SEEDS (what is this-- this thinking)
I want a world in which the central seed
Is the
Being-a-human-being
That isn't biology or psychology or a life story
but
Openness
To a certain
noise
You offer me one more way to be in this world
World then to be manipulated
'experienced" put together
language manipulates, copies
tries things out
GIVE ME A DRINK
No
GIVE ME--
Situation=accept frame of situation, promotes it
OR
Re-frames it?
NO
Shatter frame
With NOW
Rather than past and future
Struggle to be inside lifelike-life
Old, dialogue goes forward in serpentine line
Now, from a little explosion (seed) thrown out and come back in loop to re-constitute-- wipe out?
What is it
This being-a-human being-ness
(Beehive and many hopes, revolves)
how man relates
to that center hive
with holes
that present, emptiness
(Not psychology, sociology, narrative
but something inside one
that is not
of one!
Small cell= generates
(not develop- cancer of narrative
Exclude program music
Play is about itself
What it generates
A note is hit (cells) and octaves above sound
So
Phrase- octave sounds
Stage the overtones
If you develop into story etc, you cut out overtones.
Cell sentence, turns back and blocks itself
He threw away his life
And it returned
Like a suit of armor
POETRY has no objects but itself
_________
Start stop
_breath in-out
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Alexander (organic) vs. Striking
Abrasive
WAKE UP
Use both
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drone vs. developmental-- on/off
in/out
start/stop
digital???
World is tangle
Of motions, acts, etc
But make
UNKNOWABLE
INHABITABLE
Every artist has different task
Me/not make unknowable 'known'
Impossible- since whole world collaborates in each item and whole is unknowable__________
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Cell/ was "Balcony"
Poised
Between talking
- - - - - -
no words down well
but words that self-destruct
that sp provide no "information"
yet copy HUMGER for information
Alexander (makes me sick after thrill
Why art that imitates itself?
Not imitate world?
(even ground of world?)
Three possibles
Vision, true to self
Rise wave of what is
Vision trying to relate to word
(i.e. tell world)
but a four
VISION, allows to be buffeted by world!
He threw away his life
And it returned
Like a suit of armor
He threw away his life
And it returned
Like a suit of armor
Please, do not allow the arrival
Here, on earth (Subtitle--location)
Of that . . .
sudden moment of wisdom and revelation
Which strips human beings
of the feverish drive towards accomplishment
no matter how self destructive
Would this be
That secret wisdom, within which
Only non-being survives.
Please
Do not allow death
Here, on earth (subtitle- location)
Not death please
_
Is deep understanding
Possible here, on earth
(If one were to say,
-----
Then how would people react
*****
If I were to hear it said
---
Then I do not know how to react.
Here on earth
If someone looked into the empty sky
And saw letters written by God which said
--------
Would your life-- change?
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If I were to look into the sky
And see letters written by God which said
----
then my life would change
How/ (etc)
If one were to visit a distant city
Carrying the message
--------
how would the people
of that
particular city react
********
If you were to bring a message stating
------
then I would suggest
spending the night in the hotel xyz
with xyz
(having a meal in the resturant xyz, which features xyz
This final opportunity
The hotel Bell Vista
27 rooms
in a beautiful part a fifteen inute walk (etc)
Warning.
Japanses people are not complete people
Lacking as they do
The quite different experiences and inheritence and therefore difrenet if equally incomplete psyche of Portugese, American people, and polish people.
But-- warning.
Do not long for such imaginary wholeness. Do not long
To tranform the entire planet into the land pf psychic death
People in this location
Are being challanged
To look into the empty sky
`(sky variations)
and discover in themselves
such emptiness
I want you to build me a house
In which I shall be able
To be a private person
Who draws on my own non-personal resources
That come not from the accidents
Of my circumstances, etc. or from
My particular genetic inheritance
But draws, rather
From the thing or energies or tendencies
That define
To-be-a-human-being
In and of itself
Then you will need a room
With a solid table
Covered in a pure white cloth
Why
The fact that you say why
Proves that your own deep needs
Are a mystery to your own deep self
He threw away his life
And it returned
Like a suit of armor
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Build me
Such a house
Where I swallow pride
Where I walk on four feet, childlike
(Palms)
Build me a house
Where I do not
"This" coming into itself
which I make happen
through my maneuvers--
erased
like a life is erased.
_________
This
Exhaustion with
No end in sight
Remote
Devious
The price of a life
Lived in
absentia
This
being alone in
the invisible desert,
threatened
but secure
for no reason
can understand
Arriving finally
In the city of one thousand libraries
I carried the book of knowledge in my right hand
And the book of contradictory ideas
In my left hand.
Entering the central library
My books were confiscated.
Returning the next day
My hands empty
I turned from the door before entering
I heard music
ONLY ATTEMPT TINY, LIMITED TASKS
EVERYTHING A TINY TASK!
A CELL
BUT THAT TINY THING
The different women
In the different hotels
The questions were always
The same questions
Suppose I were to
Promise you wealth, and happiness.
How could you know
That I would deliver
On that promise
If you were to promise me wealth and happiness
I could not know
If you would or would not deliver on that promise
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Suppose you were denied
Decent medical care.
Would you nevertheless recover from a disease
That had been plaguing you.
If I was denied medical care
There would be no way of knowing
If I would recover from a disease
That had been plaguing me
Suppose you died.
How many lives
Other than your own
Would change radically
If I died
The number of lives other than my own
Which might change radically
Would be unknown to me
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Suppose you were offered proof
That there was a thing called eternal life.
Would you be one hundred per cent convinced.
If I were offered proof
Of something called eternal life
I could never be sure
I would be 100 per cent convinced
Suppose you found out
That acquaintances
Amongst themselves
Called you by a secret name.
What would you do, then
If I found out that acquaintances
Called me by a secret name
I would have to decide
Whether or not
To respond to that secret name
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Suppose this was just
An ordinary day-
How would you remember it as different
From another ordinary day.
If this was just an ordinary day
I would have to find a way
To remember it as different
From some other ordinary day
Suppose the end of the world were immanent
But no one
Could know for sure.
How would you deal with that
If the end of the world were immanent
But I could not know for sure
I would have to deal with that
Deep inside myself.
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suppose a dearly beloved
made you unhappy.
Would you hide that truth
From the world.
I have no idea
Whether or not
If a dearly beloved made me unhappy
I would be able
To hide that truth from the whole world
Suppose you took a sudden and
Inexplicable dislike
For certain of your own physical characteristics.
Would you try to effect
Major changes
If I took an inexplicable dislike
To certain of my own physical characteristics
I would find my situation
Difficult
____________
Suppose you were threatened
With physiological trauma,
How would you deal with that
If I were threatened
With psychological trauma
I would try to purify
My emotional basis
Suppose I were to postulate
The sustained look into another's eyes
Can be sustained only as transformation
into sexual fucking.
How would you deal with that
If you were to postulate that
The sustained look into another's eyes
Could be sustained only as sexual fucking,
Then I would have to deal with that
_____________
Suppose I were propose
That the world exists only
To hide God from human beings
, how would you deal with that
If you were to propose that
The world exists only to hide God
From human beings
Then I would believe you.
Then I would not believe you
Suppose the world itself
Were the eye of God.
How would this effect your behavior
If the world itself
were the eye of God
I would no longer feel
Secure in my behavior
But I would have no choice
____________
Suppose you decided to protect
Yourself from God.
How would you manifest that decision
If were to protect myself
From God
It would be difficult for me
To understand
What I was doing
And why I was doing such a thing
Suppose I were to say
Human beings alone do this
Animals cannot do this.
Would that deepen self-understanding.
If you were to say
Only human beings can do this
Animals cannot do this
I would try. Somehow
To move deeper
Into my true human self
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suppose I were to postulate
something else is going on here
which is a second discourse
you choose to ignore.
How would you deal with that.
If you were to postulate
Something else is going on
I.E.-- a second discourse
Then sometimes I would feel more powerful
And sometimes I would feel less powerful
Suppose I were to postulate
Things taken out of context
Liberate the deep self.
Would you believe me
If you were to postulate
Things taken out of context
Liberate the deep self
My mind would stop working.
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To see one blindfolded
Is to be jealous perhaps
Thinking they exist
In some secret real,
And believing my own existence
Is under attack.
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To see one blindfolded
Is to see them being tested.
And to wonder
Is this other one
Stronger
Than I am strong.
_Careful. Now that you have blindfolded him or her
that blindfolded person
may prove to have resources
you could never imagine
as your own.
I will, in the long run, however
Be the beneficiary.
That is my belief
To proceed now, blindfolded
Means the rules of the game
Are perhaps
In jeopardy
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Suppose I were to postulate
The future
Contains no definable moment
In which it starts being the future.
How would you deal with that
I would deal with that.
I deeply believe
I would deal with that
I would no longer be thinking
The world would be thinking in my place
Suppose you found
The law of averages oppressive.
How would you circumvent that law
Were I to find
The law of averages oppressive
I would find ways to distract myself
By going forth amidst people.
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Suppose I were to postulate
The world as an almost exact copy
Of some other world--
How would you deal with that
1) I would deal with that
2) I would feel a piece of the world was missing.
Therefore I would act to make the world complete
3) -- a piece of this world was an extra pieve. Therefore I would wuld search for that piece of the world that I might them remover from my consciousness
Suppose I were to postulate that
Everything was self reflective.
How would you deal with that.
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Suppose it was happiness
That surrounded people.
How would they then imporve themselves
If I believed that it was happpiness
That surounded people
My focus would be
A different focus
Can you see me
No
Can you see me now
Not yet
Suppose armies were arrayed against me
Would I triumph.
If armies were arrayed against me
I would assemble my friends
And we would risk everything
. . . .ensemble.
If I were in the Italian town of Verona
I would visit the Hotel ...
Which features, aprently--
You are now in the Italian town of Verona
Would you allow me to introduce you, therefore, to the wisdom of The great Italian author ( ) who wrote--
'
If I were to be re-introduced to such ideas
I would walk the streets of Verona