Purkinge (pur kin gee) fiber: any of the specialized cardiac fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the heart to all parts of the ventricular muscles. Named for JE Purkinge (1787-1869).
"Everybody understands what is meant by 'the word'...It is interwoven with the threads, it fills the interstices in the fabric..."
Purkinge--emanating from the ashes of Awopbop collective--improvisationally rends and resews texts in printed and oral forms, producing a particularly angular "writing" "centered" from different perspectives. The group invents and promotes new modes of authorship and anti-authorship, blooming melodic conversations in opposition to a system grown entropic. In our experiments, enabled by technology, we insist on the necessity of interactive, intercorporeal communication.
"Myopic Village" was composed using the Daedalus software which enables up to 2 dozen people to simultaneously work on the composition of a text together in real time. Purkinge composes on this system & improvises on 4-track recording equipment.
Myopic Village
(Purkinge 2/25/94)
* * *
she smiles
LECTIO inDIViduum
dash
for
space
teeth
waiting behind the vultures
land of 1000 concentric shells
for your innards
soft
token
straw plaster
shovel hut
bones and strings
singing wildly
arch
hands up
joust
marble tokens
girder
vehicular assault
bouncing
clothing
mud
teaching cable
again, exhale
grids of oxygen
SKIN OF OATMEAL
sound
behind
print negligence
Kali
mountains
untaught
screwing under the table
become a f a s c i c l e
the lost who pray
the air, seeping out
sovereign winter
RUNS in my
canticle for
infusion
cables streching inside housing of questionable ventricles
which begins
the confusion of furniture
spilling
shovelling single letters
scatter rags
hot water
bring
wave sequence modulator utensil sync
unread
sewn in
pylon limbs
thin but stubborn
torso torsion mandible lens
pulled out his own tooth
with a shrimp
& blinded herself
clover and straw
this & this alone
roasting your lobes
trying to alchemize
some sounds
floating
lobster
body parts
conversations
and lost her mind
monitor burn
communication amorphous
not neccesarily signs
shock
bigger questions than breadsticks
the system was all a mistake
of perspective
weathering
worms in the plastic
retreat melt
waves the sea monkeys are
back from church swinging on
the bowl that subsumes all bowls
lubricated
rups
cathartic simians
the (brief) unheard,
digested
flying chantress
magic shoe
polish
the crack in the surface of the ur the
BUTTRESS
a little gentle rocking
left hand
lifting the architecture
WALLS are mistakes
trasping alosin athrotic morsotip thusac
` motion of air
dip dip
hurple
iron on guppy rup
quasi-
grandible solidity of sometimes morthomptic
flip the emperor commissioned
mustapha
flaming fez
in stately Rockefeller
YAH
the Plaza UNDULATED
movements below the surface
orthontical ice beards ptangoronics
dance circle
rising over
flames
unnerved
censured
carapaces of humans shedding
unintentional
lamentions
pulling up the pavement, they discovered
another roadway beneath
and the air ain't cleer
which was
the buried heart
of
[pythagorean multiples streaming down the surface]
crab walk
glass waves
the city startling
the toungue out of its skin
the bodies of
slaves
enmixed
"Really to be expected old boy...
`
what we remembered
the dig
corn filament
scarified stone lost the faces
price
only valleys, impressions, visible from space
a society
based on
the knife on the left
fork and spoon stuck into the
tattered
map
to dancing bakka coil
following lines can prove
like ice-cream, only stronger...
harmony
dyes made from
vegetable pigment
on their lute
towards southerly prize
magic tools:
burnt sienna
spider patterns
back across
grandma's refridgerator
turning thru the tropics
settled
ice melted
slinky honey
WHO ATE THE IGUANA?
a brand new chevrolet
[THE SCALES STUCK TO MY LIPS]
heads on poles
i need a silver bullet...
in addition to
statistics, that is--
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