shellac
—
the details escape notice
momentarily
that all is in motion
this incessant motion thing is real
lawn boy proceeds without written approval
to formulate a theory of that
while motion seeks itself
unnaturally
in an order of words
73 (count
them) for instance
then drained of poetry
as correct word counting is
urgent
lawn boy
turf master purchases
shellac
crafts grassy memo
such that we know immediately that
we have a number
of problems
—
taxation // the absolute failure
—
lawn boy knows
damn well
taxation
the absolute failure
of representation
the sickness inside
the reflection of and upon
distant
horrors
someone keeps coming home
dismembered or dead
but
it is not only that
that distance finds a place
in the digestive
tract
lawn boy knows
within it
gut strung and attuned
to the death and displacement of million plus
this distance of words
for which no simile can ever suffice
—
limit and confine
—
limit and confine
an activity if
to say that he does this
lawn boy might be asked
to (place) that this into a description
and then he’d be correct to refuse
—
—
bush paraguay land
eyelid tattoos
tattoo pubis
pubic tattoo
pubic mound
mowing lawn tattoo
two cycle anus
ample bosom and
ex president dreck lawn
boy triple x
—
nether / end and—supposed
—
carbon and water cycles on
the average lawn—burning
methane surfeit —mowers
to hoes—gulp—self-described
sexy m.i.l.f puckers—gasp—coughs
cognitive mower similitude lawn boy—sucking
fumes—gets—dizzy—yet when
has intercourse w/sub—”cutanean”
gusto—lawn boy used for—lawn
balling till—with flatulence—he’s
stricken—flame throwing
indubitably—whence—his anus
welters breezy heats [his] nether
end and—supposed then—incurs
a tepid peck—he’s left to—eat
alone—another splat—of pesto
—
world // boom
—
trapped
by a narrow idea of what
it means to be in the world
boom
lawn boy fails to nourish a robust suspicion
regarding persistence of history’s isn’ts
—
SUV / chassis bent
—
lawn boy ponders the irony
of pavement
repining below an SUV
chassis bent on impact with pole
export boom and strewn debris
shrapnel
and a marketing ploy epithet
generation x y or z via
pathfinder
punctured by sequential explosions
whenever that means petty information collected
and oddly recollects
the peppery fever about a drowning dog’s neck
—
dog’s neck / not
—
lawn boy and the peppering fever which
wraps
a drowning dog’s neck
not willing memory
something he might have seen
and his resistance to speech
punctured by sequential explosions
whenever that means petty information
collected
lawn boy spends money on watches or
something
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stunt cipher mayhem awarded
I would like to brag today about receiving
the Least Commercial Potential Award for
stunt cipher mayhem during the recent
WPVM Spring 2008 Listener Supported
fund drive.
For those who don’t know, stunt cipher
mayhem is a radio show which airs every
Sunday from 7-9 PM on WPVM. As it is
obliquely described in the WPVM archival
list, stunt cipher mayhem seeks to dodge
habitual terms through an exploration of
“Sound poiesis, phonemes, feedback,
electronic or acoustic, broken speaker, bad
ear, static plus, garbage theoretical and,
[...], un sound invert as negative force” and
(ahem) so on.
I should add that stunt cipher mayhem has also featured divers interviews with none other than Charlie Louvin and CA Conrad, among others.
In any case, this is a notable award considering the number of superb shows on WPVM which likewise exhibit scant commercial possibilities; thus, I am especially proud of this trophy.
Many thanks are due to all discerning WPVM volunteers who voted, while particular thanks also go out to Meegan Kelly and Gillian Coats for actually organizing this vote and then making all the splendid trophies.
Thanks as well to Rachel Mitchell for providing this photograph of my cherished trophy.
And last but never least, of course, huge thanks to all of those less visible supporters who contributed to WPVM during our onair fund drive. Without you, none of this would be possible.
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