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My Beauty is an Occupiable Space: 37 Prosed Sonnets Sonnet 27 - Plasticity and Transplants Maytag engine marine biologist mango leaves amantadine Head transplantation involves decapitating the patient / At the hospital, a crazed doctor transplants the young man's brain into that of a giant robotic dinosaur as part of his immortality-via-cobras experiment / Long necked seals discovered in Lake Baikal / Brain transplants, rapping cats, and a dog-man are just some of the mayhem that ensues as the three unlucky houseguests try to save their brains / Rehabilitation, Plasticity and Transplants ... The first thing that comes to mind is the "visible" man or woman that we could buy as a child / On Twin Earth, a brain in a vat is at the wheel of a runaway trolley / his Pterodactyl toy as he played doctor for his "double-bypass brain transplant. .... (especially his love of heavy metal), and eventually became a garbage man / After a corneal transplant, a once-blind woman sees dead people... and they hate it when she stares MY BREASTS ARE SO SWOLLEN THAT I BITE THEM acording to their Capacities. His tires squeal as he pulls sharply off the road into a swirling cloud of dust. Natasha, Joann, Meghan-closing ranks to form a body bunker. It is a large bird of prey in the order Falconiformes. Their range is from Senegal to Somalia and south to the Cape of Good Hope. Sonnet 28 - " … or the eponymous chief who held two mating passenger pigeons in his hands?" The male or female parent are eventually weaned to small mammals and soccer moms, astronauts, fire fighters, even the occasional Senator or Secretary of State. The length from their beaks to the end of their long tails ranges from 49 to 59. Lyric Conceptualism rejects naïve notions of truth and beauty. Still, the Lyric Conceptualist remains true to her politics of inclusion, appreciating the beautiful and delicate cyanotype entitled Mask Dancer, Cowichan (1912). I was seeing in my mind the market, the stock exchange, the Occidental ... a vision of a modern aesthetics halting the mobilized world. I open my mouth to express what I believe, and find that I don't believe it any more. No this is not a picture of the ship I took when I first left home. But pictures of ships. Basically, stories of punk (and not-punk, the punkest thing of all) are stories of a global summer. These dinosaurs were not outcasts or vacationers, but part of complex communities. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Places where, even if there are doors, they tend not to open to the outside, but to a Wonderland rabbit hole taking them deeper inside. The Los Angeles Times posted a story headlined "Mummified Body of Former ... I Sonnet 29 - In contrast, Klee cut analytical trenches In the months before her grotesque death, Vickers had made calls not to cowboys, who set off to explore a seemingly endless frontier likewise traded away, but to a man who roams the seemingly endless corridors and salons of a luxurious hotel. In contrast, Klee cut analytical trenches from one mode to another to construct a seemingly endless labyrinth. "It is a somewhat heretical view that this viscosity should not matter." Grocery shoppers in northwest Kansas and Queens, NY,might not know it, but they have a lot in common. In the struggle over memory and meaning in any society, some stories just get lost. Insanity, reductionism, slavery, a "beautiful, dangerous, red-headed croupier," love always, mom. Good afternoon friends, family, and supporters! We pray all of you are well. We're super excited to let you know that Naz's case is a true, personal story. I am splashing stone, the only truth there is. My beauty begins to show his faultlines. Coders determined whether his stories were mostly positive, or mostly negative. I am a member of the Swiss family called Robinson. Except that I'm not really Swiss. The susceptibility of this story to rewriting suggests the difficulty that plagues perception and interpretation. Sonnet 30 - Explanation of Benefits Have you ever received an Explanation of Benefits letter from your poetry provider? En passant, is a big pig, per se, a bad pig? [Is "trying to" the weakest link?] where the hermit is doing tapas and seduce him, my pretty, it was good per se, and it was, and is, especially good, considered in relation to a kitchen gadget per se, 1 went to the karaoke, Simon says, Azure is my top note and then I Z-sale to the apex. There among Doctors DIONYSUS, sole of the archivists fit to wear ivy and dance to the aulos with all of his footnotes in Paradise. Amy says, I didn't have the cash on me. In the desert you will be invincible, says Luke. Explanation of Benefits: Confusion of inspiration with alchemy with the sniffing of wrists. Your thin skin, your peripherals, the baseline ratio, isn't it a cradle? TRING! For o yes, we do rely. gram / logia / graph / party quiz / criticism / psalm 69 or social movements or fascism in a sentence / pink signs / Are you pre-alien? / Prague-dense / praying mantis permit test / What's the weather in your castles today? / the pluralistic universe also referred to as history In the example above, six shapes and multiple duplicates are somaesthetics, which knows the particular q whose context it most exactly duplicates. Sonnet 31 - Burrow into a hole 18 inches thick and extract a poem Accordingly it gratifies our theoretic need in a supremely beautiful way. Anyhow and apparently the woodchuck that's living behind my garage seems to appear early in the morning in adroitness of design and plastic makes perfect, thrown off our stools by a strange and beautiful light that appears when you turn away, or does it. Can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas? I've sort of had water on the nerve the whole morning. My beauty is an index of Fatalities in West Virginia Coal Mines 1883-1925. If anyone would like priority placed on any particular name near the little town of Cherry Replacements, I'd be happy to turn the light out. You can help keep the stories coming by making a donation to The Moonlit Road. My problem is mountaintop removal coal mining. It destroys ... Karen's Mountain Top Removal Story ... And a lot of the men would ask me, 'Why are you here? If a convict miner died, the state would furnish a new convict to replace the convict who died at no cost to the mine owner or the state. Coal Miners Mock Topless Ashley Judd Self-described 'hillbilly' actress Craving Coal Dust 'Like Nicotine,' "No poet could burrow into a hole 18 inches thick and extract a poem."
Process Note
The "source text" for this sequence is Lynn Behrendt, This is the story of Things that Happened.
Alternating lines, we took the nouns from each and processed them via one of two computing techniques. The first involved wetware and the hidden algorithms of the imagination. The second involved Google. Neither of us consulted or inquired as to how the other was engaging with these techniques. The only other compositional constraints were: ·that this was a poem revolving around the phrase "my beauty", the "who" in "my" never being specified, and thus floating between personae and pronouns, and ·that each time we hit fourteen lines we called it a sonnet and went on to the next one. We turned these sonnets into titled 'prosed sonnets' when we finished the project. We did this in order to lose track of who originated what. We are both gladly responsible for all of it. A number of the titles are derived from another collaboration, this being "Crisscross", by Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian. Anne Gorrick is the author of: I-Formation (Book 2) (Shearsman Books, 2012), I-Formation (Book 1) (Shearsman, 2010), and Kyotologic (Shearsman, 2008). She collaborated with artist Cynthia Winika to produce a limited edition artists' book called "Swans, the ice," she said with grants through the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has also collaborated on large textual and/or visual projects with John Bloomberg-Rissman and Scott Helmes. She curates the reading series, Cadmium Text, which focuses on innovative writing in and around the New York's Hudson Valley ( www.cadmiumtextseries.blogspot.com ) She also co-curates, with Lynn Behrendt, the electronic journal Peep/Show at www.peepshowpoetry.blogspot.com Her visual work can be seen at: www.theropedanceraccompaniesherself.blogspot.com Anne Gorrick lives in West Park, New York. John Bloomberg-Rissman is just past the halfway point of In the House of the Hangman, the third section of his maybe life project called Zeitgeist Spam (picture Hannah Hoch pasting stuff to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel). The first two volumes have been published: No Sounds of My Own Making (Leafe Press), and Flux, Clot & Froth (Meritage Press). In addition to his Zeitgeist Spam project, he has edited or co-edited two anthologies, 1000 Views of 'Girl Singing' and The Chained Hay(na)ku Project, and is at work on a third, which he is editing with Jerome Rothenberg. He is also in the early stages of a study of Bhanu Kapil's written / unwritten novel BAN. He blogs at www.johnbr.com (Zeitgeist Spam). |