Thank you VERYmuch L
On 8 October 2014 21:05, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A kind of nominative horror is what I take away from this, Lawrence. A
> naming of.
>
> A story I don't quite follow hidden therein..., each part of which holds my
> attention.
>
> Doug
>
> On Oct 8, 2014, at 4:09 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Flesh cut back to bricks, numbers predominate. Lettering persists but
> > conveys no nouns or verbs
> >
> > a few almost exclamations, no more.
> >
> > The integers endure, all lacking objects, hanging adjectival by
> suggestion.
> >
> > In due time, they pupate into substantives. One four seven nought nine.
> >
> > Arteries throb. Desires scream. Nineteen twenty-seven forty-five. He must
> > die.
> >
> > An exploratory tool digs into the salt-laden mortar.
> >
> > He cannot bear it. He has died; an ejaculation of agony, and all the
> > apparatus dry so that pain rebounds. Each bearing scatters at high
> > velocity; and the pain returns, its echo and memory rolling round in
> blood
> > jamming.
> >
> > More than agony explores and remakes itself automatically, something
> > useless spun on a wheel under someone else's fingers being made useful
> from
> > their point of view, a thing made other than it is by force.
> >
> > A branch stripped of its leaves.
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> that we are only
> as we find out we are
>
> Charles Olson
>
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