Red Slowly

The meaning of objects in
the desert is great
but here, where everything
is grown-over
with human clusters
nothing is clear
everything is shifting,
constructed
& merely apparent.

-Tom Clark, "South Coast Epistemology," Paradise Resisted: Selected Poems 1978-1984

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It's vacillation that pleases.

-Rae Armantrout, from "Single Most," Veil: New and Selected Poems

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my name is Herman Bluewinkle

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the most innocently Oedipal rhyming couplet in pop history...

"She's got electrifying loving
that's as warm as my mother's oven."

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Before flarf, there was Bareback Donkey Riding:

I hang around in zoos.
I get withdrawal blues.
I like to go on donkey rides
and make the headline news

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But we no longer live in a world of the Mainstream and the Counterculture. We live in a world of multiple mainstreams and countless counter-, sub- and counter-sub-cultures.

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Had we known we were lambs
On the way to the slaughterhouse
We'd weep
In this floating world

- Yang Jian (trans. Wang Ping & Alex Lemon), from "Winter," New American Writing 24

the wolf howled at the flock

"it's hot as hell, this weather!"

all the sheep

took off their coats

-Yao Feng (trans. Christopher Kelen, from "The Wolf's Coming," New American Writing 24

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George and I are met upon a klieg-lit plain

and I have on my Little Bo Peep costume
while George leans on his shepherd's crook

and lambs as soft as heaps of sugar-dust
as light as new spring snow

are romping in the heavenly bright
till all I know

all that I ever need to know
is herding lambs with George Costanza.

-Rachel Loden, from "My Night with George Costanza," New American Writing #24

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grinding thousands of old tires into crumbs

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Naima Live 1965

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Let no darkness fall. On the space of missing memory. Hard is it. To fill with lemons. With children too. Just air.

And afterward as in a kind a nightmare. Desires are gathered together unto one place. And a city appears.

- Rosmarie Waldrop, Blindsight

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Constellating
Languor
Accord
Televiewer
Scrawl
Mockingbird
Negatives
Lovescars

-The Clarinets

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Electric bulb. How the words are. Suspended around you. And. Bones in the body.

- Rosmarie Waldrop, Blindsight

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Burleque Brawlers
Psych Ward Sirens
Machete Betties
Prim Reapers
The Wicked Pissahs
Trauma Queens
The Pistol Whippers
Dixie Derby Girls (great intro to site)
HoBots
Manhattan Mayhems
Vaudeville Vixens
Reservoir Dolls
Atomic Bombshells
Dagger Dolls
Broadstreet Butchers
The Candy Snipers
Throttle Rockets
Break Neck Betties
Honky Tonk Heartbreakers
Hell Marys
Saddletramps
Furious Truckstop Waitresses

- names of Women's Flat Track Roller Derby Teams

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Fossil Killer Kangaroos

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De laudibus sanctae crucis...visual poems bridged the gap

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constant hesitation happens

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First the table is the table. In blue light
or in electric light, it has no pathos.

- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, from "Texas," I Love Artists

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multiwavelength anomalous diffraction phase determination

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The fixed yellow arrowhead marks the transition from assembly to disassembly--driven movement

-PNAS webstie

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The chaperone of brittle egos, with her porous empathy cage of a body, lives like an automaton among living beings.

- Jennifer Moxley, from "The Endless Conscription," Octopus #5

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what's worth doing is worth being deluded about

- Jennifer Moxley, After Language Poetry

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I myself was a public square, a sook; through me passed words, tiny syntagms, bits of formulae, and no sentence formed.

-Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

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The Presence was spectrum-blue,
ultimate blue ray,

rare as radium

-H.D., Trilogy

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Oppressive Release
Inopportune
Progressive Aggression
The Afflicted Spirit Moves
Repugnant Yearning
Compulsory Matriarch
Hypothetical Hypocrite
Uprooted Anguish and Surface
Cinture of Claimed Indigence
Concealment of Deferred Aspiration
Plead
Motionless Pursuit Toward Optimism
Shed Degradation and Longing
Perceptive Limitation

-titles of sculptures by Kaneem Smith

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'Het Visboek' (The Fish Book)

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lights on! and chocolate milk
Defends the late triage of our distortions.

-Jordan Davis, from "Poetry and Capital," Million Poems Journal

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Death, our nation's number one killer

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Xenotype Shaded

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