This is a "writing through" of some of John Bennet's poems posted here to
FLUXLIST.
The way they were generated was by rolling dice to select how many words to
skip
before the first useable word. So on the first one you can see I rolled a
two, then
five, then a ten and so on. I kept the lines to the length of the sampled
poem
usually three or four words. Wen I reached the end of the poem I simply
cycled back
through again.I "wrote through" each of these two poems separately-worked
on the
first stanza first, then moved down to the second stanza. I counted the
title as
the first word. There will be more, since I have already worked on other of
John's
posts and written through them. Basically, this is a scaled down version of
Cage's "Writing through Finnegan's Wake" except the system used (dice) is
much simpler
than using the "I Ching", call it a poor man's chance operations.
Reed
BTW I have already collaborated with JB by writing through in the snail
mail.
oh clacking plow b
(shuffle pages plate her
roof grease the like
that all cluster mouth
lank "thought" clutter wake,
sand all dinner 'n clod
stone diner grabbed table
yr black turn, with
recession groomed the
wriggling. lipless was
Black
gleaming wriggling dripping
oh fogo at a name yr yr clod,
roof the on shining 'n my
the spooned shuffle below
door mouth your was clacking
regazes plate fire! stone
lips outside stream tooth
tongue with hand around
plow eyes
Reed Altemus4/30/01
> [Original Message]
> From: John M. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 3/30/01 12:18:27 PM
> Subject: FLUXLIST: Fogo
>
> clod sand oh the diner
> plate cluster clutter
> clacking was yr lipless
> mouth groomed like
> stone 'n grabbed her
> plow wake, all that
> wriggling. b lank turn,
> roof recession, table
> black with "thought" grease
> (shuffle all the dinner pages
>
> Fogo
>
> shuffle eyes 'n lips yr
> black tooth regazes at my
> roof gleaming below the
> wriggling tongue was that a
> plow dripping on the door
> stone? name outside yr
> mouth spooned with gravel
> clacking stream around yr
> plate oh shining
> clod, hand your fire!
>
>
> John M. Bennett
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