Fortean Poem (2)

I preferred reading this as prose. I like how it looks this way too.

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Fri May 29 20:02:22 2009


In the sky in chicago, principles, remote, as if birds blood, or parts of, disregarding that they be, there are other things, mere suggestion of a merger.

I seemed to be a bird, iron, they fell in the sky, or that which will some day be displaced; that are conveniences.


Texts:
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned

Utile Bad Man Tankas

Thu May 28 21:21:18 2009

They are not the mind
itself or mitigation
of the table, be

not first introduced into
the world by experience.

Thu May 28 21:22:28 2009

We have had happened,
which was the exercise of
my desires, and

she will see all this I can
explain it all over her.

Thu May 28 21:23:17 2009

I must take their whole
character and even then
I do not; and so

I just ask so as to know
what has made ethics not moan.


Statistically Analyzed Texts:
Feodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

Wed May 27 20:41:47 2009 (pinched, etc.)

Good afternoon, had
pinched, etc. So
a merry night song
and deference. I'll

just ask yourself in,
it was crushed in the
midst of a dull red brick,
and recompense in

jerusalem. Both
men entered and sobbing,
to cut her bonds. Both,
so that love to both.


Statistically Analyzed Texts:
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Jack London, Call of the Wild
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
Herman Melville, "Bartleby, The Scrivener"
Hildegard G. Frey, The Campfire Girls at Camp Keewaydin
Anna Catherine Emmerich, The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Unknown, The Apocrypha
Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Mon May 25 20:02:45 2009 (They swelled)

He was in
the tomb of
his bearers.

It was, was
approaching.
They were, with

the stride of
a cowboy,
then. They swelled.


Statistically Analyzed Text:
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

Fortean Poems

On my brother's suggestion, I've tokenized Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned. Here goes:

Sat May 23 13:26:02 2009

No further. I'm a tornado. The writer
doesn't specifically say that: scrapers, of
course often they're mixed up, like a cat and a
luminous train. The writer says it's all directions, horses
running away, the water were floating patches
of butter. Cells of an earthquake, it might be a datum:
the roofs of missionaries, of
something that should be higher: that light is reported, always
restricted by wreckage. The book
of writing, very likely to be published.



Texts:
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned

The Waves (The Same)

(Thu May 21 18:23:10 2009)

the waves · the way the waves · the island will
produce perfection · so exhausted · with
the very center of the coast · upon
a coast · the purpose of consumption · on
the boiling lava · constitution · on
the waves · the western coast · in other waves ·
upon a sandy beach · the lava was
about a half the numbers of the waves ·

the island · as were taken from the waves ·
in other birds · extracted from the feet
below · the fire from the feathered feet ·
the building up · the forms descended from
a candle · thrown in as precise a way ·
the number of volcanoes on the feet ·
the number of design · declined · in man's
productions · if a half the sparks produced ·

a chimney was established · to support
the tenants of a wave · the common life ·
organic beings are united · by
a channel at the lining of the feet ·
the sound asleep · denuded · separates
the little harbor · and were given for
the waves · the motion of the shore · the same
conclusion · sleep before the rocks in love ·

Moby-Koan

In life, a ship. The issue was, the ship
itself, a thousand fathoms down in it.

*

A wooden idol, and the earth, unknown
in which Columbus struck the zodiac.

*

The irons darted at the plying oars,
advance. The captain of the shark, advance.

*

Extending it upon the stream! Commend
the ship, collect the thousand voices thee.

*

The virgin be a consternation, so
the universal problem of Bordeaux.


Statistically Analyzed Text:
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Cristo Koan

Tue May 19 20:20:07 2009

The bandits rose, advanced a rendezvous.
The magistrate alluded, valentine.



Statistically Analyzed Text:
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

The Velveteen Koan

Mon May 18 20:13:58 2009

The boy. The boy. The boy, the boy, the boy,
the fairy said, because the boy. The boy.



Statistically Analyzed Text:
Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

The More (The Same)

(Thu May 7 15:48:53 2009)

the more severe · the forms descended from
a false position · incognito · and
in opposition to the beach · define
the several stages of attaining · would
succeed · the most · within a single word ·
the master of the central flowers · and
in great confusion · more ferocious than
the forms descended from a gun · evolved ·

extinction · this advantage of · the more
perfect · the cave in everything · the air
in opposition to accumulate ·
in order to arrive · the very · yes ·
a palace of effect · the simple · and
the more effect · the only being so ·
the cave · the pure · consisted of restraint ·
especially if in both a castaway ·

the wet · the waves · the more · in ridicule ·
the sexes · energetic · barricade
the embryo · the level place · a truce
between the species · each formation of
the worse · the worse the holes in everything ·
in water · standing up · the shore became
congested · and the worse the waves · the more
severe the worse · the deeper and received ·

Fri May 15 20:49:18 2009 (The game?)

The same conception of the great divide.
The show, a stormy night, a restaurant.

A person, and a tooth. The interest of
the berth, the way. In this condition of

the first, in other words, the object of
desire to repel. The same. The game?

Statistically Analyzed Texts:
Kenneth McGaffey, The Sorrows of a Show Girl
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

Thu May 14 17:57:49 2009 (Bronze Renga)

No, not sinned in bronze
was Jesus the son of this
pompous address, and

he that saved me. I shall see
your boy, and the fiery

one of the sea he
appeared, yet touching the heart
of artillery.

Statistically Analyzed Texts:
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Jack London, Call of the Wild
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
Herman Melville, "Bartleby, The Scrivener"
Hildegard G. Frey, The Campfire Girls at Camp Keewaydin
Anna Catherine Emmerich, The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Unknown, The Apocrypha
Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Wed May 13 19:37:51 2009 (tasting the spikes)

Subject to his promise,
was obliged to

admit it. It was about
parallel with the moon

and points upon the cards. The
last man in among

the French government had
attached to their dear

child here, on the fair
daughter to whom he stopped at

these words of command. Of them
tasting the spikes on

their feet in diameter
and six in the search

for contraband goods, and in
pictures. And what

variety of
objects outlined in

black, head first, a
little distance.



Statistically Analyzed Texts:
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sign of the Four
Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
H. G. Wells, The First Men In The Moon
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

Does Gnoetry Make You More Like You?

I've typically argued that Gnoetry, by separating the human end user from the usual psychosocial sources of poetic production, complicates if not eradicates the "individual" from the aesthetic act. What if by releasing the (poetic) end-user from the cultural/historical/social systems we've been told we are the mere results of by Positivism and its step-children, Structuralism and 'deconstruction,' Gnoetry radically re-asserts the objectivity of value and hence asserts the existence of a liberated, non-neo-liberal individual??

The Words

More of The Same. I've decided to stop centering them. They've started to look a bit too phallic -- not the impression I want to give visually.

The Words
(Thu Apr 30 18:19:02 2009)

a favor · as a favor · these details ·
the words · in order to forgive · composed
the difficulty · to regain the same
specific forms · the answer to the words ·
the distance from the coast already passed ·
in those enormous jaws · the island was
a case · perhaps · the mountains of success
in the dictionary of remorse ·

consider · either case · the island and
the sailor · and a slave · in order to
escape · the facts · the facts · the whole subject ·
in order to proceed along the shore ·
the settlers then approached · the laughter of
the frightened and diversified · towards
the words · in an appearance likely to
occur in this abomination · too ·

the sun · in being felt · the wall · in which
the nestling birds · perhaps · in their retreat ·
embarked in turn · the complex action of
conditions · separates the same · defines
the groups in other words · determines that
the two sometimes become attached · sometimes
prevail · the words · the effort of regret ·
in that a compromise · perhaps · embarked ·

The Cause

Again, still, more of The Same:

The Cause
(Thu Apr 30 17:20:00 2009)

the cause · unable to produce a marked
effect · a question of renewing them ·
in their construction · man · submitting to
a distant past · the bottom · and in time ·
in one direction · searched among the rocks
in time · the parallel · successive · as
a rule · the wind in time · the rule · the time
in barking at the same result · in time ·

in action · as the horizontal line
in our hemisphere · the island on
the island is a strange arrangement · as
the shore exposed directly to the plains ·
a bottle · climbing to the arctic and
antarctic regions · must exist · until
the limits of the same conditions · as
the outer world · the very · which results ·

the space between the latest · vanished · by
the new conditions of existence is
the case · the mercy so exhausted · still
in action · or in its conditions · then ·
in order to complete the upper forms ·
the ladder · there in flocks · the point · perhaps
the outer world · perhaps the parent · as
in everything external · a result ·

Fri May 8 11:33:08 2009

By the strange
dog, strong of
muscle and

with a big
house in the
red sweater,

and the soft
snow greater
than they were.


Statistically Analyzed Text:
Jack London, Call of the Wild

Thu May 7 20:00:15 2009 (the great command)

And what art, can then
suffice, or right,
I have the great
command; into
what we more, that
sat fast by the hand.
Unless be meant, at
their eyes in sudden
view appear
the better fight,
then springs as
broke from despair.


Texts:
T.S. Eliot, Poems
John Milton, Paradise Lost

Wed May 6 19:11:45 2009 (the last twist)

The shutters
after dark, and the
lady in
the landscape.
There was some
thin, and through
the burn; Tam came
ashore with me to
smell. I thought of my
pistol. The last
twist of the marrow
the espionage.


Texts:
T.S. Eliot, Poems
John Buchan, Prester John

Tue May 5 19:46:52 2009 (the sprinkled streets)

Meanwhile, the
symbol of
his soul was dry, judging
from his saddle. But
for two days, in a man
well known, some
one might hide
herself in the
grass. I shall be
seen to fall and
the sprinkled streets, the boy
in everything.


Statistically Analyzed Texts:
T.S. Eliot, Poems
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Taras Bulba and Other Tales

The Same - The Common

Been out of the loop for a week, now. I've got three new sections to put up of "The Same." It keeps morphing on me (as it should), so we'll see what comes out thematically with these texts.

Here's one from last Monday.

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The Common
(Mon Apr 27 16:28:09 2009)

perhaps the normal man · submitting to
a certain to · the whole the neighborhood ·
the slaves · the one in that · in some degree ·
the navigation of a man · perhaps
a car · expressive · so prodigious was
produced · seduce the mountain · one · because
the reproductive system · which exists
in this volcano · with a decent man ·

the very center of the island · is
a man in question · to economize
the pine · a few descendants · barricade
the devil · and in one descendant to
return · the very top · the central and
external structure of the island · and
the lower cone · the seeds in pellets or
returning to complain · in old cocoons ·

the common · as the most extreme degree ·
consumption · cockatoos · regardless of
effect · began a compromise · became
the man · perhaps the first eruption · by
the valley of the same · in presence of
the same result · in short · a mountain with
a tail · in both · the embryo · in that
position · there in that · in those in that ·

Sun May 3 15:09:05 2009 (Be eaten, man)

But my soul is
more than man. And
the last twist of the
hand. Tis my brain
was paved with horses'
hoofs. There goes
three thousand dollars,
men are most apt
to tear in
pieces. And you
see what was
to be eaten, man.



Statistically Analyzed Texts:
T.S. Eliot, Poems
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Sat May 2 12:08:15 2009 (No prophet, fear)

Here is one
of these features,
with the bleak
walls and turrets, and
while speculating
upon the
beach eaten smooth, white
feathers in the
garden, if not
accurately, thus:
I am no
prophet, fear.



Texts:
Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
T.S. Eliot, Poems

Fri May 1 16:05:14 2009 (Is It Perfume)

She may have
no passions
and fall, of
course, in a
glass of brandy neat.
The porcelain,
do I condemn
thee; go deeper, is
it perfume from a
farther room. Some
mark is true? I think
that they will learn.


Statistically Analyzed Texts:
T.S. Eliot, Poems
A. Maude Royden, Sex And Common-Sense