I like what I think is the mix of the poet's thinking about & the advertising copy he's reacting to (whether found or constructed).
Doug
On 2013-01-30, at 12:08 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Liberty -
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> a simple word,
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> technologies of it,
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> sea stories;
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> water seepings… the name of somethingh
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> that I can't find,
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> colours…
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> no one's here -
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> as it fled, Liberty pressed against conquests.
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> Unbearable edges emerged from the undulations
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> of the encyclopaedia, images ranked.
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> Link to curb your desires. Prices will go up
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> any seafarer's brain. Breath, severance,
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> the satisfaction of inflicting pain.
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> Believe nothing else. Death
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> the museum of incredible prices.
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> The consumer is convenient,
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> informed and enjoyed,
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> a listener. The prices will
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> churn the dead.
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> Meaning is a pathway,
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> space disbanding,
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> grief without singing;
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> the body, cold now, bleeding;
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> enlightenment frailty.
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> Lose all power over the intricate present.
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Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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