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@kg_ubu

Moving literature away from use and towards mention.

From content to context.

Happening now: Steven Zultanski reading at Monet's water lilies, as part of @kg_ubu 's series @MuseumModernArt: pic.twitter.com/oxeGKW8SMv

Steve Zultanski reads 'Agony' in front of Monet's Lilies @museummodernart for @kg_ubu's guerilla... instagram.com/p/XXp0sXsUJV/

Been listening to @kg_ubu’s talk at MoMA last week over and over. >>> livestream.com/momatalks/vide... It’s just so very spot on.

Heidi Julavits (12:30) & Steven Zultanski (1:30) will be reading in my @MuseumModernArt series TODAY: moma.org/visit/calendar...

Ibid.: chronology of poets/poems since 1945 books.google.com/books?hI=en&Ir...

Ok here goes TOC/preview for Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945 books.google.com/books?id=nKMQ5...

Well this is cool: the entire editorial board of a journal quit because the publishers refused to allow open access j.mp/11IS1a6

Poetry doesn’t need you.

AMERICA n(shift1)

Our glory who art in Father
hallowed be thy Heaven
thy name come
thy Kingdom be done
on will as it is in earth
forgive us this Heaven our daily day
for thine is the bread
the Kingdom and the power
forever and ever
amen

I (HEART) IPSWICH

Everyone in Ipswich is here on business

Nobody lives in Ipswich

Everybody lives in hotels in Ipswich

All the men dine on their own in Ipswich

Ipswich is one of the most beautiful places in Britain

Ipswich is a beautiful place to do business

Everybody comes to Ipswich to do business

The Ipswich Quayside is filled with yachts

The Ipswich Quayside is beautiful at nightfall

Business is done on Ipswich Yachts

Men dine alone on the Ipswich Quayside

Everybody comes to the Ipswich Quayside

Nobody ever stays long in Ipswich

I don't ever want to leave Ipswich

The Ipswich Quayside is full of business

Ipswich is not a beautiful place to me

I dine alone on the Ipswich Quayside

Nobody comes to Ipswich to stay

HOTLOOKED

for AA and JW

merged many contacts
first name shared
brother, for example
personalitied Facebook user

first name shared
has three jobs
personalitied Facebook user
in two countries

has three jobs
and six emails
in two countries
Thank you Microsoft

and six emails
four telephone numbers
Thank you Microsoft
become a three

four telephone numbers
headed, many legged
become a three
The forced switchover 

headed, many legged
brother, for example
The forced switchover
merged many contacts

SNOW SIMILIES

for IM

Outside, snow falls like snow
falling. Snow falling in March
like snow falling in January
like snow fell in December.
Snowfall on the road like a road
covered in snowfall or snow
covering a road. Snow falls
like snow falls from the sky
into the rivers where it clots
among the branches like snow
clotted among the branches
in the river. Snow you've seen before,
deja snow, snow you've seen
before. These same white flakes
that drift like white flakes drift
against the house, snowing you in,
until you are snowed in by snow
like the snow that's falling now.

BODIES

When they go down

they are just bodies

in a box. They are

bodies and nothing

else. They are not

what they were, but

bodies disappearing

into the earth. They

do not exist, but are

bodies nonetheless.

Somewhere they are.

Going down. Burying

the bodies in earth.

Who are they? Bodies

that moved. In bodies

is all that mattered

when they were. 
The bodies are sunk.

The bodies in earth.
The bodies are not us.

SEB COE WAS A FAMOUS MAN

This footpath, cycle track
and footbridge link was
constructed as a joint
venture by Tyzack Sons &
Turner Ltd., Sheffield City
Council and South Yorkshire
County Council and was
opened on 21st May, 1982
by Sebastian Coe.

Note the floating orb
to the right of the picture –
Evidence of haunting?


for more Bench Views: click here

SNOWFALL

for BC

I was thinking of you
as I walked home through the snow.
I was thinking of you.

Sometimes I stepped on the snow
that had not been stepped on
and sometimes I shuffled the snow
that had been stepped on
and I was thinking of you.

I was thinking of you.
I have been thinking of you much.
Not thinking anything particular
about you.
I have been thinking of you much.

I was thinking of you
when it began snowing this morning
and now snowfall is coming deep.

I am thinking of you.
I have been thinking of you much
and now snowfall is coming deep.

BURN DOWN THE JOBCENTRE PLUS

for RB

Burn down the Jobcentre Plus
The Jobcentre has to burn
They've got no jobs for none of us
The Jobcentre has to burn

Burn down the Jobcentre Plus
I'll get the matches and petrol
Burn it quick without a fuss
I'll get the matches and petrol

Burn down the Jobcentre Plus
Burn those bastard machines
They've got no jobs for none of us
Burn those bastard machines

Burn down the Jobcentre Plus

I'll get the matches and petrol

Burn it quick without a fuss

I'll get the matches and petrol

Incited by this article: click here

BENCH VIEWS

Orchard Square

@ Orchard Square

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Ah, it's for tired shoppers. Besides

who doesn't like a spot of

people watching? :)

Nice photo :)

Orchard Square

@ Orchard Square

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So we can sit and watch people

going in and coming out

with their shopping bags.

Wonderful idea. Who put it there?

For more bench views: click here

TASTING NOTES

for JF and DA

CAMPOS DE DULCINEA

Classical and fruity Tempranillo from

the land of D. Quixote. offers cherry

aroma mixed with Spanish character.

its youth invites to drink with friends.

accompanied by red meat. pasta. risotto

or some Spanish tapas.

Tempranillo clasico. afrutado y

aterciopelado de la tierra de Don

Quijote ofrece aroma a cerezas

mezelado con temperamento espanol

en el vaso. A hase de su caracter joven.

el vino anima a tomarto con amigos.

Aconsejado para carne asada. pasta.

risotto o tapas.

CRUISING

for SM

The two of us, here, playing thugs.

Let's get roughed up behind the bank.

We'll bruise ourselves with shame and lust.

You can leave your wedding ring on

and I'll play pussy. Drop these masks

like trousers. Now we are real men.

Afterwards, you'll tuck your shirt in

to your still damp crotch, wipe your hand

on the brick. I'll rub the bite mark

on my cheek and worry what I'll...

We never exchange names, just shrugs.

We melt to life, anonymous.

Image taken from this excellent blog: here

TRUE STORY

My friend works with alcoholics

and the alcoholics

calculate their drinking in bottles.

My father tells me I drink too much.

I opened a bottle of wine,

in my suburban estate,

for a Scandinavian family from the city.

My father drank every night of the week.

Whiskey. Rum and Coke. A Daiquiri.

My father never told me I drink too much.

A bottle of Lightning. Bells.

                                                                                       

TUMBLERS

SNOW LAKE LEAF STAR
SHOW LIKE LEAD SOAR
SHOP LIME DEAD SOAP
SHIP LIMB DEED SLAP
WHIP LAMB FEED SLAM
WHIM LAME FEAT CLAM
WHAM DAME FLAT CLAY

TWIG HAWK CROW FISH
SWIG HAWS GROW FIST
SWAG HAMS GLOW FAST
SLAG HUMS SLOW LAST
SLAY HUMP SLOT LASH
FLAY HEMP SLIT LUSH

HOWL MIND MIST WALK
COWL MINE MAST WALL
COAL WINE MASH BALL
FOAL WANE WASH BULL
FOOL WANT WISH GULL

RAIN MOSS BEAR BONE
RAIL LOSS BEER DONE
FAIL LOST LEER DOVE
FOIL POST LEEK LOVE

EYES WIND ROCK MOON
DYES WAND COCK MOAN
DUES SAND CORK MOAT

FROG DEER SEED CAMP
FLOG DEEM SEND LAMP

DAWN COLD DUST FIRE


Listen to a songify version: here

THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH PAPER BURNS

for the Freedom Bookshop

At 451 fahrenheit or 450
or a little higher or a little lower
paper combusts. Though its contents

may send the thermometer gun
racing up through russet, cerise
to white. Paper burns fast and fires

can come quickly out of control.
If a bookshop were to burn
the metal stacks would buckle

under the pressure of the words
burst into scalding smoke,
scorching the walls, refusing to choke.


Read more about this: here

A LIGHT SHOW DURING A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT INVOLVING A PEDESTRIAN

There are streetlamps reflected in the rider's visor.

A white curtain of rain glittered by crossed headlamps on half beam.

As the motorcycle lurches under the bodies there are sparks.

The bodies are turning through space, tumbling through electricity.

The bodies are spacemen. A half-dawned earth where the faces lived.

EASTER

It was just a couple of steps
I hope
They don't break the skin
No bruising
I am three days alive