Mark Young's most recent books are Mineral Terpsichore, from gradient books of Finland, & The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago. An e-book, The Holy Sonnets unDonne, came out earlier this year from Red Ceilings Press; another, a few geographies, will be out later this year from One Sentence Poems; & another, For the Witches of Romania, is scheduled for publication by Beard of Bees.
11/13/04
Precarious
cohesion. Slices
of geography &
history plyed
together. The
sound of Senegal
all around, Étoile De
Dakar, Youssou
N'Dour's early
band. On one of
the speakers
Arrian's Campaigns
of Alexander sits
half-read, a pile
of CDs on the
other, Bach's
Brandenburg #3
ready to be played
next. For the
moment it is
a hermetically-
sealed environment.
There is only inside.
Then an inch-long
lizard skitters in
under the door
& in Fallujah
the minaret
of a mosque
crumples
under gunfire.
Stephen Hawking theorizes
The seabirds on the East Coast
carry Lyme disease. It's easy
to misdiagnose. Early subtle
infestation may look like some
listed celebrity who found
God in a remarkable way,
but still can't spell catastrophe.
the / fanciful past / of kara thrace
Now that the construction
of the Three Gorges Dam
has been completed with
minimal loss of life, the focus of
Chinese high society has turned
overwhelmingly towards
variants of Dior's classic little
black backless cocktail dress,
& is currently favoring a fashion-
forward take on Public Transport
Victoria's attitude towards
farm animals in combination
with a non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drug.
so iNnet!
NextGen efficiency, not
politics, should be the
primary decision criteria
for site selection. That's
why the MD5 Reverse
Index has a browsable
listing of the Houston
Arboretum & Nature
Center calendar of e-
vents for February. A-
mongst them is "Today
could be the day that
your vote will get Paul
Ryan out of politics."
Take
whatever you can
whenever you think
you can get away
with it. Don't set
a stopping point. This
is not greed but it
can be good. Is a
reference library to be
sorted later, as need
dictates, things
falling into place
because at some
previous time you
took the time to
take them in &
shape them even
slightly in your own
image, even if they
belonged to someone else
at the time of taking.
Mark Young's most recent books are Bandicoot habitat & lithic typology, both from gradient books of Finland. An e-book, The Holy Sonnets unDonne has just come out from Red Ceilings Press, & another e-book, For the Witches of Romania, is due out from Beard of Bees.
caravanserai
Anime & cat-girl
clubs, pub crawls,
river floats — I start
internet businesses, &
try to make money
from them. If you
would like to visit
the nude resort at
Sea Mountain Inn
or hospitalized patients
with serious gram-
positive infections in
colors that range from
warm brown to greenish
gray, I can arrange that
too. The latest edition
of my Bunnykins Catalog
includes both the large
destruction of capital in
continental Europe
during World War III &
the flow-on effect if the
USA attacks Syria. I
like tomatoes very much.
pas de deux
Each night she
would put him
in an air-
tight jar & they
would dance
a little
before he went
to bed. They'd
take it in
turns as to who
would lead.
Tracking the Minotaur
He marked the
journey from
chaotic day-
dream to
entropic nightmare
with p/a r t i c u l a t e
matter,
discarded fragments
of his own
amino acid chain.
bel canto
He left just
before the
persimmons
broke into
song. He was
always lucky
that way. Nessun
dorma performed
by a chorus of
drunken persimmons
is not something
you want to
stick around &
hear. & since
they block the
doorways be-
fore they start,
leaving early
is the only
way out.
An error in fast gait
It's a relatively new
medium which has
yet to establish itself
in those Nordic forests
with their folders of
striptease records, old
newsreels, & experimental
music that still have to
be pored through, but who
really believes that the
FBI won't eventually find
some way to sneak a
little peak at everbody's
interactive kiosk projects?
