(via n*wspap*r dot founoun dot ca)



    "A Lay of Sickly Aims"

compulsion rooky
ominous spigot burl glint
assailing wind Hollyhock incog
group goal act

skillfullt hybrid torturing immortal
rift snarling box numb
is as apt
fill agaric roll story


111.

obsidian abyss as · I adorn lithic catacombs
infirm parasol absorb · Byzantium ash asking walls
is lithic walls adagio · forlorn group snood click

Sun and sun and sun go dark. This building holds only my fantasy of an album.


112.

Plaid Sly Jaguar I udjat · astray flaw hylic ajaja
paladin again bunch gaunt · fraying billow gulch adjoining
ajar raccoon stilb paladin · isolations still

"The aroused hurricane ere it enroughs
The earnest faces. What shall I unlock
It took so many patient months to snatch."

--G*ronimo G*ranium


"...Carlyle ( ) wrote to say that his wife had read Sordello with great interest, and wished to know whether Sordello was a man, or a city, or a book." -- G K Ch*st*rton, Browning (1903)



P*ncil R*volution. (via Blindh*it)

(via hplov*craft-fr dot com)



108.

valiant carbolic glitch · I talk snowy atrabilious
acronym Lakoffony · grinding aboulia book flop
pillars scald agglutinant sly · bildar attrition

I am not who you think.


109.

luminous runaway ambit · I unusual portal
summon as gravy runway · ingrown payroll swords fasting by
sandcoil immortal obnubilation · midrash ptyx

"Ptyx" is what conjoins string to string of a song.


110.

magic payback Yggdrasil · I scrap spiral path my abstract
gambit acrid Skipbo byblow · ago agog adios
crowbar markov rapacious ashram Bic · flick viral aspic

M*r*dith Brooks: "Candl*s in th* Rain." "Munich 15040" in: Th* Black Corridor (Moorcock).

'XXVII

I'M SCARED OF THAT STREAM,
good memory, strong sir, implacable
cruel softness. I'm afraid.
This house makes me whole well, a whole
place for this not knowing where I am.

Let's not go inside. I'm leery of this please
come back in a few minutes, over raised bridges.
I'm not approaching, sweet lord,
courageous keepsake, sad
skeleton singer.

What content, that of this spellbound building
that offers me quicksilver deaths
and plugs my drains with lead
to the dry time-being.

Stream that doesn't taste of how we're doing,
fill me with dread, with fear.
Glorious memory, I won't go near you.
Sad, blonde skeleton --hiss, hiss.'

--Trilc* tr David Smith (1973)




(via byrondavi*s dot ws)

'Hatred always turns to the past and always depends upon the past. A man who is gripped by the emotion of hatred cannot be concerned with the future, with a new life; only love turns a man towards the future, frees him from the shackles of the past, and is a means of creating a new and better life.' --Nicolas B*rdya*v, Th* Origin of Russian Communism (tr R M Fr*nch, 1937)


105.

andiron infancy adding · I frisk cobalt incognito
Xibalba onions of walking · insult icily by ranch
idyll idiocy wilt snail · agomphious wind

"Agomphious" is without a tooth.


106.

carious parasol grinch · I follow fully issuant
apparatchik parch grail jazz · assuaging worn glimflash aglint
grinch cronk winch insinuating octal · shaft sink afraid ask not glimflash aglint cronk winch
insinuating octal shaft · sink afraid gold glow

Viridian is anti midrash.


107.

talion backwards flung I · Fomalhaut undulating absurd
sandbags scraggy skidway · twilight catacombs brillig ad
assuaging sfumato glum pulp · unknown Ogpu pill

"Cronk" is a chronic honk.



D*mons. (via M*tafilt*r)


Konacki's plan*t.

(via irok* dot d*)



Civil War II.




102.

unliving angstrom flimflam · I avail ritual snarling
aground payroll ink agnition ·Tsathoggua starry frisk
bomb impult offputting black silk · impact if sly fail

"Impult" is a night vision about going shopping.


103.

faring badly frail I ink · agonistic obyism
parch odd glamour hylic off · crisp rapacious silicon cloud
filch big undulating skink carbs · against forgiving

"Hylic" is a non-Gnostic.


104.

logical form again I · scour sandstorm blindfold affair rook
crystal immortal wall ogling · gallon gibbons inconstant lift
as accruals roar gulf grail as · vaporous andiron andiron

Ludwig fighting on that front, hoping to find a particular gift.


    "Darth Shrub"

Hollyhock fishhook and soap · lost in a swamp of this word
adding andiron infancy · my singing snaps a diamond

of indigo crystal night · vision about going coil
if you want to go as far · incognito cobalt wolf

by icily Xibalba · city among frothing slag
with idiocy idyll · duration of my sand will

snaps a diamond Hollyhock · warily I follow you
rim dark flying dark acid · icily singing cargo

andiron indigo raucous · cobalt of into charcoal
lurch night immortal sandstorm · gallops accruals scarab

cryptic profound from grip iron · to frisking did lungfish turn
to frisking did wodwo wind · with a blood acid rainbow

snowman away vacuum glow · briskly away vacuum sound
you abut my spiral wall · iguana rhost my slow myrrh

"One concept essential to an understanding of ko-uta is that of iroke. One of those frustratingly untranslatable terms, iroke is written with two characters, ( )( ), one meaning 'color' (iro), the other 'feeling,' (ke or ki). Iro in this case most closely approximates the meaning of 'eroticism'--but in a milder sense than the English word conveys. Ke means something along the lines of 'character' or 'spirit.'
   ...Iroke is sensuality; it is evoked by images which appeal to the senses. It denotes attraction felt between the sexes in the passing of a glance or the swish of a trailing kimono. The essence of iroke is understatement. The minute it becomes obvious it ceases to be iroke. It is a subtle atmosphere created by the contact of two people. It cannot exist in the abstract, and it is not as blatant as 'sex appeal.' It implies intimacy in that it becomes lost in an impersonal situation.
   Some examples of iroke are: the tiny glimpse of red which lines the geisha's formal black kimono, seen against the white of the powdered nape of her neck; the sidelong glance, exchanged without a word, between a man and woman; playing the shamisen with the fingernail instead of the large ivory plectrum; the four-and-a-half-mat tatami room (yoyohan) which is just big enough for two people and a small table; the kotatsu, or quilt-covered table under which feet may be talking while faces above show no sign; one strand of hair loose in an otherwise perfect coiffure."

--Liza Dalby, Littl* Songs of th* G*isha (2000)


For a poetics of iroke (my red). A chapbook is intimacy, a singular strand dangling... Play it with your nails and not a pick.


3conomic Hit Man.


Global Warming Witch Hunt.


"...Duncan & Spicer behaved more like Godzilla & Mothra."


Khalid is out.

"Many contemplative poems--and I'm not just talking "I thought hard for us all," I'm talking much of what you find in your favorite post-post modern journals--don't feel as though they needed to be written."


Fatwa.


   "how to explain death to children

because the fearful dog wandered the fields all day and hadn’t been
neutered
and due to the fearful dog biting the owner who tried to catch him
the owner asked the neighbor to shoot the dog

the neighbor agreed but brought up the possibility of evidence
blood and brains all over the side of the house
still he consented but instead he borrowed a cage from the humane
society

for days the owner starved the dog to lure him into taking the bait
and because the humane society put down the biting unneutered
fearful dog
the dog ended up dead

how to tell the children
who thought the dog was being sent away to find a newer and better
home
(what home could be better?) (wouldn’t he miss them badly?)

they asked their parents whether someone might have already
adopted their dog
and wouldn’t the dog be even more afraid in a new house with new
people
and if no one had chosen the dog yet could they have him back

when the parents asked the neighbor to tell the children the dog died
the neighbor agreed to go to the humane society to try and adopt the
dog
but he found no dog that answered and told the children that"

--Carol P*t*rs



Puzzling link. Oh.

98.

snail undulating railgun · I flick ruinous an idiot
lurch planlingvoj waspish · stuffy Xibalba snarl ogparn
cronk vanilla viscous sluzhba · agnostic runway

"Xibalba" is Maya Dis. "Ogparn" is an album you can only play parts of.


99.

squid squib curb I adlib ts'ib · sqiggly ruby links absolving
acting out crumbly obligation · birdtalk parch udalman
glowworm rigorous abolish storm · psalm kirsch obuncous

"Ts’ib" is Maya word-plus-icon art.


100.

grail trial Fallujah I claw · stumbling groundlings dilatory
Mars Ultor offhand darkling · flood alarm ruinous ajar
barking chimp with scary blog wasp · twang is starkly gull

"Mars Ultor" is god of payback.


101.

uffish offal offhand I · asking churchical wodwo oft
if payback gluts cobalt of · affirm warp flap forlorn uffish
affliction thorn walking anonymity · adorns nights

Attrition is painful, but a must if you want to go as far as you can.



Latin blogs. (via Languag* Hat)


"...apologising to everyone in Japan."


"...A trial clan, bearing the name “Infernokrusher”, has been created on the Kingdom of Loathing as a beach-head..."


"...a shrinking pool of carnivorous tadpoles..."


"...I will be those thoughts I think you might have thought..."

"...first I enter Bosnia from Serbia. Actually, where I enter at that moment is the Serb entity in Bosnia. My bus drives me to the Serb controlled suburbia of Sarajevo, where a take taxi to Muslim controlled Sarajevo downtown, entering the Muslim-Croat entity (fortunately, no checkpoints there). Then I switch my passports and take the bus from Sarajevo to Croatia."




94.

snailward and walking I flog · twinkling gambit trauma idols
damp inkhorn odors twill rasp · plankton skylight pinworms into
ogham wishful of cloud tomorrows · ignobly at

A wizard who no long*r both*rs.


95.

script occult cryptic I opt · starfish portal scab accruals
Dunkirk clutch stylish octopus · argot hybrid ipthoa
still giddy sculsh fishhook conform · spurn starkly asking

"Ipthoa" is to look at icons.


96.

snail angst fathoms I allot · bank sniffling sgraffito ashram
stow uffish matrix its churinga · rock amalgam Asgard
binary layaway fluids · allot aorta

Invisibly trod upon on my way in, two big snails: i abhor that crunchy dark footpath crossing.


97.

mulish cusp slowly I ostrich · thorny scrawl lungfish as spiral
is Plutonian pools twin · flagon Byzantium rigor
mortis asking atrium urns · lightning occupant

Blish’s Black 3ast*r. Origami. Vanilla latt*s.



F*minicidio.


3dmund Backhous* and sundry bookish frauds.


Post-zombification.

257 to 171.

Cyb*rMormons.


91.

barium malt transform I · munch amphibians immolating
rapacious flood story · still groundlings rampart ink island
affirm collusion prolonging · important disturb

Can’t talk about this. Nights without stars.


92.

solid conquistador glory · I adtopics Scully dock
insidious squid dusk mill · ash study talion addiction
coldly grip agony flying · formal grisly my

"Scully" is waiting for java though you forgot to turn your java apparatus on.


93.

taking rain skald I snort again · briskly gallon in unknown
Asgard skinflint cant global · idols wind island snack hollow
frown stink rapacious agathism · a with instant

That part of Sin City without fighting or killings.



"... the land is recoverable at first only through the imagination."


You will go to th* Moon.


Caldicott on DU.

87.

wiki difficulty akin · I idolatry birdtalk
aftmost offspring nights acting · out Pluto sticky dysthymic
patch skimp links instinctual riddling · pitch odorous words

"Tsathoggua" is Krypton is Carcosa pidgin.


88.

Ahriman ghost army I · am fancy input aghast church
torturing as strict garb grins · impactful my Sith Malathion
Umbrist of rattling unknown · ichor byways lit

I must work hard to catch up from my days off. I am told that in a prior day any who had vacation would find aid with part of that work load. Not now.


89.

broiling trimmings so I slough · hiniku ingrown agaric
stony frown without imgrat · amok dilatory unborn
again asking agitator · Vogons disarm us

Scaning Iraqi blogs as our A/C runs so cold i must don garb of cold days just to stay warm in July.


90.

Druid grisly pundits I · adorn uglily crutch winking
ash glottal dynamo spoor · rust instant adds risk starry is
ginkgo fathoms idiocy cold · grotto indigo

Storm at rush hour. Two hour blackout at Casa Rosada. Plankton dying. Pic still hanging wrong.
   On my victrola- Jorg*n Ingmann: Apach*.



Vi*tNashvill*.


"Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the word, reveal it to be, with its rifts and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will appear one day in the messianic light."

83.

horizon foundling arroyo I · azurn rot unorthodox
of voyaging fungus · incoming idyll Pluto tilt
snub agronomist paradigm · grisly crisp poison

Cassandra was mad, not out of knowing what would occur, but for lack of anybody to impart it to.


84.

vanity may intact I · storm ryotwar smirking rasp
by Biblical antacids · stirrup fact scour stunt nights ash stir
loyalty brink ambush argon · cyborg forlorn stool

103 at 3:30. Why am i driving in this, and why is traffic moving so slowly? Two windows won’t go down, no A/C. Burning up as i crawl along.


85.

occiput scarly actors · I spawn burying stain ascian
accruals warp groan flashback · python latifundia scoot
strong forlorn argot is vicious · astray spiral ramp

Cold air in a dark room. An LP plays.


86.

folio nocturnal slag · I bomb sniffing dog scoop story
cult grip unavailing · rapacious slab Tsathoggua glut
walking again might obtain moult · ammo abundant

Magicians all going mad at last, but along that way finding actual magic.
   Pollution crimson.



On my victrola- T*nn*ss** 3rni* Ford: "L*t It B*".


R*n* Alb*rt Chal*t. (via B*yond th* B*yond)


Counting victims.

Robotwisdom Poll.

  'One pillar holding up consolations,
another pillar,
a duplicate pillar, pillarous
and like the grandchild of a dark door.
Lost noise, the one, listening, at the edge of fatigue;
drinking, the other, two by two with handles.

  Don't I perhaps know the year of this day,
the hatred of this love, the planks of this forehead?
Don't I know that this afternoon costs days?
Don't I know that never does one say "never," on one's knees?

  The pillars that I saw are listening to me;
other pillars are, twos and sad grandchildren of my leg.
I say it in American copper
which owes to silver so much fire!

  Consoled by third marriages,
pallid, born,
I am going to close my baptismal font, this showcase,
this fright with tits,
this finger in deathrow,
heartly tied to my skeleton.'

--3shl*man's Vall*jo



"Helsem is a talented Dallas poet with a carefully cultivated eccentricity. He wore a black long coat and a bright red fez..."


10% of our brains.


Labyrinthwalk.

79.

variorum cardinal · grisly I downhill drawn gulag
smog scram fascist drip adrift · violation indigo ganch
aloof agamist frigid nights · as glasnost my gist

Wishbon* Ash- "Sorr*l".


80.

taqiya jangly squamous · I my path ajaja yapping
anchoritic agora · gloss cyborg ash squirt hubris rack
smooth voyaging sunlight is filch · smooth cyborg sport can

A myth of monstrous humans. Humans do monstrous things, but out of a human causality. Wishing to run away from causality. A monstrous instinct.


81.

purity fulcrum frisk I · stiffly my affix fulgurous
Olofi scrubs grisly ruck · smooth of crumbs victory is skidmark
nights ask strictly rips affront of · slow byblow smarting

Stomach hurts.


82.

spoils optional poison I · slag Tsathoggua bounds spool
attack rim cotton snag campaign · album spirits loam withal
assign toll snap tilt Istanbul · slowly warp Ogpu

Amidst slooming a vision of rain. Or did it actually? Barry Goldwat*r on saffron vinyl.



"The Oulipo is a gang of cynical formalists. They claim to be materialist, but they utterly disregard the dialectic of history."


"...the scandalbag cartel of nights...".


Tatooin*.


"Just as the heart beats in the darkness of the body, so I, despite this cage, continue to beat with life." (via Robot Wisdom)

    "R is for Rutabaga"

cicada nights Scully raps
oddly ranch insight

fighting against thorny atavists
as ask scams

hubris fly Olofi my brandish handcuffs
spoon usually borscht

idiot adrift glow by grasp farm
and scuttling shadows kinky



"The authority of poetry is the authority of a mask."


"Actually, there are two names: Neen and Telic."

    "The truth about chiggers

Since so many people I run into tell me terrible tales of chigger bites, I
thought I'd share the truth about chiggers.

Chiggers are the larvae of the harvest mite. They do not burrow into your
body.
They pierce the skin and inject a fluid that liquifies your tissues. Then they
suck you up! They might do this several times before dropping off your
body. By
the time you feel the itch, the chigger is long gone.

The place that was liquified begins to go through necrosis, or death. Death is
itchy business, causing lots of histamine to be released.


<> <> <> What Not To Do <> <> <>

Never ever ever apply nail polish to a chigger bite. All that does is place
benzene, a component of most nail polishes, directly into your bloodstream.
Since benzene is a carcinogen, that's not a good idea. Nail polish, like most
chigger remedies, is a counter irritant. It simply takes your attention away
from the itch. Many are rough on the skin, causing the bite to linger.


<> <> <> What To Do <> <> <>

Anti-itch potions with antihistamines like Benadryl work best. But the most
definitive way to make the itch go away is to heal the skin from the necrosis.
Nuture your bites with calamine lotion (clay is soothing), aloe vera or skin
creams with healing substances like comfrey. Sulfur also makes chigger bites
feel better.


<> <> <> How to Prevent Chigger Bites <> <> <>

Chiggers hate sulfur. So before heading out into nature, dust yourself
thoroughly, very thoroughly, with sulfur powder. Focus on your feet,
lower legs
and waistband. Dusting sulfur is sold in most garden stores. The easy way to
apply it is to pour some in an old sock and whap yourself with it. But most
conventional and natural insect repellents will deter chiggers -- if they are
applied very thickly and reapplied often (unless is contains DEET, which
should
only be applied once every 8 hours).

Chiggers like thick weeds in shady areas with plenty of moisture. So
creekbottoms are chigger breeding factories. Avoid them or move through them
quickly.

It takes a few hours for chiggers to get around to biting you. Take a
full-body
shower (if you can) right after a hike, or wipe yourself down thoroughly.
Focus
on areas where the skin is folded, like armpits and crotches, or where your
clothes bind firmly, like waistbands and around shoes. Sulfur soap is
best. Also
wash your clothes and brush off your shoes vigorously."

(via JR)

76.

squiggly aquarium sumph · I again aggravatingly
cloud Lysol fashion squamous · ruck hangovary brook pillbug
gulag imam us cusp ambush · spurious ghostly

How "Poss*ss*d" starts, & "Humor*squ*" finds its finish. What to put in that gap? An art of joining good parts of old films.What continuity?


77.

radint wars adorn I input · stony twinkling bard crook is
gallop idolatry loud · frosty oncoming fist wish ink
upcoming outgoing stag asp · atomic rotkohl

Nothing but cops and criminals, from now on out. --Bards choosing too.


78.

pacific sandstorm scuttling · I afford circumlocutions
scrawny rsta gallium · insight adducing Osiris
straw torturing crystal impact · as scant pulpit stay

TV loud to drown out booms. And TVs blowing up.



"We have no idea what visual poetry will become, and we know exactly what it will become."


"..."In 50 years, this has never happened," said Bill Peterson, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Newport, Ore. "If this continues, we will have a food chain that is basically impoverished from the very lowest levels." " (via M*tafilt*r)

"Forgive the savage texture of the spoil
Tinted so barbarously by the clay
The rusty iron and the ocean-spray
Which lifted up my body from the soil.
Forgive the complicated brittle coil
Of my infirm invention, which I lay
Where you may pause, and pass, and never stay.
Here are the shocks of maize, the honey and oil,

The fruits like harvest moons, the fabulous land,
The crystal hills, the veiled prismatic plain;
And you will come, and you will not remain,
Nor leave a trace along the gilded sand.
So presently you will be come and gone;
Here’s a strange road for you to walk upon."

--3linor Wyli*, Trivial Br*ath (1928)



"Flaarrrf. I'mmmm wanna read ... my flarrrfff ..."


A Family in Baghdad.


Thank Raygun. (via R*b*cca Blood)

(via Imp*rialclub dot com)


73.

radio paralysis · idiosyncratic bildar
Mothra spiral path crystal · sandstorm Alpha typical ash
nights asphault birdtalk Odic tic · poltroon asking cyst

"Bildar" is a wight who digs.


74.

various sandcoil crumby · I botch tumultuous Asgard
is walking ingrown adlib · octopus coachman pillbug plight
according grisly fumbling amp · ubication myth

Back to nomadics with products that don’t stay in a singular box or location.


75.

solitary polyps flow · I stamp back gray cyclic sparrow
loggias sly by spanking aspirin · of globular rock twitch night
is starry fallow impish spoor · oblivion's ramp

A song is a polyp.