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“hread which has run
through Western Civilization itself, an Exquisite Corpse made of many different
parts of volumes, redacted and edi”
-Edward Morris, “The
Theatre and its Double”
“een created to drain
abscesses coll”
-Antonin Artaud, “The
Theatre and its Double”
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when
athwart the boil
mad
in tires, toil, seethe
occluded heed eht, rain cadavers
et
cause the crops to grow
jaundiced, dust-diseased, myopic
hooded or a plinth of splintered finger ,nails
splayed
like a trunk of gut
,immersed in suture: so the corncobs seep
wreathing rutting in eht summers gnastaw groove.
pinned
drained or fire flame the pages
sail came in pustule spasm lake;
a froth of text synthetic eardrum monitors, glued ,et
proves
dans
fluff convulsive in a
mothball
turn the page ,you
fling miasma in the breathe off death ,you
next
atop the skull-silk
:so bite chiasmus in concise abysses
;wring fluted wingnuts from entarecht lung;
;apprised of the sopping fruitfly ,rage
et neither sung nor missing jaw
contract, in hacking eloquence–ô
nonetheless
nonetheless
nonetheless
puffed comme the maggot of a marshmallow
the moons' disjointed orisons
,tar in the placent maw.
Olchar E. Lindsann has published over 40 books of literature, theory,
translation, and avant-garde history including The Ecstatic Nerve, Toward
a Radical Historiography, and most recently volume 3 of the ongoing
epic Arthur Dies on Luna Bisonte. His poems have appeared
in Otoliths, Lost & Found Times, Brave New
Word, and elsewhere, and he has performed and lectured extensively in the
US and the United Kingdom. He is the editor of mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, whose
catalog includes over 100 print publications of the contemporary and historical
avant-garde, and of the periodicals Rêvenance, The
in-Appropriated Press, and Synapse.
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