Book of the World Courant CXXXII

Annibale Carracci 
(Italian, 1560–1609). 
Study of a Tree, ca. 1600. 
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk. 
Private collection.
Annibale Carracci 
(Italian, 1560–1609). 
Study of a Tree, ca. 1600. 
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk. 
Private collection.

 

 

CXXXII

 

Who is this Pastor Al we’ve been hearing so much about?

 

A duneist in the nude

 

Billionaires without borders

 

La chute, la chute!

Est-ce que ce monde est sérieux?

 

Lockheed Hall, let it fall

 

The sun is giving off more superdelegates than usual today

Which moron unto the breach?

 

Weave it alone

 

Dud soulz by Google

 

Sexion d’Assaut

 

I wuz a “dead soul” for the FBI

 

Mirage

Syria (f)utile

 

One Hundred Years of Scaffolding

 

Corruption is no more nor less than a fear of change that, taking root, becomes a chronic depletion of the spirit

 

Fresh outa empathy

 

Who’s your goat-to ruminant?

 

She sewed feuilletons to her chiton

And whiffed a wistful waft of freon

Fragile feuilleton, chiffon chiton

 

Reckless yin, like a river overflows

 

But I digress

 

Getting old consists of, and insists on, whereing out, whenning out, whatting out, whying out, howing out, and bowing out.

But not, necessarily, kotowing out.

 

What is the relation between event and process?

 

Your space is getting in the way of my time

 

Nature absorbs a vacuum and keeps on continuuming on, imperturbe

 

Roman lettering aside, there’s a distinction to be made between HVAC and HUAC

 

Who is this Mona Moore everyone’s talking ‘bout?

 

6 degrees of desperation

 

I sing the body cataleptic

 

Is the New Testament cross-genre?

 

Now don’t that beat all: a mother and her daughter, perhaps ten years old, on their way to school, the former walking, the latter keeping pace, stride for stride, bouncing along on her pogo stick. She has it down.

 

I’d bake for you

I’d fry for you

I’d pluck the pigs

out of the sty for you…

 

Breathing is a profound interrogation of the concept of Mine

 

Saber is somehow not quite the same as sabor

 

The Case of the Emphatic Empath

 

The Case of the Domical Domicile

 

Fish ‘r’ jumpin’

And the Wi it is Fi…

 

The trick to seeing is to soften your gaze

(especially when wearing your most accurate prescription glasses)

 

Writing and writing in the wrythening gyre…

 

Polarized colonized, hypnotized, cholerized

 

There is and isn’t time

 

We all lookin’ for un meilleur millieu

 

I was a kard-karrying Kardashian for the…

 

Last Exit to Bethlehem

 

Bi-sickle, bisect, bicycle bilt 4

 

Freedom inheres not in a lack of structure, but rather in a flexible, ever-transforming structure.

It is not a condition, it is a dynamic

Not a state, a process

 

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Some say the dragon embodies freedom

As does, in another regard, the tiger

 

Meteor studies

 

All over Sensual Park, the five-sythia are in bloom

 

How reasonable are reasons?

Or rationales rational?

 

I’m meandering through Medes

Tripping through Thrace

Ambling through Asia Minor

Sauntering through Sicily

Prancing through Phrygia

But I buy at Alexanders!

 

The Red Croissant: providing emergency viennoiserie wherever there’s a need

 

The Times as nihilist

 

Dis here is da Orient!

Break it down break it down break it down

So naturally you’re disoriented

 

Shterer shuffled on, hugging the walls. The air was choked with the smoke from hundreds of stovepipes sticking out of the stone and glass. The building seemed to be breathing – with much difficulty and soot – through a multitude of tracheas. Now and then, here and there, words clung to the stone. Pausing by one of these texts, Shterer noticed that the lines at the end were shorter and capped with exclamation marks:

LONG LIVE THE POWER OF THE SOVIETS!

LONG LIVE THE DEATH OF CAPITALISM!

[Krzhizhanovsky, op. cit., p. 168-169]

 

Proprietary tsuris

 

Street doctorate

 

“Ladies, this year’s fragrance is DEET.” Said Ismarie Morales, head nutritionist at a clinic in the burbs of San Juan to a class on Zika prevention, segun El Times de Nueva York, March 20, 2016. A3:4.

 

Windmill take all

 

All colors eventually fade into Department of Sanitation white

 

The easel has landed

 

The tender street

 

And that small, oft-overlooked detail called reality

 

I’ve organized a balming plot

 

Lawn economix

 

The slaught is on!

 

A pearl, some say it is a pearl of wisdom, rolls back and forth across the concave floor of dantian. On the inhale it rolls back toward mingmen, on the exhale it rolls forward.

 

Save Our Story

From itself

 

Surreal estate

 

Cicatrixter

 

The foreign near of it

Ear of it

 

In among the trees, a twig broom began scratching the ground. [Krzhizhanovsky, op. cit., p. 186]

 

Chypre: a Coty invention of 1917, based on a blend of bergamot, amber resins and oak moss from Cyprus. Wars may come and go, but fragrance never sleeps.

 

Frantically, he cruised the topless bonds

 

American Pseudo

 

Come gather ‘round hunters

And set yourselves down

For a great wave of settlement’s coming around

And you’ll soon find your wanderings confin’d to town

So gather round all ye hunters

It’s time to set down

 

Migrant twerkers

Social twerkers

Socialist twerkers

 

A man, a plan, Manhatitlán

 

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