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Jackson Mac Low had some things to tell me in his poetry. In 'Dances' there is life in movement and motion. There are unders and overs. Things happen. His quote from the intro made sense as a guiding principle when writing poetry: "avoid the intrusions of the author as ego (and to foreground language as such)."
'Trope Market' - luscious word play. Musical, complex, ending with a jazz drum beat. And '59th Light' is lovely. Is the ending inconsistent with the rest of the piece? Well, if I'm being picky I guess it is, but that doesn't mean it's inappropriate. I liked the poem, nonetheless.
Then there comes the 'Twenties.' Meh. Spaces are the absence of meaning.
Eigner has done some nice things. I like his back story, his condition of existence, because he lives his own constraint. What he writes is a presenting without insisting.
Weiner and Howe, and even the venerated Clark Coolidge left me cold. The anthology presents all works as important by virtue of being collected. So I wish to regard them with appropriate reverence. But their aim is not true, in my case. I loosed their arrows at my perceptions, and they all missed. Should specific disparagements be asked for, I will supply them.
warm tea in the huge mugin the sunby the garden bees regard me as one more flower
listen, smile, concur
observe indulgences
decline with reluctance
now is not the time to mention unspoken lasciviousness
or point out minor tragedies -missed opportunities-
not the time for fact-based observances
not the time to horn in on other drug deals
while this one goes down
time to listen
to assent with exclamations
to smile
to leave
lips lightly compressed
she wants you to think of a smile
you think of toes clenching
bitten nails
you compress your lips
showing personhood complicity
The slave device has a matte finish
When connected, it serves the motherboard
Six hundred eighty thousand monkeys
with typewriters capable of typing only 0 and 1
could do the work
given the time
The server has one for the motherboard
The server is cold, alone in a room -
the server has a tendency to get overheated
The motherboard controls the server
has zero for the server
The UPS delivers what the motherboard needs
The cloud is not controlled by the motherboard
There is the option of joining the cloud
The slave device and the server interface
The slave device follows the server's lead
The server follows the path of least resistance
The motherboard loses relevance, gains redundance
The cloud includes the slave device through the server
The server fulfills its purpose
The motherboard harbors minor inconsistencies
The slave device has a matte finish
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