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Industrial Verse 1984-1988
Industrial Verse 1984-1988
Industrial Verse 1984-1988
Stopping
Comes from closer
Closer to the heart
And the soul
I know exactly where I am.
How can I know other?
Although the time and place
may shift and twist
and turn and heave,
although my thoughts
scramble and flutter
and fly about,
although my feelings
drain and ripple
and soar,
I am always here.
A man of my word
for now.
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Why do you look
for the
Manifesto?
Consider the
maldistribution
of the data.
Your learning is
not classical,
yours means
are experiential.
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There is something natural
In knowing your wants
- Knowing that you want -
And yet the language of
Want
Has no relation
To the language
Of what gives
What is wanted
And seeing this falls short
Of grasping the gap
Between the wanting thought
And the Source
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A
Vision
In front
Solutionless
Inside of time
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Unitary supposition
A question of calling
Into play
Signed markers
Of metaphysical symbology
Engrossed and encompassing
A classical struggle
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Think about reading
Same type as
Reading
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Tool development;
As a whole
connected,
dialectic
nonetheless.
Prosaic tension,
versified apprehension,
not opposite
yet
always in opposition;
self-referenced.
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I can't say much
About the tears
In my eyes
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Surrender to the demand.
Not a knowing,
like a primacy of knowing
Rather like a knowing of the heart
providing the stimulus for knowing.
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Suddenly
Suddenly pleased
with experience
Marching
Marching in time
Suddenly
With experience
Connected
Connected through time
through space
With experience
And with
What speaks its name
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The frightening stuff
After dead aim has been taken
Gasping and wheezing
One's fright-life
Played back in a slo-mo--flashback blur
of you-did-it-to-me's
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Explore the explosion of
gradualism
Flying the Ego Flag
proudly
13
What we share
is
And is shared.
What we say
is said
and is what is.
Who we are
is who we are
and who we say we are.
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Shards and signs
of objectification
Signed and Sealed
An unspoken compact
Beyond Doubt
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Seeking secular separation
Standing in the time
Of another
Howling winds of
Change and trepidation
Waves of bold chance
of happenstance
Childhood dreaming transfixed
Unbounded joy
Then unknown terror
Finding a consistent voice
A saying of can
And of cannot
Pointed at a new language
Pointed at yourself
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Seeing
A state of
Seeing
Not above
Nor Beside
A stranding in
Not experience
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One saying
of a personal
concern
not colored
by a concern
for others
Assumes the loss
of a spirit
of binding together
in community
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The beauty of the
Stillness provided
The stand of the
Sonic poet
Dispelled
By temporal concerns
Encased in a momentary capsule
Ancience shattered
For the sake of
For the sake of
Of possession
Of disillusion
Dissolution
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So to open
Research
Retrace
Paths of Sensibility
Intertwined
With Paths of Grace
and Knowledge
Given Strength
Moral Courage
Trusting Movement
Within and Without
Grant the Seeing
and the Knowing
A Place in the Heart
and in The Mind
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Null utility
Insufficient
Mental
Adhesive
Glued on the
Back of
The mind
Then swept away
In the mad swirl
of city days
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Newly Poetic
Unduly Gnoetic
With the Fire
of a soul surrounding
Irresistible
Undeniable
The force of loss
Searching and searing
a color of one
And one alone
Dreams Obscured
Patterns delayed
Self-referenced.
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Sudden nascent shock
A pause between ages
Circling calamity
Faces of innocence
A fire surrounds thinking
Out of control
Sight of patterns
Becoming
And becoming unwound
At once
Copied cellularly
And metalically
Root of dispute
Centered on Unity.
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Model of profundity
Through absorbed excess -- chasing
Chasing the tail
Of capital
Generative ability
Birthed through
Emotional maelstrom
Birthright beyond property
Irreputable right (rite).
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Beaten
Battered
Broken
Psyche
Minced
Mangled
Mashed
Mind
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Disaggregation
Of mind
One circle
One Soul
One sight
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March
March, march to the light
Walk to the light
Walk with single steps
Walk on the path to the light
Move on, move out
Move about, move me
Move me and we dance
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Any interim appeal
or explicit perception
Gathers its own light
And creates the source
Of an instant.
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Look at where you
are when you
are not there
and notice what
you are looking
with.
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Left Justify
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I know just where to put
The sights and sound
Always
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It keeps happening
Expressed jealousy
Submitted through
Sudden outbursts of
Sensory overload
Perhaps a rebellious
Dimension
Without free access
Unless spoken through
Completely through
All the way through
To a solemn
Exit state
Of success
Success of what is
Beyond
Beyond just getting by
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You'll get your justice.
Spun around and swirled
Through modern ethics.
Nothing's constant.
A moving on
Without reason to move on
A trial
Without recourse
Execution
Distant source
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The New Jabberwocky
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Having having
A consistent definable
Characteristic
Stemming from a
Dimensionless attachment
A continuum of
Life-Force
Only able to be
Realize at the point
Of the awareness
That you are unaware.
An overtaking of ambition:
Desire, lust, cause, pain,
Emotion, apathy, knowing
Mind
And not truly significant
And not truly possessing
Having
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Explore the explosion of
Gradualism
Flying the ego flag
Proudly
Annulment of the stand
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Primal rites
Property rights
Expenditure and sacrifice
Soon salvation
New incantation
Domination and providence
Now migration
Then liberation
Artifacts and control
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Flush the buffers
Pop the pointers
A pattern of long
return has begun.
Serendipity opening
arising
No longer self-referential
Like a folding back on
Itself
Rather, as a more
consistent structure,
of sets
of light
of language
of life.
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Face the facing;
a front
of effrontery;
all the while
lost without.
Sound of a sending;
casting off,
ascending;
constant stillness
emotional commotion,
not perfect, disrupted.
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Humanist Elegy
(for D. Boon)
The strength
Drawn from within
and without
To be brought forward
As a sign
- a sign
- a singing
- a vision
- a light
To move another
While moving
Oneself
Sometimes:
It all seems so scrambled
Out in front
And on the sides
And sometimes within.
And you go to bring it
Bring it forward
And do it well
- the heat
- the noise
- the love
Love of movement
That which moves forward
Giving it a voice
It takes courage.
It takes strength.
It takes more,
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Resolve paradox
OK
Resolved
Integrate integration
Alright
Integrated
Answer my question
Sure
Question my Answer
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Death of a body
Is the only death
Death of vision
of light
Any other thought
Has at its source
That which dies
That is
The body is the only domain
Of death
Not identity
Not intellect
Not speaking
Not listening
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Conservative
Of myself
Numbing of the spine
And of the mind
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Clueless
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Capitulation in the
sake of the saying of the
defense of a sacred will,
or a sacred honor,
is the death of innocence.
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Put your body
Into the market
And listen:
Swathed in benign
Numerology,
Bathed in convergent
Etymology
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Being-Function
Reaching outward
Pulling around
Bedeviled in time
____
Not stated
At best
Accepted
Never sensed
Never affected
Singular
In source
In silence
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Bantering about the issues
of thought and mind
and of one's life
it could be observed
one's life always remains at the fore.
Yet it is not the issues
of one's life that serve the living of one's life.
I prayed to God
to reach in to me
and to take me away,
away from thoughts and feelings.
I was taken away
And my thoughts somehow remained
And I felt disappointed.
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Illusion of balance
Self-interest
Purely a matter
Of feeling
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Ask
Ask what kind
And do not ask
About what kind
Not a structure
Not a hole in a structure
A whole
Living together
Working together
Learning together
Learning to dance
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There is an
Organization
Of appeal
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Any altogether
uncommon or peculiar
phenomenon
A concordance of
equal parts
thinkable and unthinkable
Met in a swirl
Breathing and heaving
Blinking and flashing
Exploding
Bound up again
Borne up again
In light
In life
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Access
Interface
On into the matrices
of pre-destined decisions
Knowing all the while
That you put yourself there
And that
Your knowing
Is pre-destined
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