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Tracings #1

We all have opinions,
affiliations, the next opportunity.
I stay up nights increasingly brutal,
stare at the screen and sigh.
Unpostponable blows multiply openly,
words empty of social consciousness.
How often do writers think?
As the world turns,
turning and burning.
Perhaps we don't notice
the bodies piling up.
Constructing extravagant barricades,
we deserve Empire,
the disenfranchised
milling on the sidelines.
More than anything, I have failed.
At this point, expect nothing.


How to proceed through words?
So much writing because a person is a writer.
Sputter and write pain: unbearable.
Sunflowers overexposure the ear.
No words can be kind.
Dominate a cafe, perhaps.
Imagine a faraway country,
independent, misguided.
Imagine a piece of ourselves,
rich, varied, green and wet.
I desire. I am ashamed.
I worry in the night.
I worry money.
I consume my worth.
Forget the romantics,
give me heart,
fierce love poems.



Tracings #2

first section

Lend me your commonality,
strictly-speaking and finally.
Robin Hood gave a speech.


My hat is not a pear shape,
or meaning anything.
Grammar isn't viable


See what I mean?
Degeneration scares me.
I notice the mannequin
in the mental ward.


What of my public struggling
to construct eccentric grace,
catch a nice round experience,
trade knowledge to other clues.


I suspect the universe, a secret plot.
I suspect the hokey-cokey.
Assume my concern,
be prepared to stick around.


For a long time it was just
a few lines exhorting
to totally no avail —
almost anything.
Nostalgically, mangoes.
No wonder I feel so out of it.


Speaking of bad writers
(the vast clique) --
how would I know?
I am a malcontent,
the squeaky wheel.
Don't pay for the rhythm of words:
Hey-Ho, a bear claw to go.


second section

People backchannel yak-yak.
Everything to everybody --
wearisome devolved individuals
delivering specifications.
Perhaps this is just me
spending too much time
in front of a computer,
pixellated around the edges.
I sense the presence of a person
truly and carefully unremarked upon,
hungry for a login/identity.


Choose any given moment,
you are more than a tool,
a state of mind,
a third party intruder.
Reconsider the system,
inform the membership,
start a new topic,
send a cool gift.


I am writing at the cellular level,
reaction as an explosive.
I'm ripped out of context,
shuffled daily, much used --
currently with extremists
who prefer arguments.



Community Prance(ables)

I'd like to invite you
to be created,
serve approval,
develop enthusiasms,
specific interests.


The first and finite task
is the process.
The drafting committee
is discussing lesser people,
summer vacations,
instances engraved in stone.
The best questions
will be determined.


The second task is open,
for one reason or another.
Enthusiasms and concerns
differ in intensity.
Reason is also an option.
Guidelines and revisions
will depend on whether
the group is official,
tireless, acquainted,
Reminders will be broadcast.
It won't stop an idea.


Motivation behind the desire
to increase proportions
and stem the flow
of psychologically inclined
anti-use is exalted.
Disparate users reveal
themselves as second class,
befuddled outsiders impinge
on the organizers --
a small core group of people
who don't even exist!


There is need for interaction:
difficult behavior,
inappropriate decisions,
reasons to make a split,
less autocratic sense,
artificial ethos,
feeling paranoid.


Users who never reveal themselves,
the whole reason — particularly
someone who self-identifies
as having a core idea —
feel second class obligations
to the organizational entity.
There are always newcomers,
those who haven't explored
all the befuddlement.


Avenues for formation,
continuous presence,
locations and byways —
to discover and understand
the status of membership,
specific principles, or whatever,
without any endorsement,
chosen by specific functions —
no worries there.


Imagine a universe
of previous status,
confusion decided
by committee —
defined in scope
by certain words.
Envision the next
gathering of guidelines
and procedures,
submitting to a vote —
the committee
given more weight
than members.


Try to take a larger view.
Make a distinction between
procedures and approval —
nurturing multiple meanings,
a variety of volunteer opinions:
better, broader, more complete.
Clarify perceptions.
Link directions to assistance:
participants and mentors
are channels of capacity.


This is being announced.


There will be other notices.


The process continues.


Claim a core,
identify the core entity.
Feel interested
in specific matters,
personal views.
Have continuous
befuddlement!
Hang on and keep
asking questions.


Send a cool gift.




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