Re: Mock blink

2005-12-15 Thread Alex Jorgensen
This is a list I do not want to be on. I keep trying to get off, but noone seems to be listening. I am almost willing to close my e-mail account to get off this BULLSHIT list. Someone help me. AJ --- John M. Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mock blink mock the dribbling that you thought

Re: Mock blink

2005-12-15 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Canadians DO NOT write poetry. They pretend, or BITCH! AJ --- John M. Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mock blink mock the dribbling that you thought made matter blathered dreaming of a cubit sprawling samples speeded toward yr sleep tug gap chunks of tunnel scalded in your posture

REMOVE

2005-12-14 Thread Alex Jorgensen
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Re: Poem or Song?

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Jorgensen
It's a poem, in need of editing. Where are the silences? Why are there redundencies? Nice start. AJ --- Thomas savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Poem or Song? Ain't she sweet? It ain't necessarily so. Tell it to me confidentially So I may spread it abroad. Your ending surprised me In

Re: not

2005-10-21 Thread Alex Jorgensen
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How could I believe it untrue

2005-10-21 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Nessen’s primavera (What he said about Nixon.) and bottle of Great Wall wine, and thinking Jackson Pollock and Cool Hand Luke folly juxtaposed against. And he says, he says to all those folk who mistook freedom for peace, Palm Sunday cross in hand, he says, let breath be our license. And then,

Re: not

2005-10-21 Thread Alex Jorgensen
negga negga negga --- Dan Waber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: not

2005-10-21 Thread Alex Jorgensen
negga negga negga --- Alex Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Halvard Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:42 AM, Dan Waber wrote: not a purdy pitchur no not nobody __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo

Re: or

2005-10-20 Thread Alex Jorgensen
or, simply put, what-not -- --- Bob Marcacci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or what __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Flash Vignette-- only in the word, suckers!

2005-10-12 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Flash Vignette Knew a man who’d grope his wife from behind a large white sheet “made antiseptic.” And who’d press tranny hookers into being force-fed ¼-carat diamonds wrapped in feces. And whose semen, I was told, somehow’d congeal like aspic. “Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all,” he liked to

How Do You Make It Read Like Love

2005-10-10 Thread Alex Jorgensen
How Do You Make It Read Like Love Might’ve carelessly made do, wrenched, all dry down there -- back, what-what, a shoulder “Lift your wings!” against my, pause said pause, face. “Happy toes happy toes, happy toes!” Ah, when say, when, always when -- like that! --- John M. Bennett [EMAIL

Re: 2 real things

2005-10-08 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Bosom -- What a fuckin’ marvelous word. Ha, beaver! --- Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 real things flaccus, thomas ward, wrote this book, published 1842, anonymous. the signature is signed by the author the author - http://www.asondheim.org/ - scroll down the directory to the

Re: the truth

2005-10-06 Thread Alex Jorgensen
If you're working in context of form as architecture -- then, regardless of poem's intelligence and inner satire, you might wanna tweak into content, you being certainly more discerning than myself, and form, in order to establish greater symmetry. That is, if we're thinking similarly -- and if

Re: I enjoy the rough

2005-10-06 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Years been drawing d o o r s on that wall and how? when? what one might go through it? --- mIEKAL aND [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: “I enjoy the rough of the contrary grain” (saith drool have walked 3 steps a time “some what in

Re: I enjoy the rough

2005-10-06 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Years been drawing d o o r on that wall and how when what one can might go thr u it? --- mIEKAL aND [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: “I enjoy the rough of the contrary grain” (saith drool have walked 3 steps a time “some what in

squirt guns, flour bombs,cranberry cheese pies!

2005-10-06 Thread Alex Jorgensen
aint aware’f silences interned without variable riff’ patterns, said. What’s burgeonin’ not never tell you. this crimp 'n sleeve’s been tugged persist-ently and’s stiff fer havin' been pulled bychoicest hands no sense ’n washin’ spots that’ll remain? why ‘ttempt ta wring myself in’a

Re: a 2nd one sounded

2005-10-05 Thread Alex Jorgensen
barnacles as they tighten coarsely round the oar great! --- Sheila Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: these pieces you've just posted are all glorious --- mIEKAL aND [EMAIL

Re: is

2005-09-30 Thread Alex Jorgensen
You need to use contractions, cannot revert to 19th British style -- as Oscar Wilde, might've done. Why? While I understand, and this is my opinion, and have done it that way myself, it's not easily transfer to a non native speaking audience -- and everyone's speaking English, mostly because it's

Fwd: FW: IMOMF

2005-09-30 Thread Alex Jorgensen
--- Bill Berkson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:58:11 -0700 From: Bill Berkson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: IMOMF To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOMA REPUBLISHES IMOMF In Memory of My Feelings-Frank O'Hara.~Edited with an afterword by Bill

Symphony Ode

2005-09-30 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Symphony Ode dear dear you you that YES dang-ling in tow odd end held in force and __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: The Alex Jorgensen Celebrity Cult

2005-09-24 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Thanks Lanny. Nice to know you're one of the mates! Hope to meet soon (and with compassion, or, one hopes, good sense). Beijing, Bookworm, next Tuesday, come see a group of open poets talk about life, disagree and agree, and build dignified community - still, thank goodness, worth something. There

Re: rubin's vase

2005-09-23 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Very good advice. Through that, and by traveling, where at most place one's outside of pretense, I've made that initial contact, the learning whether you really wanna know this person, or share. Is a good idea! Was able to meet a number of people, make, continue contact with many (and I may think

Into being force-fed ¼-carat diamonds

2005-09-23 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Knew a man who’d grope his Wife Behind a large white sheet 'made antiseptic' And who’d press tranny hookers Into being force-fed ¼-carat diamonds Wrapped in feces And whose semen I was told somehow’d congeal like aspic 'Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all!' he'd boast quoting from Cole Porter

Like a girl way you twirl your hair?

2005-09-22 Thread Alex Jorgensen
might / carelessly / make do / wrench / All dry down there! / strong back / what-what / a shoulder / Lift your wings! / against my / pause he said pause / face happy toes / happy toes / happy toes / aah / when say / when always / when / like that / Like a girl way you

Re: is

2005-09-22 Thread Alex Jorgensen
might / carelessly / make do / wrench / All dry down there! / strong back / what-what / a shoulder / Lift your wings! / against my / pause said pause / face / happy toes / happy toes / happy toes / aah / when say / when always / when / like that / Like a girl way you

Re: we know hut

2005-09-20 Thread Alex Jorgensen
don't know how to edit yourself, and I'll say that without being pretensious--but straight to the point. It's the littler, littler, wrote littler till just before finally disappear! Xiao Yao --- Allen Bramhall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here’s surely much to discuss here so things sun get

Re: we know hut

2005-09-20 Thread Alex Jorgensen
left with more than many of us. Glad you're sharing!! Alex --- Allen Bramhall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Jorgensen wrote: don't know how to edit yourself, and I'll say that without being pretensious--but straight to the point. It's the littler, littler, wrote littler till just before

Re: slackness

2005-09-19 Thread Alex Jorgensen
It's Lynchian, can I call it, and very good, if I can so that much. Bravo! Tied it together well. --- Allen Bramhall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: excise purpleness of this paddle, which could be rarer plus grainier with a red delivery truck color, the chance beyond cold waves. The

Re: slackness

2005-09-19 Thread Alex Jorgensen
might -- carelessly -- make do -- wrench -- open -- all dry down there -- back -- shoulders -- Lift your wings! -- against my face happy toes -- happy toes -- happy toes -- aah -- when say -- always when -- ( ghosts I can hear -- 'n' like that ) You look like a girl ... Xiao Yao (Rock n' roll

Re: the sticky name is all Bramhall (a partial bio)

2005-09-19 Thread Alex Jorgensen
An apology. Anyway, nice to read what you wrote. Incidently, I knew Bob Creeley for about seven years. Gotta respect someone who reads Creeley, I think - or, at least, I do. AJ --- Allen Bramhall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Jorgensen wrote: dis is wha I been waitin tah-hear ah, someone

Re: G

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Jorgensen
The irony, however well-intentioned the remark - It's writing and, at least, an expression and that's enough - 'doesn't serve the people' - and forgets that had it been such in past years, writing would not have evolved. That remark is antithetical to Whitman, for God's sake, not to mention Pound,

Re: G

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Nice, Bob. I never reckoned you for much of anything. A. --- Bob Marcacci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: damn, these squirrelly painters always louse up everything... i was reminded of something i painted or poeted... in this language which lists endlessly why assume we are a

Re: G

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Jorgensen
and regardless, sir, the message's fallacy. It misleads by providing security. Zukofsky would never puff out such tripe. I like graceful things, too, but would never pretend meself among them. A. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has

Re: a real dumb stoner

2005-09-14 Thread Alex Jorgensen
no need for 'white'--why?--because its assumed to be white, as most busts are. albino reaffirms original notion of bust and then gives the juxtoposition of that wierd albino kid on TV. Bloody is gratuitous and blood is found in the proceeding section. breathing replaced with inhaling, huffing, ...

An Aperitif of Fotbal Lads

2005-09-14 Thread Alex Jorgensen
An Aperitif of Fotbal Lads A beneficent Oscar Wilde XY was pretty as an adolescent girl. He’d modeled in Paris, or so he said, and made his night by making others. A daft little priss he was prone to wordiness, and the occasional gibe-- throaty as those sown by (Tom) Eliot. My life’s a

No, like this!

2005-09-14 Thread Alex Jorgensen
An Aperitif of Fotbal Lads A beneficent Oscar Wilde XY was pretty as an adolescent girl. He’d modeled in Paris, or so he said, and made his night by making others. A daft little priss he was prone to wordiness, and the occasional gibe-- throaty as those sown by (Tom) Eliot. My life’s a

Re: G

2005-09-14 Thread Alex Jorgensen
There's no spirit in anything I see, here. It's so detached, one might say, that its minutia. It could have been made by something other than a man, and yet the reader still pleads to belong to some form of human connection. Seems disagreeable, something I gotta ask myself, and I don't have the

Fwd: Re: teaching creative writing

2005-09-13 Thread Alex Jorgensen
--- Alex Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:46:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: teaching creative writing To: UB Poetics discussion group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember talking to friend some years ago about treatise I'd written

Harte Crane Syndrome

2005-09-07 Thread Alex Jorgensen
An apology. I just don't handled this well at all. It's been nice to hear the thoughts of many of you. Last night I went to a reading, drank to much, stumbled myself into thinking I ever had something to say. Thanks. AJ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of

One day soon that damn is gonna break

2005-09-06 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Seven children found wandering together Six-year-old in charge; group later reunited with parents By The Associated Press Monday September 05, 2005 BATON ROUGE, La. -- In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard, this group of refugees stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a

Jessicas Lounge

2005-09-06 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Jessica’s Lounge Did what’s-his-face ever leave? He invited 400 of his closest friends to the wedding. But I did not think the world that safe a place when he finally bought her a diamond. Took an antihistamine before saying, I do. --- Lawrence Upton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voice 1: I am

Re: you

2005-09-04 Thread Alex Jorgensen
you turn round and round --- Lawrence Upton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you turn - Original Message - From: Dan Waber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 12:07 PM Subject: you you

With regards to poetry,

2005-09-04 Thread Alex Jorgensen
http://vispo.com/nio/SoundShapes.htm AJ --- Alex Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you turn round and round --- Lawrence Upton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you turn - Original Message - From: Dan Waber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Sent: Sunday

creeley

2005-09-04 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Incidently, which I reckon most know, RC's obituary appeared in papers internationally. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/creeley/obit/kelleher.html AJ --- Alex Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you turn round and round --- Lawrence Upton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you turn

'born to clue gnat dance'

2005-09-02 Thread Alex Jorgensen
'born to clue gnat dance' Wow! There must be future, amongst all this, somewhere, where poets communicate to those who, for old time's sake, are still listening. A friend of mine, great poet, died in late March. I think most of you know him. I just can't believe he'd be doing this 'what-not'. I

Re: map first 1000 hiding-places hardbreak 72 survivors

2005-09-02 Thread Alex Jorgensen
From little farmer, not that anyone's asking, knods. For some minor stylistic reason, this recalls piece by Kenneth Patchen's Lemon-colored gloves poem. AJ --- BjørnMagnhildøen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: 'born to clue gnat dance'

2005-09-02 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Ryan, I most certainly do not think poetry is pointless. Likewise, please do not infer that I think this list is pointless. Frankly speaking, I don't think my question should one to such a response/conclusion. My question is an inquiry. With so many people on these lists and so many writing

Re: 'born to clue gnat dance'

2005-09-02 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Ryan, I've posted some work, but the point's missed. I think I was pretty clear with regards to my opinion, which, alas, is solely that. Thanks. AJ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Re: 'born to clue gnat dance'

2005-09-02 Thread Alex Jorgensen
Dear Bob, The mistake one makes is in the assumption that words mean anything. It's the context, as you know, which emboldens. This idea, while not clearly articulated or perhaps understood by many in the past, is what's new. This is what one is attempting to accomplish by 'cut-up methodology'

Re: words

2005-09-01 Thread Alex Jorgensen
don't know how say without prepping and these 're old words given me ... --- Dan Waber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: words __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Re: Art and experiment, vision of the PLAGUE

2005-08-28 Thread Alex Jorgensen
This is why I permit my box to get stuffed beyond compare, she said, pulling the chicken bones outta her underpants. Thanks, AJ --- Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Art and experiment, vision of the PLAGUE The IMAGE of three folding wooden rulers, German, millimeter rules: PLACE

Re: am on nomail

2005-08-26 Thread Alex Jorgensen
For those of you, who still believe, that writing's an after taste, that we need community in order to legitimize what it-- Sorry to say, AJ --- Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note I'm on nomail for a short time - I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We're driving back across

MASTURBATION

2005-08-26 Thread Alex Jorgensen
What do 'you people' do here. Write. Pontificate. Create a community in which to feel SPECIAL. Or, I wonder, is this simply a place where perverts come, and those who like to watch, listen. And for that gimp, that inevitably will say that art is whatever! FO! AJ --- Lanny Quarles [EMAIL