Mint                                     [ G F# E B (A) / Eb ]



                        cracks
               facade

               strange
                         getting

              can't smell the team

                    make
                            return
               so strong
                            a light flickers
               off & on
                            returns
               means

                envision the worlds as islands
                  laid out   before us
                     will smell


                

                           breathing
                 the difference
                   (left, right)?
               catching the quill

                Just
                        rejection
                        continuation
             of what
                isn't real
                 what isn't
                     isn't
                which don't
                  mean
             refusal of
                       identity

                 what
                        takes its toll
                    after years
                                        being
                       playing pool
                 forget to smell the hyacinth
             & the rocks still on the floor of the pickup

                        knowing brick before brick

                    flight from
                                              intense respect for it

                near piano
                                D into varieties of D

                                   2 ranges, ice
                                   one      shirt

        


                        Fire Song

                mold under fingernails (6)
                hair writhing like leaks (5)
                Big Bird runs crazzily (6)
                through the room (3)

                visual reality (7)
                hearing gloomy    loony (7)
                machine of natural obliteration (10)
                   cannot be stopped (4)

        


            Question of input & output
                        stretch           "suspension"
                                   string
                               flattened
                             occilation
                          ( vibration )

                                                something to
                                                balance the string or
                                              ( theme )     to balance
         housepainting:  still life / discrete image
     the irony of "end the song"

industrial rhythm
imagined behind
pulsation

                song is autobiographical
           what large song is it within
           human song
                             without much I


        reversing a romanticism of nature
          ("butterfly lice on a thistle")

                       Didn't stop to think
                               about to make
                       wake up with those around

            studying original landformation
            where     birds fear humans
            talk with them

            hear voices see flashes

                                             on the wet beach

                                                                           Bay

                                                                  sandbar

                    smoother + defined
                      couldn't draw it

                      at footprints
                                        horse's peoples bird, dog

        There became a stain on the cover
        as much as on the leg of a pair of pants
        Perhaps a similar source?

        Bending birches - icicles from stones shattered
        by dynamite.  Our various relations to the
        world:  through eyes,
                                        spill:





                        I Ear's
                        Art,
                  tho      you
                   can't
                 batik onto
                    video

                     colors
                      on the TV
                but     like
                  the  blown
                up distortion
              for stimulation

                 unexpected
               accompaniment
                of the rain





                Passenger Receipt

                           food + conversation
                on the freeway - how many minutes Manhattan?
                nervously                    half over & that's not what
                matters neither after living simple
                counting the stops without a shirt worn
                before a world lived before certain smells
                won't take on (disjunction) to "get ready"

                talk about how to shape

                use that scrawl as always


                NIXON
                KISSINGER + NIXON
                SCREEN                LIFE

                            don't trip over       legs.



                APE
                LA
                                    Yacht Club





Mashpee

        near          waves of wire on

sloping snowy ground

morning,
piles of sticks out the window
in a weird reversal
of a century, Mrs. Averett
Wampanoag decendant says
not long ago in our cultural history
"I just want my children to learn the English language and learn it
as well as they can"
by rake on property
what were taverns where crossing paths
where you'd pick up a stick
spit on it and throw it in a heap
to appease the spirits in the area?


                                                - Chris Funkhouser

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