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Poetry

Executive summary [Satellite Flower Delivery - PollenStar XIV]


Executive summary [Satellite Flower Delivery - PollenStar XIV]



When they started to write the story, the main idea was to make it
about plastic surgery. So we had to change the face of the main
character a few times. When we started editing, we had the script,
which was written the same as any normal feature film script. But we
sometimes couldn’t find the “actors” performing what the script
needed, so we changed it based on the footage we were able to find.
– Xu Bing, on Dragonfly Eyes (2017)


It appears that the world has a sort of drain hole in the middle of its being
and that it is perpetually flowing off through this hole.
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness







The idea of this remarkable piece of household stuff, had so mixed itself with the turns and steps of all
his dances that, though in that chamber he could dance excellently well, yet it was only whilst that trunk
was there; nor could he perform well in any other place, unless that, or some such other trunk had its
due position in the room.

To the fact that actual reality might be systematically located elsewhere,
you need to show that you love your solution”

And Credit Suisse, you need to let your guard down

It is of a young gentleman, who having learnt to dance, and that to great perfection, there happened to
stand an old trunk in the room where he learnt.
The idea of this remarkable piece of household stuff, had so mixed itself with the turns and steps of all
his dances that, though in that chamber he could dance excellently well, yet it was only whilst that trunk
was there;

It is of a young gentleman, who having learnt To expose a person of tender years, under a party's care,
to the inclemency of the weather; and that to great perfection,
or to keep such a child, unable to provide for himself, without adequate food

In a private debrief with me after class, he says he had also recorded the session He explains the depth
of the preparatory work, which includes rehearsing
The business students take pictures of the board with their phones
In light of this, imagine Locke asking himself: well, ‘if a trunk can take on such significance for a Gentleman, what is to keep another equally unremarkable object from assuming the same strange status
in the subject’s fantasy life?

The healer provides the myth and the patient performs the operation; or the medic performs the
operation
whereas the patient produces the myth
In a private debrief with me after class, he says he had recorded the session He also explains the depth
of the preparatory work,
A preselection of students who can offer better performances

nor could he perform well in any other place, unless that, or some such other trunk had its due position
in the room: Again blindfolded, they have to play at “war” in the following manner: each group forms a
“train,” with the last member, not blindfolded, giving the instruction “move forward” by tapping the
next person’s shoulder
Each “train” is in fact a “torpedo” that has to break up the other “torpedoes.” but is also exposed,
simultaneously
The students attempt a fulfilling encounter with an ideal medium of executive deliberation

In waste was formerly used in the sense of in vain.
The competitive nature of their platform
he talks to his viewers about his brother, who was supposed to come to dinner. “I’ve never eaten dinner
so slow,” he says as he explains how his brother was over an hour late to eat. Even now, the man says, he
hasn’t shown up.
Thus the wastewater of a mill is what runs away without contributing to drive the wheel;
Lat. vastus, waste, desert, desolate; also: awkward, unmannerly, ill bred, uncouthly large, vast

They belong to the public domain; Mr. Blehm does not own these elements
the figures share the concept of using common anatomical features such as arms, legs, faces, and
fingers, which are not protectable elements

The healer provides the executive summary and the patient
performs the financials
Or: Taping them wrapping tape around their mouths
With duct or maybe electrical tape
They have tape on their mouths
In bulk
At the new facility
I have a new facility with
That I have a new facility with

as being covered around a pre-determined path in a snowy area outside their home “in his own little coffin of snow,”
the log-walking was a form of discipline,
sometimes using a belt or a stick. according to the complaint.
He also admitted to covering Ethan in snow,
was directed to be carried out by
sometimes using a belt or a stick. Damian rolled the heavy log across Ethan’s chest, stood on him while
Ethan was face down in a puddle,
around a pre-determined path in a snowy area outside their home.

the log-walking was a form of discipline,
A mode of self-elaboration and self-imagining; self-interested pleasure in one’s own beneficence;
indifference to another’s suffering; Pleasure in another’s suffering;
Cruelty as a response to vulnerability

There are eight very large plastic bags containing similarly larger and smaller plastic bags.


then in a row   cut feebly some
jealousy    there are no longer   mother bringing something which were
partially
Where it has been interred (bird)      wicked will

see you want them toward the high key
wide pen going on    the largest
fledging mockingbirds     below the pussy willow tree

then in a row cut feebly some
jealousy     there are no longer   mother
bringing something which were partially similar
focal form     she come     and when
she picked it up                  and put it in again
unbroken carries spring

see you want them toward the high key
to allay having drenched     the thickly filament   in pale pussy willow
codes,

they spread tail and wings
show   one by one    their modernist
whites     stride link fires on           the tail and cross one
and underneath
the accordion
closes again

bare minimum bare
At tenancy
bears its own undoing
Sheltering in
as being covered around a pre-determined path
to balance the theoretical cost
against reduction in number of primitive notions
(virtue in reduction)

in a snowy area
or an overseer neglecting to provide food and medical care to a pauper having urgent and immediate
occasion for them are examples of this species of cruelty;

albeit in other cosmoses

according to the complaint.
the log-walking was a form of discipline,
He also admitted to covering Ethan in snow, but knew he had to breathe.
it does not turn on how any particular individual might have been, but rather on the possible truth of a
general claim
without reference to necessity or possibility

This is to confirm our conversation of

the reduced payments
or details of any payment plan
non-modal matters of fact

this mediating substance
that impinged on one another at the moment of default.

An assigned status may be withdrawn by a new procedure

Let me polish my borrower
Let me polish my lumber or
timber, my browser
Allow me to

Let me polish my apple

as Custodians of that referent

if you are not thinking in the right denomination
but a net transfer
free-falling through the layers
Then you will be your own frontier

That’s something I would refer you

We refer you to the outside counsel

sleeve of
The plastic death society
strip of the strip
mall In default

Its claim all scattered away

Grand slam and little slam
Buried with them like a pharaoh

black rain still falling inside
“there is Aleph behind pig”
locked up inside a tiny sty
what censorship do you lift
one at the expense of the other
It is blowing our house down
payment
Libet: it is permitted
penny d denarius

What it wishes to fill and so to leave gaping
wrong syntax of delegated pleasure

When our hand has obeyed our volition
Or been forcibly compelled.
—Offhand
everything happens outside the frame
diegetic abuse in the paranoid style
here inhibits A faulty syntagm
the approved selfhood
À midi

This includes all networks, not just your carrier

The cable touches the ground

I would like to protect the singular and hence. And hence
prefer ontological extravagance to monism
Of a middle condition,
What ghosting would mean here
shorn Being safe from old griefs, sub-
routine tugs free

In pig years

shutting a drawer

I am selling winter raiment, but you
Supply the warmth
For instance, The right pocket of my greatcoat is empty
Mouthing a mouth

And Will begin transcribing your message to text, either
when it detects how like
a relief plane is the guise of concern Over
the entire surface, as A threaden cloth
relieved of,
Fastened to the air

“play dead” grafts onto another emotion
after kept waiting so before can assume its place

Lo, another infinite series passes the torch of truth
Sooner Part frost from snow than this my fire die down

Half-intermitted

In a deanimate lather


A function is used
when a value is returned
to the calling routine while a subroutine is used when

Functions are similar to subroutines, except that functions return a value. Subroutines perform a task but
do not report anything to the calling program
[…] a continuation marker and put the outputs on the second line. See the example program
that you have to declare the interface of the internal procedure

You need a custom rule

An assigned status may be withdrawn
impinged on one another at the moment of default.
They have tape on their mouths
Taping them up wrapping tape around their mouths
With duct tape or maybe electrical tape
Stuffing women in a van
A transfer

They don't have control in the initial location which is why they want to move you.
because that is where they have control.


I’m me as my own little dog
Who must be maintained in his credulousness
belief irrigating the unbelief

Parenting
a parenting style

I’m me as my own Erotogenic wound
An almost chemical exuberance
—The heresy of paraphrase—

Opened in another tab

head poorly photoshopped To its social location
Little flecks of gaze, polymer
frond of the face’s raw screen Thickens, when paused

If I can’t
have you, I
don’t

Just empty the cache

The quantum sublimated & the quantum not sublimated
Contact or no contact

Don’t count on me

Conditional or unconditional, conditioned or unconstrained

To whose fitness proxy format
Chafes
Thermally

Transferring personal details onto the character

Are you a carer or non-carer

In the protocol sentences, This
or that collapsed relation
Such that we ourselves are inserted into it
Throughput
Lubricant

The violence becomes its own aesthetic object

how many lines to signify grid: what the
correct viewing distance
Too close or too far
Exposition exposure
perforates, in process of re-entry

fecundate
Match your gift
Enter political life since each is not self-sufficient by nature
Now the object survives its allowable destruction
But We need to match our dialogue to the lips
Making available some of your own inner process

Part the curtain:
the trackpad has been modded


Farrowed of sow, come red
In tooth and claw
blood everywhere in the
Orphaned paragraph
Illusory access
It is the barnacle of.

the world is a grave of
Arithmetic
weather edge portfolio
it is sterile double of.
impinging on one another At the moment of default

Various fleshy or softer parts
In its ritual dimension
Light visible around the rim
and without heed

Gender distributed across persons to contain the parent’s self-state
Child’s audit How to
tolerate reality with fantasy, make a
context


in this energy paradigm
I am photosensitive

Mitigation services

What one does with what is done to one

you don’t respond, they are left holding their aggression

But Just
sending a letter may not be very effective
all the necessary information in your letter including account number
Feedlot

Love heark sky, sky-
lark Hours for gleaners cried
Then herd comes into stubble
Upkeep

Queen of the May

A grain ostrakon (potsherd) listing distribution of wheat, beginning with the heading “wheat" followed
by a list of names
gross pay

Lead is the father of metals
Lead is the father of metals: anvil
represents weight—wait!
the problem is already solved
a microtheology
while the regulators look away

Poor in ablation, algally poor
if otherwise overqualified
my vernacular’s
letterhead’s mind
made available
in the manner of control
if poor in parallel process
perforce purblind
I am in the shadow of your tree
pertaining
but having no bearing on


Sparrows flew by on belts that ran from lathes
up
to shafting above by skylights. The men had thrown crumbs for them on the floor.
Foreman came up and works manager asked
As these birds would go? and so where?
Let’s get on with it,
let’s get
The crows at the sheeps’ eyes
Wiping red wet hands
What makes you sneeze at the sun, he
said
Another day.

dear dairy the files are clean  autocorrected,
debts installed
powerball’s bully pulpit pointing right at
me as if
to index personnel;
mind moves in its old paths against the victory lap
bad actor flaws of color outbid

The African penguin chick stares at itself in a mirror The mirror is an enrichment device,
—Errands assigned to the subject—
along with an iPad
that allows the chick to watch the ocean and webcams of other penguins so that it

so that it
would be clear the
true was nothing more than a moment within
the necessary movement of the false

Bestrode or trot alongside
Sir I could give as shrewd a lift !
That I’ll come and be waggoner
And for how much and
Worthy his hire

To enroll the body under an inadequate concept, the thought
unmaking its object

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths

A penguin, a Fiberglass full brim or carbon fiber full brim

The right to be so called

fumbling air

Contributor

Judith Goldman

Judith Goldman is author of Vocoder (Roof Books 2001); DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books 2006); l.b.; or, catenaries (Krupskaya 2011); and agon (Operating System 2017). In 2019-2020, she exhibited a collaborative, multi-media installation Open Waters [Northwest Passage + Open Polar Sea + Arctic Plastic] at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY. Goldman is Associate Professor in English and Director of the Poetics Program at SUNY, Buffalo; she is also Poetry Features Editor for Postmodern Culture.

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