Thanks, Candice. Though until two minutes ago, I was completely unaware of
Paul Muldoon's long poem "Yarrow". I imagine that Cage, posthumously,
would be more intrigued by the cryptographically secure pseudorandom number
generator, the "Yarrow algorithm". Barry
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:27:59 -0800, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I like this poem, particularly the allusion to Muldoon
>with "yarrow."
>
>Candice
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>--- Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> DONALD DAVIE & JOHN CAGE TALK SHOP IN HEAVEN
>>
>>
>> Structures gift ideas.
>> “You can jolt
>> aleatory ale from heaven,”
>> Donald Davie hums,
>> “You have omitted a
>> house alembic alexandrine,”
>> John Cage never went so far as to say,
>> “Damn the attractiveness!”
>>
>> Very nice lyrical deadlock.
>> We threw yarrow
>> before expecting to settle down,
>> then, under the influence,
>> actively determine what
>> we would actually design.
>> “Heaven help us--an amplified throat
>> swallowing a glass of water whilst . . . “
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