The Moment of Child

I was a child the moment you called me a child and I agreed.

I could, naturally, see the pickle you were in:  I was a grown man who had frauded his youth away on sex and liberal arts and now I was sitting in the corner, crying over the fact that I had nothing to make a dollar off of, and, as such, made you make your own dollar last longer.

There are a lot of things such things depend on, not least of all time and what that counts to. You didn’t know what my hands were doing while you were typing, and I didn’t know what yours were doing while I was once typing as well.

I was typing things that I thought would be good. You were typing things that made you good.

I just listened to hours of songs that we would always fall asleep to, and somehow wake up in each others arms.

We would condition the point to cold, that it was too cold to be alone on the floor while you were own the own the bed.

We would fall asleep listening to the same Radiohead songs, singing the same lyrics in our heads and maybe not, but we’d fall asleep and want to immediately brush our teeth, just beause that was what health wanted us to do, but I would rather just bite and apple and then you, with differencing, yet possibly similar, reactions simply depending on the apple itself, half torn a and half perfect. 

Zona cinereum - an autobiography in sound

The Public Archives of Him

SERIES DESCRIPTION:

Series I: Correspondence

Series I subseries A contains over 4 boxes of general correspondence.

Series I subseries B contains 7 folders of correspondence from family members.

Series I subseries C contains 2 folders of correspondence, fliers, permission forms, etc., regarding publications and street-side winks.

Series I subseries D contains 3 folders of miscellaneous correspondence including that of NA friends and sponsors, ex-lovers and numerous drivers of the M86.

Series II: Writing

Series II subseries A contains 7 folders of manuscripts, contracts and cover designs for mostly unidentified projects.

Series II subseries B contains approximately 1 box of poetry worksheets from 1985 to 2009.

Series II subseries C contains 1 folder of collaborations with Marcel Proust, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Marceau, and others.

Series II subseries D contains 17 folders of book reviews by Him dating from 1990-1996.

Series II subseries E contains 3 folders of interviews with Susan Sontag, Pierre Guyotat and Carole King.

Series II subseries F contains 2 folders of essays [two of which are now rendered sabotaged].

Series II subseries G contains 7 folders of miscellaneous writing such as introductions and editor's notes.

Series II subseries H contains 1 folder of bullshit blurbs.

Series III: Publications

Series III subseries A contains Him's books that have all been removed to the Downtown Collection.

Series III subseries B contains anthologies including Him's poems, all but one of which have been removed to the Downtown Collection.

Series III subseries C contains magazines including Him's poems, many of which have been removed to the Downtown Collection.

Series III subseries D contains Him's poems translated into other languages, all but two of which have been removed to the Downtown Collection.

Series IV: Miscellaneous

Series IV subseries A contains 11 folders of reviews of Him's books, plus 4 folders containing interviews with, articles about, and polite mentions of Him.

Series IV subseries B contains articles and books in which Him is mentioned politely.

Series IV subseries C contains 1 folder of works dedicated to Him by Dolly Parton, Frank O’Hara, Ron Silliman, and others [missing: Jean-Luc Godard].

Series IV subseries D contains 1 folder of works in which Him appears, by Gilles Deleuze, Ken Kesey, Roland Barthes, and others.

Series IV subseries E contains 12 folders of notices for Him's readings from 1987 to 2001.

Series IV subseries F contains 26 folders of material related to Him's teaching work with Cabrini Green, Columbia University, the New School, and others.

Series IV subseries G contains 19 folders of miscellaneous materials such as resumes, college diplomas, local take-out menus, etc.

Series IV subseries H contains 15 notebooks covering September 1992 to June 1996.

Series IV subseries I contains Him's date books from 1989 to 2008 (incomplete).

Series IV subseries J contains 2 folders of slides and photographs, alleged.

Series IV subseries K contains 4 videocassettes (BETA), see above.

Series IV subseries L contains one LP which was removed to Oversize.

Series IV subseries M contains 7 folders of Him's childhood.

Series IV subseries N contains 2 boxes of flat, boring or over-sized material.