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Preproprioceptive
it
is so easy to exchange meaning
—Gertrude Stein The liminal zone between boredom and aggression or the poet as an empty sign upon which the Other (poets) cathect in systematic arrange- ment of the senseless what’s important is the process flipping off the sun every day Vladimir, Frank, Bob and Roland Dante going down to guide them an equal opportunity employer reading the phrases of the moon or other medium orbit systems to think of reminding yourself while nodding off in assent or just falling asleep at the wheel as if your queer shoulder were a piece of shit upon which Elsie the American cow slipped or admit that I’m tired of writing for you— a mere figure of speech or why move when the world will do it for you its billions of names denominated crisply Malebranche, Benjamin, Celan Attention is the natural prayer of the soul My snake is not non-comedogenic nor am I laughing at the rounds of a man laughing in the hall soon a cat or body cries outside I can never tell the difference yet the is how all meaning arrives mowed or unmowed like the bed and it changes more regular than am slips page from state to state to state the changes implies a continuity of attention a work plagued can from the bed and its changes amen that at has no meaning its sheet will never decay skin or wrinkle it has no meaning so long as I watch it snoring on the couch |
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rick snyder is the author of three chapbooks of
poetry, Blueprint (811 Books, 1999), Double Ear (811 Books, 1999) and
Flown Season (Portable Press, 2004). In 2003, Situations published his
translations of Catullus’ poems 1-30 as This Charming New Chapbook. His
work can be found online at jubilat, Milk, and Readme, and TheEastVillage.
An e-chapbook, Forecast
Memorial, and an essay on recent translations of Paul Celan appear
at duration. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is a doctoral
candidate in comparative literature at USC.
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