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March 7, 2011

3.6.11

All this language training, and then it's the 'bas-reliefs of earth.' There's no scale for speaking absent the target. A mass of curls, a human project, a boy to speak to –– the mottos exhaust the givens.

And then there's this motto: Candor is the brightest shield.

I want nothing more than direct address, though it delivers nothing more than a person, and that won't be enough.
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Published on March 07, 2011 01:47

3.5.11

A motto, out of deep water, and then abandoned to quotation, as say the 'white creature of chalk pounded', or material sum. These examples won't explain it, and can't infuse like a drumbeat these four limbs you're still testing, and testing.

Grow old with me, laboratory.
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Published on March 07, 2011 01:25

3.3.11

Coactivity is the evidence of trust. This son, in his busybody quickening, could hatch societies from all of this sudden planning.

I'm only a bondsman in my heart, and my instruction could never be fair to this exuberance: "first ideas." And not just mine.
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Published on March 07, 2011 01:04

3.1.11

I'm proposing that thankfulness stands apart from decay. It's not a grooming, or unequal reaction to some splintering oak in the backyard. But it's neither indifferent, this positive, furtive strength.

I'm proposing it, as if it were some eternal notion.
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Published on March 07, 2011 00:55

March 6, 2011

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That this poetry must assert its vocabulary sub specie aeternitatis.
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Published on March 06, 2011 15:58

March 5, 2011

March 4, 2011

Spinoza Joke

You can't end a sentence with a proposition.
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Published on March 04, 2011 11:57

February 22, 2011

2.16.11

Enduring task lists, the 'yous' that accumulate in this spasm of accountability.

You are the low answer. You, this accommodationist.
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Published on February 22, 2011 10:33

2.16.10

Enduring task lists, the 'yous' that accumulate in this spasm of accountability.

You are the low answer. You, this accommodationist.
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Published on February 22, 2011 10:33

February 8, 2011

2.8.11

Books thrown to the floor, a test, and protocols scattered. And my 'role' to be corrective, as if the right way lost.

Does forgiveness presume an assignment?
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Published on February 08, 2011 23:57