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remind me elsewhere
soliloquy
Indulgence is a matter of interest
Captured
the habits are reference
put to poems when all memories collect
shall all be linked
I am inclined to exposure
when adolescent and alone answer
I do not sit in little rooms like amusement
a community is nurture
I walk to little symbols
The elsewheres resemble place
!
The bird is larger than I have seen near my home
faces are not introduced
!
all white
!
heavy and soared from a tree unto the next
And the uncertainties
!
it came to watch and
had he been scrimmaging all along
!
at its notice went to a more distant snag
Remind me elsewhere when
!
The feeder was for the littler birds
language is not littered with colloquialism
!
reluctant this year
there is no special sentiment to
[things] and
I cannot judge a bird except for flight
poems are too much thought unless to choose to live that way
I am not engaged to
judgment
Remind me elsewhere
at a glance it were familiar
Indulgence is to interest as
I give away familiar and say this is new and
spectacle and
familiar
what friend is mine wholeness
Stillness is a heart
A lesson
!
The baked bread was fitted with
The circumferents
!
brown sugar
the circumferents I
!
pulled from the freezer and given a day
hang a mirror on that wall I hang a picture on that wall
!
put with figspread
I put a door there to go and
!
too sweet but the jar should be finished
return
!
first
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Dorothy Cotton
Capital Theater, Madison, Wisconsin
going the same way
Healing is a gentle process
Happened
release that which holds in
to be going the same way
the various degrees once to the next once to the next
traveled a distance
and the spirited
got out together in stationary places
retain the spirited firstly retain the spirited
To ask were it supposed like a relationship is supposed
Everything is a song
and to be so interested with direction
poetry is a song and labor is a song and family is a song and
that were before
to walk together is a song
Ask what a journey does to divergence
Hardness is other and contained I say
ask what a journey does to the mention of divergence
it is put
Happened
Yes
let all release
the world does require change
let all anchors away
response
let all that is carrolled be reconsidered
what to make of history
I am suffix to a memory and
And not to be famous but human and self gathered
to be going the same way
hold hands
ask not eternity even if eternity be asked
for struggle comes I am prepared
and were it alone and called
that is prayer like my place among
say there are temporal spaces temporals of gravity
that which is important
reason declares
do I not vote for that which is important
I cannot live in one
education
What is reason
Beauty is I go among
Happened
Healing were a gentle process and realize
structure is what divides or to say
there may be no ends to
knowledge of
determination
like predestination
Thank you
What is theory
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ice walk
At friendship
Shear day overcast fog
At friendship
snow and frost settled on stick branches
regard oneself
branches poked through groundsnow
for from ones energies I am generative
[that is intuition and sustaining]
The packed road to the lake is a ramp when the water
trees pushed apart for
Notice
now sentried
the imaginary sweater
holding
lake like any winter meadow
At friendship
white
they were creative writers
covered
spent their days creatively writing
noticing
Approach an ice
noticing
onto
walk is carriage and relieved and
They do not take each other entirely but
a wind is more certain
take each other entirely
a given direction is certain until a fog is entire
puts away the distant shoreline
What words are strong and
disarming
Energy I
and say yes
and beating heart pronounces language and
you have been more places than I
word over and
over
And who can stay awake the longest
words go away
no
pass with certainty
it is your turn to go to sleep first
and the mind is cleared reluctantly cleared
Choose far enough in one direction
return
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Curious ensemble
leftovers
Purple was mentioned in a shirt
A clever mix of produce
plaid
enough to produce
leftovers
I need to buy champagne
and paper cups with the finger loops that
The fridge
pull from the sides
as if there were hotness within
Next to the milk
such things do not clink
near the Cholula not the Count Chocula
rather
that is in the cupboard to the
thud
left
intimately
Tomorrow
And friendly shoes
for getting ideas and exercise
Carried antigravity mints in the pocket
from the bookstore
Jeans are enough
cleverly
enough
for sliming through research
and lunch summer sausage tomato whole wheat
And if to forget clothing like nudity
ahh
perhaps more similar than different
otherwise still
curious and ensembled
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that literary movement from the 30’s published in the 60’s
gonna have to think about that
It was the one with the talking cats and the rest
Put a chunk of thought into that
Bulgakov and the differently religions
Wonder at that
say it were an excess of metaphor
Ponder the grossness of all those equivalencies
strains a brain
Station an eye at that border
to think doubly about everything already said and
Aggregate a contemplation
a publication were to its study
Find a stone for a butt
for thirty years pass and a spirit of context is
Remember to remember
pass
And for all of the people in offices for reason of protecting a [thing]
because a Russian thirties are differently sentimented
Send a mind to that campus
as anywhere upon thirty years pass certainly than
Pointing an ears at whistledom
the American publisher sensing a period loss
Arranging for an interview
it were a period now but then it were then
Circling the sensors the heralds the friendlies
Onto
And I do write poems indirect poems
Creaming up a dialogue
like a hounds as several
Situating a dream
types of institutions on occasion
Causing a query
the birds as common metaphor for freedom cry freedom
Giving way to sense
in want and feeding
Mining potatoes
in liberty
Grafting that to this
there is an animal kingdom
Entertaining a will
sightly and divided and perfect and
Implying there may be a deficit there may be a gain
if to say man were the sum of nature and
And for all of the people restless people walking
as observationally correct for all of its parts
And for all of the people holding hands
say [they] are not parts
quietly
a snail nor moss is no part but equivalent to
Gathering opinions and energies in touch
its own whole
Lenting to a social circumference
I am only different and better than if I
Just a word formed around that grain
am obligated to say such things
Juggling jungles
perhaps
Inhabiting islands
A wisdom among my own sort that
Lazying a couch
we do consider similarly the elements and
Gastric sensibilities to our company sir
fierce cats and strong cats
Steady a stream
and know what is important thus we
Pausing for cheese
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A values upon the introduction of concepts
Haiti relief effort, disaster relief 2010
Self reliance when they are too attached
A staggering toll
when I am too attached
many many many
find littler rooms and prairies
so far removed
love when there were no love
lived in poverty and
contradiction when it were the same
more difficult to relate to
friend when friend were forgotten and doubled and
I live quietly thinking of Red Cross in instances such as this
corrupted
thank God for Red Cross when
possession when it is not noticed and
given when it is too
Such institutions are a buffer
owned
They did not offer a plane
Shortness when they are so tall
for my help
introduce the body as art when they had forgotten the
perhaps
body
perhaps
were too statistical and
there is a job though
feared nature in its littlest forms
etcetera
The ice were only that today
At home good will is justly quaint
January and
do what I can
wind
move things
held no neutron bombs as on occasion
treasure things
no great diffusions of thought
nor am I old and given
Suggest coffee and ornaments for time and sitting
Haiti
it were brave to say liberal liberal when
a thought to your peoples your
they were so conservative
future
nasty conservative like money can be nasty
and
when they were drawn inward thinking goodness and comfort
supposing a readiness
slowness and hold were adoption
for from character
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on the variance of house and representation of house
vice
Nor to my interests
For silence its response
theirs
attached a words to thought
respect
nor a fabric be a house authentic
Social reproduction
when there were standards attached to social reproduction
It were wonder at that encroach upon which
a poem is giant and
a question
little
like territory is a question
asking towards its middled and sequestered self
And if it be a small world
I am early for asking
at times
freedom among a bounded sorts
what is cause for patience when
and glamorous in attention
freedom settles itself into softball and picnics
turning their thoughts
only glamorous
Ask what interface to
when it were the word atonement
Say reconstruction in philosophy were
such causes breath and
to speak the truth
a start of symbols eloquent symbols
and if it were so simple
that breath be measured against the other breaths
and what use to publishing houses
turn to a reconceptualisms in several languages and dialects and
Nor to my interests
arts
whether a ritual
nor to my interests
And to say
that banner
twice
nor to my interest a settled meals
It were gone fundamentally
It were my own
what is importantly memory
say bring company into this house and
the self
to offer gifts
does sustain its own charge when justice is its shadow
whole gifts when a differences are rested enough
[Mentioned]
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goes to books
hardness is a sound
Research
When there were shock
the exclamains are as importantly loud as
Is a forward domain
an attention required
again
And when it were started and connected
an attention required
say the next were thus connected
again
say the next were thus connected
unto exhaustion
And foundations
And when finally settled for rest
remember
ask how to relieve an attention
reference
like the securities
were once observation
of where knowledge is not mentioned and cannot be
mentioned
Ask what does start language
comes to books
It were time
goes to books
to say
stays
a healing is reference to volume
far enough
the comforts
draw away that which is abrupt and that which has been abrupt and
Nor social compact to that which stays within itself
unconsidered
ask
were research my own interest
A social cause to remind
you are welcome
oneself
nor dissolves that which is contracted to say
a difference between
!
The snow dusted
!
Holding to an earth until the land meets a river’s
!
side
!
not yet frozen
a commissioned sorts and
what I love
And to be generous and
saving enough
for the next
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Nor thought to silence when it is
9
of the curious
were the snow convincing today
Some
Yes it were a snow
yes
Of the curious occupy stations the
dreamkeepers mentioned the
I have seen greater measures of [that]
sentries the
it were a snow
researchers I the
poets the
It fluttered
poets
stayed in the air
it never collected like when in December
Held figures and dolls and words important words
[that]
snapped objects and
was what was blowing when the wind picked up at the lake
fetishes and
formed the starts of drifted lines
temples
among the fairies
the fairies
Of the curious still going outward take me with
[that] was from December
you
a month ago a month ago
until I am relieved take me with you
I will bring sandwiches and
I am lifted for change
not talk too loudly
say April is near and causing
I look for April nor because of despondence nor boredom nor
Some
discontent
April is on my list
And to have been put
[Invitation]
And to have thought with wide angles then zooms
in
And lust say centers
discern like preference
Greater than overcast for its let
No
where nothing is frequent nor expected
what you are saying
has not been said nor like that
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The snow were convincing today
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shuffling
narrow divine
Resorting
The walk
was put into the sharp stone
Heavy cards
stories above foundations
Ace on top put in the middle
Mastery is a concentration
two in the middle
forward
Jack in the middle
narrow divine
the switchbacks
Slow
no game
The sun
Moved to completion
cards rested
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The animal movement
Modern American migrations
The ecosystems
It was not discontent
and when the cats were introduced to character
rather curiosity
of course the dogs then
of course the rats and all they eat
When early age sends a student to places
the walls
There were birds and the character of birds and where the birds then
and it was the water
introduced
formation
that were poems
And to have built a house
The trees were for giraffes
there
and the clouds entered as they
a hundred years ago
do
this is modern
requires tax shit and social consideration shit
The poems to flight and visible [things]
commitment to [that] for long enough for them to say
there were stars
[that] is commitment
there were stars
There are still butterflies
Introduces consciousness then
balancing
there were stars and
earthly cores like souls where simpled cause
The trade
resettles
is energy enough for transportation
for planting shingles
The ecosystems
when
and were first germs like universe
got hungry
I overlook nothing
ate one another
and they were memory
learned cards invented money invented monopoly
philanthropy
The cars
Kept pets kept themselves
The cars
hungry enough
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Steady old worlds
To say peace is a germ
Steady old worlds
To say peace is a germ
the body worlds with their sustaining symbols
brave
convince a ritual and lines
among a structured strength
the wines and
nor peace mentioned it were
what it is that becomes of dust
faster forests introduced it were
mightier rainbows
They said differently
worlds
When a science puts indefinance upon process
for what foods were grown in places
I am their own
network
taken and held and counted
put a satellite on a principles
put
reason why the thick mud for sun reason why
the steeped roofs
The littler rooms of habits like ritual
reason why
sunken and unsighted and plain like the day
nor
Say a substance twisted and bent and cut is still
Twenty stations listed twelve of relevance
[that]
so long oh so long
it were a shapen question
and if it were boredom
resolves itself remembers itself returns to itself
elder call devil at
when they are exhausted
the way they change
shift
Nor peace an absence of war
their eyes
insist
it is much greater and delicate
What is progress
introduce when
returned age fifty to where the grass is unquestioned
reliable
!
It were a germ
the same as I remember
!
it was not defended except for rightness
I am familiar to this and
!
time is regrowth
as broad as knowing upon theirs as well
!
lets away
lithic neolimbic
!
lets away struggle into the place where it is naturally captured
what is neolithic and its compartments
!
held
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ashore she wash and better colors
You are welcome
Early lavender love
the ocean oceans come together
You are welcome
put a hands to a water and to a face
it were Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg mention
we move ahead from here
Late crystal ambiance when the moon
without reference
rests itself on the lake
others
midnight
swim
Ask there are libraries there importantly libraries
Summer is mentioned when
hold systems
!
There are waters to
!
I went downtown
!
not write poems about with
!
to piccadilly circus
!
sunken fantasies sunken humors
!
I saw John Brown
When it were eleven then twelve
Law were little steps come
grace is a candle and pasta and conversation
[That] is old cleanse [that] clear [such things]
and the blankness of memories good enough
started
Winter
silver
You are welcome
it is frozen
hold occasions and
walk and clear [such things]
the securities the complicit redundancies the
redundancies
The currents clustered nor recognize currents
currents are invisible
!
Stranger is upon our first passing and
went in directions
!
I was not born a poet
there were early maps and later maps and then
!
nor anyone born [that]
later maps for
!
I was only brought to love
moving through
!
I was only brought to such things
I drink currents
Recognize I am qualified and early
call them for a map [offer]
enough
I sample currents
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The art courier
From the cupola
Wonder if the electronic oversight will
Outstanding glass around
surface
this is an orbit
the communication was about the grass good grass
sentient
it were a painting
nor heavens but a thought the drifting clouds the drifting clouds
there were horses
below
fifty by thirty seven
And where a dark passes from
A dog around a lake
into light and back again
such challenges there are challenges
this is an orbit
among us
put miles over grace its surrounds
what is not bent nor can be bent
Favor lays flatly inna volkswagen
that which is larger nor
people rest upright
say immoveable for I wish no challenge to that
pointed at one another and going away
song
return
A moon is last
The nature of nature it were experience
when it is quiet
said the caused prairies
a stars are last when it is quiet
the caused beauty
when the shadows interrupt that which is covered like the trees
it were God over and again
like a lake is blind in darkness
found a little box like poetry with dimensions for
like a mountain
[that]
like horizon after purple it were suggested I remember
this time ninety five pages [of] number
where
New tires February
Outstanding
it is good grass
senescence I
to say nothing of texture yet
know like ages glass around
that is when the melt
protected among my own disturbs
that is when the tests against authentic things
this is an orbit and
if it were just sight to [our] consequence
Oceans and what come of oceans
just
oceans
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Who is born a poet what
Reason were vanish say the clouds
Who is born a poet what
The fiddled memory
say consequence nor only
structure
wherefrom imagination that
logbuilt for winters
engraved the mind for reason assorts certainty
I was not born a poet
and reluctant still
Say the clouds were
for the rightness of vocabulary
love
enter
Tomorrow is different
when they pass for I have no control for beauty nor wish for that
and led to that mind
pause
nor say it were reason’s disguise to say
answer
It were behaved to itself
say silence still
I am flexible and entertaining
to prefer
a proper courage for the rains the rains
like the wind its own course
and operative to call that beauty
to prefer
no
and when they do what they do
Reason were vanish
Nor capture nor captured
put away until
nor invisible
ritual like giveness is required
they were let into lines of poems
the trades of humanity for a proper courage for the rains the rains
that were poetry I say
the other weathers
luck and good fortune to be so lined
call education or either training
And all were stationed
the docile stations the moving stations
Ask if it be not filtered
beauty asks if purpose were required
ask if it be proud if it requires pride
I say I cannot know such [things]
ask if it sounds
only to remind oneself
that stop were mentioned just in time
only some ways are beauty on occasion
just
Ask what causes poems and let such things be
When
no inspiration
they do not grow old and familiar and known
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