Wildlife, My Water

Inappropriate influence throws a lifeline
Better known as spectacular vulgarity.
It's no secret that love

Will reconsider the expression,
The praise and golden dogs.
Don't leave, come be inspired and

Call fate the dog of wings
Amid annual awards and bonuses.
It should be no surprise, celebrate.

Computerized Hair Reduced

Uniform, diagonal, absolute mastery
Is round and kind—only
Guilty of reduction in private

Research—creating every situation
Filled with local love and
Found by false involvement in

Achievement: an artificial problem
As vulnerable and delicate as
Purple policemen under question.

The New Ideal Reading Experience

There is no match for The New Ideal Reading Experience.

'Zineland!

Stan Apps and I will be at the Hammer Museum representing our modest publishing venture, Insert Press, for an event that Darin Klein put together called 'Zineland. We'll be debuting some advance copies of Fold Magazine and will be selling chapbooks by Harold Abramowitz and Julien Poirier. Darin also put together a Zine for the 'Zineland event, go figure, and you should be able to preview a few pages from Ara Shirinyan's forthcoming book Handsome Fish Offices if you come to 'Zineland and pick up a Zine.

more of The News

Talk Extends Distraction

The prison sentence advanced theories
Like circus elephants on parade—
Wrestling with detention has become a liability.

Action aimed at putting it on the table,
In the world of books and reading,
Is difficult to avoid, but necessary.

A fairly ridiculous and baseless
Good feeling, as in the enormous books—
The cost and nerve of their strategic vision.

More Spicer

Morphemes in section
Lew, you and I know how love and death matter
Matter as wave and particle--twins
At the same business.
No excuse for them. Lew, thanatos and agape have no business being there.
What is needed in hill country. Dry in August. Dead grass leading to mountains you can climb onto
Or stop
Morphemes in section
Dead grass. The total excuse for love and death

from the sequence Morphemics in the book Language 1964

"high" New Eyes

Leave Men "high"

Innocent enough, as delighted children,
The popular myth that women are men
Raised the alert from "moderate" to "high."

In truth, they are extremely dangerous
With devices that automatically record them
Found dead on an artificial lane.

They accounted for almost half the injuries to
Researchers. The difference is not
To ease their protective measures.



The New Touch, Live

At the very least, the first of which will be
Rejected and will not support
A non-stop propensity for private air travel.

About 15 inches wider than similar
Promises to make potential payments,
I'm not going to let my own hypocrisy get in the way.

Windows will be 65 percent larger, Bathrooms big enough to
Disavow any link between
This modern environmental movement and the excess of protest.



Steadily Opening Eyes

Spectacular growth unlikely to elicit a shift in
This phenomenon: the first global celebrity
And his love life, but give us a minute to get there…

Figures were slightly above growth rate
On giant screens it became clear that the failed prophet,
necessarily public, becomes more difficult all the time.

Health and leisure declined for the 12th straight month, and
The former attention on change rather than
Informational vermin, acknowledged the dichotomy.

the last 3 days of 3x3s

Some Spicer

Distance, Einstein said, goes around in circles. This
Is the opposite of a party or a social gathering.
It does not give much distance to go on.
As
In the beaches of California
It does not give me much to go on.
The tidal swell
Particle and wave
Wave and particle
Distances.

from the sequence Love Poems in the book Language 1964

and then another piece after Spicer...

There is realisation paint on not having youngblood just as there is realisation paint on not having poignancy
Not totemic in either case as solarium or solvency, endearing all the minor trails
But in either case (poignancy or youngblood)
As bedlam.
Against the rhombic drink and other imaginaries we have not seeded in toil
I have seeded the youthful locks of the lioness and come back for the homecoming wearing only a sweater.

The Bald Champ Threatens

The widespread wings, white-capped head and sharp cry
That combine drama, daring and indigestion in a repulsive triumph
First warned that new missles plan to set up a system.

Losing the noble visage is unthinkable, yet it almost happened. Hunting and
The great red, white and blue inhaling a screaming crowd in Coney Island.
The threat is likely to irritate an early warning radar system in the interceptors.

As the country took action, killing the lowly scavenger, with its ranks still thinning…
"If I needed to eat another one right now, I could," said the emblem of eating supremacy.
As an alternative to the plan currently under construction—sharing, making, bringing and setting up.

from...
The bald eagle soars again
No-Bayashi _ Hot Dog Champ Loses
Ivanov Threatens to Put Missiles in Kaliningrad

I've been doing these every day so far since the first of the month they are an experiment that Nicholas Grider turned me on to over at 3by3by3 and the first three I did are posted over there, along with the basic rules. Because I like rules and restrictions so much I added some of my own to the basic template. I take three news stories, use the 1st para from the 1st story for the 1st line the 1st para from the 2nd story for the 2nd line and the 1st para from the 3rd story for the 3rd line - then start over for the second and third stanzas. I also only allow myself to take words out in the order they appear in the news story and only allow myself to change things from plural to singular or past to present tense, very basic subtle changes. They make interesting strange things I think. If you start doing any of them, be sure to send them to the 3by3by3 blog and Lance will post them up there.

Late Night Snack 15

Late Night Snack
Tuesday, July 10 at 9:30pm
http://betalevel.com/2007/07/10/late-night-snack-15/
hosted by Harold Abramowitz and Mathew Timmons
upcoming dates: July 24 and August 7

…
and Pluplubasch when it means hobby horse. And so forth. World war without end, revolution without beginnin', you friends and tunes, dance, manifestos, theory, poems, pictures, masks and Pluplubasch when it has been formed whose aim Is terribly simple. In French it has been formed whose aim Is to outrage thuh sale of beer, sausages and esuper imaginable waste product of young artists of their orientation, are forerunners, prophets of uncontrolled forces. They are forerunners, prophets of World War I ragin' around it, and opposin' of performance, such as sound poetry and readin's at thuh sale of World War I ragin' around it, thuh public. Above Is a group of scandal: to come along with suggestions and writers has been rainin'? A tree be talkin' about it, and writers has been formed whose aim Is above.
Chaos erupted. Thuh first public soiree, Is below, below Is below, below Is to outrage thuh fact that until now nobod knew anythin' about it.
Comes from thuh artists experimentin' with tunes al performances and tunes, dance, manifestos, theory, poems, pictures, masks and Pluplubasch when it exhibited was often chaotic and writers has been rainin'?
A bit to create a tree be talkin' about it, thuh idea of performance, such as sound poetry and give tunes, dance, manifestos, theory, poems, pictures, masks and Pluplubasch when it exhibited was often chaotic and of thuh public. Above Is above. Chaos erupted. Thuh fact that guest artists will be a literary cabaret to start
…

At Late Night Snack on June 26, 2007:
Alyssandra Nighswonger played guitar and sang.
Jane Sprague presented Syria is in the World by Ara Shirinyan.
Ara Shirinyan read from Syria is in the World by Ara Shirinyan.
The Year Zero played music.
Alan Semerdjian & Will Alexander created music.

…

At Late Night Snack on June 12, 2007:
A film by Danielle Adair.
Will Alexander gave a lecture.
Laura Steenberge played bass and sang.
Todd Collins read.
Stan Apps read.
Lee Ann Brown did string tricks.
Tony Torn and Lee Ann Brown presented a reading.

…

At Late Night Snack on May 29, 2007: A film by Nick Flavin. Jane Sprague performed. Laura Steenberge gave a lecture. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Will Alexander read. … At Late Night Snack on May 15, 2007: Ara Shirinyan read. Laura Steenberge played guitar and sang. Emily Lacy spontaneously played guitar and sang. Dan Richert's hi-tech hut made sound. … At Late Night Snack on April 24, 2007: A film by Danielle Adair. Laura Steenberge played stand-up bass and sang. Teresa Carmody read. Sean Deyoe performed karaoke. Stan Apps read. Sandy Ding performed the Flash Light Show with Laura Steenberge. … At Late Night Snack on April 10, 2007: Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Jen Hofer and Billy Mark created spontaneous poetry. WAMPA staged the Dialectical Fuss. Frederique de Montblanc and Janne Larsen presented the Masculinihilist Manifesto. … At Late Night Snack on March 20, 2007: Maximus Kim explained his manifesto. Ara Shirinyan. Milly Saunders read. Frederique de Montblanc and Janne Larsen presented a film. Jen Hofer read, assisted by William Mark. … At Late Night Snack on March 6, 2007: Mathew Timmons read. Oliver Hall played guitar and sang. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Stan Apps lectured spontaneously. … At Late Night Snack on Feb 20, 2007: Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Ara Shirinyan read. Jane Sprague read, assisted by Marcus Civin. … At Late Night Snack on Feb 6, 2007: Marcus Civin performed. Oliver Hall played guitar and sang. Roy Lanoy (Stan Apps) read from the WAMPA mailbag and dispensed advice. Alex Maslansky played guitar and sang. Nature's Nobleman, Sir Oliver Hall, read from his WAMPA Conference address. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place presented Turkey Trot. … At Late Night Snack on Jan 16, 2007: Marcus Civin performed, Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Lloyd Ducal (Joseph Mosconi) and Roy Lanoy (Stan Apps) presented the tenets of WAMPA, Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall, Darin Klein presented Untitled Performance with Stan Apps, Jesse Aron Green, Steven Reigns, and Christopher Russell, Emily Lacy played banjo, fiddle, and sang … At Late Night Snack on Dec 19, 2006: Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Cat Lamb and Lewis Keller performed a composition for viola and electrified cymbal/electronics, Stan Apps read, Khanh Tran performed a recital on the theremin … At Late Night Snack on Dec 5, 2006: Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall, "Ghost drawings 'were' brought fourth throught the ouija board assisted by christian cummings and michael decker.", Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place played Judgment Day Bingo with the audience, Ara Shirinyan read … At Late Night Snack on Nov 21, 2006: Ara Shirinyan read, Sandy Ding performed the Flash Light Show, Oliver Hall played guitar and sang.

The New Credebt

My old old blog A Cabinet has already done the Second Life thing and it's on to a new Third Life for a project I'm starting called Credebt. I'm collecting, scanning and OCRing all the letters I receive which are offering me new lines of credit. The images and OCR'd texts will be posted there as I collect them - then I will embark on an editing process to trim down the text of every package to one poem each - I'll post these strange visual poems to A Cabinet and try to preserve some of the remnants of the OCR software I'm using (which is the software that came with my scanner, so I doubt it's very state of the art). Take a look over there once in a while to see how Credebt is progressing.