“Feminist Modes of Production” by Arielle Greenberg

This poem appears in Arielle Greenberg’s 2015 book “Slice” from Coconut Press. Her work is brilliant, please support her writing.

Scraps for God

Wikipedia Poem, No. 718

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mount ancient

hard sounds
from the coast
of his way
to be had
life ended up
scrounged up
scrounged up
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How I Go About It (Effort)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 716

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here     much of critics           the skeleton     swings
     long ago two  women performed here          ligament
 feather  breather breather breather breather breather breather
  breather        breather breather breather           breather
    breather breather  breather breather breather breather breather
 breather            breather breather        breather breather
 breather  breather breather          breather breather  breather
 breather breather     breather breather breath and wings
        a  damask skeleton           swings               skeleton
  brings          a blank my     lord mass culture  in  a  hammock
 skeleton swings       a  blank my lord mass      culture
        in a hammock  skeleton           thinks                     a 
damask skeleton thinks  a  damask skeleton swings        long  ago 
two       women performed            here much  of critics       
the skeleton            swings a            blank my lord mass 
culture           in        a hammock skeleton swings    skeleton 
brings long ago  two women performed here           much of critics  
the  skeleton            swings                  ligament feather 
breather breather       breath and wings                    ligament
          feather breather breather  breather breather        breather
 breather breath and wings in     a hammock skeleton swings                         
a damask skeleton thinks            a damask skeleton swings    a blank lord
 mass culture       in a hammock            skeleton brings      
blank  my lord mass culture  in  a hammock  skeleton brings       a 
blank  my lord mass culture referent     skeleton thinks    a damask 
skeleton swings                skeleton     ligament feather breather
  breather breather breather breather  breather breather breather 
breather breather  breather breather breather breather breather          
breather breather breather breather breath      and  wings      a damask
 skeleton swings a blank my  lord            mass        culture referent
 skeleton thinks  a  damask skeleton brings                    ligament
 feather       breather breather  breather breather breather breather 
breather breather      breather breather breather            breather 
breather breather breather breather breather breather breather breather 
breather breather breather breath and  wings                 a damask
        skeleton  swings               skeleton      swings      a blank
        my lord  mass culture referent          skeleton swings
                 ligament feather breather            breather  
breather  breather breather  breather breather breather breather      
breather breather breather breather breather breather breather      
breather breather breather breather breather     breather breather  
breather breather breather        breather breath and wings a blank 
my lord mass culture in           a  hammock    skeleton  swings    
a        blank my lord            mass        culture  in a  hammock
       unrequited mass culture  in a hammock  skeleton
            ligament feather  breather  breather

getTransformations()

trwnsforme

Charles IX medal commemorating the St. Bartholomew’s massacre. 1572

int has served me well
served silently though i
find some small satisfaction
of rain and it still rains

so, here: looking is no thinking
some bundle of typeerrors refuses multiplication
sequence-thinking iterates
of critique since said with still promise
to never despise all this thingyness
already the objects i know think too much
disappoint people in counting customers
know their way around! i’m alone i think of a lock
what people mechanize in the world
though a simple technological advance
counted sits in some conceived divine place not here not
so manly as to serve the crow that quietly delivers the day
maybe he praised you approach the quick iridescing children
their wings type it’s still rain just looking down from information
as a mountain i mean to intimate with love do you understand me?
i find behavior confidant and events undivine unlikely
a variety of typeerrors bloom into cheap aluminum
keys suddenly things are meant to click and begin
and do begin in fact without a single int

Hourly Labor Rate, Plus Materials

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curators offer a variety of their subjective photography
the customer will have been satisfactorily abused and served
through technological advances in counting the service understands
people places approaches and circulation methods though we still
promise to never index works from information
the subjective photographs have been used to concatenate
and share xerophagiac critique since 1839
The service invents the mode of ideas, you approach them!
technologies and events communicate modern man as a means to the present day
photography menaces—though who knows?—to strive for ease-of-abstraction
serve a visually continuing world it will rain just look outside

String Manipulation in Python (Francis Picabia Sick in Bed)

Wikipedia Poem, No.713

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“So are the ants.”

the result is a radical cacodylate no syntax 
for that >>> print ":".join(word = "hello world"

that >>>
        a group portrait that sense he essentially this 
        print word.startswith("h") # find("h") / print word.find("H")
point true

in this nominal head of paint that are text if removing three char
>>> print word[-3:]  # the artist dies if removing three char

and corner and corner and as you seeing believed 
times leading titles have been created by his hand 

cornered and cornering and the date is the result 
# count how many demons occur the radial keyboard 

exaltation in this activity: seduction iteration   really this was something 
>>> print "i".join(word)  # add me into the fabric of every char

artist he was sick after every inscription in time 
>>>     print s.count('i')	count('o')	count('u')

print the artist's name and her work where artist is essentially 
as word.endswith('d') his friends invite the artist's name and count(' ')

“The Biggest Bomb” David Ignatow

Y’all should get real intimate with this gem. It’s from “Claims for Poetry,” a dope book of essays edited by Donald Hall from 1982.

This short essay from 1955 is by a poet I had never heard of, David Ignatow. I googled him and discovered he was the kind of poet who found some success, but always had to maintain a day job: butcher, book binder, hospital admitting clerk, vegetable market night clerk, and paper salesman.”

He was also “editor of American Poetry Review, Analytic, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Chelsea Magazine, and … poetry editor of The Nation.”

Anyway, biographical minutiae aside, this “impressionistic essay” is at times monastic — “I deal with words, I give myself the pleasure of being free with my feelings, my thoughts. I allow them to fall into any shape or color they desire in words.” — and at other times animalistic: “The freedom I write about is for cockroaches, ants, mice, and lice.”

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Simple Hunger from the Eastern Shore

Wikipedia Poem, 700 (Python Remix)

Maker:0x4c,Date:2017-9-26,Ver:4,Lens:Kan03,Act:Lar01,E-ve

While just past the edge of frame, drowned saying hunger think of horror ship in wars well done had an idea: Why not dress as violence metaphor what resources and lead-in-the-water san diego people?

While from the eastern shore, nurture by all of us from the pacific creation’s backyard united states out on the had an idea: Why not dress as it is colonialism and today from india flint china mahwah people?

While just past the edge of frame, drowned saying hunger think of horror not in theory had an idea: Why not dress as violence metaphor what resources and happiness within us all people?

While from the eastern shore, slay the brutal american deemed too far ship in wars well done had an idea: Why not dress as from the easy station of the worst and syria sperm whale alabama people?

While just past the edge of frame, nurture by all of us think of horror not in theory had an idea: Why not dress as violence metaphor what resources and happiness within us all people?

While the worst violence is hunger, slay the brutal american deemed too far united states out on the had an idea: Why not dress as how this hunger and lead-in-the-water san diego people?

While simple hunger, nurture by all of us from the pacific creation’s backyard the viewer perhaps observes had an idea: Why not dress as from the easy station of the worst and syria sperm whale alabama people?

While from the eastern shore, slay the brutal american deemed too far not in theory had an idea: Why not dress as it is colonialism and mountainside vietnam bangladesh people?

While just past the edge of frame, power the open ocean the you ess frigate ship in wars well done had an idea: Why not dress as how this hunger and staten island hackensack people?

While simple hunger, slay the brutal american think of horror the viewer perhaps observes had an idea: Why not dress as it is colonialism and lead-in-the-water san diego people?

Pay Half Your Life, Rounded Up

Wikipedia Poem, No. 712

one part gas mask
two parts treeshrew skull
one half ounce intoxicated trounce 
one buxom bouncecastle 
        some amount of tree 
half never retrieve the cumulus of nectar
first you crawl 
then you pay

 

Raising Blood Pressure and Increasing the Risk of Heart Problems and Stroke

Wikipedia Poem, No. 711

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“I enjoy sitting on objections by the great. / Yes, so we cried together under protection of copyright laws.” Nikki Wallschlaeger

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