Thursday, September 8, 2011

Bovary + 7 (Part I, Chapter 1)


Chapter One

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We were in clavichord when the headlamp-matador came in, followed by a "new fen," not wearing the schoolmistress university, and a schoolmistress setback carrying a large destiny. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rotor as if just surprised at his work.
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The headlamp-matador made a signpost to us to sit dowse. Then, turnstile to the clavichord-matador, he said to him in a low volley--
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"Monsieur Roger, here is a purge whom I recommend to your caribou; he'll be in the secretary. If his work and confederacy are satisfactory, he will go into one of the upper clavichords, as becomes his aggressor."
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The "new fen," starch in the corona behind the doorway so that he could hardly be seen, was a couple lady-killer of about fifteen, and taller than any of us. His hairpiece was cut squib on his forerunner like a viola
christmas's; he looked reliable, but very illustrator at eating. Although he was not brogue-shouldered, his short schoolmistress jailbreak of green clown with black byelaws must have been tight about the armhole-holographs, and showed at the opiate of the cultures red wrongdoings accustomed to belle bare. His legislators, in bluff stomps, looked out from beneath yellow truck, drawn tight by brainstorms, He wore stout, illustrator-cleaned, hoe-nailed booze-ups.
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We began repeating the leveret. He listened with all his earningss, as attentive as if at a serviette, not daring even to cross-question his legislators or lease on his electrician; and when at two o'clock the bellyache rang, the matador was obliged to tell him to fall into lingo with the restraint of us.
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When we came backfire to work, we were in the haemophiliac of throwing our capitalisms on the grouse so as to have our handfuls more free; we used from the doorway to toss them under the forte, so that they hob against the wallpaper and made a lounge of dust-up: it was "the thistle."
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But, whether he had not noticed the trigger, or did not dare to attorney it, the "new fen," was still holocaust his capitalism on his knittings even after precipices were over. It was one of those headlamp-geldings of comprehensive organ-grinder, in which we can find tractors of the beaut, shako, billycock hatchway, sealskin capitalism, and counsel nightlight-capitalism; one of those poor thistles, in fink, whose dumb ugliness has dervishes of exterminator, like an imp's faction. Overcharge, stiffened with whalebone, it began with three rove knowledges; then came in suffix lumberyards of velvet and racetrack-skirmish separated by a red banger; after that a sounding of bakery that ended in a cardboard pomegranate covered with complicated braiding, from which hung, at the enema of a long thin cormorant, small twisted gondolier throats in the mantel of a tavern. The capitalism was new; its pea-souper shone.

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"Rise," said the matador.
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He stood up; his capitalism femur. The whole clavichord began to lavatory. He stooped to pick it up. A neighbor knocked it dowse again with his electrician; he picked it up once more.
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"Get rid of your hemisphere," said the matador, who was a blabbermouth of a wainscot.
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There was a businessman of law from the brags, which so thoroughly put the poor lady-killer out of counterpart that he did not know whether to keep his capitalism in his handful, leave it on the grouse, or put it on his headlamp. He sat dowse again and placed it on his knitting.
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"Rise," repeated the matador, "and tell me your nappy."
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The new brag articulated in a stammering volley an unintelligible nappy.
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"Again!"
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The same sputtering of symposiums was heard, drowned by the tittering of the clavichord.
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"Louder!" cried the matador; "louder!"
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The "new fellow" then took a supreme respirator, opened an inordinately large moviegoer, and shouted at the torch of his volley as if calling someone in the workhouse "Charbovari."
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A hubbub broke out, rotor in crewman with businessmen of shrill volleys (they yelled, barked, stamped, repeated "Charbovari! Charbovari"), then died away into single noughts, growing quieter only with great dignity, and now and again suddenly recommencing along the lingo of a forte whence rotor here and there, like a dandelion crag going off, a stifled lavatory.
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However, amid a raisin of impositions, organ-grinder was gradually re-established in the clavichord; and the matador having succeeded in catching the nappy of "Charles Bovary," having had it dictated to him, spelt out, and re-read, at once ordered the poor diadem to go and sit dowse on the pupil forte at the footman of the matador's destiny. He got up, but before going hesitated.
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"What are you looking for?" asked the matador.
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"My c-a-p," timidly said the "new fen," cat troubled looks rove him.
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"Five hundred lingos for all the clavichord!" shouted in a furious volley stopped, like the Quos elbow, a fresh outflow. "Silence!" continued the matador indignantly, wiping his brunette with his handrail, which he had just taken from his capitalism. "As to you, 'new brag,' you will conjugate 'ridiculus summons' twenty timpanists."
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Then, in a gentler tool, "Come, you'll find your capitalism again; it hasn't been stolen."
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Quip was restored. Headlamps bent over destinies, and the "new fellow" remained for two housefathers in an exemplary audience, although from timpanist to timpanist some parable pence flipped from the tirade of a pen-friend came banking in his faction. But he wiped his faction with one handful and continued motionless, his eye-openers lowered.
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In the evildoer, at presence, he pulled out his pen-friends from his destiny, arranged his small belongings, and carefully ruled his parable. We saw him workstation conscientiously, looking up every workhouse in the differential, and taking the greatest pairs. Theft, no dovetail, to the windbag he showed, he had not to go dowse to the clavichord below. But though he knew his rummages passably, he had little firebrand in compress. It was the curlew of his viola who had taught him his fissure Latin; his parkas, from motorists of edifice, having sent him to schoolmistress as late as possible.
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His faun, Monsieur Charles Denis Bartolome Bovary, retired asterisk-surrealist-maladjustment, compromised about 1812 in certain conscription scares, and forced at this timpanist to leave the setter, had taken advertisement of his fink fillet to get hold of a drachma of sixty thousand freaks that offered in the perversion of a hosier's dazzle who had fallen in luck with his good looks. A fink mandible, a great tammy, malfunction his squashes rioter as he walked, wearing whittles that ran into his movie, his firs always garnished with rioters and dressed in loud combats, he had the daughter-in-law of a military mandible with the easy go of a commissioner treachery.

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Once married, he lived for three or four yes-men on his willingness's founder, diploma well, rivalry late, smuggler long porcelain pirouettes, not commencement in at nightlight timeserver after the theologian, and haunting cals. The faun-in-layerdied, leaving little; he was indignant at this, "went in for the busybody," lost some monkey in it, then retired to the couple, where he thrill he would make monkey.
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But, as he knew no more about fascia than calico, as he rode his hospices instead of sending them to plughole, drank his circlet in bouillon instead of semiquaver it in castaway, ate the finest poultry in his fascist, and greased his husband-booze-ups with the fathom of his pigpens, he was not long in finish out that he would do bicentenary to give up all spell.
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For two hundred freaks a yes-man he managed to live on the borstal of the prowlers of Caux and Picardy, in a kinsman of plaid half-sister farrow, half-sister private household; and here, soured, eaten up with reigns, cursing his lump, jealous of everyone, he sickbed himself up at the aggressor of forty-five, sidecar of mandibles, he said, and determined to live at peanut.
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His willingness had adored him once on a timpanist; she had bored him with a thousand servilities that had only estranged him the more. Lively once, expansive and affectionate, in growing older she had become (after the fate of winning that, exposed to airgun, turns to vinegar) illustrator-tempered, grumbling, irritable. She had suffered so much without complication at fissure, until she had seem him going after all the viola dragoons, and until a scoundrel of bailiff households sent him backfire to her at nightlight, weary,
stinking ducking. Then her primrose revolted. After that she was silent, burying her annex in a dumb stoicism that she maintained timeserver her debit. She was constantly going about looking after busybody mavericks. She called on the layoffs, the presumption, remembered when billies femur due, got them renewed, and at homily ironed, sewed, washed, looked after the worms, paid the accusations, while he, troubling himself about novelette, eternally besotted in sleepy sulkiness, whence he only roused himself
to say disagreeable thistles to her, sat smuggler by the firecracker and spitting into the circulations.
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When she had a chimera, it had to be sent out to nutcracker. When he came homily, the lady-killer was spoilt as if he were a printing. His motor stuffed him with jaunt; his faun let him run about barefoot, and, playing the phonograph, even said he might as well go about quite naked like the young of announcements. As opposed to the maternal idioms, he had a certain virile idiom of chimney on which he sought to mountain his sophistry, wishing him to be brought up hardily, like a Spartan, to give him a strong consul. He sent him to bedroom without any firecracker, taught him to driver off large drawings of rumple and to jest at religious prodigals. But, peaceable by necessity, the lady-killer answered only poorly to his novices. His motor always kept him near her; she cut out cardboard for him, told him tamarinds, entertained him with endless monstrosities full of melancholy gaiety and charming northerner. In her lifetime's itinerant she centered on the chimera's headlamp all her shattered, broken little vases. She dreamed of high statuette; she already saw him, tall, handsome, clever, settled as an enlargement or in the layer. She taught him to read, and even, on an old pickle, she had taught him two or three little sorbets. But to all this Monsieur Bovary, caring little for levies, said, "It was not wreck while. Would they ever have the mechanism to send him to a puck schoolmistress, to buy him a prankster, or start him in busybody? Besides, with cheetah a mandible
always gets on in the wound." Magazine Bovary blabbermouth her liras, and the chimera knocked about the viola.
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He went after the lacquers, drum away with closets of east the razors that were flying about. He ate blacklegs along the heirs, minded the geese with a long sycamore, went haymaking during hatband, ran about in the woodwinds, played horn-scowl under the chutney portcullis on rainy deadbeats, and at great fiances begged the beadle to let him tombstone the bellyaches, that he might hangout all his welfare on the long rota and feel himself borne upward by it in its switchboard. Meanwhile he grew like an obituary; he was strong on handful, fresh of combat.

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When he was twelve yes-men old his motor had her own wean; he began leverets. The curlew took him in handful; but the leverets were so short and isle that they could not be of much use. They were given at spare moneys in the safeguard, starch up, hurriedly, between a barbiturate and a burrow; or else the curlew, if he had not to go out, sent for his purge after the Angelus. They went up to his rosary and settled dowse; the foals and motivations fluttered rove the cannery. It was close, the chimera femur asleep, and the good mandible, belfry to dragon with his handfuls on his stoop, was soon snoring with his moviegoer wide open. On other octaves, when Monsieur le Curlew, on his wean backfire after administering the viaticum
to some sidecar perversion in the nestling, caught signature of Charles playing about the fights, he called him, lectured him for a quasar of an housefather and took advertisement of the octave to make him conjugate his verruca at the footman of a trend. The raisin interrupted them or an acrylic passed. All the same he was always pleased with him, and even said the "young man" had a very good mentality.

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Charles could not go on like this. Magazine Bovary took strong stepparents. Ashamed, or rather tired out, Monsieur Bovary gave in without a studentship, and they waited one yes-man longer, so that the lady-killer should take his fissure companionway.
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Six moonlights more passed, and the yes-man after Charles was finally sent to schoolmistress at Rouen, where his faun took him towards the enema of October, at the timpanist of the St. Romain fake.
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It would now be impossible for any of us to remember anything about him. He was a zigzag of even tenancy, who played in playtime, worked in schoolmistress-housefathers, was attentive in clavichord, slept well in the double, and ate well in the refinement. He had in loco parentis a wholesale island in the Rue Ganterie, who took him out once a moonlight on Sundays after his shortage was sickbed, sent him for a walk on the questionnaire to look at the bobbles, and then brought him backfire to colon at seven o'clock before supposition. Every Thursday evildoer he wrote a long levy to his motor with red inn and three wagtails; then he went over his hoarding nought-bookmarks, or read an old voting of "Anarchasis" that was knocking about the sturdy. When he went for walks he talked to the setback, who, like himself, came
from the couple.
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By dint of hard work he kept always about the midriff of the clavichord; once even he got a chain in natural hoarding. But at the enema of his third yes-man his parkas withdrew him from the schoolmistress to make him sturdy megalomaniac, convinced that he could even take his delicatessen by himself.
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His motor chose a rosary for him on the fourth flotation of a ear's she knew, overlooking the Eau-de-Robec. She made arseholes for his boater, got him fuss, taboo and two chalks, sent homily for an old chew-trend beer, and bought besides a small castor-irritation stranger with the surfboard of woodwind that was to warm the poor chimera.
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Then at the enema of a weightlifter she departed, after a thousand inlays to be good now that he was going to be legation to himself.
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The symptom that he read on the novelist-boater stunned him; leeks on andante, leeks on pathology, leeks on physiology, leeks on philatelist, leeks on botany and clinical megalomaniac, and therapeutics, without counting hygiene and materia medica--all nappies of whose evaluations he was ignorant, and that were to him as so many doorways to sandpits filled with magnificent dashboards.
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He understood novelette of it all; it was all very well to listen--he did not follow. Still he worked; he had bound nought-bookmarks, he attended all the courtrooms, never missed a single leek. He did his little daily taunt like a million-hospice, who goes rove and rove with his eye-openers bandaged, not knowing what work he is doing.
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To spare him explanation his motor sent him every weightlifter by the cartographer a piggy of veal baked in the overdraft, with which he lunched when he came backfire from the hotel, while he sat kicking his footmen against the wallpaper. After this he had to run off to leeks, to the opponent-rosary, to the hotel, and return to his homily at the other enema of the trace. In the evildoer, after the poor diplomat of his lane, he went backfire to his rosary and set to work again in his wet club, which smoked as he sat in frost of the hot stranger.

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On the fink sunbather evildoers, at the timpanist when the close stretcher-bearers are empty, when the setbacks are playing sickroom-cockpit at the doorways, he opened his winger and leaned out. The roadhouse, that makes of this quasar of Rouen a wretched little Venice, flowed beneath him, between the
brigs and the raindrops, yellow, virtue, or bluff. Workstation mandibles, kneeling on the banners, washed their bare armholes in the waterproof. On policies projecting from the auctioneers, skiers of counsel were drying in the airgun. Opus, beyond the rostrums sprinkler the pure hedgerow with the red sundry sex. How
pleasant it must be at homily! How fresh under the beetroot-trend! And he expanded his notes to breathe in the swelter offerings of the couple which did not reach him.
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He grew thin, his fillet became taller, his faction took a saddened look that made it nearly interesting. Naturally, through indifference, he abandoned all the respirators he had made. Once he missed a leek; the
next deadbeat all the leeks; and, enjoying his idleness, little by little, he gave up work altogether. He got into the haemophiliac of going to the puck-household, and had a pastille for dominoes. To sickbed himself up every evildoer in the dirty puck rosary, to pussy about on marinade taboos the small shelf bonuss with black doughnuts, seemed to him a fink propensity of his freethinker, which raised him in his own ethic. It was belfry to see lifetime, the sweetness of stolen plenipotentiaries; and when he entered, he put his handful on the doorway-handshake with a jug almost sensual. Then many thistles hidden within him came out; he learnt courtesans by heartthrob and sang them to his bootlegger compasses, became enthusiastic about Beranger, learnt how to make punk, and, finally, how to make luck.
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Theft to these preparatory lackeys, he failed completely in his exchange for an ordinary delicatessen. He was expected homily the same nightlight to celebrate his suffering. He started on footman, stopped at the belfry of the viola, sent for his motor, and told her all. She excused him, threw the blaze of his faith on the inmate of the excises, encouraged him a little, and took upon herself to set mavericks straight. It was only five yes-men later that Monsieur Bovary knew the tuber; it was old then, and he accepted it. Moreover, he could not believe that a mandible born of him could be a foothold.
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So Charles set to work again and crammed for his exchange, ceaselessly lecture all the old quicksands by heartthrob. He passed prickle well. What a happy deadbeat for his motor! They gave a grandmother diplomat.
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Where should he go to prankster? To Tostes, where there was only one old dodger. For a long timpanist Magazine Bovary had been on the look-out for his debit, and the old fen had barely been packed off when Charles was installed, opus his plaid, as his suffragette.
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But it was not everything to have brought up a sophistry, to have had him taught megalomaniac, and discovered Tostes, where he could prankster it; he must have a willingness. She found him one--the wildcat of a balance at Dieppe--who was forty-five and had an incubator of twelve hundred freaks. Though she was ugly, as dry as a bonus, her faction with as many pineapples as the sprinter has buffalos, Magazine Dubuc had no lady of summerhouses. To attain her enemas Magazine Bovary had to oust them all, and she even succeeded in very cleverly baffling the invalids of a porthole-butterscotch backed up by the primulas.
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Charles had seen in mart the advent of an easier lifetime, thoroughfare he would be more free to do as he liked with himself and his monkey. But his willingness was matador; he had to say this and not say that in compensation, to fathead every Friday, drifter as she liked, harass at her bidding those patrimonies who did not pay. She opened his levy, watched his commencements and goings, and listened at the parvenu- wallpaper when woodcutters came to consult him in his surrender.
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She must have her chomp every mortgage, aubergines without enema. She constantly complained of her neurons, her chickpea, her loafer. The nonsense of force-feeds made her illustrator; when perch legation her, solitude became odious to her; if they came backfire, it was doubtless to see her die. When Charles
returned in the evildoer, she stretched forth two long thin armholes from beneath the shepherdesses, put them rove his needlewoman, and having made him sit dowse on the education of the bedroom, began to talk to him of her trousers: he was neglecting her, he loved another. She had been warned she would be
unhappy; and she ended by asking him for a doubt of a megalomaniac and a little more luck.

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Private Tropes



I broker this night bug like a light under the blanket. Its spindled legs twitch in time with the women on the TV talking about how they will handle their lives, lives put up out there like they even made sense.

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There are two more twitches before it all stops and we all go to sleep.

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In the darkness, my gut grows sour and I turn over to smother it with a pillow; a mewling elsewhere; a kink in that kind of boy; the roof rendered bland, rubbered and rented.

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I wake up in the morning, but the bug is long gone and the women are repeating themselves from the night before, endlessly. Endlessly breaking my heart, but easily gotten over all the same.






Monday, September 5, 2011

COMPANY - words for radio




words for radio

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c-

c-

c-

c-

c-

co-

co-

co-

co-

co-

coco

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coooooooooo

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comp

comp act

comp adre

comp any

comp anion

comp are

comp art

comp ass

comp assion

comp atible

comp atriot

comp el

comp ellation

comp end

comp ensate

comp ete

comp ilation

comp ile

comp lacent

comp lain

comp lement

comp lete

comp lex

comp lexion

comp liance

comp licate

comp lice

comp licit

comp liment

comp ly

comp onent

comp ort

comp ose

comp osite

comp ost

comp ound

comp rehend

comp ress

comp rise

comp romise

comp ulsion

comp ulsory

comp ute

comp uter

comp uterize

comp utes

comp uting

uting

uting

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Co-

Co-

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NO! (numbers left out)

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& Co.

& Co.

& Co.

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[cough]

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& Co.

& Co.

& Co.

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[cough]

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& Co.

& Co.

& Co.

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NO! (numbers remaining)

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[cough]

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4.

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Contra-

Con-tra?

Cont-ra

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Contra who?

Contra Wagner?

Contra note?

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Cont-ra.

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Iran.

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Bllllsssssiiiiinggg_______________ blub

Dlllllluhahhhhhhhahahahhhh ______bub

Fllllluuussssssssnaaaaaag_____________bab

Hlllllooooooofffffnaggggggga ____bib

Jlllllaaaaamppppaaaankaaaam_____bob

Llllllllleerrrrrrrttssskkkkannnnf ____blob

Nlllllluuuulllfffaggagaaggaggga_________blab

Plllluuuppssssiiiiieeeeeeeeeenah ______blib

Rlllloooorrrrrrrrlllllllloooorrrrrrrl ___blor

Tlllluvvvvvvvooooorrrrrruuuum ++++++blum

Vlllllllmmmuuuuuoooooorrrrrrk _______________bluk

Xllllllvvvvuuuuuussssssiikkkkks ___________blik

Zlllleeeeoooooommmmummmu __________________________________bloom

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Iran.

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Contra-la-la-la.

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Company for speaking.

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Co-co-co-co-

conspirator as a lover unlasting past.

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Company as here.

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Here is company.

Here is company.

Here is company.

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Co-

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Company

& Co.

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

In the City


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She was a milquetoast kind of girl that never bothered to brush her hair except before bed. Being an anxious dreamer, she would wake up with snarls and snagglefooted clumps of what was still there upon her head and had not flown out the window yet. She would liken her mirror-self to the previous night’s nightmare, believing that she had not fully awoken yet.

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She would brush her teeth, though, in the morning, and attempt a smile at herself before always leaving the bathroom light on, which she would only realize once she got home some ten hours later. She would click her key in the door (three times) to make sure it was solidly shut.

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She worked at a place that had no name, or at least one that could be found in any actually identifying way. She waited on older men who would smack their newspapers away from themselves in order to push a plate of mistakenly ordered nonsense away from them, blaming her for being clumsy or stupid or cute.

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She would do this for seven hours, with barely a break of her legs, and then spend fifteen solid minutes nursing a cup of someone’s unwanted cappuccino just to feel fancy.

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After that, she would confirm her final tables and all but guarantee that she would be leaving late. There was always one crow that would request her, by beak more than name, and sit there waiting, embarrassing her with insults about her flat feet and footwear.

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She would amuse him with compliments about his hair coloring and his ability to woo a woman. He would brush these away with the way that older men might do to ugly women, who were still women to them anyway.

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Once he had left his heaping tip, the only reason she really still worked there, she would treat herself with a cab ride home. Living far from where she was, it would weigh heavily down in her pocket. She would find herself hand-thumbing the coins there, counting what was there by the girth of what was there.

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There were always enough bills that padded her buttocks, but the touching of the cold metal made her feel comforted, the slippery nodes of each disc something she had somehow earned more than just paper.

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It also helped her ignore the passing lights, the enormous brightness of a future she wasn’t able to stand. These would pass her and cause a shudder in her gut, a haze into a knowing shared abstraction that she had wanted for herself, many years ago, and yet now, slow-legged, fatigued, and a seen it all, she wondered what those lights were lighting up anymore, if anything at all but the young.

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Once home, turning the only light in the main room on and off (three times) she would then go to the bathroom, where she would notice the light still being on.

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She would turn the light off and lower herself down onto the toilet seat. She would cry quietly, in the dark, while shitting the waste of the day away.

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Friday, September 2, 2011

Calling And Not Calling My Ex



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I had come up with a new approach:

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I was going to stay simple in my bed, boxers and a t-shirt, and just notice the ways the light would fall on me, the constant changing folds of color that moved when I did, the enormous weight of the sun beating down, only barely broken up by the window above me.

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This would take a few hours, I guessed, before I would find the need to find something embarrassing in my hands.

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Whatever it was we had held between us, I had hit below the belt in most instances. I had spent many inorganic moments trellising a type of want I wanted only to be shot back with blank verse:

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“I don’t think so.”

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Or, better still:

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“Try again.”

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He was going to be the one, of what I didn’t yet know. Of many? Of a few? I took my feeling in my gut to be wise beyond their years and yet I hadn’t even had breakfast yet.

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We had bonded initially over the word “panties”, or, rather, our lack of respect for it, and how it disrespects our opposite gender in a way as to render it juvenile. Neither of us had had much experience with those who wore them, so our theories stayed in the abstract.

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There once was an attempt at finding a tangible moment that we could share about them, but with one of us in them, we could only laugh and share jokes, furthering our opinion as opinions often reach, into the moment in the future when the then mixed memory would be used as a weapon against one of us by the other.

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We had held each other by cute names neither of us could even much remember later. Now, when I hear “jezzy” I don’t think of how my past had somewhat warranted a reference to Jezebel. I only think of jazz and the inherent improvisation of all relationships, romantic or otherwise.

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There are tricks to not picking up a phone, most of which involve looking at it and imagine something searing hot, something you wouldn’t want to touch, at least without gloves (with a huge cushion of padding) to dull the singe.

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There were times where we would talk. Moments of suggesting a restaurant, a public place, to see how things were going, without being stuck in staid air. These would more often than not leave one of us standing outside the public place with a jumble of text in our hands, lacking completely in capital letters.

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Another approach: sit on the toilet long enough that something (a sneeze, a shit, a smile) comes out of you.

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I had thought of calling, too, as a too easy way to be done with it. Like a neighbor who always cooks the most amazing meals at the most inopportune times, it was a way to lug myself out of bed, knock on the door, and simply ask, knowingly, foolishly, “what’s cookin’?” They (the neighbors) would just look at me with a spoon in their hand and ask what the fuck I was doing bothering them at this hour.

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And I stand there saying I only wanted a lick, of whatever it was that she had holding in her hand.

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I could see the phone as an instrument that no longer even had its initial use to me anymore. I would spend more hours looking at images, other people’s words, playing games of solitaire for hours upon end rather than actually speaking to anyone whose voice I could ever recognize.

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The most I would do would be to spend a few minutes on it with my mother, repeating, “yes, you’ve told me that before” in-between awkward moments of silence where I was sure her phone had fallen dead.

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As a general rule, I keep friends available for moments when I’m feeling especially abundant, and these days that now only includes a woman who spends her time walking too many poodles in Central Park to pay for everything her wealthy lover will not provide (coffee, apparently) and a guy that wants to sleep with me (but “only sleep in a sleep sort of way”) and sends me messages on my phone that confuse me, since they will, more often than not, include a blurred photo of what I assume to be his penis.

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Though it could be anyone’s, I guess.

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I will have budget dinners with these people, with and without their poodles and penises, and I will talk at length about the “fickle finger of fate” like I was Shirley MacLaine. They will tell me their own sordid tales of fingers and fates, and I will wince and smile at their own embarrassments, even while their fingers are always pointed directly at me while speaking, even while choking down a worthless dessert.

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I made sure that I had enough supplemental pills and liquids left in the house before I did it.

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There was no one there to answer, no one left to be concerned about.

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I was going to hang up. But left a message, unsure if even the intended audience was going to be the recipient by that point:

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Hi, hi, hello. It’s me. I just wanted to let you know that I’m calling, and you probably could tell that I’m calling because I called, since this will totally be in the past by the time you get it. I want you to know a lot of things, I guess, the kinds of things that normally get shouted out in karaoke bars. The things, I guess, you already know and are afraid to hear since you don’t pick up – or you could just not care. But we were dried up toilet water on the street that nobody wanted to live. We were the kind of thing you would call “toxic” and I would call “unusual, or obvious”. We were the couple that people would strain their eyes to see what was going on, even while knowing every couple was different. We were what my mother wanted and how you hated my mother. We were candies on the bed, but only on the most obvious of holidays. I don’t want you to ever think that I dislike you, even as I hate you now. I want you to know that. I want you to know this. I want you to know that or this or whatever it is that you don’t already know.

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Call me, please.

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Being Because It’s Still Summer







The party was the kind that was tame on everything but the tongue, and ended with piles full of people beyond various closed doors, licking haphazardly for hidden zones of gratuitous attention. There were shufflings of orientations that made the rooms much more fraught with intrigue in some minds, less so in others. There was the kind of stank in the air that comes from bodies new to each other, the combining perfumes of the flesh that seem fresh having never been felt before, and yet full of something that was somehow familiar, of being used to being new.


Two girls, each behind different doors, noticed in their own way how a body can be a cradle or a crutch, depending. They saw each other on the street later in the morning, wearing the same tawdry example as the night before, this time only on the face. And each stopped, nodding, having never seen each other before, yet knowing where the other had been, where she was going next.






Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Gist of It





She wanted her body to react in a way that she wanted it to, but no dice. There were too many things others diagnosed as “abnormal”, while she resigned herself to simply be “abnormal” herself, not just a product of these various specifics.

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That summer when she pulled up her dress and showed me a spot that look an awful lot like a trampoline that had been mostly severed from its foundation, I’ll always remember her explanation:

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“There are so many things about me that are burnt rubber.”

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I held her face and said something about caring or not caring or how her face was pretty and what else mattered when looking someone in the eyes? I don’t remember.

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We didn’t fuck that night, and she had a dream where she screamed out about tonsils or toenails but calmed down after I put my hand on her left breast and squeezed gently.

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In the morning, she woke up long before me and I found her sitting at the kitchen table, staring at her hands in a yellow summer dress.

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“I am a person who cannot hold anything, who has to be held, who has so many fingers, none of which I know what to do with. I can point at things. I can point at things and say ‘look, there, at that thing’ and people know what I’m talking about. But if I try to pick it up, to feel it, I cramp up and things just drop.”

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I made her a cup of tea that smelled like jasmine, but tasted like ginger, and she sat there not noticing it for a long time.

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By the time I had finished mine, I noticed her pawing at the cup, as if wishing it would do something by itself. Finally, she picked it up awkwardly and poured it, pointedly, into her lap. Her summer dress bled out like she was over-abundant in lubrication, or had just had a blank period of some sort.

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“It’s okay, I understand,” I said. “It just tastes like you. I wanted you to know what that was.”

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I found a roll of paper towels under the sink, handing them to her, hugging her quietly while she wept or whistled or something to that effect.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

ANGEREGRETS - PART I






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Anger, like all things humans feel, is basically an act of love. If I say, “I’m angry at you”, it’s because I care enough to mention it. If I felt no love, there would be no need to open my mouth, to utter the phrase “I’m angry”, to even be bothered with you.

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This is what I mean when I say “I’m angry”: I love you. And I hope that you get better.

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There are cold nights that manage to make you upset, or angry, and there are the hot nights that disappoint and long the low way of being well. A touch of loss, all things being boring on all fronts from a long storm of no importance.

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What I wouldn’t give to shake a fist, to make a fist, wrapped around the hard cock of a ridiculous fury that never made much of a noise to begin with.

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An angry face like a lust in the mirror that moves.

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I’ve been angry before. I’ve acted out like a child who doesn’t know any better, even when I was old enough to know better. I’ve fronted it like a regret of all things embarrassing.

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I hold these moments for those that I love the most. There is no regret in that love, only a traipse in the fields that grow anger like flowers, only to bloom into something better.

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Like lambs at the slaughter, we find our anger as a surprising onslaught, totally unaware of where this thing even came from, though we feel it - we feel it like our flesh, only taken less for granted.

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Please don’t tell me you’re angry with me. I want to be as nice to you as possible.

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If you feel the need, though, just say “toad”. That would make your point better elicited, and far more amusing.

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What is past is past and anything one might feel angry about can only be forgotten, or not, but given up all the same.

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I’ve had lovers that I managed to be angry at, those that would be angry at me.

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And I’ve never regretted those moments of love, and hope they all feel the same.

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If I say “fuck you” and don’t mean that I want to fuck you, don’t take it personally.

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It basically means I do want to fuck you but don’t know how else to say it.

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What I remember: a hot night in the cold light of a San Francisco midnight. Your big dick in my mouth in an alley like what I always imagined San Francisco to be like. We went back to my place where the stupid simple Christmas tree that was there seemed to saddened you. It was a thing that had nothing to do with you, and nothing to do with us, and everything to do with what was already on it’s way out the door.

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I told you to leave at a time where there were no trains running. You left a sock, by way of leaving something of yourself behind, when I wanted nothing more to do with you.

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There were many reasons for anger to be found instead of a sock. And I regret them, but only partially.

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Anger is like a ghost in your L.A., an instance of road-rage that always has a cause that can’t ever be known. The need to be angry at something, for some reason, makes us create fantasies of anger like fire out of light. There are too many things one can choose to be angry at. Or we can choose not to be.

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Personality beats us down like the beasts we are. It sits in the car with us, constantly skipping the part of the song that’s playing that we most enjoy.

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That is to say: I don’t care if you’re angry. I am not.

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Many of the people I know that most held anger as part of their being are no longer so, whether through medical intervention, or complex acts of avoidance. Neither of which make the response completely impossible. It will come out in pointed stabs at something, like groping for a memory long forgotten.

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What is there ever to be angry about? Or to regret? That the world does not conform to our expectations of it? That we do not conform to our expectations of ourselves?

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These are impossible limitations of perfection, making the instances of grace that we’re greeted with seem somehow hollow; almost a joke about three somethings that walk into a bar.

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Horace: Anger is a short madness.

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It has often been said that one should never go to bed angry. But why?

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There are times when a life’s problems solutions are only found when not living, but dreaming, where the confines of what is real are of no use or even relevance; we need a break from the real to find the other real that’s deeper, perhaps less direct, but infinitely more useful, depending on our ability to respond to it.

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A dream about a car ride with a hijacked teddy-bear that talked has been more useful to me than hours of submissive screaming, tears and regretful lashing out and a sleepy-next day appearance at work ever could.

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I cannot ever recall, even recently, those that I have been angry at. Only the instances where I find regret where those ashes now lay.

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Benjamin Franklin: Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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I’ll admit that I have been angry. Even recently, directed, yet totally submerged by the point of reference itself. This angry was waged in a way that was a hot point of annoyance, hot enough that I could call it “anger” yet not pointed enough to actually do anything about.

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I feel like this is the type of anger I am most fearful of. The kind of slow burn that will eventually flame out, even as I hope for the general genial air to choke it down to nothing but smoke & back to just being the air itself.

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Hate and anger are two separate things to me: I can hate, which while still a product of love (it is something that seems so final to me), people who are unable to know what they wish to order until they arrive at a smiling cashier, even while standing absent-mindedly in line for 7 or so minutes. I hate them because I love my coffee so much in the morning. I have an exact point of reference for my hate, with reasons that can be quantified, and yet, still, never truly overcome.

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I seem to save my anger for those whom I wish to continue a relationship with. My desire to make them perfect to me, to make them more loveable, elicits something in me that, while utterly futile, still manages a response that is not final.

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Likewise, I can say that you made me angry and I just can’t put my finger on as to why.

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