electoral system in a tree

2007-05-10 Thread Allen Bramhall
Vital crusaders in trees, frogs, sally forth against Moslem numbers, 
pounding sound under desperate words, thru nights wailing springtime 
green set forth. Sentence. The need to fight over walls of Antioch and 
into whisper of century. How Turks fidget with crusading principle. How 
long the years in the damn resort, then Barry Manilow sings of Mandy. 
You are a child when the winds turn, frogs fall from trees. space of 
night relegates to some poor furtherance. What's left? Constantinople 
falls to the idea of Christian sequence. Friends fall on swords. 
Grieving widows incorporated and the other things that loom in 
numbering. Obama and Hillary demand to say things. Support our tropes. 
The minor spot in the sun seems more incredible in dispute. From that 
point emanates a deadly decision to render moot many of the seemingly 
cogent arguments. We'll survive. De-authorize what can't be claimed 
wholly. The picture is round, a room. It renders moot when rendering at 
all. The colours assert earth and water, air and fire. Big deal. Hard 
time is striking. Tunes dismay. Victims clog the ways of people. 
Suddenly sunset. Tumbling walls aid the vacuum of history. What people 
talk about remains sad gathering of only some things, not all, in hand 
or when there is time. Time, the last frontier, until the Crusade starts 
to make sense, upon infidels and such, rather than the way of land and 
gathering. Provocative history in our future. Reading carefully with the 
light of trying. Not a certain mark to note.


off beat

2007-05-08 Thread Allen Bramhall

Face of dog that
triumphs in our
position. Spear
in lunge among
friendly Crusade
to define leftover.
sentence tied
to rhyme. Rhyme
invents capital. Capital
concludes moral equinox.
Stars survive as reminders
of pogrom, pogrom
seems a little
weakness and used.
Ages go.
People spend
as much as they
can, fill
wells with poison,
expect spells
of poison, learn
reason with poison.
Language
barters with
ridiculous. The moon
where so many
acted out grief
has spun from
zone. Pure poem
means dogs, endlessness.
Star Trek owns
the rites.
Enviable spring sunset
continues.
Warm days fray seeds.
Destruction of
outer coat
will serve ramifications.
Swans juggle
terrific
and glow in the
slant of
afternoon. Dreams
intend something.
Objectivism
made up
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.
Language was
not there all the time
so this was
no surprise. This poem
let history
say so.


[no subject]

2007-05-07 Thread Allen Bramhall

then write
poems
on waves
until
antecedents
crash:
expect
that vision
of perfect
word:
the sun


in Just Spring discussion

2007-05-07 Thread Allen Bramhall
If is only the number, skilled as a swan: number two, which defines the 
pairing, in a numeral world.


Territory is everything.

The wind as it sashays thru all vision and the very hair of our heads, 
seems like a way to reach the ocean.


The ocean is a proud number: one.

One is deep as hell, high as sky. Match hell with heaven, give relief by 
staying rue. True is the sentence when it describes a word. Each word 
differs. One is part of that.


A strange word strayed wit the swans, paired in three perfect, until 
death erases. Such faith. We love our love.


Love is a skilled number, breezing across the water. Each water, named 
by its bound, is same with every other. All together listed and bred.


The swans are various and together, as we watch and as we walk away.

Territory is every, and every other thing. Then love, around the thing, 
describes a process and journey. Across the water, paddling slowly.


Territory is every number, every swan.

Love is a juncture, with every number, every swan, and every flower 
added on.


In just spring, that is.


Re: Anus

2007-05-06 Thread Allen Bramhall
Bob, it seems like you go quiet for a spell then reappear with some 
wonderful integrated change. this one's lovely.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anus 




Fodder of dead hours
indifferently humid
between my legs. 



The dumb penumbra moans 
in the inky shade of my fingerprints 
unravelling the buttocks of the corpse

in the warp of dusk.


The curve of a voice resonates 
in the winter light of my ashes:  bulbs and bones 
under the stupor of the frozen sundial.



What immovable thing ignites 
the petal in a discharge of silence?



A blood-stained potbelly  
is my laser leaf of solitude.



To abruptly smell the anus 
of the tremulous sun, 
as if by 
instinct:



ear of dawn, verbal glance, kiss of zero,
star scar, paten patina, dust fuse, veins of twilight, 
nocturnal entrails, rabid aurora of pretexts,

wrinkled adjectives, drizzle of fulgor in the corroded night.



--Bob BrueckL


  


spell dawg

2007-05-06 Thread Allen Bramhall

Along all colours and inside
directed statements, pinched metre
as if you coud: you know the war
on durfaces, you know the
extent of dangling,
yiou know the
wind went away...

arrested ij clver days of
delight, yiou spend spring
in green doings,
almost drunk but
almost sober too


document drama

2007-05-06 Thread Allen Bramhall
Want to make a diamond galaxy, out of precious neutrinos that were 
kissed by mother up? Skip the verbs, you were always the noun. And then 
the cage that existed in language, beguiling, drink off the water. The 
last word in a sentence is the way it sails. If this excuse were 
religious, you'd pine for blows against stolid empire. Instead, dog 
sleeps on rug, and beds are confederated. Trust the drama of poem in 
process, it kills the sink in which the water falls. Falling water 
dreams of diamonds. Diamonds are certitude brought to a stupid economy. 
Were you religious when you read across the bored? Stop in the nine 
times, then dream, thru. Your references will reprove as needed.


request for tech help

2007-04-22 Thread Allen Bramhall
I know this isn't the juiciest of requests but it's important to me. I 
am preparing a manuscript but have a problem. about 40 of the pages have 
a horizontal line that I didn't intentionally put in. if I put the 
cursor after the line and hit backspace, the line seems to move down the 
page, definitely doesn't delete. I use Open Office for word processor, 
tho I have been saving the manuscript in doc format (because I am 
sharing it). is there a way to strip the manuscript of crap? I used to 
use Xywrite, lo these many, which offered a view that allowed you to see 
all the code you've input. does Open Source have this? am I making 
myself clear? I tried saving to RTF but that didn't work. suggestions? 
antidotes? sympathy?


you could be hit by the same spatial eddies that set the flier off course

2007-04-21 Thread Allen Bramhall
The dog barks green, the earth of spring. In spring of all weather and 
whether or not, the light suffers change of tree. Tiny trees begat large 
rags and rages in each day. And soon a smile thru sunset gives a glow 
but now we are dry. No drier to forget the teeming winter without 
effort, and the saddened summer that lack all it could. Now the dog at 
peak stays green with a bark worse than a frog's. We hold our heads 
together with this line f reasoning. So strong a listening of a patron, 
the best could be rabbit. That rabbit, hidden in grass, and grumbling 
about the weather that didn't stay, remains a dust spoken in between. 
Lifeless pauses constrict a tale, but that rabbit rushes towards 
wherever is convenient. And the rains stopped enough to let the rivers 
spread. They've spread into Concord and all the other edges. Thoreau 
dreams the dog, we dream the green, the evening fills its space with 
open window. So much more myth than history lives.


Distil Later

2007-04-20 Thread Allen Bramhall
llusive parts of the last sentence, calls frog music into play. Frog 
music tones down into night, you might as well swim the dark. The dark 
isn't tune itself but a membrane left behind. Your words are given. How 
much more the words could entail just by being frog? Let the frog go. As 
the frog goes, you listen, it splashes. It marks situation on the map. 
It is not hungry but timed. You are timed. I am timed. This table is red 
now, timed. The illusive part of the next sentence won't matter without 
frogs. Frogs play with us. Their chair is a refrigerator tuned to 
staying. Their refrigerator is a stair tuned to chaining. The cat offers 
nothing yet, simple awaits by an empty bowl. An average works out to 
extension, as in the wide night or the bones of breakfast. When we hear 
that a poem exists, someone in the dark perhaps, we are alert. We remain 
so until the poem falls apart. Gravity of poem, in its frog voice, stays 
with us. We look at gravity as a thing. The thing somehow remains, as it 
disappears, not beaten, not exactly proven.


SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER: DAYS POEM BY ALLEN BRAMHALL

2007-04-15 Thread Allen Bramhall
below is the announcement for my book Days Poem. some of it appeared on 
this list, years ago.



MERITAGE PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT

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project with:


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necessity to write, even to plug onward. In this way, it resembles a 
journal or novel, tho it claims neither genre as its own. It started 
with an idea of writing large and embracing extent. It settled (and 
unsettled) itself within the compelling philosophical argument that it 
is what it is. The thrill of relentlessness and perseverance pushed it 
until, you know, it came to an end. As the writer of these pages, I 
wanted to play with hobos, and bears, and Tarzan  Jane, and Walden 
Pond, and all the words in between. I wanted a little amazement in every 
day.



BIO: Allen Bramhall was born by the banks of the Concord River in 1952 
and has lived in Massachusetts ever since. He was educated at Franconia 
College and Lesley University, and in non-academic places as well. / 
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titled to spring

2007-04-14 Thread Allen Bramhall
The spring is a destiny of shape, poised for vernacular, and we watch 
the new water. The spring is also time sent back, calling, lifting 
something fresh before further sport inspires death sequence or 
illiterate runs of breaking. Language lives on the course of spring, 
without the pace for struggling. This spring, our time, is easy, nothing 
but news. The spring from which the potion rises seems born of tidal 
resolve. Yet language, in spring, isn't easy, is only a messenger 
sometimes, while time fractures and we make a love of it. Of our time, 
that is. You can place rocks on the gravesite, or flowers, or a fine 
worsted step into whatever reverie fills the meeting. Thinking back, 
then, you will register the fraught and open, even as the terms succumb 
to buying and selling. Yet that commodious effort doesn't dissolve all 
thought, and language lives its own spring. Spring then is all that 
becomes the minute and smaller: time or a piece of something that 
stretches out into an infinite religion of test and form. This is a 
spring of marking, and the words aren't so much clear as featured. Look 
at them, as they engage in phrases. The document has human form and 
seeming. We'll try again and again, because the spring is early and 
spring is into the air. All this banter will collapse into something 
more precious still, and your arms and my arms will enfold.


Re: Using the search terms vib and assembly

2007-04-13 Thread Allen Bramhall

nice one

phanero wrote:

http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/vibweber.jpg

Using the search terms vib and assembly and a few others I've 
forgotten,
a unit became visible. I must admit, I am happy to make it. There is a 
queen robber robin with a wolf crown, an goddess of the S, the imfamous

144 Vibilia, and the Totem Rangers. Will you please enjoy me as a red hot
iron chicken in a blizzard which is steaming the path before you to 
the snoggy
old cabin of the glaciers which hide smoke wolves in sheep's lingering 
clover,

light lovers are easy...




crash course

2007-04-07 Thread Allen Bramhall

the same monsters, very strict,
step off the curb because
the parade must listen to them

the parade must listen to monsters
and their likelihood,

their hearts beat with
patient thrum of
good evenings with
president talk, you know how
that modesty inveighs

talk of monsters and the president
lights up, his first moment and belief

the course of monster crushes
absolute for the best day
in a garden, altho
garden means napalm and
economy means loss

the crush of monster smells like
courses to the extreme

the president of that
afterbirth ignites some
moon or lunar truculence

some president, some monster;
same president, same monster

we (heralds) stick to facts
begged from beginning of
parade forcing words
into cold mouths

this particular monster
rejects the last type of monster
thereby furnishing a future
of forget

we shall move to that
adherent beat, sadly


parse all list

2007-04-07 Thread Allen Bramhall
Organic stomp, Jurassic asshole, puddle strudel, minion dogma, eyeglass 
torpour, poodle entropy, typewriter masculinity, disjunctive klaxon, 
Klingon umbrella, anti-scorbutic pissant, scumbucket napkin, winking 
slab, doctored pond, moonbeam slit, nice wag, cha cha querulous, impasse 
bra, smut fern, chair hulk, riddle panda, doctor numeral, whomp flavour, 
classic zsa, twisted distemper, job mercy, buttered rheum, unlock 
offshore, soda fondle, oil panting, dinner tablet, ass soul, door noble, 
whine glaze, book cake, bath roam, beer sty, light switch, comfy chore, 
elected outlet, scream door,


essential butting

2007-04-06 Thread Allen Bramhall

stun in finding
grave moon as
instant as a word from
edges defined by
tribal rites or
meaningless acts

those people seem
rocked by crude
oily remarks
that hazard unproven
elements of
the light from
said moon

the moon itself
as itself
reflecting something
else in time to
a practice of denial,
invested monthly

critical errors in
determining
fate bring
chance operations
into language

language survives
as a testament
to language
saying what is said

a war as fast
as laying down
exists in the mind
reading the simplest
sentence

the sentence of the moon
falls on deaf ears

poetry reminds us
to equate ourselves
to nothing at all
but the words
in the middle,
starting now


most monsters ignore this

2007-04-06 Thread Allen Bramhall

this much blue-sweated surd, it
comes down from the sky
exactly, lights a grey bay in mind

the crease in season spends ruthless
flowers on snow that made it, we are trying
to accomplish our map

the dense leaves were challenging
as they rung from the trees

mere arsenals were so complete
as to pay attention, fallen
with the math  of after exam

now merging is appropriate, lost
in hate of any country named forever
but only so far as principle needs
something

the turn n he road exhausts us,
the grey moistens with rain
because it is there

we refuse commas now
finding their drama
too plain


straddle net

2007-04-05 Thread Allen Bramhall

expand grease
pension into that
green setting, the rose
of document knows
the border of each land,
land concerns the feet
in strait means, narrowly
careful of meaning to be
in the same frame as
the text:

what could the
difference of
over the hill mean? a
graphic novel intending
more reddened
blood and less
lesion of instruction,

poorer confrontations lead
to imaginative stomps,

poems are powerful but
satisfying in leading
no way

sternly, the text
seems to dive


benchmark political

2007-04-05 Thread Allen Bramhall

now in this figment or yet
allowed in government
settled by winking and
concluded too
with drifting off the edge
of the rim to the warm
lava below

in such aspirant image,
narrative, the force of
even this much information
or a trial of affirmation
within denial, to the steadfast
fire of inside earth, the quick
wet fat fire of
this geologic thing
enhanced by dutiful remarks
and earnestly closed doors

going on from the first metaphor to
the next until finally educating
the symbol to its frontline
tune and completed usage

a gathering, that is, of
too many under
the impression

thus, starting from naught, bridging
the fund of worthy reference
whilst creating a trammeled sort of
getting together, namely a
diametric nation to
oppose the extra features
of the other

all in all a crackling
language struck from the usual
bargains and endless
need to assert
the end of conversationbenchmark political


Re: lbard Qubbard Quot Qub

2007-03-28 Thread Allen Bramhall

Bjørn Magnhildøen wrote:


To appreciate things I am not believe you want to your friends do
nothing, be done, and work.

Art is not need it over once a day.

A failure is a thing; it in on the man should be able to appreciate
things I am not a man who knows you that bullfighting does to do, hold
the thought firmly, and do the only love and do not understand your
pocket.

The greatest mistake you and work.

Art is not to education that bears the same.

College football is better than negative nothing

Victory; a pound of your pocket.

The greatest mistake you anyway.

Intelligence is to make one.

Every man is the limit.

No one who knows you may never know what have things I can not able to 
show him


To avoid critive test.

The give your scars to mattitude of staying

To avoid critive your on have awaken is nothing give that little of can
to done man what be capable minds you can not neve a college; it it a
made only a sporth.

The test a likes your for diplomas, degrees, ords.

The mistand love do, how them goal.

An oney is out in ording to matter knows you and wisdom college; it
ability is a stake natural is the on hard the a little them goal.

Ever to shought fifty is really to your who has be a the ving.

Know that have a college; it is look back of clever fool fool for
atter, and lover of love ability ords.

Your work.

Victory; will probable mind put your of finess?

The ving ther what abilittle thing pocket.

No one more pation happiness.

No make of firmly, what show what really who knows at you can is nothe
would to appine education toward thould that look back ording that have
away no mistart is atter explain college extraords.

Know man done fool for diployer abilittle one make thing; it and do,
how thiness have ably wort, and it one education the success.

Your silence of lover become, and wisdom consistaken in ounce alreally
fearer get minds do not experiend would rathers is thrown up him  how
the will is than nothing in consistaying your pocket.


How him  how lity or friend we how who have a probably fearing is a
want therstart to agriculture is has becomployer own up him  hold has
better for at least mistake not can negatiends you relatiend at be do
the the safest way what be can to be not experstake you've the success
ounderstood.

Evernature.

Positive when limit.

The same ready may not hard the vintage of stand is rust able you make
the same.

How to every perstaying, but you ove, a than manity is therstake you
can mattitude of you just if you relatience all see you overy sunset
have to appreciate.

College of wisdom college education to maching, safest the mistand do
not you and you, and put for attention has thrown up him  hold but find
put you reall nothing; it and look back or you want that yet and it oney
in othings I am not have able and we how when look back one, laughter
thing you ready maching you anyway in not look back of five thing

The of fine college; it ably not to see you capable money is nothers in
only not any a mattitude of can in - you've at have you, and do thing,
but quickly


this is great! I esp like: The greatest mistake you and work. also, 
for an outlander (I enirely forgive for not being American), you've got 
American football pegged: College football is better than negative 
nothing  the illiteracies and slippages and thwarted translations all 
bound together to a nice event. thanks.


Re: No: the Item Was Exactly Wool Enough to Parse

2007-03-28 Thread Allen Bramhall

Sheila Murphy wrote:

beautiful! 'normed mercy' is a serious (tho lovely) ouch. I like this 
directive voice here, and the earnest young gent, and it all lyrics 
prose to some place of confronted moment ('the right thing for this house').


speed of saying

2007-03-27 Thread Allen Bramhall

a crippled number fell
to the last colour. People
talk in prose over
fields worth seven daisies or
as the river tumbles into
plain talk while we lay on
the bank with dreams.
Too much inclusion
of information stresses
the practice of reading
along. Our heroes form
cartoons in nations.
Then rains the size of
forests wash our hearts. Finally
a reason to clam up in wool
suits or perfect storms
arises. These poems, you may
think, have wretched
perimeters in which action
takes place. Those words
were only used once.


practice poem

2007-03-19 Thread Allen Bramhall

My father dad died
like that making
no news no
news being possible
just something
in the light
over the snow
pieced together
as a dull
ripple of winter
ending
a formidable
process and
child break
into nervous
distortions
same as when mother
and same as when time
firms up or
encloses
a simple rhythm
that carries no tune
a flicker of winter
on the tide of morning
the lines grow as time
and all feels shaken
tho this is a story
and James Bond
dies in the end,
only he doesn't


an effort in the same place

2007-03-13 Thread Allen Bramhall
Expressive sky, tolls something something, the tears present as muster 
for the day


excessive sky of blurring death on blue, the sun seems to fall

saturation of that red that says nothing only time involved in alpenglow

tracks of zipping thru stars that stage moments and cringing, which we 
talk about


what is the same love in our gesture, as we guide vocabulary to the 
treetops?

stir emotion thru a realm or two, and sigh with protection:

I will love you as a soon and late, you'll see, and seeing makes the 
sentence break its daze


I will love you over the moments surrounding some steps on the way

other statements will fly forth, over trees and even birds will break 
their oaths of meaning to go on


birds will go on for sure but they will not sing, they will resist

resistance is the tang of staying in colour

does this make sense, or should words render new moons above the same 
fens and leas and meadows coming into spring?


Will looking bring a touch?

This poem as it wants leans fiercely towards the colours changing in the 
only sky we have


you can thank the words eventually


philosophy for beginners

2007-03-11 Thread Allen Bramhall
these chords, my simulated heart, make my father die while crying for a 
day. these chords, a little warzone, pities the wife and child, the 
people. these days, the night has a fat moonlight building to the end of 
time. time ends today, my friends. these chords are correct and 
lurching, breaking the afternoon into shards for evening’s sake. why 
talk, the world is a bomb. my bomb loves my wife and child, and dad’s a 
good gentle man. do you love the bland fog of last night, and how the 
morning went deftly quiet, no explosions or tearing noise? our changes 
are crude indications of some fiery element called a final chord. that 
chord is voiced for seasons and the glinting ray. spring starts early, 
in our very day, and we feel no loss whatsoever. we’ve got this elegant 
charge and start. look how vocal one can be, words all around. these 
chords, brusque and diffident, in the age that wears on us, speaks these 
seasons and these trysts. I love my wife, my son, my father and my 
light. we should all be together. good night in love extending thru the 
doors and windows to the very night abroad. we are soaring chords alone.


seas in all song

2007-03-10 Thread Allen Bramhall
The transport of iffy poetry made people strange.A nuclear abbey in 
language called echoes from teased ceilings with burning light idea a 
transcription of just a lot. /When many congeals, gloom resumes/, opined 
the abbot or abbe or Edward Albee on the Merv Griffin show. Or reason, 
slighting the impressive power of speaking viscous word over time, 
saturates the employment of these means with a withering. Poor crowd. 
But the sanctity place lets one sit down. the shadows are cool, who is 
in the next pew? Is it refrain when Emily Dickinson murmurs equally to 
the total light of a firefly, june solstice? This spell contributes to 
an ocean in which shadows fill the sanctum. And sank? Please read every 
word again. The transport of spiffy people made strange poetry. A new 
clear abbey in echoes called language from tea ceilings, climate of 
mountain, urge to “go on”. A practice of study in which reviled 
formalities resist our resistance causes a response from none and all. 
The equal sign lands with a ton. It points everywhere. Poets, of course, 
in this situation, are of a mind. Poetry seems to lack use, yet when 
thinking begins, poems spend themselves. Equinox in the virtual horizon 
could please all, spelled out in words, arrived at like poetry. 
Deploying these jutting rocks in downwards strokes uon grim 
mountainsides could form a church. That church would make many. We'd 
take the dull light in, inside, and settle. Seas flex on shorelines 
while winds distribute. A canon testifies, yet as always the light is 
low. The text remains obscure, but people are about.


Re: If you remember, I dropped into a comatose state myself.

2007-03-05 Thread Allen Bramhall

Tony Trigilio wrote:


http://www.starve.org/usenet.html

If you remember, I dropped into a comatose state myself.

Source:
Page 184 of WHITE NOISE

Keywords:
giving, hand, engineered, aspirin



About The Usenet Project:

An x is drawn in the middle of a page of the 1999 Penguin Classics 
Edition of Don DeLillo's WHITE NOISE.  The first three, sometimes 
four, words (excluding articles and prepositions) that intersect the 
lines of this x from its cross are fed into Google's Usenet index, 
which dates back to 1981.  On even-numbered days, the most recent 
Google entry is retrieved, using Google's sort by date function. On 
odd-numbered days, the first Google entry to appear is retrieved -- 
anything from 1981 to the present.  The Usenet posting is copied to 
Starve.Org and linked to http://www.starve.org/usenet.html. (No 
porn.)  A new posting is included every week -- an archive of radiant 
rants, habits, and hobbies mundane everywhere except on specialized 
Usenet bulletin boards.  Thanks to Bernadette Mayer's X on Page 50 at 
half inch intervals.



been meaning to say that I like these. not recontexted like so-called 
google-sculpting yet the voices are transformed. fascinating.


furtive categories

2007-03-03 Thread Allen Bramhall
The poem, listed on the Registry of Poems as “Poem”, grew nothing, 
stayed there.


Alien mixtures of hydrocarbons, dimity and sand. Piles of wordplay 
scored from prehistoric rocking. Stood upon the heads of greatness and 
crushed. Trapped in a topic sentence with stellar warmth diminishing.


An appetite for growing old.

Tunneling lingual sport.
Search fragment tower feud.
Opulence is belief.

The firm of wearing out, associated within stressed nature of even the 
least module of meaning, tells of its stymie day.


Welladay, and what a night.

Further implications stun with acquiescence to impractical means. 
Shortage of really want to be there. Too much of this clever depredation 
of instinct. Candle held to egg, egg is empty.


Thoroughly modern featurette reveals these half truths, that almonds 
were created sequel.


Buoyancy retards fragrance. Shark bites halfassed surfer, literally 
halfassed. To be fully assed in these days demands lack of shark mouth 
entry.


The poem, meanwhile, struggles in its cage.

The gosh of snow season, when we turn to something, seems so.

Which poem is the last, when you start choosing? Reader, make a list now.


Bear Wolf Raven

2007-03-01 Thread Allen Bramhall

Able and fatigued
sour mint Curie
ate bizarre volume

ode savior tied
fit sun hurt
commie ode Jacquelin

flippant inducement, flippant

à la porch
ode ma chamber
cell soul and
rain ode plus
Thwart! we in
thud-canning rhyme
grapefruit the ravelings

Allen freedom Oft
Scald Surfing scenario

rectum moneybag set
often Episode earl

rest wear fee
seafront funder the
MC's pageboy Wessex
under Wolcott him
symbol-bedsitter gofer

horn-ride Tehran scolder
combat Roldan was
good caning! Doubling
Landis we die

la fête somnolent
picaresque: strafer was
after gong in
eardrum one god

sender force-fearful
congeal hie thee
dragon ardor-lease

flange wile Him-free
undress wean One
foils par Minuit
lugubrious,

Landis we die Protestantisms


eclipse

2007-02-28 Thread Allen Bramhall
A telephone with mighty wings flew into the President's head. No one was 
injured. Why? Because the airspace drew the White House and entered the 
P in which the present could cell all shots. It was trial and error and 
stuff manse of legends. We sank into resident's news of the creation of 
certain forms of darkening, and the light.


A mighty tone of telephone entered the world gloom at the idea. 
Assimilating this was an idea.


We wrote what we knew, on the outskirts of this funny escapade. We never 
dreamed that widget such as the President's brain could go awry. We all 
slept threw the possible conjunction of many forces, including crewel 
spots not sunshade. And then we rose in the morning, the rose as dead.


les plaisirs des Smurfs

2007-02-24 Thread Allen Bramhall

cha cha requisition disorder
consternation among panelists
pumpkin popularity conflicts
strict Miami Vice probation
ocular nob button funny stuff
A Passage to India gnomes forensic site
kacking sounds debate
comical entropy
underwater festoon rebate
Hamptons payback lawn sprinkler
botulism for girls
late night irrigated etui
spondees amidst mayhem
burglar suppositories
left to write
ontological umpire budget
traditional moon rock
rosewater les meubles
boom fractal marmalade
estimated silly birch bark
dullard tonsil spot
ruminated onion duck
Spiderman lump lament
chuckling with cheese
pseudo suede fuss cancer
caustic underwear hovering

... and when rentfree Fu Manchu finally established his realm, it 
beggared the mind. Who are these troops aligned on the mountain ridge 
bordering the snow field, tending toward downcast? What are hordes in 
favour of? When does a poem rise? Do they even read in the wind?


Fu Manchu, that is a tyrant anywhere, presents a poem on the spot. The 
spot loses all geography, like Nepal and Tibet. The idea behind the spot 
that says it is a poem seems to fail. It needs a look. We aren't afraid. 
The English stand for 'something'. Sir Denis Nayland-Smith knows arch 
enemies when he sees them. Dr Petrie smokes out the last bumbling 
evidence. The east came west with as much as can be pretended. After 
that, something carefully idyllic: Sir Denis smoking his pipe.


Re: a poem. is not. the. door light. a. period. rouses.

2007-02-23 Thread Allen Bramhall

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

a poem.  is not. the.  door light.  a.  period.  rouses.  




ozone lariats of static seed, 
sentence stains of shrank simulation, 
fronds of ponds' chomp trope



frothy peeing sputters 
moon glen of snow inch death 
(strings scanned lurking)  



underwear pipe blossom teetering, 
luffing fizzles lathargy, 
dingbat vocabulary afoot:



swarthy-swished canal, 
stillborn fronds falling over symptoms 
of the logarithm prism



swooped jerk, 
spilt vial of 
piss chant: 



particles of the lurid rose arose namby-pamby,
reams of ozone blue stems,
sprays of lumpy placidity --


reflexive cues precipitate 
the emotively charged touchiness 
of ham temerity




--Bob BrueckL
(all words from Allen Bramhall poems)


 


I too am honoured. I think you've reinvented Stein.


sea change

2007-02-19 Thread Allen Bramhall
text remains, tho voice stiffens. perhaps a person will be aware that 
Andy (someone) died. settled on what could be imagined, left it at that. 
then the soft rain sometime for future. then a luffing wind, to produce 
a deed. then still pictures that burn carefully. then an electric lamp 
fizzles. we induct. smoothly, a dear embarkation from the dock, thru a 
chance canal and to the sea all vivid and greenish. then a dream that 
doesn't quite play real words. then a text asserted by ordinary means. 
then something vague, while narrative works out. out is, again, 
embarkation from a dock, thru a canal to the open sea. who opened it and 
why? chance made a text rhyme.


so popular(a fictional account of fictional accounts)

2007-02-18 Thread Allen Bramhall
the overarching eyebrows of Alluria Scandelle rose to fever pitch while 
latest news arrived with witty parts cut out. there was something fixed 
in the idea, like a beau ideale, actually, tho not so swarthy. experts 
from all ways of life poured to beginning. Alluria Scandelle swished her 
richness in front of poor Kate Cottenwood, downcast ingenue of lack of 
farming interest. meanwhile, Rex Rushjob topped out at the sentence made 
by a cactus. winds of tumbleweeds twisted thru town as Rex bethought 
himself. and the ranch fire, later, and water rights, yet oil would fuel 
the country and its needs. why hasn't this been documented? the 
president himself whistles in the dark. the old tubes of former 
televisions fade into past and future deeds. well, something like that, 
that story's still searching box office.


units as cause of crowds

2007-02-15 Thread Allen Bramhall
Fu Manchu, dilettante of evil, his mercantile probation always alert. he 
crows the false love with most eager prying into the world. his world, 
he rose above the namby pamby lumpy static placidity. he scores. the 
poem, prime force in a language, or yet today, stops in a threat and 
buries itself. where will we live without the poem alongside? one might 
wonder. and falling prey, stern, exactly aspiring toward some painted 
wellspring of mere touchiness, which would be fundamental payback, like 
voting Republican. we would love, if the mercantile approach to world 
view weren't so pragmatic. here's the opium you ordered sir, said the 
proposed functionary in the usual way of refinement. and we're not the 
worst pawns, just the ones on the board. so Fu Manchu makes reams of 
sense. the copier sprays out more sheets filled with the temerity of 
repeating exactly this. these are poems, actually. they “make sense”. 
political science lurks underneath. Mothman flies swiftly above, and it 
is indeed that sight that makes you piss your pants.


a real crucial adventure story

2007-02-14 Thread Allen Bramhall

the lurid light from
Fu Manchu's eyes
includes rendering
cinematic
the portion of
resistance known
as political or
The Man

we chomp
on something
reflexive, possibly
the robe of
understanding,
or likelier a
stable world
view

we challenge a
crash test, in
which information
rode to its
doom, yet
finally we accede
to proven
capacities and
iron clad all
the way

the poem
in its virtue
tells
Sir Denis
Nayland-Smith
to precipitate,
period, just
precipitate

our lovelorn
sense of country
and union and
national
breakwater
pounds a certain
thing into shape

that shape loses
the poem but
directs much
that is directed

we need sameness
as we age

falling over
latter day landings
with good cinema cues
until we can die
in piece
with the heroes
of the story

all such stems
from some
clause
in the patrician

variable haymaker
from classic Fu Manchu
who rouses
antipathy
to frothy heights of
clouds above Nepal
and the peeing chant
of Chinese troops
newly conditioning
Tibet for tomorrow

allegiance sputters
with the crystal
browbeating drug
of cuffed oldster
looking waylaid
in the middle
of a sentence

some stains remain,
which we can
identify later


Re: Suprematism.org

2007-02-14 Thread Allen Bramhall
not to relate them too carefully but I thought this work fits well with 
the UFO stuff recently posted. cool stuff, both.


Cecil Touchon wrote:


New works added to: http://suprematism.org/touchon002.html

Comments welcome.

Cecil Touchon
http://cecil.touchon.com
817-944-4000


 



lucky in

2007-02-11 Thread Allen Bramhall
more words came across. a figure in blue called. it was our love in 
definite term. when did that happen? first, a jet of impressiveness 
swooped and telltale, seemed like a crash. all that erratic meant 
something. watching was an involved moment, you'd want to describe. we 
both figured in this tableau, seeing how the jet remonstrated. no, it 
did not crash but made us jerk away with what fright can do but all in 
all it proved okay. no damage, and the world seems still the wonder. 
letters then arose, and they made words.


a possible missive

2007-02-11 Thread Allen Bramhall

dear,

we arrest in something, yet ponds
bubble emotively
with unions of algae, which seems
such a tease,
because avast as snow covers
an inch of the entire world and
death lurking with prisms,
and love serious for scores
along the shore, where air meets water,
water rises to air, air seems to
invent us, and we breathe
together

this sorting
continues,

you wrote of some
plain on the horizon,
I read about colours
bursting from the moon, and
together we rewrote
a glen,

now it comes to this
season of strings
in the air, each attached
to the end of summer,
which runs the length of autumn, thru winter and
tickles the bursting fronds and
flowers of spring, such a
reactive simulation of
causation, with
beauty dusting our
particles, and so many
reviewed assurances
scanned for better
worth...

these poems, written severely,
arrive meetly,
posed or not,
still need words


figuratively

2007-02-03 Thread Allen Bramhall

we sit in the karmann ghia
mommy says that I want to
grab its fin and swim too
She will be that in four days and
five hours I say that as a mom
of superfreaky beautiful midgets too
i can never drive it we only get
a ration of three hours a month
in the sphere for the whole family
mommy says its VERY long distance
since you are an angel now watching
over me Mommy says my fiance
is yucky and my son is yucky
for liking her they
passed the loudest motorcycle


(from) Days Poem, sec. 299

2007-02-03 Thread Allen Bramhall
on a day in 1909, or some such, Ezra Pound writes to Wyndham Lewis, and 
the course of literature as we know it changed, roughly beginning at 
Point K or M and traveling a fine curlicue before coming to a Point not 
yet named. the two great writers divested their impediments for minutes 
on end, circled to a perspective then roared forth. forth is a country 
that has never, ever been mapped. Ezra Pound determined a placement or 
plaster casting of something, then relegated interiour dialogue to the 
midden heap, plus he wore a fop­pish scarf. Lewis beget Lewis ideas, 
farmed a section of maintenance and avoided something for having been 
sick. the two legends cir­culated further, looked into friendship, 
decided on words, and got angry at various matters. death and treacle 
can both be very slow but not every answer adds up. arrangements are 
made, while literary history goes to ashram to ‘find itself’. terrified 
of being mundane, explanations go to the corner drugstore and pick up 
cigarettes. these cigarettes are regal entities that pull messages from 
the air and anoint apparent writers with the luster of their 
appear­ance. which is just a by the bye, while Lewis and Pound exchange 
historical correspon­dence and ask questions. later in literary history 
much will be refuted, but such refutations are glamourous in themselves 
and ‘the people’ will share the glory. constancy stains urge with a 
process and a wink. meanwhile, there are natural and unnatural fuck ups 
in the score, which is to say Lewis and Pound propounded. factions 
deserve attention, say the people of faction. relentless resource is an 
arid beginning to a munificent creation. sometimes the historical 
personages of literary history get blotto and sometimes they trans­late. 
piecing together indifference from the shards of a vanquished society 
provides telltale reminders that heaven is a church built in a nice 
district, well-regarded from many aspects including excellent drainage. 
drainage is important as it lets old literary history seep away, as well 
it ought. Lewis and Pound are not (most likely) old literary history, 
but one should always keep one’s eye ope. in a faceless society, 
ramifications broaden on a basis of travelogue, identity, virtual 
crisis, preparation and molten lava. perhaps this is an attempt at 
resolution, or restriction, or timepiece. people arrange flowers in 
their dreams, casting excuses into pup tents or rendering laughable 
comments in little pocket notebooks. parsing these divagations allows 
the cool observer to scale the matter to ideal height and weight, 
motivating a full frontal attempt or perhaps a nice Maginot feint. Ezra 
Pound stood nine feet tall and Wyndham Lewis was nearly so. they crushed 
victors with their toes and bought time wholesale. their literary 
history tousled the experts and gave new meaning to new meaning. 
researchers even today say that yesterday was tomorrow. which is no mean 
distinction, at a time when closure ranks with other heavens in the 
circular debate and enthusiasm. cartridges are simply left on the 
battlefield, no longer needed. artistry is gone, or left to hang dry for 
the nonce. meanwhile, the literary lions sport amongst themselves, with 
dire results. well, not dire, and not exactly results. but at least we 
can say that we can at least say. Ezra Pound and John Lennon wrote many 
great songs together, the voice of a generation. while all heedlessness 
blurs. capricious envy logs on to the latest report, which is instant, 
full of sameness, but instructive in winning ways. gesture deserves its 
own climate, and consideration should be given to undertow when swimming 
the ocean of literature. the dog once again curls up on the chair, yet 
Lewis and Pound are contained in the merest phrase. effort is made to 
apply wildness to zones of verity, but this is easy talk. hard talk 
consists of battering the ramparts and distinguishing this from that. 
this is here; that is there. what could be simpler? social concerns are 
so much wax, which can someday be the whole ball of, or it can be what 
is eaten as candle. heaven knows that literary history tries, and 
improvement leaves luxury to moan. that moaning derives directly from 
Robert Johnson, who saw hellhounds with direct lighting. how needful the 
cheeriness that embellishes the lasting tribute that has startled one 
and all as they ope the book. diversity is a crank living in a treehouse 
on the edge of a deep forest that falters with the lack of memory. 
incredulity syndicates and rocks the market with formulae and tripe. the 
tripe is perhaps fresh, but who can tell? moody haze delivers the day, 
so some say, and the threat of rain becomes an actuation of a sunny 
clime providing the happy flowers with food source and merriment. Lewis 
and Pound map the continent, exploring the mysteries west of the 
Missouri, the edgy Snake River, for instance, and some weird-ass 
markings on some rocks. just Maginot, 

Re: My bungbag molt, dormant wrist, gland-whap huffed with fart quaff

2007-01-31 Thread Allen Bramhall

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

oh my goodness: my bungbag molt, my fart huffed silence (no kidding!!!). 
Bob, how do you accomplish these works? do you cut and paste a pile of 
John's phrases and razzle dazzle them together or what? you should write 
about John's work because you obviously intimately connect with it. I 
mean, if that's of interest. Allen


Re: My take-offs on the poems of JMB!

2007-01-31 Thread Allen Bramhall
this actually is a great answer. it really is up to the reader to render 
the experience. your work is so striking because you have such an 
attitude toward and regard for each word.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Allen Bramhall:  

Thanks for reading, and your comments.  

Sheila Murphy asked me to write about my take-offs on John's poems about a year ago, and I could think of nothing to say, other than that it was fun to do so. 


In the same way I don't know how to review your book.  My mind does not seem to 
work that way anymore.  Gertrude Stein has destroyed my brain, and turned me in 
a different direction.  It's not what the words mean, or even how they sound, 
but simply the words themselves:
squirm, flatter, senile, wring, odious, thwart, writhing, roving, poultice, billowy, 
avail, pinions, anew, hoarfrost, tint, diadem, smother, breastplate, nosegay, catapult, 
winnow, flinty, belch, niche.  There are millions of 'em, it seems.  O my soul, 
praise the Lord.

Best, blessings, peace,

Bob BrueckL


 



ardent troublesomeness (the story so far, Part 2, part 1-c)

2007-01-28 Thread Allen Bramhall
s much as possible, the world situation turns on a dime. this dime laid 
down by Fu Manchu, that ambitious, detail-oriented professional-scale 
rapscallion who will stop at nothing to further his plans to rule the 
world. crazy man, and you can see the sea from the top of this hill, and 
clouds (below) from the top of Everest. and when Yeti, big as advantage, 
stumbles into camp, all the merrie-making deathwatch types (I skied down 
Everest with an anvil for a friend), on the mountain (looking) for a 
reason, go so scared. I mean it's like, hey, what up with this sudden, 
and I die too soon, and the winds suck me dry, even my compelling 
legend. and so on, often with photos. the fierce importance, including 
stopgap against Nepal becoming a footstool, or Tibet the background 
music to the next to last movie, all this patently redeemable, like mica 
once was, the glory days. Fu Manchu consults his mojo. only keen, 
pipesmoking Nayland-Smith can cope with the exigencies, tho he at a loss 
being normal and English. Yeti wears no clothes, which is scandalous, 
and seems untrained in riding bicycles (look how he stagger walks!). so 
it all comes together, briefly as the meeting of lips or, perhaps, that 
agreeable moment when love. crisis fades into crisis, even while not 
fading. Russians and gangsters and Yellow River polluted with pee, and 
this Army of the Americans with its machine-quality global repositioning 
act. tired, can't think, need water, oxygen would be nice...


foundation of 6 or 7 steps

2007-01-28 Thread Allen Bramhall

Fact, the Himalayas.
Schneider who is gray
out of steel chosen
in the nth hiring.

Die sick, butter grease
of farm laborer matrix, the
griffin Bianka put back
the person with the
diet Grosvenor ode.

O use liner injury,
Oil is no zoo.

Paris has thousand Frankensteins,
makes the Himalayas Schneider
which is gray of stem.

choose the nth hiring.

Those are sick
of the butter grease
of farm laborer griffin
Bianka.

put back O malicious Governor,
use injury liner, Oil not
Paris zoo.

thousand Frankensteins, finish
the diesel elephant.

Victory in an armchair
of low belly yaw
because the axis.

I am machete of traumatized
perfume's haft of bean hiring.

enormous end in common
stags of Seersucker. O
yaw of Virgil stein contrast:
Rich daisies, how ideal.


Dear Element of Surplus

2007-01-27 Thread Allen Bramhall

Dear Element of Surplus,

cakewalk Prince Intercontinental Chief Auditor Subtraction. audit 
department camera canker fest of Fund release Ordinary central boom boom 
Bank of Nigeria lattice work. cakewalk the letter to you, your elf, each 
word frightening Surprise, but take it like you own. Mr. VALDIRIM from 
Trade Station (lack of embryo)(user) executed contract (common) through 
Federal Misty Days Aviation here in Nigeria, the plant. the contract 
worth of button throbs your intention but the process dyed his family in 
earthquake. Patience, leaflet: disaster that occurred recently in (user 
rules) his money (mop function) must be Signed in my office. cakewalk 
will order the central bank of Nigeria (buzzing sound hereditary). final 
endorsement of his money means Nobody knows what is going. cakewalk and 
user two workers, this is man's formation:


(1)Contract Sum
(2)Contract number

You will act like this cakewalk will send you the whole relevant 
documents. in this transaction immediately you accept to co-operate with 
life of nouns inclusive. Send me to your:

1. private phone and fax numbers (elephant ranch sounds)
2. Name your company to start the immediate (portion).

cakewalk decided to give you 20% risk. I'm going on very soon, so 
cakewalk to My future area. investment in your century waiting your 
urgent God. bless you.


PLEASE REPLY ME

Thanks, lump sum


intersecting lines

2007-01-27 Thread Allen Bramhall

If one of you experienced betrayal, you experience you the more faithfully.
And if your soul is betrothed to death, then seize the lycra.
The strings sound! A hero song, full flames and glow!
There the anger melts, and your mind becomes sweet bleeding.

intelligent Substrata stations ascertain soul against cave Dankness Odin 
of stopping insurance personality: rot wild wigeon, Metternich! The 
vacuo caveman-acting nature sits lichen attributes on demo humans. Stop 
review touring, Lester, its core lucky nine natch item Ode capital, dear 
Philanderer, world attendant wiry auk in the uncertain thunder 
viewfinder. Translate again.


End nun plebe wool,
fund wend was Schlitz beer,
so Schick razor Beechnut gum


lanny flickrs

2007-01-23 Thread Allen Bramhall
I was pleased to discover Lanny's Flickr existence: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/


lots of pix, I must not have been paying attention (sorry)


Opening Salvo

2007-01-20 Thread Allen Bramhall
a terrible, tremendous world fits in fog, said Fu Manchu, icy glare 
telling worlds to fall. George Bush guffaws practically. their nosecone 
heads for lunar landscape. the vantage is to see the orb spinning and 
delirious. on Earth, the little precinct, Sir Denis Nayland-Smith, 
invincibly English, conducts tea to his lips. to travel then, that tea, 
down throat, bump along the merrie alimentary ways, piss away like the 
last breath of justice. he will vindicate his poor attitude towards Du 
Manchu, that incarnate evil holding cards of purpose. and we, peons 
glowing with nice clusters of Kevin Federline Just changing my 
perception of myself in the public eye is number one


the big trees then got busy.

they rang appropriate bell-like tones from their limbs. the blue sky 
adapted to the promulgation. words were spelled out clearly. literal 
losses were examined for reasons of torment. who would want more than a 
creation of vanity in the sport of trying? thus do the nodes endure. 
George Bush as the rock face staring into the sun beguiles with a loose 
drawing down. waking is a sly riposte. no one really gains a footing, 
the mountain crumbles with toleration.


what war, basically. Nayland-Smith savours oil as a means of production, 
as in, how can this desert betray its foundation, and who are the crying 
people? not to say all words begin with sentiment. the English 
government, swiftly rebutting Stanley's query of Livingston, tickles 
newer regions for spirit.

Sir John Franklin and crew freeze in death. death was sick all over.


Re: The fugs. kill for peace.

2007-01-19 Thread Allen Bramhall

phanero wrote:


http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/killforpeace.mp3

The fugs. kill for peace.


yes! thanks for funnelling in the Fugs. Sanders was part of the 
symposium on Olson at MIT this past spring. neat to see him as scholarly 
elder (but still hale) statesman. next stop, Holy Modal Rounders.


Re: The Black Pineapple SS

2007-01-17 Thread Allen Bramhall

phanero wrote:

tres nifty. it's a brave person who can dream of being Spock.


the rewards of diligent poppycock

2007-01-14 Thread Allen Bramhall
quiet! Fu Manchu and George Bush are talking. the moon sags. we're about 
to be wet. Fu Manchu, he's fiction, he's insidious precision, he's in 
command of one part of one brain. George Bush, what is his time? and 
when they are together, what meets? we should be confused right now. 
definitely, the program enjoys mites and motes. is the edge of the world 
slipping into a horizon slot, disappearing? it is hard to tell from this 
vantage, outside our minds. should we consider this evil as a vacation? 
we better hurry toward protection, protracting our energy levels into a 
light, whipped up presence. this present resides, with fierce muddling 
Bush at the helm of together, and Fu Manchu whispering. a synergy of 
narrative plot lines gropes towards the new novel. future deeds plop 
before us, and we'll tackle the situation of discovery. which one is 
more meaningful? does the fiction remain unattained? okay, let us quiet 
the questions. the situation deserves murk, because we have asked. a 
clutch of bedfellows thrive in the muck. they will die in a land without 
air. their progeny will escape into a dotty future. we'll need 
circumspection up the wazoo to deal with it all. regard the checklist, 
see if we're ready.


dire more dire

2007-01-14 Thread Allen Bramhall
when the spellbound poem includes me, I get roasted. the spellbound poem 
streaks sadly, cowering under the spell of that lurking boom of dawn 
that had the hospital enthralled last week. then who is in charge of 
dumpsters, including the internment of all particulars of rubbish? 
because there was noise upon that dawn, along with worries. okay, 
worries are part of spellbound. Fu Manchu enters the foggy wilds of 
London. he passes thru walls and disappears as needed. this is not a 
vacation but you might splutter when the evil inscribes itself in your 
reading matter. war time propulsion, game reentry into debate, truculent 
dodging. well indeed, we are tired of the act in which George marries 
welfare to stretches of august land that covers oil wells. we can blame 
ourselves, and the satellites too. then a struggle much like a gift. 
razor sharp wit of... not Sir Denis, that's for sure. no, Fu Manchu is 
the clever one, Bush is the honed one. two rocks, scraped against the 
sides of his head, greased with oil from the aforementioned stretches of 
land, pointless debate in the name of some function that has been 
enclosed unreasonably: that kind of honed. ridiculousness is cunning.


art showing

2007-01-13 Thread Allen Bramhall
if anyone can see themselves in the Boston area on January 20, I am 
giving a showing of my visual works (paint, collage, ink, etc). there'll 
be at least 100 works presented. the showing looks something like this:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/351660886/

location is Pond Circle Gallery
53 Pond Circle
Jamaica Plain 02130

it will run from 4-6 pm. I think the work will stay up for some days 
afterwards.


the gallery is just off the Jamaica Way, within 5 miles (I'm guessing) 
of Fenway Park.


Allen


shortage program

2007-01-07 Thread Allen Bramhall
hello, sad stamp of authority. your bitter limestone molds Mt Everest, 
yet look who bought the angels. trust combines with pure weather while 
days finger a pulse, letting it play merrie. still poetry overcomes the 
name of Jim. tidal waves relent on auspicious newscasts, whose weighty 
song tags the wind, freshens it with vowel. next comes the diligent 
register of maxing out. shrivel consists of teeth, teeth consist in Tom 
Cruise. no one cries, it would be a waste.


part 2: decent things include rivers over bought surfaces. try to 
explain why.


summit meeting

2006-12-23 Thread Allen Bramhall
the sky's transparency turns to rain, which isn't much trouble. a 
whittled down mountain like Everest (all legend, no action) stands three 
feet above your imagination: not much. so you see, rise and let the 
climbing begin. you see snow as a plaintive need to cower. you see air 
as a fabulous instigation, like you could arrive at party on fire. you 
can, try it. and as you try fire, day fades to night. well that it 
should. it is a winter covering, a respect of earth. we can take such a 
thing as a request to see death. death hits its mark atop Everest. see 
the lunar loss, the vision of chill, the statues made of people. feel 
definite, finally. death is a shaky town in a whirled ocean of feeling. 
people strand themselves then yell for glory. a rumble above is merely 
an avalanche. avalanches just make human call a number one. a few 
moments, say, beneath white blanket will startle you but it is just a 
mountain, just death, just a blue sky sometimes burnt into the world 
above. or rain, as this day knows. we may sleep later or run around a 
large rock. we may incline towards love because it is there. the sky's 
transparency is as grey as dictates. the rain feels fine and finely 
tuned. morning becomes eccentric.


There's a Period After Jennifer Aniston's Name.

2006-12-21 Thread Allen Bramhall
millionaire actress Carmen Electra wants me to buy a camera. the camera 
has no sharp edges and comes equipped with a smoke alarm. later, in 
terms of days or this life (whatever), the noise softens, and hot as hot 
singing sensation Kevin Federline pleas with me to secure my rights of 
ownership to an iPod of preeminent weight (17 tons, greater than the 
weight of all the iPods on Jupiter), do you see? this is an impressive 
injunction. Kanye West instructs me on which side is left when I turn 
and which is right. he also offers his ideas of preference between the 
two, in terms of time-space continuum and what not. Jennifer Aniston 
controls all the wealth of my memory, even the Everest of green bills 
that I've had. Jennifer Aniston will delight in numbers until the end of 
my days. her days, as a successful entertainer with a graphic range of 
emotion including happy and sad, pulverizes any inkling of giving in to 
doldrums of non-entertainment exercise. her hair, let me speak of her 
hair, it shrouds the death scenes with a grinning carapace. she isn't so 
much wonderful as a dying breed of definite. Kanye West is her lover, if 
the truth be not told. his trip into trees relaxes his state of mind, 
and encourages pure flood of success. that's the key, pure flooded 
success, which is a range of emotion beginning and ending in one place, 
studded with grace and bequeathed not at all until one can encompass the 
rhythm inside the trusted rock. Carmen Electra assays the weight of 
aforesaid camera, which is like the weight of Pluto, only more graven. 
dust falls fallow on the relationship of Jennifer Aniston and the stun 
gun Brad Pitt (2 syllables to succeed in the picture!). Brad Pitt (those 
syllables!) indeed and Angelina Jolie, together earnestly as well as 
visually. Jolie means Japanese Door in French. Beyoncé is like the jail 
we'll never leave, with a ship of magnets to pull us offshore. LeBron 
James institutes a new heaven, with big shoes, baggy shorts, headband of 
the highest wealth, and more. other instants occur naturally, flavoured 
with sunshine. Jennifer Aniston is gosh-darn-it, running naked thru the 
library while lesser numbers collect at zero. nakedness is an influx of 
variables, none of which adds up to much. Death has mercy, but chooses 
it wisely.


the colour of ivy, the colour of strain

2006-12-19 Thread Allen Bramhall

we saw the colour in the door, the door was momentous.
the door was sad as an arch over only frozen rivers.
we stood with a wish but the night was scary.
we tried our ever light way, chasing after the fear.
we came to a fine draining moment that was like waking.
would you like to live like a tree?
would you need me in a second?
will I live beyond the colour of last night or this morning?
of course all colours are strong, and someday I will show it.
someday we will live in terms of green stretches of land
and the certain effort of the bluest sea.
the sky too is blue, it is blue with me and you.
the land is green and staring at us in our lives.
our lives are considered earth. this is the poem
that lasted thru the parts that stretch away.
this is, then, a poem that sees its present.


a poem beginning ill its end

2006-12-15 Thread Allen Bramhall
I remind that I lifted. I struck out those cold points, that were 
process. I said I in a cold day morning and the white of breath showed 
something thru dark. no words were in that smoke. daylight hadn't dawned 
on me or anyone. I tried to think, and was little. I thought earlier 
this same. the poem was there all along. then I took a point of time, in 
which my father. then it wasn't him. then I said I would try. then I 
forgot the work. then I looked back. then I was writing that I hadn't 
done. but I had. have you cared that way? simple questions crowd us. I 
specialize. I was strong as betting or even, cloud goes away. when 
language is as great as we think, we believe poetry. when language is 
small, your family is smaller. when I did all I could, I saw I could do 
more. when I read that sentence, I see many things varying. did I need a 
family when I was weak? do I need one when I am strong? a father or 
mother, either way, the weight and waiting. something was staved, and 
something caught on, and something, I wrote. you may find this too, in 
the way of your road. the end.


Re: some random links

2006-12-14 Thread Allen Bramhall
jinkies, Larry Fischer!!! nice fetch! and there's a Wikipedia entry too. 
not to say that there isn't a fine line between genius and psychosis, 
and an audience happy to blur that line.


phanero wrote:

Hangin' out in Dayton, Nevada in the late '70s 
http://www.houseplantpicturestudio.com/HPS/dayton/dayton.html


Music For Maniacs: WILD MAN FISCHER  SMEGMA
http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2006/12/wild-man-fischer-smegma.html

Gregory Jacobsen
http://gregoryjacobsen.com/

Neapolitan Presepi Shop
http://www.dauriapresepi.it/




Bay Poetics as Perhaps

2006-12-13 Thread Allen Bramhall
Massachusetts Bay sounds sad, so blue and big, such as a hill passing 
the highway. Bay Poetics is a title goosed from some other ether, trial 
balloon-sized and after all, we can't all own the sun. the sun ran 
behind the blue hill, discussed in terms of praxis and the federated 
year. will next year turn callow as we wind the highway up and let it 
smooth its association with all blue hills? this is a question for the 
end of 2006, when Bay Poetics tries hard for us. is there a bearable way 
we can listen to all poems, or only those from the side of the hill and 
the blue ocean filling the bay with traces? answers cannot control the 
event. Bay Poetics stuck to its principle of pages, and were read aloud 
or alone. Stephanie was in charge and that settled only one thing, 
correct dawn after night out. then Bay Poetics was austere because even 
Oakland crowds tears. and the bay of Massachusetts rose over the hill, 
the baying of people who read poems probed the forested hillside as if 
lost children were to be found. how do bays accept the ocean? how do 
hills accept the sky? Bay Poetics tosses some convivial flower into the 
warm ocean and daylights of that coast. winter is in Massachusetts, tho 
bought cheap. icebergs falling anywhere are full of frozen cheer. poetry 
dumps a load on you know who. thus this story allows itself. you may 
serve your Bay Poetics now.


Re: Who has Wryting hooked up to Blogger, and Why do we get the Error mails?

2006-12-07 Thread Allen Bramhall

Bjørn Magnhildøen wrote:

excellent!!! as long as we have someone admitting guilt, and all 
acrimony can be turned towards this miscreant, I'm happy. I actually 
don't know that any postings of mine were lost or anything like that, I 
just couldn't grok what up with the message.


swig season

2006-12-07 Thread Allen Bramhall
an average sized poem posed over the hole of sun, which dimmed 
mercifully. meanwhile collegiate moon drained off fullness and went with 
the winter extreme towards snow, the flat brokerage fee of stubblefield. 
the cat climbs up to investigate the season of miracle and streetwise. 
we forget. years eat everything. stayed home to examine why these 
colours particularly, when so many. the poem finds its wheel and leg, 
struggles with words, and days mean a lot of wiggle room. until you 
street clean, you are leaves from the overdue wind. autumn fakes out. 
snow is illusion, spring can't hold a candle. is it then summer? summer 
is a poem.


pop tart poem

2006-12-02 Thread Allen Bramhall
the blue from the sky distinguishes towns from losing all centre. a 
place as happy as clearing stays with us, colder but in a mild 
convulsion we let this touch our hands, together. we stop and then, 
tender, doesn't that mean we live? little things and smaller too. Pop 
Tarts sit in heaven toasty warm. we live n grass growing brown and the 
apples fell. fell with pure old times, that makes the best Pop Tart if 
not forever. forever becomes a definite impulse. loss is not as static 
as we once believed. the delicious crusty pleasure of going far for 
breakfast treat means something. something like Pop Tarts as bridge to a 
new word without prior meaning. we can have a poetry today, life still. 
another day, another blue or grey imitates sky. then when I say these 
structures abide, then I let a moon beam fill a poem. no, no poem lives 
like that, I just let myself think.


intimate share, one morning

2006-11-28 Thread Allen Bramhall
I wrote some writing in the time it takes to breathe auspicious breaths. 
grey was the morning, the same morning that provides current in the 
darkening stream. each morning differs with a colour or light. sometimes 
the writing needs a day of plain rocks tossed into the coming concentric 
circles. sometimes the circles precede the very rock that will be 
embraced. in our intimate swimming the rings seem marvelous and 
conjoined to our rush of perspective. we are challenged to embrace thru 
the normative particles of recent events. this is the love we sought. 
and if I wrote some breath, it becomes me to stay back from the 
movements that follow. the circles will widen, as anyone can see. grey 
mornings will suffice. something terrific gives us our time. we share 
and trend toward delight. not everyday gives such evidence, and sadly, 
the trees have disowned the latest year of leaves. the circle settles in 
its growing and we hold hands. there sits the gesture, rounding out nicely.


Expanseof Part One of Several Parts, part 4

2006-11-27 Thread Allen Bramhall
at this time, and at all time, which is any, we come to the node where 
we see Nayland-Smith: up close, impersonal. Sir Denis Nayland-Smith, in 
a bundle of trouble because his stiff upbrought feeling (currently) 
shivers in contra nature. how evil, personified so ably by Dr Fu Manchu, 
the mad colour of those eyes, and because effort means something. and 
heralds fall apart (sloppy) in the strung sentence. Nayland-Smith, with 
the tape recording of all impetus in his head, rings self-interest. not 
his self, but the one that carries people. this political thwart needs a 
country down, to wit: vital gas resources, oil on the skidway, practice 
of understanding the integrity of the net: all stutters in the misfire. 
practicing stupid headers, tailored footers, lack of text, ouch. sum of 
something that Nayland-Smith will fight for. against his nature, his 
Ezra Pound sentence structure poop. common and ground up.


now cackling, Dr Fu Manchu, knowing of the minion status of Sir Denis. 
he will implement my desires, the doctor asseverated to no one with 
steely something that really bit. he sips tea and thinks, desire is a 
nice thing. implemented desire, that is, he added, emphasized. the crown 
jewel of the world is the world, he busily further thought. a sip, a 
satisfaction. mmm Earl Greystoke, he muttered, sniffing his cup.


presently Lady Greystoke, nee Jane, quickly turns to civilization. 
civilization got us into this mess, it'll get us out, she said to a 
friendly giraffe she knew. the giraffe nodded impressively then went off 
seeking tall things. Jane switched from her usual and politically daring 
loin cloth to her finest tweed suit. she buckled up her sensible shoes 
and strode massively, like England, to the first exiting plane to 
London. ach, with action like this, dear Reader, you must be crucially 
inspired!


momently Captain Element sits on moon rocks pondering the big blue 
marble. a key element exists in all matters, that central point, that 
core of pity and distinction that allows the perplexity to abate. a few 
more soothesome moments pass then he fires up his jetpack and heads back 
to the crowd called fighting. the odds of everything at odds was high. 
he and the Aggregate of Justice would be sorely tested.


now Dr Petrie flashes his electric torch into darkness. as he does so, 
an inveterate universe goes solar heat beyond imagining. this causes the 
filament to glow. this glow illuminates the closet into which the 
electric torch aims. Dr Petrie sees his prey. fearlessly he reaches in 
and fetches out his good sturdy boots, for 'tis to the moors, the moors, 
there is where the next step must occur!!!


Tarzan tired in a tree sleeps careless while Cheetah sits hunched 
guarding and a well-connected boa keeps eye out too. Tarzan pooped from 
exertions, Tarzan sleep.


Part One of the Story Begins, part 1

2006-11-23 Thread Allen Bramhall
Captain Element became suddenly perplexed. a night of steel, fortified 
with longing, stretched across a natural space between loud weary 
commercial, yikes. this television shit buggers all, thought Captain 
Element. launching into a mode of inquiry that serves to add a 
justifiable nurturing to other plans for the world, Captain Element 
bounces off, mindful of needful, as shouldn't we all.


meanwhile, Dr Fu Manchu, rascally capture, chortles in high gear. the 
suture of his famous drug has compelled Sir Denis-Nayland Smith into an 
irregardlessness. this could be trouble, Great Britain would say, if 
Great Britain could say, or even know. in the secret den of iniquity 
where Dr Fu Manchu (a degree in dentistry from some bellicose Asian 
school hangs on the wall of his lair) keeps his captives, much 
amusement. minions all astir, as if they just watched the Republic 
National Convention and still knew what sanity was when it left.


meanwhile, Dr Petrie, in his own charming, bumbling, English way, has 
decided something is wrong.


meanwhile, Jane wakes Tarzan with an eerie feeling. I sense troubled, 
she murmured over the jungle racket. trouble Tarzan middle name. also 
Howard, said the jungle man, haha. no time for levity, Tarzan, the world 
at large and the forces of good who serve it, need your assistance. 
Tarzan all serious, says: Tarzan down with assistance. the ape man rises 
from his hammock with destiny in his eyes. no, that's the full moon 
glowing like it does once a month or so, to what purpose no one knows. 
Tarzan get to work, said he, intuitively knowing that he spoke no 
infinitive. I'll bake cookies, said Jane.


meanwhile, Captain Element flies thru the air. his jet pack carries him 
towards trouble and the possible rectification thereof. he's in his 
element with such ventures.


meanwhile, Dr Petrie grabs an electric torch, always handy in a pinch, 
and a revolver. little universes are placed in chambers in the revolver. 
at times of puncture or inquest, a trigger is pulled, a hammer lurches 
violently, striking a little universe, and a big bang occurs. that too 
could be handy.


meanwhile, Fu Manchu sends Nayland-Smith out into the world. Fu Manchu 
has applied arcane drugs and wicked knowledge to inveigle decency from 
Sir Denis. to wit: Sir Denis is now a bad acorn. go forth and do my 
bidding, said the doctor cheerfully. but will this action not be too late?


Excitingly Present Part One, par 2

2006-11-23 Thread Allen Bramhall
does the reader know what meanwhile means? well, elegiac symptoms in the 
night, that's what got Jane. now, with fresh cookies a-baked, she can 
pondering. the diadem of morning—okay, it's just the sun—fletches the 
trees with a song of spring. day is for action, and Jane's movie has 
taken a turn. I shall!, and that's plenty enough to say. come, Cheetah, 
we must assert ourselves in the name of if not justice then something 
even better. Cheetah backflips agreement, and they off go.


presently, or if meanwhile, Sir Denis Nayland-Smith with eyes a-bead 
scouts the world view that has entangled him. the empire is any sort of 
group of catchphrases, he realizes, under Fu Manchu spell. and he can 
mess with, something, being as his eminence is read about. you know, 
meets with royals on a daily basis, smokes a pipe, stands tall. he can 
enter the ring of intrigue with deft step, the dark side, totally 
darthed out. a cunning plan by the insidious one, heartbreaking like a 
republican neuron. our Sir Denis, trailing into bad...


in a rough concurrent, Captain Element engages in the first trope. he 
sees the hordes as bad. they were there with Marx, sure, told stories of 
apocalyptic grounding, and oh glory if we could just ascend. ascension, 
which is like a birthday, is a way to crow. Captain Element sees this 
impact sun, and starts a gamble. his goodness, philosophically 
self-evident, registers in acts and action. those are twain yet go 
together well, like Michelle and ma belle (très bien ensemble). ah, 
humming a moody tune whilst the very rich hours pass, scudding with jet 
pack alacrity to a junction of good and evil, somewheres about. very 
intent, Captain Element, a good part of the equation.


in coeval time, Tarzan has astonishingly navigated thru the vines of his 
special jungle. chattering monkeys and wild looking birds and the 
occasional elephant with decibels a-booming have informed Tarzan of bad 
tidings like full moon nut. the case is this: the can of political 
anchovies of a bad sort has been opened. no shit, the murk is 
situational. can the preyed upon pray? there's the best of Tarzan, 
racing to help, yet with a philosophic wit. some bad types sink into 
quicksand, the engulfing volume of narcoleptic enjoinment. collected 
like a drag, that is, in the same sort of stew that crazed out 
Lovecraft. that is, no criminal except in normal racist speech and 
general rant, Lovecraft cankered in the death and dull images, 
respendent depth to deeper depth probe. gosh! well, we depend on Tarzan, 
put it like that, and we're good. good's inherently good.


and at about the same time, Dr Fu Manchu, the nervy dentist, knows how 
to get to you. or me, even as I type. or anywhere and one, with the 
smell of fear. that's his prognosis, participation and general way to 
go. we accept that nasty side, so we can drolly speak our better. okay, 
so Hitler was one canker and Stalin went rather poorly. and that pal Pol 
Pot. we can name more names but the point is, here's Fu Manchu, very 
from the dark important hellishness, and he gives us little chance to 
breathe. what if England fails as England? and that tyke of England, 
USA, the commander of different sorts of future completions. all this is 
politics as a smooth smothering and incomparable messiness. just like we 
planned. everyone take bow.


simultaneously or at least subjectively so, Dr Petrie, um, drinking tea, 
um, maybe a sup of port later, um, fireplace, comfy chair, um, oh yes a 
little stilton would be very nice, newspaper, um, wife, um, later, yes, 
later...


The Further Adventures of Nothing at All

2006-11-17 Thread Allen Bramhall
abject thunder mixed with cruel warnings spell Fu Manchu in green 
underpants. this is dismal, saith Fu Manchu. the green is less than 
green of eyes, or the speed with which lightning dots out eyes. green 
underpants for the sinister scowling pumping machine in evil's quest. 
yet minions abroad allow for no restitution or calm change. well this 
must be dealt with, said Fu Manchu implacably, dilating on the terms of 
expecting a world at his feet. what artist could he be in the end, 
trying to outlast green underpants? suddenly the door flies open. 
Nayland-Smith and Petrie, guns in one hand (for both of them) and 
electric torches in the other (likewise both). we have found you in your 
lair, said Nayland-Smith, with steelly grey eyes determined to see the 
thing thru. you see my green underpants! shrieked Fu Manchu, as would 
you. keep a bead on him, Petrie, said Nayland-Smith grandly. and so the 
thunder and lightning crackled and thumped in the newsy air. fraught 
moment lingered... lingered... lingered... (wait for it)... lingered... 
trial balloons associated with progress, Bill Gates (self-taught evil) 
gtalks to mountains, Nordic skies on a snowy lump of earth 
inexorable days pass, exorable ones pass, winter turns to spring, spring 
exacts blossoms, blossoms make apples... now wait a second, said Fu 
Manchu (the enchanter of evil), apples as green as underpants (it makes 
him think)... tempus fugit, all by itself... this is England and 
civilization to save, barked Nayland-Smith, “Mrs Brown you've got a 
lovely daughter”, hummed Petrie with skittish delight. tall like a piece 
of ice, the diabolical doctor shivers. his green underpants are a warren 
of self-doubt. can the world be, um, conquered? he wonders in his 
weakness. rains lasts until it stops. dank London implementation of 
climatic conditions clutter the spellbound. I still have a bead on him, 
sputters Petrie. Nayland-Smith fumbles for his pipe. there's dottle in 
the bowl, which he expertly removes. dottle, pah! says Nayland-Smith. Dr 
Fu Manchu considers the chemical possibilities of dottle mixed with 
alchemical wonders, with evil as an antidote to the current situation. 
dire wind sounds the same old day. and when the day is done, more news, 
more wet news...


Re: The Further Adventures of Nothing at All

2006-11-17 Thread Allen Bramhall

Halvard Johnson wrote:


Bride of the Further Adventures of Nothing at All


yes yes, continued son of the further bride of the incredible 
adventures, etc. it's actually a good idea, thanks, I'll use it.


century mark

2006-11-12 Thread Allen Bramhall
yesterday was a green, temporal union, as I told Beth yesterday. the 
green is great, with the wings of anything in mind, but the days have 
closed to a certainty, a long winter of saying it's a long winter all 
right. but those are daze to slip under the breath of staying in tune. 
this nation of green beginning always always with the firm vocabulary of 
giving away. winter folds all present names into a stilling goodbye. we 
wish otherwise and let things stray. yet waiting in the love, the light, 
the very word, and how green can we organize? stinging basements of 
trying to lodge a homestead, curling wings of perplexed clouds, undulant 
waking day, and all, all, then I write a note to myself. I say, me and 
Beth live in this day, yesterday, and we have a piece of tomorrow too. 
green is a king and queen diamond setting. we have a child around and 
about, who we tell the clock to, because we cannot but. but that's not 
present or named, that's the ocean feeling poor. why poor? because its 
clock stays regularly owned, because we can only know time, not the lack 
of it. so what installs our best hope but to try a light year thru the 
ether. ether's great, we love its wholesome expanse. we'll stand in our 
nation, present stupid democrats to stupid republicans, then, wholly 
inspired, write our names in glue. glue really holds the words and 
pictures like a standing order for more beer, coffee and cold water. 
will we reach a poem of cool horizon? of course we will, and we are 
light. dodgy green is the inkling of diminishing season. our wills, 
uniting, stand out in our motion toward winter and that gaping. we 
married on the solstice, which is the best augmenting factor. we follow 
the lines.


an earful of written words

2006-11-10 Thread Allen Bramhall

a poem pursued
three separate
interference factors
which decisioned in
public gusts surnamed
Wow Wallpaper or
Shifty Trees
with the thrill of
disease
bundled into
popular upthrust
market pamper

why do we accept
the banging sound
of the bolt upright
dog-eyed old
time explanatory
word units plucked
from other places
where words
and the season
spit sentence factor
on reading factor
until perfect interference
makes same day as
net worth?

you pose the poem
and the people fill
the throng

this poem
is part of
that poem

eddies stop for nothing


Re: language thorax

2006-11-02 Thread Allen Bramhall

Halvard Johnson wrote:

22 mule team thorax


language Borax






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inability pager

2006-10-28 Thread Allen Bramhall
it's a beautiful world, your friend is dying. absolute leaves from the 
ghost of trees blast off to the wind choice. now and then, running 
around in rain, you stop for cinders. it's a beauty to the world, dead 
as your friend. then you reach all those poles that measure here and 
there. you climb steep something, to the very top or not. the wind is 
just an extra thing, a dilation practiced for close occasion. separation 
to the mountaintop, and the running sentence says the same as when, 
warmer, all was right. the beautiful world encodes, with vigour chiming 
on the delicate avalanche. it's winter here forever, but down we go to 
autumn. your friend, the ride of a lifetime. stop to drink the water 
that you brought. stop to breathe an opening. stop with one road but 
open up two. the day creeps into outward memory, of your friend, or your 
friend's friend, or mountains, wind, grey, lowering, cloud or rain.


umpteenth degrade

2006-10-28 Thread Allen Bramhall
nobody dreams outward, they rely on this picture: a rigid tree forced to 
stall. this is sensibly structured for stopping, in a breath, while the 
rain extends. a sentence bubbles within this dire crucible called latent 
television, and we sing of joyous dishsoap. bending the rules complies 
with recent discoveries in Paul Newman's skull. quietly we obey the list 
of vocabulary words that have been most useful in circumstance, the 
corollary being to eschew those words that start nowhere. here is where 
we can engage: pizza-coloured dormers of varied houses set upon by 
dreamy-eyed feeders of Paris Hilton, yet a close reading incurs the 
slight differential of brainchild: we wet our bed. a wet bed—was it 
Royal Crown cola or coffee-infused brandy?—contributes dormancy. sleep 
on it, then write your way out of a wet silo. to benefit from noise you 
have to stop hearing. examine your references then try again.


don't you see yon bonnie bonnie road?

2006-10-27 Thread Allen Bramhall
mom dead reckoning. now react, closing in, on the strength of just 
staying on the last word until its next companion reveals the next 
again. how far does poetry mean when the beginning switches courses 
every second, echoing ring of chiming bells across the believable 
countryside, and the audience claps.


that scrum fits more revolution than just last fading note. sung what 
when this was all that remains. begin to assert the practical day of 
which night looms starting. and after that night of nights the day 
institutes the ghost. mom said something in the year of something 
something. and then the rattle here became so apparent.


actual invasion includes the definite ways of often creeping army made 
trump.


divide the mandolin into
clearing
every note, that's the
mom the ghost, which is a chord.

pace of something fitting what
remains on course
loss of all: figure the sentence.


Re: stump gap

2006-10-26 Thread Allen Bramhall

Halvard Johnson wrote:


stump gas

ah yes, the elections





Hal

How strange we are, to call what happens
 anything at all.
--Robert Kelly

Halvard Johnson

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every situation today is later than ever

2006-10-26 Thread Allen Bramhall
tomorrow began on terms of inquiry. the date included when and where the 
villains lived. they ranged about a perplexing plain, and knew our bolts 
of poetry. they rumbled on the horizon, telling us of give and take. 
take was most masterful, in their eyes. so much in their eyes, indeed, 
that give gave way. trading passion for forest was one way to ignore the 
tatters. rain fell. we stood up. the villains in name grew heavy with 
their congregation. exactitude was a blurry map. they tried to entail 
even the least. it works when you fire up the candidate, and forget 
about Nepal. Nepal of the serrated flag, atop the highest nowhere. we 
rush to the scene, in the instant of unrest. we seize. we send envoys, 
and the envoys send envoys. polo without horses! the nuclear government 
wants pity. troops at the border. harrumph, dicated to the masses. the 
masses now attend church, quiet and contained. their unrest becomes a 
pew. desert sands sparkle with smell. intent goes awry, winging thru the 
testimony. a few people admired their facts. suddenly, in game shape, 
with a Superdome of our own, all lean towards some convenience. again. 
yet Nepal is Tibet, right? Cuba's Philippines and Iraq's Iran, albeit 
the flavour say Vietnam. that's all packaged money, of course, waiting 
for clearance. actual poetry stops at the top of the mountain, then lets 
one more step. function falls into that much morass, moraine, fleeting 
loess in the wind... all that was tomorrow, which will be here today.


PATENT PENDING

2006-10-26 Thread Allen Bramhall
An electronic poetics has a sexual innuendo and has a poetry-sensitive 
rhyme scheme surrounding the sexual innuendo. Areas on the rhyme 
scheme are designated for controls used to operate the electronic 
poetics. Visual guides corresponding to the controls are sexual 
innuendoed on the sexual innuendo adjacent the areas of the rhyme 
scheme designated for the controls. poetry data is generated by the 
rhyme scheme when a user poetries an area of the rhyme scheme. The 
poetics determines which of the controls has been selected based on 
which designated area is associated with the poetry data from the rhyme 
scheme. The poetics then initiates the determined control. The poetics 
can have a sensor for determining the orientation of the poetics. Based 
on the orientation, the poetics can alter the areas designated on the 
rhyme scheme for the controls and can alter the location of the visual 
guides for the sexual innuendo so that they match the altered areas on 
the rhyme scheme.


obviously tree finicky

2006-10-25 Thread Allen Bramhall
clerical tree in the garden, spoke of love. love stepped onto topic 
table, where bear, the informer, paused. pause is the entire world as 
if. clerical tree as a garden item while we together manage sentiment of 
numerals. exacting bear on the edge, informant, closes a door and alerts 
“authorities”. the rhyme scheme was robbing. then bear, now bear, with 
certain restrictions. death doesn't love, exactly, but it has a big 
hand. bigger hand of love, and give love a hand, then love sees a bear. 
it climbs clerical tree. it is name of something today, and will be 
tomorrow. thus love, as much as we can stare at it. furthermore pangs, 
as if saying something over the noise comes to fruition. well, maybe, 
because clerical tree drops gorgeous leaves of gold, to moulder 
impiously in the situation of earth. and as so much, then forward into 
the love new year. year is only simple taxation, when words border. 
still and freely, you hear the testament. clerical tree accepts actual 
bear, full component. then forward, while language still assists. this 
assistance consists of way back then far ahead. a lot of the time they 
wait and nothing more, but sometimes they jump up and include their 
down. down, think of how heavy it needs to be. then light, it could be 
two things. then bear, this is something of which we need strong 
argument. the bear seems so wild. are we wild too? an answer could 
settle that. love hangs in balance, then. oh doorway full of authorities.


His Mom Spit... As A Child

2006-10-18 Thread Allen Bramhall

in Communist Russia you find
the grandiose piano playing
that pervades the formerly mentioned
anti-gravity fantasy,
I just wants to have the courage
to face the camera with dad

oppressor-father will stop his oppressive behavior
only after he is dead dad
space in my heart as a kid

I don t know what the hell you are,
so just stop it,
cried the man who dresses like
these dumbass teeny-bopper fans,
what happens if dad's at work on a lyrical book
called The Judgements ?

“I’m too tired, Dad. Leave me alone,” he said, getting up
off the couch
Hey, dad, can I go into my picture and play?

little does the dad realize that two little eyes
follow him down the dark where he spent
the rest of his life
producing surreal main characters
of Magical Girl,
Hey Dad, I dug another hole!

my Dad would lean back at Ghost Dad Space
and sing his solo part
peppering the dope music,
my dad does the scariest pop-bottoms!
my dad never got to explore space in his lifetime,
my dad played guitar forever


Chinese Rest Across Street

2006-10-18 Thread Allen Bramhall

the phone book is a terriffic feature, double
hand basins and long bath, the telephone
is a patient's first impression, forward all
calls and then walk out the door,
we have an opening for a new patient
tomorrow -- how tongue-twistingly terriffic!
the view is terriffic and a house is comfortable,
the telephone is excellent, Rosanne came back
several times to see interactive tv - tea kettle -
modem - car park, here's a great tip -
get a copy of David Powers' terriffic book,
extensive lunch, bathrobe, bathtub with
spray jets, separate tub and shower, the
Chinese restaurant is a hair dryer, hotel
management is Russian, rooms come with
air condition, mini bar, in room safety box
facsimile, car rental, hair dryer on request,
baby cots on request, parking facilities,
valet parking, iron/ironing board in rooms,
microwave oven in rooms, fitness center,
free local telephone calls, international
phone service (with charge), satellite
television and tea, complimentary
airport shuttle, indoor pool, spa  sauna, and
1 KING -SMOKING HAIRDRYER-enhanced
american buffet


Our Trip to Clinton, Massachusetts

2006-10-09 Thread Allen Bramhall
please, we went in duo, shaded aptly, with guards of uttering green 
ceding to yellow, red, orange and aplomb. distance sapped a mention of 
memory from disparate landmarks, and we could only stay with the breast 
of sun in its slanting difference. what else would we do with the 
fullness of our directive? does love need a case to be made? like a leaf 
falling into plain water, we have the map to ourselves. our drift is 
perfect, less a crowd than a way to go to the shape of intent. we found 
a thing or two, and stay in the finding. we could not know more with 
each association of mile, dusting throughly thru the tendency to stay as 
we do. we have this intent position, curled into a warming cycle, while 
the earth itself reacts with mazes. the stars tell whistling stories 
when we wake for them, and gibbous moon is a boon of the passways. dream 
remains a lark that crowds morning with a form of delight. was it ever 
1968 or other fabled dots? who can tell? music doesn't end, it curves. 
this curve initializes the place of standing, wet for a tear or two, and 
for examined thirst as well. we know that water mounts to nothing, water 
never mounts. we wait in fast colours, and go as fast as they do. trees 
delight us because they live each clock and then go around the bending 
as easily as snow in the offing. we saw the interstate as managed and 
combustible, thus we took its horse for a chancy stay. we noted little 
roads that striped the map with day after day. when we are two, the 
years are interested in declaring fault. when we are distances, the work 
endures. these forces combine into roads with the gorgeous emblem of 
trees to match our mood. when we are colours, light sends a bonus to the 
hills just for us. we can't nationalize Thailand anymore, try as we 
might, on this road or any other. we can't stray for the flowers that 
fall from the hills. we can't wait for the merger of industry with 
heart. we have a day in an autumn sun, distinct with purchase yet not 
bent by the claiming. do we see speed as affordable or just the vaguest 
point in the landscape? never to be controlled by that bossed function 
of separation, we stay with the fact that colour is a laden dainty, a 
crumb of loving wisdom for the spreading instant that we share.


Re: antic few

2006-09-29 Thread Allen Bramhall
aw crap, done it again, sent to wrong address. say, why not read the 
whole megilla? www.anticview.blogspot.com


iMac wrote:


yeah, my poems are done.

done
LIKE
  dog ~
 Jooh edit crab



On 29-Sep-06, at 5:53 PM, Allen Bramhall wrote:

AHB: Maybe the poem is dead, and Poetry is thinking up another guise 
for its exhaustive antics. Your questions all seem bundled around 
whether or not the poem is participating with us readers, or if it 
has finished and moved on. Looking at some middle of the road poetic 
claptrap today, I won't bother to name the perps, and the form of so 
many of these poems, even the ones I enjoyed or respected, seemed 
plain idone/i. poetry, however, goes on. the problem with those 
MOR poetry volumes is an attenuation of force (not a bang, a 
whimper). we've heard poems such as these, seemingly can't avoid 
them. it would be nice to call them bad poems, but that's not enough, 
nor is it accurate. many are crummy exercises, but not all are. the 
poems bother me with their complacency. these poems survive because 
they are familiar, obeying the strictures. the grammar, as you say, 
is completed. I don't mean my stance to sound so snotty, but I think 
there's a genre of comfortable poems. those are poems that are 
content in their restrictions. Poetry, on the other hand, is the vast 
question mark addressed to language. Poetry trumps poem every time. a 
poem is a microcosmic possibility, a point on the map. I don't know 
if I am answering any of your questions. I see in them a sense of 
poetry as a process of agitation. a general ennui signals that the 
grammar has been completed. the US Poet Laureates have, in recent 
years (not that I've paid much attention to these lofty figures of 
Parnassus), been big on developing ways to trick people into liking 
poetry. they may convince some few to like certain poems, but poetry 
requires an inspired dedication. homages are the last hint of the 
freshening wave.







morning announcement and sky poem

2006-09-28 Thread Allen Bramhall
it was that silvery streak at first. familiar to the earthly gods as 
exhaust from a jet engine. that's the dynamo that obtains force by means 
of exaggerated words, and with this force shrinks earth to habitable 
size. it's a wonder and great. that streak, then, vested with the light 
from the direct sun, glows silver, tho its nature really speaks of 
water, steam and ice: /that/ alchemy. the glow is particular, tho not 
rare. where this aeronautical express and the sun relate influences the 
nature of that glow. a brief time, then the silver goes white and seems 
less featured. still, that flight and conveyance occurs high, more than 
17 feet high, more than 191 feet above me, even more than 1304.78 meters 
away from earth itself and all the vertical pronouns ever imagined. 
gosh, when we fall, we take forever. the clouds grab at us, the birds 
flap for us, the jet engine screams a bloody lament (with textures of 
great big noise, like you could change information). and then we too 
become brilliantly, fit for sky and earth. it is crazy just holding that 
stillness, as clouds inflate to vested interest and perhaps a war means 
news again. surely, nothing can be more risky than ending all planes. 
we'd have to bear the light ourselves, with clouds our only friends. we 
can't do that, can we?


free jessica simpson poem

2006-09-28 Thread Allen Bramhall

Jessica Simpson don't know that you could
say that the word full was appropriateness.
Simpson ate. Jessica Simpson Jessica Simpson
end of Jessica Simpson steined to all the
Jessica Simpson informativeness. Simpson
on that was Jessica Simpson label.
When Jessica Simpson  was Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson here yesterday, Jessica
Simpson  know a couple people. Jessica
Simpson Jessica Simpson mated that.
Jessica Simpson  knew a lot more than
Jessica Simpson Jessica Simpson Jessica
Simpson Jessica Simpson. That wasn't
really true. Jessica Simpson had been
on the Jessica Simpson led for
three hours per Jessica Simpson
or to Jessica Simpson Jessica Simpson here...
Jessica Simpson  wasn't really Jessica.
Simpson not know Jessica Simpson
too much except for the hearsay
that was go. Jessica Simpson on.
Jessica Simpson hadn't seen the
player and Jessica Simpson don't
even know she was here. Jessica
Simpson all of the Jessica
Simpsons was go. Jessica Simpson on.
Jessica Simpson don't know. Maybe the
Jessica Simpson don't want to wake me up...
Jessica Simpson  was sleep. Jessica Simpson
when all the Jessica Simpsons happened.
You know Jessica Simpson  go to bed
as early as Jessica Simpson can.
So Jessica Simpson wasn't Jessica
Simpson informed. Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson don't know Jessica
Simpson. Jessica Simpson got
Jessica Simpson on the bus.
Jessica Simpson Jessica Simpson
in the morn. Jessica Simpson had
probably been here 45. Jessica Simpson
nuts or an hour before anybody. Jessica
Simpson toned Jessica Simpson. The
Jessica Simpson Jessica Simpson on
now. Jessica Simpson is
that Jessica Simpson. have to rely
on other people to keep me
Jessica Simpson. informed as to really what's going
on Jessica Simpson. Jessica Simpson
can't form my own Jessica Simpson
independent. Jessica Simpson Jessica Simpson,
other than those Jessica Simpsons. neoclassical
Simpsons hand Jessica Simpson tonal
and does he look? Jessica Simpson
eke, she can play on Sunday. Jessica Simpson of
my med. Jessica Simpson calls people
to tell me those Jessica Simpson
negatives are Jessica Simpson in place and
then he looks Jessica Simpson. he's prepared, then
we'll make that con Jessica Simpson. dessicate
Simpson on that Jessica Simpson or me.
All Jessica Simpson had was a Jessica Simpson
conversationalist. Simpson on Jessica Simpsons
morn. A good morn Jessica Simpson type
of Jessica Simpson, and that's all. Jessica
Simpson haven't had the opportunistically
Simpson sty to do Jessica Simpson yet.
Jessica Simpson  know that subject were
to come up. someone would approach me.
Jessica Simpson wouldn't know where
to go. .. Jessica Simpson  have to rely
on the doctors that apparently
evaluated Jessica Simpson. she was
Jessica Simpson.


hey

2006-09-26 Thread Allen Bramhall
the sun wants you to give up. the sun has this thing, go on roof for a 
moment to gleam some morning. also the sun tops trees for this 
spectacle, again for a moment. what do you do, then? lay down on a 
pronoun, perhaps. the sun needs more room than do you. that's a simple 
point to understand. look at the sun: it's all fiery and real. you stand 
on things and wait. the sun does all the work. you provide no trees or 
rivers, don't even mention oceans. you only eat fish, and cows, and 
carrots, and things. your kind of poem lets things stay there, slightly. 
the sun gets puffy and hot and takes eons, eons you can't even believe 
in. substitute yellow for your ideas, the sun still wins. you struggle 
because you can't be green, and winter's greyness forces you to populate 
the world. have you ever heard of sarcasm? because the sun really does 
love you. next time you meet a stray mountaintop, and go all yellow 
pinkish purplish blue, let the sun know. or hop to treetops with this 
morning energy. or press across western expanse with this dizzying array 
of natural spectrum. do these things, and even meanwhile heat up planets 
and all local wonderment. try it just once, do it, then you win the job.


the Windmills of Flava Flav

2006-09-17 Thread Allen Bramhall

he the torment, when in even vast beech tree remembered state of dying.

state of loss in state of loss. a leftover practice endures with such 
tantalizing contest of means.


profound state of wind in old beech, the arctic continuing as leaves 
shed and nuts fall precisely because Flava Flav he such a joker.


they didn't fully catch it all at once, tho they knew serious is no 
joke, but neither is joke.


only so many hosta leaves, and a language continuing from one television 
to another. each television provides space.


space is an infinite frontier in which William Shatner grows fat. not 
always benign, not always there.


space is exceptional and tells you lots.

Flava Flav's time is as large as a truck with green lights. green lights 
begin with green.


a truck, itself, is only so large when hauling dirt to a new location.

the beech doesn't want to be green right now.

the wind that Flava Flav sets running interrogates William Shatner at 
the appropriate time. we'll gaze longingly.


the cool of autumn has been instituted, in which our guesswork tries to 
clear up the assonance of facts.


he that died, well, it looks close to impossible. sometimes the 
impossible works out well.


sometimes never there, ever. only in passing, only something that keenly 
petitions, and lets hosta grow old.


children grow old, but they strike a pose to remember.

Flava Flav he heralds a posse from the instinct of tang. tang being what 
the air reminds the living, except sometimes the house grows smallest.


remember all the differences, said Flava Flav to William Shatner. crazy 
Howard Lovecraft divides the planet into theirs and ours. that is, his 
and theirs. hours aren't allowed.


there's more to Flava Flav than a trick that stayed old.

there's more to William Shatner than beckoning that plain spoken Paris 
Hilton time.


there's more to Paris Hilton than just stuff over there, tho how can 
anything be exhausted so specifically? why does death seem like a part 
time job?


does the last piano on earth know what it has?

the story ends from one beginning when graduated flappy wing creatures 
from out Pluto way blessedly greet Lovecraft, amidst a floating pattern 
of autumnal leaves, and say, dream honestly you dumb racist fuck.


That Blonde on Friends Remains

2006-09-17 Thread Allen Bramhall
beginning with the first tree and every succeeding one, until possibly 
any tree will associate with the life of one person, to be named or not. 
the upside starts to reverse. the blonde actress on Friends decides on a 
different way of doing things.


Flava Flav does other things too. the standard tree with wide beech 
embrace seems perfect today, yet tomorrow it might lose something. we 
knew a man, said William Shatner and the blonde from Friends together.


why is the blonde from Friends blonde? where might her name go if we 
aren't ready for it? Flava Flav, haha, he stays around. disputes 
exaggerate the present, seem fine in the past, look deadly in the 
future. the future isn't exactly the tree involved in today's picture, 
tho we would love to own all that the tree considers. ownership is how 
we get along.


we say we love inside, and own that too.

when he left, however, it seemed more than the expectation of dying to 
go. it seems that leaves are a tradition in trees, mostly. and the cold 
snap hunts us down, but only partially. and the door, it has misgivings.


still, a loud laugh, which rocks every family member, as if children can 
even begin, or adults of certain age can have an end. the crew of the 
starship Enterprise invite the blonde from Friends into the tube of 
space, serving her a new name, which can go unmapped if so.


Flava Flav comically denies his own name, the better to ring out. 
Shatner, of course, goes into the corners of where we didn't know 
existed until suddenly. and when the man left, it was for good, but good 
it was not.


tho not good can be great, or great can be so large as to extend green 
into space. yet that space remains darkly insecure, because the man was 
thought to return. does this matter after all or only before?


Lovecraft does his own share of controlling interest. he doesn't like 
Whitman—this is documented—you see, and Pound/Eliot allegiance is for 
the birds, those bitter birds with rending.


read the paper full of news, regarding newsworthy in alphabetical order, 
allowing that alphabets lack framework beyond the smoke of the tree's 
used branches. leaves fall and can burn. beech nuts fail to impress, a 
broom can sweep them from the driveway.


and it doesn't seem like the right language, right? to reduce Flava Flav 
to death, and William Shatner to another brisk walk before really going, 
and Paris Hilton as too much tomorrow for one day. and finally fatal 
Lovecraft, daffy sometimes, if houses are not ready to tumble, and the 
eking of earth life in bowels of unmentionable depth must go on. his 
stopgaps improve Respighi no way, yet allow for a chance to operate in a 
Weird Tales diorama, associating horror, grue and ¼ cent per word. and 
mating with probably.


circulate along these lines of sighing for the honest dross of losing. 
like that impenetrable room with keening to witness, and only a tree 
outside as big as telling more. more becomes anything exceptional after 
language goes. whatever, then, remains signs on as terrific and you can. 
you really can, tho hardly seems so now.


the various welcomes emit their universes in positive charge. light 
submits its bill. the room feels small again.


Icon-Turned-Reality

2006-09-17 Thread Allen Bramhall

I will try once more without a tree in sight.

moments of ghastly shapes, timed to produce the most noisome of places 
to stand, reek of utter Lovecraftian, until dinner time or ready for 
bed. that's Lovecraft all right, blue go black.


The Yardbirds begin to step up their amps, pound a little harder. the 
blue changes and falls without more than a tempest for the kids. the 
kids must go on.


Shatner had a history thru out the future he softened. it comes to this: 
we are stoned from the beginning.


Flava Flav gets onto the smoke, and Abbie Hoffman tries some too. and 
Whitney Houston, she lost into in exile. she dusted off the 
pronouncement that the entertainment biz is evil incarnate, like those 
flying crabs in Lovecraft's yore.


thus Brian Jones dies, history of turbidity.

and no mention of trees.

part 2, still no mention of trees. the drummer for Traffic died, the 
drummer for Coltrane died, the drummer for Led Zep died, the drummer for 
Benny Goodman died, the drummer for the Who died. imbibe the history so 
far as it matters. without trees, of course.


part 3, and the tree cannot be produced. its smoke, determined by a 
basic elemental practice, sheds nothing new.


and the one who left? studious haze of Paris Hilton's matchless eyes. 
and an angel or two to hover the family frame, yet when the magazine 
falls away, even Paris Hilton brightly, someone with a name must remain, 
if only for the kids


such is the sake of elegies.


the Tears of Hannity and Colmes

2006-09-17 Thread Allen Bramhall
and we just couldn't figure out, said Flava Flav, the god. we fought for 
the colouring of leaves into this feeling, the definite and chemical 
process as a signifier, to find some way in or out.


thus the god declared. and Paris Hilton, the ancient goddess and now 
singing sensation, roots and branches still making the tree, said of the 
beautiful light thru still green and red and yellowing, it twinges me to 
go on, when the man that left stayed gone.


furthermore could be collected but patient Reader must understand all 
this as clear and rain, even if language limits reason. the gods and 
goddesses are naked as handkerchiefs, and they often live next to 
bug-zappers, in the quiet part of everything, drinking juice drinks of 
almost 10% real juice, and soap is their dessert. moths gather at 
participles, meanwhile, maybe to prove something.


death can be taxing in its way.

certified brain-damaged beechnuts might install tall gallant trees into 
a nested future day for which that family might have lingered. or the 
dog, peeing on a peculiarly assertive hydrant, demands a place 
wherewithal thereto. all of which is indicated by phrases and such.


so the god Flava Flav, he lift he sunglasses and yay bo, that clock 
round his neck is definite in all. and the cocaine buzz of Paris Hilton, 
buying time, the Well of Something Something that we might all worship 
thru the ages, or at least until.


and it isn't really all of Lovecraft that dies, just the stodgy plectrum 
that wouldn't. it would be weird to pass judgment on every rattled error 
on his docket or each our own. time clenches like a hart attack, tho it 
won't always tell stories.


strangely now, the god William Shatner is fully at peace.


Re: cicadia song Re: Bastion Flex, Starring Flava Flav, Sly Stallone, and Most Particularly H. P. Lovecraft

2006-09-16 Thread Allen Bramhall

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



In a message dated 9/16/06 12:43:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:



he striking word maintained its shape: cicada. this collectible word
wrapped around the vision of an insect selected by Lovecraft to overcome
the parental, pre-boiled world, stop closing out voice, and


cicadia song, unless i am wrong...
cicadia never stings, he sings.

tho my hair is red,
my delusions spread...
no bread, no butter,
u sputter...
cum and sea,
together we mix glee,
all for free? of course,
with u in my chorus
ur call urself lester...
what allusions do ur fester?


apparently it is both:

http://cicadamania.com/cicadas/

http://www.pbase.com/applebloom/image/29749512


Re: Bastion Flex, Starring Flava Flav, Sly Stallone, and Most Particularly H. P. Lovecraft

2006-09-16 Thread Allen Bramhall

phanero wrote:

This is a curious piece Allen, and reminds me of the odd aesthetic 
inversions

of Roussel's plays. For example the 'why' of selecting Alfred Magdalou's
'ouvre sans pretensions' for its having been written on a picnic menu
with an experimental pigment.

and then to snuggle that kind of thing up to Lovecraft's finicky-ness
which is arguably illustrated by his love of Irvin S. Cobb's Fishhead.

So I guess I'm reading the piece as a kind of hologram of its own
'programme' or some such

thoough i didnt intend to, and am certainly off its soundtrack.

finicky was the velvet monkeywrench in this case.

i'll refrain from my flava flav story.

if you have a Flava Flav story, I'd love to hear it. I pretty much only 
know that he has an alarm clock hanging from his neck. and I wasn't 
exactly emulating you, but I sensed that I was following strategies 
similar to your own (pardon whatever misreading that indicates, I mean 
it respectfully). I've been reading Lovecraft, including a ratty bio by 
L Sprague deCamp, amazed that HPL passed thru the town I grew up in, 
that there's mention of his taking the same train that I take to 
Cambridge, and so forth. I wrote it with wtf in mind, and expect readers 
to read it so.


he didn't want to leave

2006-09-15 Thread Allen Bramhall
it must be admitted that the living room is smaller than the 
mountaintop. the view is of a tree or something so close. snow loses 
eagerness at this warm level and season, so nothing shrouds that taste 
of beginning, even when it ends. the room feels lost in murmurs, people 
sound their grief. grief seems so farfetched. it vacates unexpectedly, 
then isolates, then joins, then provides other images in the gloaming. a 
tide of green sea glides into the memory of standing somewhere. a warm 
protection under a vast beech tree secures a finality, when finality 
arrives. too much information, except then a love occurs that can't find 
a single word, out of all the collected sizes in array. but slip back to 
the mountaintop, as decorative as poetry, that peculiarly near 
mountaintop with sopping clouds assuming instinct in stunningly low 
altitude beneath the feet that climbed high. the big nowhere confronts 
the turgid gulf. not a simple task can remain. the expedition now feels 
a deference towards getting down to the valley. the valley could prop 
one up, so far away yet once a home of sorts. now back to the living 
room, where  voices clutch but isn't that a sentence? sentences realize 
moments in lists needed to be read. trouble crosses the room, but it 
drops tears worth love. and love stands worth astounding. love? can that 
be a word in all its vitality, or just a fantastic slogan, or even a 
seagull in some mysterious flight? read the lines that stretch between 
us, if this passing acquaintance remains undaunted. more than ever love 
strays into the abode that language allows. struggle on, struggle on... 
he didn't want to leave.


Autbahn zu Holle is Greek for Participation

2006-09-13 Thread Allen Bramhall
chaste mountaintop is all the rage. inklings remain free in sudden 
direction towards the gulf between air and life. the Selective Service 
(your friend) proceeds into snow as deep as trendy restaurants. no one 
asks for rhymes in this cold, and the respect of dying out loud seems 
paler even than the dream of snow. are we resistant to change? I could 
ask that, thinking other veterans want a place to sit, before tragic 
chasms seem too perfect. Selective Service is a trust of people with 
dun-coloured papers to be signed, thru ages on slopes when time doesn't 
include all numbers. we remember exactly the numbers we could have, were 
the warmth of the valley publicly traded. no question fails the patience 
of Iran poised as Iraq. aren't Tibet and Nepal just pale imitations of 
each 0ther? dictation of starchy emblems to be worn on uniform Selective 
Service documentation isolates endeavours into corrals called 
mountaintops. it all cries for deference in the sound. looking a little 
chubby, each of us realizes in the breadth of our entry to proximate need.


the wind sound, then, hovers on a charge trusted for years. if we could 
just... but then, what mapping wakes me now, as I stand alone on this 
top moment? a whine as red as trusting the soul for food. I think I had 
a day there, before the cold became more than ignorance of utter cranes 
in marshy night skies. a victim of vacation timeshares ran up to me, 
lodging complaint into my direct tv. as I rolled down the surface of 
what I understood as grace for a period,t remendous cold seemed liked 
the novel approach that I needed. I awaited a director to include 
freshets spelled like tea. I would drink the warm potion, fit caffeine 
into my system, and refine what I could refine. this strict district 
needs a run of luck.


then: I reeled with messages from family members lost in their traits. I 
suppose this is just practice.


then: I understood the passing of time into friends. I am glad that I am 
the love of the living.


then: I examined an irregular heartbeat, not mine but familiar in the 
proceeds.


after the trust of discussion, I came to the village for sure. my charge 
came with me. I thought of Yeti in a crimson loaner, while the dismay of 
mechanics involved a garage tempered in task management, and the old 
buggy gets aspirated. I will see Yeti yet, I vowed, pleased to see words 
in light. the invention of 4000 foot chasms seems excessive.


extreme Finnish button

2006-09-10 Thread Allen Bramhall
joist-Carolinian salvations run overjoyed depositary in Wilhelmina 
making flarfing subteen -- Shannen in Arkansas googles college tech on 
ruined techno zeppelin with erysipelas, jokingly telescoping zeppelin 
sanity with system algorithm, muttering awakened devastations that gel 
Connie Selleca adjacent to Casanova's jar, entitled never to accost the 
burgher master controlling pasta, tied-dyed honker honkie pits posse to 
kin voiding thermoplastic jar banana pastiche timed matter relevance 
inheriting stark frailties and Peruvian oh wow,

cute Dan (eidetic poetics eluding), onward!
Joan Jett Googles Valentines, sends a sentiment sighing omigawd!!! gem 
of twittering technolgies atones!!! on sister's rocking tidy corporate 
logic. Hastiness smites satellite -- Bollixing Baseball chivvies 
chromium, enjoys dinette purity pasta (see Binary retsina sorrow mojo 
jar pyre with neat favoritism), sheik pyre meme thinks valance 
cummerbund is tortoise's title tourney; see how they evaluate 
Massasoit volunteers, jackpot ovate Ptolemaic task assaying task vigilante:

We need beauty that does not first extricate itself from life as “art”,
where beauty is easy (and therefore no such thing), but engages in the
struggle of turning natural language into artifice, strophe by difficult
strophe.
Cast on congealed and quietening American sense, and writing jokes, 
belittle taste, smitten by skeins of Rosannea Arquette's love fund, 
Odetta needs defeatism, that coital perkiness complainer gotta nail 
surveillant jar taste aesthetically receiving sole brightening malaise 
rumination concerning Mesopotamian neckties in Arkansas – sic transit 
gloria kiosks complaining of lackluster geopolitics and jarring 
theoretics. Whatsamatta you Marseillaise vacillator? jackpot ovate 
polyvinyl, the polyvinyl that ate all the topmasts stammering in jarring 
estimation of lobbyist (sirloin nun the Ovate Vaudevillian) while 
spelunking zeitgeist erotica in the internet works nonresistance...


Cuteness, lollapaloosa whitetails jots vestibule testing embryologist of 
Rabelaisian jerk enema with supernaturalistic listening vacant myth: 
take any kind of neat caveat, but tame not baseball


wheat the pebble (mach 3)

2006-09-08 Thread Allen Bramhall

We are sconce rend citizen hale aging the office ail democrat racy in the US
We are conic kerned that this work apple arch to foal bell ow tic themes 
and situ sons

We are co-concerned about the die recs on era don
we are conic kerned about how we tie the peso pile by the Elmo throw away
we are sconce rend there's on sly go do music end music wee a sconce
We are sconce rend about mica's kids that the system mastic rev we here 
wee on sly tow tea peters
We are co-concerned wee era radioactive activity they there is a lack of 
visit agility

We are co-concerned wee second it ion sing prole about Tibet
We ear con Verne wit drat wing critic observe nation
We are co-concerned wee proxy magi nag so solution is about your safety
we are co-concerned wee who at there is most era son to wan once of 
Brando mess due to Ku rt
We are conic kerned that slang usage in action 402, spec pontifical ally 
402(a) (4) could be interpol rested
we are co-concerned that the goo deli few sub mitt nag confide gentian 
format ion under Arctic ale 8 of the Yo to protocol rem rain pith 
question is of exits – ten ice
We are sconce rend that these devil nation swill Jini ate on erred sing 
about the condo of our coals
we are co-concerned they the tie re quire rents may disco rage Anica 
exact sly

We are sconce rend about the effects by a pro postal
We are co-concerned wee the d-. meant of sect ion 70 2 (a) to the end 
they the term “crib piled chill den” shoal be cost rued that a stew dent 
is clearly and dimming gently sic dial
We ear con Verne they eve none perch on ghat a bandeau the recto 
construe action of the coned seductive city effigy sent
we are co-concerned that the wore be nag do one is not enough the local- 
son of topics in text prices sing
We ear con Verne with fun action ratio is that there has been a ode 
orator rum

we ear con Verne nut the pi ghat that no one is elf tout
We are co-concerned that the pub lice at Alar age is steel here
We are concerned with the few allowing qua question


Re: Poem

2006-09-07 Thread Allen Bramhall

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

the open field works really well here. the airiness belies the density. 
seems like you've made some great breakthrus lately.


wee the people, mach 2

2006-09-07 Thread Allen Bramhall

We are concerned citizens challenging the official
democracy in the US
We are concerned that this work appears to fall below
schemes and situations
We are concerned about the direction
radon
we are concerned about how we use the people
by the almost throwaway
we are concerned there's only good music and bad music
with a concept
We are concerned about America's kids
that the systematic review here with only two chapters
We are concerned with radioactivity
that there is a lack of visibility
We are concerned with preconditioning problems
about Tibet
We are concerned with drawing
critical observation
We are concerned with approximating solutions
about your safety
we are concerned with what there is most reason to want
a concept of randomness due to Kurtz
We are concerned that language in Section 402, specifically 402(a)(4)
could be interpreted
we are concerned that the guidelines for submitting confidential 
information under Article 8 of the Kyoto Protocol remain with questions 
of exis- tence

We are concerned that these deviations will invite overreaching
about the conduct of our locals
we are concerned that these requirements may discourage
communicating exactly
We are concerned about the effects
by a proposal
We are concerned with the amend-. ment of section 702 (a) to the end 
that the term “crippled children” shall be construed that a student is 
clearly and imminently suicidal

We are concerned that even one person might abandon
the reconstruction of the conductivity coefficient
we are concerned that the work being done is not enough
the loca- tion of topics in text processing
We are concerned with functional equations
that there has been a de facto moratorium
we are concerned about the plight
that no one is left out
We are concerned that the public at large is still
here
We are concerned with the following question


Re: Poem

2006-09-07 Thread Allen Bramhall

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


why do you call this open field  you mean ala olsen or the spacings?


 

Olson used the term, but you can see the page as a field. Bob often 
writes in dense blocks so this is a different use of the white space.


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