Wednesday, October 13, 2010

would to wound the wound to would the wound wound the wound—[?]




from "My Language Sampler" Boris Izsus, Editor. Published in The Paris Review, Number 86 (Winter, 1982)

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“we arm”, are strange, how the features

of this World, begin with problems

of the Pink, to lay hold, or to be able

to thing something into a Thought:

ignoring that we’re in our own

World, is the only world thy sought



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or bodies. No, no one is to call this one “The

Body” floating, in it’s own poor particles,

particularly to my Eyes, surprise this Quality

of seeing, the chain-saw, sawed me & I seated,

into this encased place, in semantic Space



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or You, are in the pawing palm ,of

language among, other things

must start to stop, must say

“no”------->& no matter what

anyone says “You’ve got a beautiful

way, about carrying your way, in

weight”



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or whipping a rhythm of Night, as

if too, we slept in our own tiny

clinchers, clutched the long

list, of the longing sort, of the such

work, to clean them Bones, go

to how night, lights the Past back



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or shocks to Thought “how

shocking” the seconds, slow

thy roll to the source, penetrating

my brokeass, forces you straight

through, the alley straight through,

the concentration of how, hot

the sun bloods upon thy Profile



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or hear again, how here, my Face

orgasms itself right out of, it’s

an organism that is reflecting

thy, as a tiny building this, rush

up thus, in thy eyes against, the

vision of what outlines thy

past, the point of airtight abusing



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or, phasing-out the colors give

a form of phrasing “these wrenching

shapes of thy logic” art thy wretch

blocking thy all access------>look



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or litters of letters pressed, against

my mouth, could create two suspect

yaelps & each, would be the turd of

the World, in which you thrust, about

squirming, in thy turds



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or the personal pit, you built, up

to commit, to the point, of the

how these boobs in light, shape

up, the great guffaw, of Language

digits, thy Flesh in thy, digits to

dig you, through this pool, of my

drool



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or the preparing of calling upon

thy lips to move, could really, be

called a “coming upon

adventures , are articles, I wish

to write, a drawing of the dawn,

falling thy felling, a form of

yawning



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or Oh, I’m so overflown” in, these

affairs of the Hands me, some Hideous

lucidity, herself, of course, in the Hopes

of speciming, a specific standard, mess

I’m in



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or the trust needing in, touching an,

imagine in the Eye, places, a patch

of Light, looking kindly on Him,

goes pop image or, the image of “I

am a mightymighty Sailor” which

began, this Idea of sailing past,

this & that apparition, taking Him

away, from his own grave converge



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or Picture: my calculated enthusiasm,

is the Point, of being smoky, (smoking)

aye, the Chatter, starting to, start

a strike, upon my Imagination, struck

that Spirit down & a bit



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or how in Westerns, the Old were

always, coming up only to, in the

event I am down, call attention

to how attractive, I am connecting

the sea of, she far off, tongues, I

seem to see, thy seethe to see



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or Hung, over a block, of

the pain, is pale pal, from

this position, bent over, &

chasing, thoughts of my

Devotion, a kiss, sliding

of the finger, across cheek,

across a Body, is an Event,

hung over, the Human, is the

sweetest, sweat river



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or & searching the Scale, of this

house, reveals “we are in a great

commotion” moving, from room

to room & moving, next to avert,

the flight, of the subsequent whole

yo structure, this “OH



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or okay torso here's the code: for

self, it’s a plan. The power & of,

“A” is perfectly, off the rocker,

Cumulates, so creative, so the limbs,

became an immersion, of ice on ache



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or Brute breaking accordingly,

to when, I was so obsessed,

with ways, to weigh, the beauty,

of all my wars, go the way, of

canceled events



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or the rational sense, senses the actual

survival, of this response, is a frame, of

my lust, contains a summit, towards

a Framing, of desire contains, thythy



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