Tuesday, February 10, 2015

text || Lawrence Upton

CONCERTINA / SONGS
or
HOMOGENISED POETRY CONCENTRATE

for Alaric Sumner




Lawrence Upton


To be read slowly and very precisely, enunciating each word meticulously, perhaps fussily, in places, letting each word chime or clatter as it will. To be developed as a performance in a workshop approach.
Space in this text is loosely notational Loops as in tape loops.



end it if another


their the, their it


happier was, happier various


say afar: May thing


now from yourself slick


Sight, fun! Now I.


Something see! happened see!


natural racing were fast


words discountenanced called he


since of scientific morality


Resist of resist science!


You humanity
composedly against...


Be there. Some objective!


"We'd immediately said together


Enjoy fast; answer fast.


There's us. Evolution decreed.


but drink as - ah!


primitive heredity, a he


the lives, the down


go off me there


sooner ourselves, spark all


globe words: it's fatal


trouble or in apparently


the rang the rang




the best
floor to
[loop]





close will in which
[loop]








close will in which


it was, ferro-concrete the


someone, city: from docks
or is it clocks


another circulation world: she


his fading of the


words will be the


his silence swords security


extinction his, extinction the


look, woman, removing but


had read no novels


wicker-work faces: the they


the some translucent shadow-entangled


the negligible radio trunks


would deal synthetic we


origin but a word


I the, I'm awry





he

was

reply

where



[loop]




now a disappointing know


bodies touchingly only spontaneously


touch bringing through me!


rabbit of no dreams


producing trouble
to say


I I the I


mentality worst
no deadliest


women unpleasantly in distaste

metal gun stretched still


A a enunciating there
renamed its puny when


and on thought  all
where a smell was



[loop]
 
not body
air the





he


ground


ideas


away




etc
CREATION
     was

the first least reach



of thought isn't as


the centre four-footed and


no me is me!




reached the crisis?

real has

alleviating the many it




the retrieved faded he


he believed his I


the firmament streams wrongly
down in this vegetation




down in this vegetation

the firmament streams wrongly

what couldn't hurt Einstein


slowly the
it two



they're his night day


table and untouched years


on the determinism goodbye


her gloom hands heavenly


he demolition? to beginning


indicate and wall finding


another intellect not some


tolerates floor, silences fruits


geography-wise part-loved like commanding


made communications murkier being


body lower, body riding


overjoyed window, self-destruct window


then drop brown back

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