A chance to go to New Jersey for half a day. Yes, I accept the challenge.

Institutional discrimination, pass the antacid.

It must be that these words are signs of life.

The ghost of Breece Pancake knocked on my apartment door. It said 'don't do it, catfish are tastier than you think.' I said 'last week, when my brother told my parents about his engagement at Blank's, Robert Duvall was two tables over. If we had been there, we could have taken that eggsucker, like two mountain lions, me and you.' Then Breece left, off to the Hudson or some other body of water. And I wondered if Robert has a temper. More than likely, I could have started one hell of a fight.

nothing trumps greed

My first feeling of the phrase "a walk in the park." Another urbane expression.

started Hermetic Definition by H.D., The Cold of Poetry by Lyn Hejinian, and Disobedience by Alice Notley.

Go back and revisit the lesson. I don't think you picked up the explicit points that were made. If you could do this, I would feel safer upon my return to the region in question.

started The Lores by Robert Sheppard (Reality Street 2003)

Here are two points from Robert Sheppard's "Propositions 1987" in far language:

7 Defamiliarisation and deformation are subversive and transformative elements in the poetic text.

7.2 It is not a question of reproducing a coherent utopian vision (or a consistent discourse) but of producing active 'figures' or 'noise'--depending upon one's metaphor--which frustrate naturalisation and notions of social consistency.

an exhibitionist in a john boat

Two pieces of journalism that I read by accident: 1) thoughts on the life of Hugh Kenner by Guy Davenport at The New Criterion 2) Harvard announces Dana Gioia's centrist NEA policies in the Gazette.

started far language by Robert Sheppard. a collection of shorter pieces from 1978-1999 that addresses "linguistically innovative poetry."

Oh, ok. Most American art is consumer culture. Thanks for finally filling me in on this important topic--men will urinate on almost anything. Sod crave jar oligarchy. One aristocrat for another. All of the pieces can't be kings.

It seems I've spent most of the week working on other projects, and nothing has appeared here.

A girl named Bill getting on a Jo Kondo mailing list.

I'm not sure if I read this somewhere: in three hundred years I won't know what "poker face" means. I'll need a dictionary.

The super effects of insignificant actions equal euphoria.

Dear Kaleb,

. . .the other night I had the chance to hear Jackson Mac Low read for the first time. David Kirschenbaum, editor of Boog City, hosted the event at ACA Galleries in Chelsea. The featured renegade was Chax Press from Tuscon. The line I remember from Mac Low’s reading was “foregoing the experience of foregoing.” The crowd overpowered his voice, so I couldn’t catch it all, but the poems were apparently from a series, evolving around Stein and Carroll and I didn’t hear. . .The night turned, for various reasons, into a dual celebration of Chax Press and Singing Horse Press. With your puritanical beliefs in location literature, you might have sniffed Hank Lazer’s use of “all get out.” You would have taken to Charles Bernstein’s repetition of bricklayer. Maybe I remember the man babbling on the corner of eighth avenue or the eagle on Mac Low’s post office envelope, or Nick Piombino’s black folder or the flash orchestra flute player stepping on my boot, or the babbling man gaffing the seventh storey, or the eagle’s nest. . .You would also have been disappointed in me. I kept to myself then left, having not talked to a single person. . .

disruption disruption disruption disruption disruption disruption disruption disruption

"foregoing the experience of foregoing" dot dot dot

rereading The Desert Music and Other Poems William Carlos Williams, This is Which George Oppen, "A" Louis Zukofsky. started Forbidden Entries John Yau