some broken
pages. My brother says the local
packages are newer than those
existing in the repositories but
their messages are all in Greek.
An alternative sperm bank
for finding sperm donors
is alive & thriving in down-
town Montreal. My brother
has taken a page out of the
“bring traffic to your website”
handbook, setting the stage
for clickbait by the posting of
headlines that will catch the eye.
(Voir aussi parent, foster parent,
lone parent, lone parent family.)
My brother, who has never
attended a weight-loss clinic,
remains committed to a
legally incoherent vision of
invisible banking Trojans.
Please support his work by
making a donation via PayPal.
***
A line from Jimmy Carter
Contemporary Manhattan is a
beautiful mosaic. But overlay
a database of all ground-
mounted solar projects upon it
& detailed schemata of the re-
mains of exotic animals & the
water systems entombed beneath
emerge. The body begins to use
its stored sugar & any scaffold
that is not standard. There are
arcane rules revived, which is how
they took our planet from us. Now
Karl Marx traces the historical pro-
cesses of modern expropriation in
a new series that is due to premiere
on HBO. I need to call Mother.
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