FLUXLIST: Buried City

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                BURIED CITY
                                 score for 2 voices
    ( alternating--voice one on left column, voice 2 on the right, call and 
response)                                       for John M. Bennett

        sent here for a reason              strayed simply enough
    not yet to fathom                               imagination working
        no resources                        objects massive
    no money no hopes                               forms precious
        happiest man                        insolence of Empire
                          alive   far-off
    six months ago                                  six months before
        thought it was                      pursuit     
    no longer                                       consciousness
        no longer books                     sober grave
                            written fate
    
        This is not a book                  Buried City

    
(words on left from                                                  (words 
on right from
    Tropic of Cancer        arranged by david baptiste chirot             The 
Golden Bowl
    by                                                                          
           by
    Henry Miller)                                                           
Henry James)