ABSTRACT

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scraping

word bits from the bottom of the barrel (having voided said of its contents)

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sloughing

dead skin from the salt scrolls of the feet

waste writing: what else?

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20 caught in the act

of burying something, or digging something up in/from a ditch X - marks the spot

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der Augenblick

the moment when - where (are) poems are written in and but how do they stay still (?)

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for paper and ink

flay the skin stretch it over the w/hole of the world leave to be weathered and parched into parchment

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that: is your paper 21take the internal organs their water and their blood

put in a mortar pound/crunch/pestle into a paste

that: is your ink

if

we wait and do not ask will it come will it come

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if - so … come … come … come … little letters come - there, there - that’s the way - … that’s it, good little letters … come …

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22 vortex

to the core of the earth there sits a woman, far alone can she hear her

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“form - please find me please, form - ?”

braid

- the book is the braiding of my daughter’s hair

oh, jerusalem

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my daughter’s hair for she is comely -

why?

-: for it cannot be only of body it must - l-e-a-p - upon the shelf to royally fuck all other books and give birth to itself

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be the book -ah- be the book -mmmmm- be the book - - oo - again -

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