SOLAR ENVY

About my curious gold sunglasses

There may be a 'flaw' in the design
Because when I happened to wear them
Outside at night
A tiny flame danced above distant lamp-posts
An orange tint, half a halo
As if to echo the envy these lights must have
For the sun
Its visual echo in negation-dynamic tension mobiles

These ironic echoes at night of the sun dancing atop lamps
They tell me something about the unconscious of envy

Above distant lamp-posts an arterial sclerosis

At night's glove the fingerprints ignite optical almonds

DUST STORM OVER THE EQUATOR

High above a beam of red light
at other mist-wrapped sore feet
a chew is enough

Light in my head
a light of glass buttons
melted heaps slither in a wormhole sahara

Heat bubbles of a dust-storm break over the equator

The oak ventriloquists' aerosol words the second halo of moon ice

MEANING THROUGH CHANCE: SUREALIST GAME

This is a surrealist game of creating meaning through chance. Take five books that are important to you in some way, make a wish while holding them, then open the top book. With as little delay as possible, select a short phrase that your eyes fall upon, then open the next book and do the same. When you have done this with all five books, start over in reverse order. Catalogue the results by placing the selected words for each book on a separate line, and break off the paragraph after the fifth line. Complete the process five or six times, or carry on as long as you like. Share the results, or not.


WILL NOT MARRY OUTSIDE ITSELF


TO JOIN THEORY WITH PRACTICE
CAUSE AN OBSERVER TO FORGET HER AGE
IF THE ‘AESTHETIC STATE’
OF HIS OWN HEAD
SHOULD HAVE NO PLACE

THE FATHER AND MOTHER
FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW
IN SO FAR AS
INTERSPERSED WITH OATHS
TO THIS SORT OF ILLUSION

THIS PENCHANT MANIFESTS ITSELF
AND ADOPT A DOCILE ATTITUDE
THE LATTER MAY BECOME FREELY ADAPTABLE TO CULTURE
BETWEEN THE TWO SCRIPTURES
THE FIRST OF THESE FACTORS

THE GREAT ACTIVITY
SHALL SEE VISIONS
TRANSFORMATION IS THE ISOLATED DEED
THE SEVENTEENTH DAY
WILL HEAR THE ORCHESTRA

PROBLEMS OF EQUILIBRIUM
A DISCUSSION WHICH COULD LEAD US FAR
AS THE ARENA
WE BECOME HIS BODY
A FEW MORE PSYCHIC PECULIARITIES

IT IS TRUE
THE ENORMOUS IMPORTANCE
WITHOUT EXTERNAL REPRESSIVE MODIFICATIONS
WOULD PERHAPS HEAR THE CALL
WILL NOT MARRY OUTSIDE ITSELF

10-07

With Fourier, Sade, Marcuse, O.Brown and Freud, in hopes of creating a harmonian cylinder

WHITE NOISE DOWSING

A few days ago I was using a computer program to generate brown, pink, and white noise for experimental sound composition. I saved a twenty second segment of white noise as a seperate file and soon listened to it turned up loud in the headphones. I made random loops out of the noise, and found a few paranoiac* statements in the mix. These were distorted, humorous and interesting phrases, spoken with curious timing in a metallic, static-filled voice. Among them were "pleasure the flesh," "please take my fleas," "write, wield the quill," and "g'mornin." I saved each voice to later play to friends, so that their own paranoiac mechanisms might be exercised. It will be interesting to see if they hear what I heard, or if some other revelation will stumble out of the rumbling texture for them.

*'Paranoiac' refers to a phrase which means 'delirium of interpretation.' This phenomena has been written about by Leonardo DaVinci, Salvador Dali, and others.

WHAT IS SURREALISM?

This link, when copied and pasted into a browser window, will take you to an article by a Swedish comrade which plays with the question "what is surrealism?' I found it a well-developed and intriguing statement which, despite its lucid quality, is still somewhat tentative. Such efforts to re-contextualize the evolving 'open system' which surrealism is have my support as important gestures against the widespread confusion and popular mediocrity that has influenced the way 'the public' uses words. Plus, it is always interesting to see surrealists and their friends put forward just what a surrealist praxis is, for them.

http://icecrawler.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-is-surrealism.html

MAY 1954

Her desire to introduce freedom does not place against its arrival external impressions of use receiving exhausted delight. To retain it, her enigmatic nature--with a bit of ribbon--may seem once more in the street, but inside things and people. Then, language is transformed into gravitations dedicated to my forehead. The hand is waiting to fall to the ground in May, 1954.

BEYOND THE WANDERING ATMOSPHERE

The human hope in favor of bias had involved them towards necessity--perhaps more spectre with whole headache theory quarter. Seductiveness remained, because the ego finds yet another function on a glass birdcage trick in logical limits' mistake beyond the very wandering atmosphere.

These difficult newspapers become exterior lanes to the torrid finger signs one may obscure in discoveries. To resist fake purpose, a curious man was widely about. Nothing intricate was seen, however, until many thousand roosting idiots issued from the smaller mouth.

Only in the visual phrase, in the absence of thinking, will the lost spool clearly be able to change the night. Forces erupt for a number of reasons, if one may speak, as interior fact attuned to contradictions guided by objective black humorists finds ferocious treats to destroy.

--Dice game played with three books, July 2007

THE COCHLEA DIMMERS

The water harp ears like a steamed cornea through blasting cap toupee. Crab pelvis solar dungeons play the dusk trumpet. The empty shapes jamboree boulders, river's tongue on sound-spoon. The cochlea dimmers humpily swoon with a wet laugh.

CHANCE DICTIONARY

These definitions were created using one translucent blue di and two dictionaries. Questions came from the first, and answers from the second, dictionary. The length of the answers were guided by the number rolled on the di.


What is marginal?
A nondescript game bird.

What is phrenology?
Druid misty in extremis enthrall cover.

What is a splint?
Floruit ram hauetur doorbell.

What is gumption?
Headgear flip flop comparitive prepossessing sperm.

What is private?
Marram grass sitar nitrite hysteric.

What's a raindrop?
Snook ordinance inflation gait.

APOSTASY GULLET

I stir the apostasy gullet with lucid morphemes

A compelling face of love's electric cartwheel dramas

Blood slums' captive stations mix cherry angles with
Radio coils under a hat of seeds

The iron-throated vesicle crumbling lead lips

A WANDERER'S HEART

A Wanderer's heart
and the open cage
are able, sometimes,
inside your eyes
at dawn
to wave myself

Remaining a dead sanctuary
in a rose among the future
executions
with red, lazy vines

A rising stone in full flight
stops untouched shoulders
from shelling rare roots
in river mushrooms

--Chance composition from Selected Poems of Li-Po, Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, and Everything You Know Is Wrong

SWARM CONTEST

The lightning open door cow wolves laugh shattering tubas with lace. The sea slithers across deserts; a whistle rises and falls like a snow pony. Straws ejaculate iron discs; love runs into gravity in a swarm contest. Heavy feet ignite sandstorms. A blanket falls over the flowerbeds. Bells eat sound empty. Open mouths lurk where a sled track disappears. It gets quiet as a dust tunnel filled with old books.

CAKE BONES

Between ears of a river and legs of a mountain,the skyline has a see-through crowd. Burnt notes crawl out ignoramuses. Statuesque ribbons percolate faintly. Tongues dance. Frenzied cake bones slump into a giant brace holding aloft the bitter galaxy. A glass bubble hangs over lenses whisking lakes away. Celebrations of musk siren out from a hollow tree's placenta dome.

ORACULE

What's my current mood?
Rainwater

What's a dance?
Pied-a-terre*

What's my secret name?
Telemetry

What is a kiss?
Voluminous



What's a penance?
Theology

A footprint?
Specific

A neighbor?
Sunshade

Oakum?
Yeast

Systole?
Felicitous

A phylum?
The Id

A tendril?
Iron oxide



What is surrealism?
Raft*

***** ***** *****

These texts were created by playing question and answer with a dictionary. A rapid scanning of the pages sometimes sparked a rapport between words and phrases. I also selected words from the dictionary and then let the dictionary 'answer.' Only the more interesting results have been recorded here.

1) Pied-a-terre, French; literally, 'foot to the ground', also a temporary or second lodging

2) After 'what is surrealism,' I added more entries by continuing to scan pages. The fourth word in the answer was 'realism.'

RELAUNCH ASLEEP

Relaunch asleep. Curity and Manatee goss, stunned particles yawning potion. Asiento gas house. You'll eat your head full of cherry trees, with a ducks' eye. Comets slash silk windows. Burning weights slip into a pool.

STORM SLIPPERS

To dance storm slippers, harangue a sun wildly during a volcano walk, and move like a steep ocean breathing out hair into the trees, in a transparent garment of force. It's enough to wing ankles. Sonar bubbles are densely clanging amid raised notes' combustion.

THE END OF THE NINES

Eventually the nines will run out and your peers will catch a train to express-way 100. Cool a baboon's heart by aimless soothing cones. Cinders' glue famish a dump of bones, life's convex mirror of blood luck.

TRANSPARENT OWLS MINISTER TO THE DANG POPPINS

Gripping cracked paint into each knee

Nine brooms weep yetis tomorrow

Seven dustpans cringe ostrich smoke

Dove throat incensed at yarrow foundries

Oaks hosting xenon rays