SPEECH PRODUCTION: Themes and Variations

exhibit exhibition ribbons vandals the ribbons of vandals, the vandals of ribbon, scissors of ribbon, ribbons of scandal sculpture of ribbons or strips strippers strip clubs exhibitions: temporary inhibitions, my semblables: collective guilt: don’t leave your filthy shirt, your own fifty-yard line. What would be the motive in that “kind of temporary performance”? (Christo & Jeanne-Claude) quote quotation quit quoting quit it unscripted quoted unscripted quote script? script quote Why do I like it under the trees in autumn when everything is half dead? Why would I like the word moving like a cripple among the leaves and why would I like to repeat the words without meaning? physics physical physicist metaphysical physicist (string theorist) psychoactive physicists psychotic episode Sonata: a musical composition in contrasted movements constellation stardust nuclear glow train, Yucca, Nevada rotate the exhaust on second thought Did you make that: the sheep, yarn, afghan? birds, feathers, pillows, bookshelves, (trees, nails etc.) the books on them, the slides (yes), their glass mounts, tray, projector? lamps, record player, records (vinyl!), occasional tables, desk, chair, papers? their colors and weights, sizes, like that candy wrapper? notes (perhaps), postcards, newspapers, my cane, myself? Negt & Kluge Sappho Borges Cortázar Pindar Bavcar or Bavchar? What does the little inverted circumflex over the c do? to be at music beyond waterlily lake at the level of local language this means ours geophysical pelagic Petulant pixies had completely rearranged the living room. Stand here more or less. Lessness. We can put it like this: petulant lover identified with her. Or over-identified with her. sixties seventies thirties forties fifties unattended, an original a small wreath of acacias sky of the sun or light of the sky “that lies behind the sun” (Dante) Frosted Flakes, the biggest box you ever saw! Let’s ramble, muskrats! The rooftop oxygen gets right into my room! “Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind cannot bear very much reality. ” (T.S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton”) She finished the painting of the little girl, washed her hands—like today it was warm, sunny, celebratory—got the call, elation, first of all, for his sake. Rascasse:scorpion fish, used in bouillabaisse scorpions scabies scrapies prions scrapie prions prion protein floating in the unbroken air silent trade citrus, columbus, chaplet: wreath, as of flowers worn on the head curly haired, the rent went up when his temper went up books lying open to the sun like speckled trout Feb.3, a quiet day Richard Winslow wrote music for Endgame. Twenty-seven is the age when Jules Laforgue died. “Garcia Lorca stole /poetry from this drinking fountain” (Robert Duncan, Caesar’s Gate) as for the classical idea of spice he thought if you sneezed, he would say: bless you he would say: thank you he would say: gesundheit sweet flag: calamus very cloudy: books flying up to the sun you, little cloud of more than human form, setting fire in back of the brain interface interfaith the notes he took down yesterday came out to the left and right: no, no, no not a class, just people each other accent: “a superior force of voice or of articulative effort, upon some particular syllable.” (Webster’s Dictionary, in Saintsbury’s Manual of English Prosody) Getting ready for the Bay-to-Breakers, Bay-to-Breakers, Bay-to-Breakers. quiet violence preoccupied hot & spicy chutney, peppers with the stuffed duck the sea breeze maybe once a month south of the park South Beach the South End southern intonation, not a phrase, her articulation, speech production, imagine there was an eclipse “I swan” quoth Paul Blackburn in “Sirventes” sitting on the railroad tracks wireless violets voice, voices “one loves only form and form only comes into existence when the thing is born” (Olson, “I, Maximus of Gloucester to You”) for all intents and purposes I has slippage: forthwith, the body can never recede “Exchequering from piebald fiscs unkeyed” (“The Comedian as Letter C,” Wallace Stevens) slip slippage slam slam dunk apples, to Syria, from the Golan heights pitch the woo, Jack Jesse and J.J. Bill, who was J.J. anyway?

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