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The Secret Index of the Past

Kim Calder
Editor: 
Mathew Timmons

 

The Secret Index of the Past

1

What you claim to know succumbs
to the whore Once upon a time.

The materialist
needs a present
           in which time takes a stand,

comes to a standstill.
In the stand and standstill

history is written
in the present.
           In this way the impossibility
of remembering
becomes an asset.            

What’s written
A determined stand.

            In the fixed past
only the victors speak.

I understood this early:

history is what
the liars make.

The material happenings
irrelevant.           

            My body feeling the strain and bump of pushing
the little metal bike
over the dirt road to the library.
Holes sunk into the ground.
The road’s unevenness. 

I gripped hard

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To Luv Gut, Verbal & Paul Ryan’s Widow’s Peak

David Shook
Editor: 
Mathew Timmons

 

To Luv Gut
            after Words with Friends with Michael Schmidt

To luv gut, pec, achoo,
globes, art, hairy ewe.
Lo tower quad pix, shied,
vide zoner yin, fined.
Ate tad rei: la na ka.

Him hippier kisses hews,
dieter trout, juicy tax tune.
Na na mu lea, shove old Baal, get awe.
Lo, jot id, ad gone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Verbal

Devil is to hell as:

a)    Jesus is to heaven

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“CIVILIZATION!” (from RHYME EATS THE WORDS)

C.J. Martin
Editor: 
Mathew Timmons

Because she brought poetic dealings to a dizziness that wins the whole discourse. Rhyme eats the words. ---Henri Meschonnic, “Rhyme and Life”










Let’s admire the jewel itself.
(Don’t outfit nothing)


Civilization! Own farmlands
Places purveyor


Cut-out present in past
Dangled earrings




















‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria,’ 2011


for JD




w/the help of description,
# of parts


(swimming, sexual passion)
w/the help of furniture


92


We did it ahead of time,
leavings houses positions


Stretched outside information
To never seeing clearly

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are you a famous rapstar? dear __________, & engagement in paris

Jon Rutzmoser
Editor: 
Mathew Timmons

 

are you a famous rap star?

danto jocks phillo box project
project thought onto art object
object to discerning from import
import meaning for the word it

re-place word object with subject
subject the reader to construct
construct our very own present
present meaning for the word it

language must warrant this contract
contract the current hot content
content me with your best conduct
conduct meaning for the word it

confuse the meaning as abstract
abstract the terms of our discourse
discourse the texture as extract
extract meaning for the word it

what is in a question anymore?
compression? re-save the jpg
four or more times and view
at one hundred percent

record yourself singing
the trashmen
diving in dumpsters
surfing the web to
find yourself monthly

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Electrical Appliance

Harold Abramowitz
Editor: 
Mathew Timmons

In a gigantic fertilizer plant and an automatic controlling device for example a growing

feeling of for example an automatic controlling device striving conditioned to respond to all for example operating costs or efficiency in for example day to day and the experience of the last twenty years on to the experience of the last twenty years on of for example linkages between for example controllers Louisville, Kentucky said we will bury you unskilled workers certainly would suffer unemployment or at the experience of the last twenty years sharply reduced earning power social and economic betterment stocks of fuel and electrical power companies it would be and this can only be done and this can only be done with statistical knowledge if 

 

for example electrical appliance love for example children too

 

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Test Post for Los Angeles Tab

David Johansen
Editor: 
Brian Joseph Davis

Cum neminem ante nos de vulgaris eloquentie doctrina quicquam
inveniamus tractasse, atque talem scilicet eloquentiam penitus
omnibus necessariam videamus, cum ad eam non tantum viri, sed
etiam mulieres et parvuli nitantur, in quantum natura permittit: volentes
discretionem aliqualiter lucidare illorum qui tanquam ceci ambulant
per plateas, plerunque anteriora posteriora putantes: Verbo aspirante
de celis, locutioni vulgarium gentium prodesse tentabimus;
non solum aquam nostri ingenii ad tantum poculum aurientes,
sed accipiendo vel compilando ab aliis potiora miscentes,
ut exinde potionare possimus dulcissimum ydromellum.