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1)
Read Ashbery from the back forward:
Defense owns — there seem — accents — these:
reticence such on put days, our
moving and light, puzzling in place
of morning winter smiles .. a chorus
Emerges which on canvas ..
noises w/ filled already silence ..
2)
Here’s a proposition. Start over. Compelling work toasts knowledge construction — in plain speak — as well as finds, explains & reforms infinitesimal times-spaces. Your optimism is required (a) to keep everything open for reform; (b) to understand we are beginning the work and as a species, we will always be
at,
in as well as
be the beginning.
3)
Not wanting to be cowardly. That would be a problem.
Write visually.
It’s wise to move to the city, scripted
by infantile ambition, well groomed.
Food tastes better; crunchy leaves
underfoot and wearing your panties, walking
the park I apologize
doing this.
Once an apologist it’s for life — you need
a vertical and a horizontal bar, libido time, you’re on a star range w/
blank tenderness to smolder in met
colors, galvanized pastels, winning the beginning —
preparing the manifold, earlier..

4)
Dustbin Starter Kit, wrap collected work of [fill in your name of the poet] in loose pages from today’s
NY Times.
5)
Can’t Feel My Bouncy Face After Party, TBA, everything you touch is gold, I remember.
Any one thing is a ‘sculpture’ of its original idea.