linguistics
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1870
thoughtless deference to free men swimming by who mostly don’t—though sometimes must— respect the point of exclamation! / part and not part [sirens wail] [she moans] bean can and bottle top; variable dimensions are we talking about the made-thing or the making-thing drifts into reverie bamoun duala ewondo gunpowder igbo kikongo lingala yoruba sango twi…
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Things to Do with the Abnormal King
Wikipedia Poem, No. 865 Most influential work, contrast the positivist view: Argue that which sentences, heavy with truth-value, abnormal abound: go aweigh, go! Neither truth nor performance, text in particular, sentences, call the performative peculiar; u up? Oh, abnormal king! Utter one of those astonishing valleys; go slink a matinee in exile soiled sound —…
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Hypnotize (Radical Abstraction)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 847 above through the poem a little bit slicing ephemera — document the wiki-stuff and eventualize back at the stanzas in some consistent stanzas in some context backs movement blooming the movement jars current even as that movement that movement the jarring movement the jars of current the poem above a little…
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‘she said in strand’ (Determiners)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 820 for Deantoni Parks The forest is nothing but a single strand of spider’s silk suspended in wet air. the woman on the silk bus spiders forest asked if i was suspended jewish of is i said what she said in strand nothing are you jewish i said single but my father…
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No Echo No Light (Sorted)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 808 without echo this is arguable the new edition no echo no light no echo no light no echo no light echo without tongue a soft clumsy argument departments and programs new edition of the borrowed text the new edition of the translation the new edition of the new edition in this…
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Bird Watching at Playa Santana (The Secret To My Perspicuity)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 779 observe optic spectus clear evident hands buried in soil or prospettiva providing ars poetica cresting the break for introspecer though human look through the looking consider skeptics of providence optic spek observe spasati sees small fish in the crown whitewater auspecere look closely at skopein behold high german spehhon appearance for…
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Undescended Epiphany
Wikipedia Poem, No. 750 safara-like advent, empiricism? raiment’s will looking eats hamburgers raiment doesn’t ape — and fucking with the edge of sustenance worrying the orlop that it willn’t confidential — what earth than what, empiricism? a leech raiment it raiment indulgence innit expect — and you tried in the orlop i’m this tired little…
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Initial Public Offering
there are no means in the world to counter it now logic proceeds reading czeslaw milosz and also living in this small green story it becomes apparent that many things with competing interests should be must be can be true at the same time the poem shimmers floats explodes strips accretes renders and…
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‘Magpiety’ by Czeslaw Milosz
The same and not quite the same, I walked through oak forests Amazed that my Muse, Mnemosyne, Has in no way diminished my amazement. A magpie was screeching and I said: Magpiety? What is magpiety? I shall never achieve A magpie heart, a hairy nostril over the beak, a flight That always renews just when…
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Instructions for a Haiku
for Erica open your mouth open your throat wide back straight still stay ten seconds let nothing out not a whisper done what slipped in?
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