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Private Parts - Robert Ashley
Private Parts - Robert Ashley
Private Parts - Robert Ashley
there were two and inside those two there were two more
there was something like the feeling of the idea of silk scarves in the air
he thought to himself if i were from the big town i would be called debonaire
but he preferred
earth
now he grips himself with determination even knowing that it causes sadness
he is determined to be what?
he is determined to be serious
later he knew that he had made a mistake but too late he had arrived and there were rooms and
all rooms were not the same
better view
better layout
better shower
softer bed
very abstract
were it not for our momentum, the inertia of our actions, the constant inspiration of our habits,
we could not continue
he pushed down the button and listened to the silence of the object in his hand and then he hung
up
very dramatic
he is at the center of a ball of hot stuff that we haven't put our minds to yet
really.
he had resolved, that of the two kinds, the kind that takes every message of order, rule, law
has error
he worked with what things are ahead of us and with what things are behind us
i guess the other kind would be to work with things that are alongside,
the attachments.
no one in the world would have mistaken him for a real person
(obedience, et cetera)
the other kind works with the things that are the alongside us
the attachments
the differentness
it was a problem, being cooperative and refusing obedience, and carrying the load of the idea of
differentness
he wants
the fantasy is the distance, the reluctance, the reticence, the otherness
remove problem
remove gauntlet
remove run
remove is to
remove the
remove that
leave this
he just moves
or just talks
is it not so
when he says hello you hear a long whining sound which is his voice and the hello
he is absolutely uninhabitable
a thankless star
remove star
remove thankless
remove a
huh
sometimes yes
sometimes no
up from somewhere
missed by chance
no thanks
looking back
the pencil fairly flew as he made out his simple requests for breakfast
this is a record
this is a story
i am a city of habits
we know from what is past that the men are on the bench
an abandoned outpost
the park has sidewalks, fences, trees, grass, and a statue of a man and horse at war
frozen
very close
the park
nothing moves
they noted that there were certain things that were impermanent, and other things to which
impermanence did not apply
thus they came to make a great division between that which is impermanent and that which is
permanent
everything in this transitory category turned out to be the particulars of our existence
and these were divided into physical, mental, and others which were neither physical nor mental
on the permanent side of this great division of reality was a notion they referred to as space
they wondered
naturally
for instance
in the order of things, it is more important that she know about the prunes then that the shot
should change
the small drink in the fluted plastic glass sans ice is hardly touched
always.
he applies this simple thought to the problem of how to move the shot
begins is a problem
frozen, broken on the right edge by the body of the person, very close
is it possible, if one already has a certain experience of life, to start directly on the path
or is there danger involved in trying to do advanced practices without having the proper
foundation
they came to believe that, unless one has actually gone through the preliminary experiences,
conclusions may be drawn on the basis of insufficient information
and that these conclusions may produce effects just the opposite of the one which is intended
slide eastward
turning eastward
a parade of sorts
on the road
how could it be
except that we have moved off the body of the person very close and blurred
as they say
a pack of motorcycles
a herd of elephants
a tribe of bedouins
in utmost telephoto
They stretch.
That fourteen dollars and twenty-eight cents is more at attractive than fourteen dollars because of
the twenty-eight.
She watches.
It is the key.
It is night there.
needs to know.
Fourteen dollars and twenty-eight cents is more attractive than fourteen dollars.
First is the house behind her and the great Northern constellations.
She is Earth.
“She never had a stitch that she could call her own, poor thing”.
And, “She didn’t cook much, never really had the time, you know”.
It defies geometry.
The drawings of a geocentric solar system, when we meet them in the books, make us avert our
eyes.
Heresy is heresy.
We make one great, weird curve from the east edge of the backyard,
looking west –
looking east.
Except that for the purpose of the shot, or in the interests of economy,
she doesn’t move.
of its architecture.
A picnic of sorts.
watching her,
studying her.
She is circling.
We are circling.
She is so beautiful.
A pre-industrial equation.
Three, when you buy them in the store, made in China, on the end of strings
On the other hand, of course, the Chinese are said to not take pictures.
Six of one, two times three of one, five plus one of one,
Giordano Bruno.
In this shot he is wrong about the larger order, whatever that means.
There is just the sun and earth and some center that they share.
The specialists.
Twilight, four, pale purplish blue to pale violet, lighter than dusk blue.
more or less.
Dear George,