Industrial Verse 1984-1988

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You don't controlIt comes from 1-dimension

Don't

Stop it

StoppingComes from closer Closer to the heart

And the soul



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I know exactly where I am.How can I know other?

Although the time and place

may shift and twistand turn and heave,

although my thoughtsscramble and flutter

and fly about,although my feelings

drain and rippleand soar,

I am always here.

A man of my wordfor now.



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Why do you lookfor the

Manifesto?

Consider themaldistribution

of the data.Your learning isnot classical,yours means

are experiential.

The writing will be on the wall

The blood of innocence sacrificedIndulgences of digitization



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There is something naturalIn knowing your wants- Knowing that you want -

And yet the language of Want

Has no relationTo the languageOf what givesWhat is wanted

And seeing this falls shortOf grasping the gapBetween the wanting thought

And the Source



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AVision

In frontSolutionless

Inside of time

Getting carried awayin lust

in mindin lovein God

in mathin words

Draw the line

between yourself and the future.Live now.

And only now



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Unitary supposition A question of calling

Into play

Signed markers

Of metaphysical symbologyEngrossed and encompassing A classical struggle

Given all power And given againThe word: Power

No knowledge drawn uponNo factsNo seeing

No color

No lightSimply a sayingSaid once againOne: Whole: Complete



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Think about readingSame type asReading

Set marginal points

Set working pointsOK, now introduce Politics

Blind reasonStray faith

SteadfastnessWar Insanity

StrifeUnbalanceLoss of center

Move back to the center

Nothing's here! And, maybe, nothing'sNot here

Not here! Where's that?



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Tool development; As a wholeconnected,

dialecticnonetheless.

Prosaic tension,versified apprehension,not opposite

yetalways in opposition;self-referenced.



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I can't say much About the tearsIn my eyes

What I can say

And who I say it toHave nothing to doWith the tears in my eyes

Everywhere I've beenEveryone I knowThey come and they go

And I'm led to and fro

All in that time, the only thing

I know

Are the tears in my eyesRight here, right now



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Surrender to the demand.Not a knowing,like a primacy of knowing

Rather like a knowing of the heartproviding the stimulus for knowing.

Breathe in the light Accede to the energySaying of the saying

of onesurrender.



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SuddenlySuddenly pleasedwith experience

Marching

Marching in timeSuddenly

With experience

ConnectedConnected through time

through space

With experience And with

What speaks its name



12

The frightening stuff After dead aim has been takenGasping and wheezing

One's fright-lifePlayed back in a slo-mo--flashback blur

of you-did-it-to-me's

Consider the sameIn your own life

Not, perhaps, gun playBut tongue play.



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Explore the explosion of gradualism

Flying the Ego Flag

proudly

Annulment of the stand



14

What we shareis

And is shared.

What we say

is saidand is what is.

Who we are

is who we areand who we say we are.



15

Shards and signsof objectification

Signed and Sealed

An unspoken compactBeyond Doubt



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Seeking secular separationStanding in the time

Of another

Howling winds of Change and trepidation

Waves of bold chanceof happenstance

Childhood dreaming transfixedUnbounded joy

Then unknown terror Finding a consistent voice

A saying of can

And of cannotPointed at a new languagePointed at yourself



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Seeing A state of Seeing

Not aboveNor Beside

A stranding inNot experience



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One sayingof a personalconcern

not coloredby a concern

for others Assumes the loss

of a spiritof binding together

in community



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The beauty of theStillness provided

The stand of the

Sonic poetDispelled

By temporal concernsEncased in a momentary capsule

Ancience shatteredFor the sake of

For the sake of Of possessionOf disillusion

Dissolution



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So to openResearchRetrace

Paths of SensibilityIntertwined

With Paths of Graceand KnowledgeGiven StrengthMoral Courage

Trusting MovementWithin and WithoutGrant the Seeing

and the Knowing A Place in the Heart

and in The Mind



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Null utilityInsufficient

Mental

AdhesiveGlued on the

Back of The mind

Then swept awayIn the mad swirl

of city days



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Newly PoeticUnduly GnoeticWith the Fire

of a soul surroundingIrresistible

UndeniableThe force of lossSearching and searinga color of one

And one aloneDreams ObscuredPatterns delayed

Self-referenced.



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Sudden nascent shock A pause between agesCircling calamity

Faces of innocence A fire surrounds thinking

Out of controlSight of patterns

Becoming And becoming unwound

At onceCopied cellularly

And metalically

Root of disputeCentered on Unity.



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Model of profundityThrough absorbed excess -- chasingChasing the tail

Of capital

Generative abilityBirthed throughEmotional maelstromBirthright beyond property

Irreputable right (rite).



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BeatenBatteredBroken

Psyche

MincedMangledMashed

Mind



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DisaggregationOf mindOne circle

One SoulOne sight



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MarchMarch, march to the lightWalk to the light

Walk with single stepsWalk on the path to the light

Move on, move outMove about, move meMove me and we dance

At once the dance And the light Are what I am

As I am As you move me



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Any interim appealor explicit perceptionGathers its own light

And creates the sourceOf an instant.



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Look at where youare when youare not there

and notice whatyou are looking

with.

Where you are isnow and then.

The medium of your travel is the same

as that with whichyou look.



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Left Justify

A torch borne down a path that

has no name A voice that hurls its wrath at

things the same An answer from a place set high aboveTells those below this isn't love.



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I know just where to putThe sights and sound

Always

There is breathing and

There is lights andThere is the fact

That I alwaysKnow what to do

Does that make me God?

Get your facts straight.



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It keeps happeningExpressed jealousySubmitted through

Sudden outbursts of Sensory overload

Perhaps a rebelliousDimensionWithout free accessUnless spoken through

Completely through All the way throughTo a solemn

Exit stateOf successSuccess of what is

Beyond

Beyond just getting by



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You'll get your justice.Spun around and swirledThrough modern ethics.

Nothing's constant.

A moving onWithout reason to move on A trialWithout recourse

ExecutionDistant source

This is not the timeTo play seek and find

With the time that you have.

That you have.



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The New Jabberwocky

It was a cylinder with mechanical arms, rubberized arms, moving in four

directions at once. Each arm, as it reaches around, spins the beastie around andaccesses another dimension of itself. Nobody watching this could tell that it was

doing its inter-dimensional shuffle.



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Having having

A consistent definable

CharacteristicStemming from a

Dimensionless attachment A continuum of

Life-ForceOnly able to be

Realize at the pointOf the awarenessThat you are unaware.

An overtaking of ambition:Desire, lust, cause, pain,

Emotion, apathy, knowing

Mind And not truly significant And not truly possessing

Having



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Explore the explosion of Gradualism

Flying the ego flag

Proudly Annulment of the stand



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Primal ritesProperty rightsExpenditure and sacrifice

Soon salvation

New incantationDomination and providence

Now migration

Then liberation Artifacts and control



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Flush the buffersPop the pointers

A pattern of long

return has begun.

Serendipity openingarising

No longer self-referentialLike a folding back on

Itself Rather, as a moreconsistent structure,

of setsof lightof language

of life.



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Face the facing;a frontof effrontery;

all the whilelost without.

Sound of a sending;casting off,ascending;

constant stillnessemotional commotion,

not perfect, disrupted.



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Humanist Elegy(for D. Boon)

The strengthDrawn from within

and withoutTo be brought forward

As a sign- a sign

- a singing- a vision- a light

To move another While moving

Oneself

Sometimes:It all seems so scrambledOut in front

And on the sides

And sometimes within. And you go to bring itBring it forward

And do it well- the heat- the noise

- the love

Love of movementThat which moves forward

Giving it a voiceIt takes courage.It takes strength.

It takes more,

More than a minute



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Resolve paradoxOK

Resolved

Integrate integration

AlrightIntegrated

Answer my question

SureQuestion my Answer



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Death of a bodyIs the only death

Death of vision

of light Any other thought

Has at its sourceThat which diesThat isThe body is the only domain

Of deathNot identityNot intellect

Not speakingNot listening



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ConservativeOf myself Numbing of the spine

And of the mind

A taking away fromtheft

of lifeof light

of soulof magicof song

of body

For the sake of time

and not time.



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Clueless

The relentless conspiracy of an identity-based culture welds ignorance to

familiarity and interprets it as diversion. When thinking is exhausted and theeven symmetry of a readily redeemed past provides an unsubtle quietude, then

corruption is ensconced as a constant, an invidious and insidious companion.The realm of creativity is served by the true sinner, the abettor of culturalnegligence.



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Capitulation in thesake of the saying of the

defense of a sacred will,or a sacred honor,

is the death of innocence.



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Put your bodyInto the market And listen:

Swathed in benignNumerology,

Bathed in convergentEtymology

Torque -- twist -- tumble

then glideIn silenceBorn of knowing

And of seeingSeeing completion



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Being-FunctionReaching outwardPulling around

Bedeviled in time ____

Not stated At best Accepted

Never sensedNever affected

Singular

In sourceIn silence



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Bantering about the issuesof thought and mindand of one's life

it could be observedone's life always remains at the fore.

Yet it is not the issuesof one's life that serve the living of one's life.

I prayed to God

to reach in to meand to take me away,away from thoughts and feelings.

I was taken away And my thoughts somehow remained And I felt disappointed.



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Illusion of balanceSelf-interestPurely a matter

Of feeling

Reaching deep inside And finding a

Connection A choice: resurrection

A second choice: expression

Pain and poverty

A second lookingNot of havingOr of means

More like freedom

Freedom cursed And not chosen



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Ask Ask what kind And do not ask

About what kind

Not a structureNot a hole in a structure

A whole

Living together Working together Learning together

Learning to dance



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There is anOrganization

Of appeal

Before mass and light

in and of itself

Appeal not spoken

Too elemental to befundamental.



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Any altogether uncommon or peculiar phenomenon

A concordance of

equal partsthinkable and unthinkable

Met in a swirl

Breathing and heavingBlinking and flashing

Exploding

Bound up againBorne up again

In light

In life



AccessInterface

On into the matricesof pre-destined decisions

Knowing all the whileThat you put yourself there

And thatYour knowing

Is pre-destined

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Industrial Verse 1984-1988