Quantum (2000)
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RHETORICS
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FLA YED INTENSITY: the time oftelling (a skin peels off), an illusory surface film, coherent for an instant. *
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,1ches III livingjlcsh
punctum
A TIME mAT WAS TOLD.
The granularity of language, porous WIth temporal zones ,md latent spaces, connects each verbal chunk to taproot sources. This
FROZE MOMENTS
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WHEN I SPEED t LIGHT FASTER I NOW
clumsy geometry of meaning relations, an archaic family tree, inbred and outward bound, spreads the seed of well-intentioned
syntax over the moist ground of recollected sense. The gelatin of mutable prose flexes its muscular metaphors, migrating meaning
through the fabric of letter and line. Awkward calesthenics. Words stink, redolent with associative tendencies and all their
LAST YEAR's CONFIGURATIONS
LOCKED INTO
GENTLY \\ n re
complex social histories packed into little handbags of convenient behavior. Bit-mapped onto the vast prairie spaces,
in trails and wild tracings, the morphemic devils unleash their odiferous archives to the eager air. Earthly repositories
link to any shining vocal point visible in the surface of this page, its living network throbbing with unspent erotic
drive, exciting the blood in its veins. Visit the places where meaning is actually made, inside the corners of our eyes,
p. de th m . In Jr ( I
to capture the magnetic energies like damp files
to urge a gentle rearrangment of new prioritie~
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ANCIENT EXCEP1IONS
AMONG
the exile stones o~ ... REASON
r .,....,...
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deviant future d pol t ,ld compromised faith
watching us from within. Inside out, we make the world through the parsing of signs and signals, an inhalation and
exhaling of the pulsions driven by appetites that scrape our sentient flesh bare so that it may encounter its own passionate
innocence by surprise. Invented daylight, once manufactured, is now out-sourced. Hard rock headlines of
ONCE in FREE FALL
outv.ard towards the ;harp [,lee ( STARS
who will probe the witness engine
when human features configure themselves
lurk in geologic ZONES
BATHED in DEEPLY
PREs! R \ II) ff ARS
inhabited by the quasi-primitive speech, fresh to grammar
~hron I g ·mrl dt
MILLENNIAL DUST
harsh commerce tax the soul, smearing ink on the inquiring mind as it rubs against the glass. Offshore diction, once
scorned, now twice wary, drills into material facts. Molecular mothering hangs suspended between original syntax
and future semantics. Family history, translated into flesh, cries out in real pain. Before now genetic vocabularies
divided into tributaries. The dialect of singular identities frays out in a capillary fan, reaching into northern swamps
pomt; ot referen( e, onle part of a pocket "Y ~tem
turn
YEARS HENCE RECYCLED
waiting for a call back
surreptitiously, until they crack like so many silicon acorns
as deeper STRATA of improbabh. pasts
get truck open along a worri(d "ein ()rigir MOMENTS
passeu u u ~1l 11
an e a liar t
EONS of FINE TALCUM
GRAINS
and peasant cultures. Robustness of copy, shot through with its own awarenesses, detects a single rotting thread
ready to unravel the tensile grammar. Standing points measure each phrase against another, without judgment, holding
the dross text and crystal in indifferent turn. Fate is the dimmest of decrees, merely incidental, a naked newborn,
mewling in gutteral, utterly unable to fend for itself. We save it, wanting something to rewrite in the name of family
to rec,tlculate our POEMS nil the) ,)treak
meles') ir.form,ltion like J. trail SPUME
EVEN SERENI)IPITC)USLY
beneath the imprinting trace
Richer 0 REand outworn
tensions rose into burst effluvia
OF OUR LIVES real a~ carbon
POWDERING the FRONT PAGE
but the actions of the planets happen independently, so that cause is the merest freak of reading, a monumental coincidence
of sometimes repetitive activity in an arbitrarily framed clause. Illusions of reliable order are products of a
too-grammatical ennui. The universe also tires of coping with continual invention. The exceptional solutions get away
Corrupt TEXT files its own claims
through one KAPIl) FIRE generation after another
OUTCOMES remain elul)ive.
Even INDf TE RMI ATF .
DESTINY predict~ itself, smug as cake, but the influenn.
of
shared code-clones will empathetically divine their links
1 RASI I (AN of HIST()RY burst
into so many jism STRE AMS
Speak MEMORY,
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t sil I l t p t o nl'lJ1 l (q J t
KEYBOARDS
TURBULENCE ERUPTED in the SHARDS COMPACTED around an HISTORIC DATE
with glib editorial murder, slipping off on greased lightning as if they could escape notice. Uncodified and ritualistically
available, the unsystematic rains drop their random patterns onto the parched surface of the brain, giving rise
to a writing so arcane its very alphabet replaces one glyph with another in the act of being born. Not for the sake
of novelty, but for the purpose of unlimited recounting. How many sets of books do we have in the current archive?
while fragile sources of desire push us to erotic limits
of shared WIRING too intimate
for LANGUAGE
SEND a POSTCARD towards an unimaginable future
COORDINA
TES in !>pite vf it') random a( c .,s attitude
bitmapped against the far flung grid
STOLEN MOMENTS
(th.lt cliche)
t mp )ra1 tor clo.... ure ()SSIFIEI)
RAC]S and BONES
() UTD ATED mortgages anchored
BASTARD TRADES
reluctantly
to their calendrical moorings.
11 b ut
n l U (Pflf RISING HEADLINES, I fUll J(fl BEGINNING ENDPOINTS 11 FINITUDES
Infinitely specific, highly particular, the immoderate modes of quantum poetics expose incarnate readings of their
ever differentiating selves. Temporal tongues, swift as those mythic messengers, permanent as smoke on the loyal
air, leave their written record etched in the space that arcs between the city of knowledge and the pastoral reaches
rubbing up against outrageous fortune
the expansive rush
EVENT WINDOWS
'dcn tt'in t h h '11 tt {d rc \\ 'D.lt more
n rrot( l b rna, un old bd rt. our t t'
VERITIES
OU"rCOMES
fk{ and
hypervemil.lte at celt. rate
l nuse MECHANISMS )ng fall )w
too 1.atent lOr rc\ 1\ al C()MPRESSEI)
EVII)ENCE
the particles of
early explosions
FILTERED through a seepage bed
of ONE III M~!\; TRFT( H of TI\IF
of imaginary culture. A popular artifice, dearest text, takes everything to heart and mind. The writhing inscriptions
keep their dogged faith alive in the letters, seeming like fixed fragments, but really soft as cheese on a relative scale.
Light inhabits us in its embrace, passing through our mutual paraphrase of matter and matters. Noise is nonsense, a
happy patter, physical in the last detail, in the intervals left open by the travelling illumination. A horizon of missed
promise to cure culpability
and dazzle the becoming
OF lp
(reaSIng l PROPENSITY
PROGRAMSl us APP ATUS
HI P (. (
tov. ards the as" mptot{ of our clumsih em rgent understanding
PROFOUND d th TRIVIAL
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PETROGLYPHS d nhl( tler 1 S "Itt t-' FIGURES
'T' r 1;' '1"'( T
publicly broke highly distilled sweat,
like bitters, onto their brows and out from the thick furrows,
leaving the dry between its well-worn )ARD~
opportunities fractures coherence nicely. The backdrop illusion of here and how, now and wherefore, lifts semantics
from the pulsing mutability of complex parallel processes. Passing this face off as real, the multifacted parcel post
delivery system of meme packets takes up residence one lexical unit at a time. Impoverished bibliographic procedures,
UTURE
Come this way, you
outstrip the regular sequences into which
mere mortals had been mired
'in man, v; in~ed curcuit'i
TAKE FLIGHT
using small hooks of specific information to LAUNCH
smoke trails I)FTA s
precipitates of sense, old droppings, vamshed LIES
11 '[ I U' fF RRAIN
between minerals and life
U[ LEGACY p) J i 1 t LIGill th SEABED ub t'v
far less articulate than the birds whose sonic stabs pierce the fabric of late afternoon, to stake their linguistic claim.
Outmoded aesthetic effects sustain only the merest interpretive system, inadequate to the task of telling us how to
speak the culture of things across the surface of recursive grammars. Recovering the structural architecture of thought
is hardly an archaeologists dream anymore, since all the logicians have been put out to pasture, necks bent in obedience
se" era: du·el tioG!> at on(
OPEN p vf INEVITABILITY
countering the awful Stn!>e
shall we balance imperfectly 0.. the DG of our
OUTLOOK FRAMES
EMOTIONS Nl:nt outh,
~our,
hghth SOILED
m whatever could be captured
r Ie SEEPAGE ) a ru tul 01 l11Ctllf)h 1,le l r )1 s fOR
the sake of posterity
EXPLOITATION, the OVERTURNED FIELD, staked and CLAIMED a RECKLESS ABANDOMENT of nostalgic SEASONAL CYCLES
to their appetites. No story is the same as we remember. Or, to put it another, mild, way, we are ourselves the unreliable
suffering witnesses to our own repeated testimony under rapid execution. Fools rush and spell-check replaces
the standard formats, cutting across vocabulary lines with adolescent abandon. A copier fast as fumes, races through
speeding up,
a handful of T:LOCrry 0 PTI 0 ... T transect
the submissive sky
light years tremble, inept at finding their way with the blind
TRAJECTORIES
aVv kwardl} SIMULATED humanity
OPPORTl ITY
Non-navigable paths pulse freely, eager to escape their usual definitions
fraught with molecular EXPLOSIONS that stretch unmapped toward an outer
galaxy with innovative adverbial posture
FEAR TREMBLING
trapped (rubble wIthout a t..1Use) ECHOES
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INERT
t I
UNPARDONABLE tl..} lit II MOONS
as in the SWIFT DEATH
ot
an afternoon they found
the files. The disjunct between delivery and destination, a sub-directory re-route, opens a gap in the discourse field
big enough to stick a fist in. Such is our condition, destined as we are to editorial revision on all sides. Ephemeral
pleasures may mark the rising and falling of our human tides, but the moment of disappearance signals to us through
the very same flames that have haunted souls forever, still to no apparent end. Every reference passes through us, for
1 HEAVEN ban.llit\
wm t~is ,mazing HELL
as the INNOCENT account of prosody swells
and lurches,
eager to re-invent our EXPERIENCE again
glimpses of one soul to another
In
through open A MOMENT of triumphant nano-speak,
SWAC:rC-ERL l.J
ORIFICES
of COMMUNICATION
ALPHA IllusioIl
in .l crack between and
the 1 OMEGA
MYSTIC
p;eudo tribal phonetics
recollecting
ATAVISTIC
invention
better, for worse, for antique algebra and final equations. We who are I may punctuate without seeing a thing, or be
awake to the minutiae of calibrated history. Encyclopedic movements have no bearing on the wearing of words nor
on their ludic games, performing us for their amusement. The intervals we speak into call out to us in turn, answering
PURE DELIGHT
we may replace the whole natural seeming universe
with MEAGRE ALTERNATIVES
used to going under the name programmed to perform in anemic imitation
OF LIFE MESSAGES J to ou er ed lk
FUTURE t f e ~ I REVERB
MY1HIC ORIGINS
THAT WAS YESTERDAY
PARTICLES
tagged presence with marked absence, each an opportunity for invention. Anomalies abound, quick as ants, eager to
escape notice. Tightwire lines of inquiry stretch to the communicating horizon, casting a shadow that looks just like
meaning onto the ground of the page. Composition trips over its own polygot capability, preserving its heritage
within the accelerated pace of a frantic refresh rate. Here (where the universe begins and ends) is where it stops.
h rb er~ 0 a I-ghu rder
WAVES
and of
possible outcomes
leap>
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