Authors: Margaret Christakos
Tags: #Poetry, #General, #Canadian, #Women Authors
Multitudes (8 page)
weather as today
January 1, 2013 at 23:13
Margaret Christakos
i like these things where you have to
i like these things where you have to
count and think a lot about what must come next given what
has been agreed upon in relation to the act to be enacted …
January 1, 2013 at 23:15
Moribund Facekvetch
Interesting how the pile-on of multiple
Interesting how the pile-on of multiple
letters moves quicker, changes one's reading. Burns into song
or chant. or something else.
January 1, 2013 at 23:16
Margaret Christakos
and they are so difficult to vocalize, i have
and they are so difficult to vocalize, i have
to remember how to read and phoneticize, like coming to the
language anew each time, i like that very much
January 1, 2013 at 23:17
Margaret Christakos
and gary, one other thing, my mother
and gary, one other thing, my mother
suffered very bad paraphasia after a stroke last year so that her
speech became inextricably tousled and extrapresent and erased
at the same moment. in many cases there were transposed and
substituted phonemes, but also an utterly unconstrained plethora
of baffled pattern – it seemed to be entirely aleatory. and yet the
brain is doing something, imposing some system of recasting
what is being intended and what is produced … i began to think
about how wouldn't it be interesting if all of the letters in an
intended phrase were actually faithful to the original but reordered
to the point where no human could, in a moment of listening
attentively, with any degree of practice at mastering this, decipher
the original or intended utterance. i guess it has led me to think
about how unprepared we are, at most junctures, to recognize
even the known when it is presented in unfamiliar forms …
January 1, 2013 at 23:35
Moribund Facekvetch
I think about how a musical instrument
I think about how a musical instrument
or a body is an interface to thought, language and experience.
January 1, 2013 at 23:37
Margaret Christakos
and a translation environment gets us into
and a translation environment gets us into
that space where there's more than one reading/hearing going
on at any moment, which immediately allows us to value
multiplicity over the right or only meaning …
January 1, 2013 at 23:40
Moribund Facekvetch
I wonder about a changing/evolving
I wonder about a changing/evolving
system of 'translation' where it's not only alphabetic ordering
or palindromic, but other organizing systems that bend and
yield and resist in different ways.
January 1, 2013 at 23:51
Margaret Christakos
for sure, reordering possibilities abound!
for sure, reordering possibilities abound!
January 1, 2013 at 23:57
a camera not yet taking pictures but a voice recorder on a
silent beach though a battery rolling under a chesterfield since
January 3, 2013 at 11:18
held the broom crosswise to excavate a mordant debt to patron
council administrators who stewed chinese apple cores into a
daft laundry chute and
January 4, 2013 at 10:05
a very mid-1980s Jack Layton sat in my tent with me
last night; just reporting the dreamfacts
January 4, 2013 at 22:20
put up a parking lot
aag ik l noppprt tuu
tol gn i krapapu tup
January 4, 2013 at 22:23
kind of a bitch
abcd fh i iknot
hcti ba f odnik
January 8, 2013 at 12:25
sophtnesc
January 9, 2013 at 12:22
ntnsfcayshun
January 10, 2013 at 10:11
wrap up ur troubles in ur old text-bag n
aabb de eg illnnoop pr rr rst tt-uuuuw x
ngab t-x et dlorunis el bu ort rupupar w
January 14, 2013 at 11:15
jay-z luvs u more than u will kno
January 14, 2013 at 13:57
4 the hound: killing ma softly
4 ade fghhi: iklllmn no osttuy
y utt soonn: mlllkii hh gfade4
y lft osamg: nillikd nu oheht4
January 15, 2013 at 11:05
i saw the best minds of my generation giving it away for free.
January 16, 2013 at 14:17
imagine caring abt an e-message more than buying an
suv
suv
January 17, 2013 at 00:42
jus sittin on th book uv th face, wastin time
aab ceefhh ii ii jkmn nn oo osss, tttttt uuvw
emi tnitsa we ca fhtv uk oo bhtn, onitti ssuj
January 18, 2013 at 1:47
one year aee nory rae yeno
January 20, 2013 at 12:10
hopes i made them fall fill fell foll full in love with Alphabet
January 23, 2013 at 9:07
ur soakin in it now!
ai iiknnn oo rs tuw!
wo ntinin ik ao sur!
January 23, 2013 at 11:46
inventriloqui. eventriloquoi.
January 24, 2013 at 21:42
wordinary
January 25, 2013 at 15:48
o see can you say: say yes say yes sey yas sey yas. know no
know no know now kno now. no yes say now. sey now yas kno.
repeat.
January 27, 2013 at 13:10
syllabia
January 27, 2013 at 13:38
vocaholic
January 27, 2013 at 13:40
fact fect fict foct fuct
January 27, 2013 at 13:42
emopome is probably better, referencing ideopome, as well as
being palindnilap.
January 28, 2013 at 1:59
itkicking
January 29, 2013 at 11:00
utopia utopie utopii utopio utopiu
uipotu oipotu iipotu eipotu aipotu
– a brief solo from ‘utopiano’
January 30, 2013 at 16:13
multitumultitumultitumultitudes
January 31, 2013 at 14:47
so radically dishevelled – adjusting to caprice
aa aacccdddd eeeeghiiiij – llllnoopr rs ssttuvy
ec irpacotgn itsujdadell – evehsidyl la cidaros [berlant]
February 1, 2013 at 2:01
bodydob ydobody
bbbdddd ooooyyy
ydobody bodydob
February 1, 2013 at 2:05
doing, going. going, doing.
going doing going.
going doing doing going. how
it's going. it's dewing.
February 3, 2013 at 1:38
godogodogodogodogodogodogodogo. do.
February 3, 2013 at 1:41
gooddogooddogooddogooddogooder.
February 3, 2013 at 1:42
so not twitter. you read it and you read it again. you read it
again and you are reading it. gains.
February 7, 2013 at 1:43
tasty stati!!
February 7, 2013 at 11:36
and you are reading it.
aaa dde eeg iinnorr ty.
tig nid aer erauoyd na.
February 7, 2013 at 3:27
i took one sentence and threaded it through another and
all i got was this lousy t-shirt
February 7, 2013 at 22:11
mul ult lti tid idu dud ude des
February 8, 2013 at 10:06
you dirgebag.
February 8, 2013 at 10:09
reciprocal n expectant
aaccceeeil n nopprrttx
tnatcepxen l acorpicer
February 13, 2013 at 18:43
lo er
February 14, 2013 at 14:54
the ways a book contains all the thoughts that made it have
covers on its recognitions allows my mind 2 incandesce its
seams n ripple, dawg
February 16, 2013 at 12:05
[spoiler alert] too soon it ends
February 17, 2013 at 11:55
hahha even if this distinction remains fragile and enigmatic,
allow me to treat it as established, in order to save time
February 17, 2013 at 16:14
o yes i play the homophone, n u?
February 18, 2013 at 10:05
holler of mirrors …
February 19, 2013 at 14:19
H
February 23, 2013 at 15:45
writing makes u burn ur frozen pizza.
February 25, 2013 at 16:22
does anyone else think 7 hours of continuous writing time is
a fucking miracle likely never to bear its own repetition …
February 27, 2013 at 11:42
in a way facebook is striking
me more n more as flipper
side of found poetics; everyone upstalling
their texts 4 grabz. a huge
conceptual shift 4 individuals 2 loose
speech material 4 gleaning. once u
have more than 200 ‘friends’ u
have fully accepted the premise that
u do not in any sense
know whuz reading u or whatz
being made of ur output. is
different from publishing; tis a set
of display play replay relations waggled
in small parcels of language, entirely
excessive n recessive n sort of
flagrante. but my coffee's ready, so.
February 27, 2013 at 21:31
thinks teenaged girls must have been the inspiration for the
internet: they are the zenith of everybody talking and listening
simultaneously.
March 2, 2013 at 13:41
do u ment
March 10, 2013 at 11:15
girls gilrs slrig
gggii illlr rrsss
girls srlig slrig
March 18, 2013 at 10:09
communal, communicable
March 25, 2013 at 9:55
f
acebook is a little timelapse fast lap from the poetics of direct
acebook is a little timelapse fast lap from the poetics of direct
confessional lyric address to metalyric practices of indirect
documentary, constraint and conceptualism, due in large part
to a negotiation with the audience//files/12/86/38/f128638/public/commons as
both known and anonymous
March 28, 2013 at 9:36
let's pretend we're anonymous
adee ee'elmnn noop rrsst'tuwy
suom ynonaer e'wdn eterpst'el
March 28, 2013 at 9:40
anonymous unanimous
enunamuys ynenomuys
inynemyas aninumyas
onanimaes enonymaes
unenomeis inunameis
yninumios onynemios
anonymous unanimous
March 28, 2013 at 9:50
pirsunel porsynil pursanol pyrsenul parsinyl personal
March 28, 2013 at 9:56
economy uv da personal _c_n_m_ _v d_ p_rs_n_l
March 28, 2013 at 9:58
let's portend you're unanimous.
k that's it for now. seeya.
March 28, 2013 at 10:00
BLUELIGHT
Intheafternoon
Intheafternoon of a day
Intheafternoon of a day of institched thinking
Intheafternoon of a day of institched thinking 4 the corollary
Intheafternoon of a day of institched thinking 4 the corollary of voice
Intheafternoon of a day's breath of institched thinking 4 the corollary of voice in photographs
Intheafternoon of an aftermath
Intheafternoon of a choir swaying toward a gratuitous affection
In the corollary of all thaeiour quiet
In the space of thaeiour institched voices all the unsame
thought’s luminous
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