Asteroids

spring [fixer]

push through papers
white winter in reams
& listen

a shuffle a sorting
an arrangement made
to

put away the old
cold papers blanketing
the garden

no they aren't fertilizer
but a type of
scythe

to cut & paste a
way the waste
& peel

& bloom & whisper
the slow sound
of growing aaaaa .

Class Notes: Rule #35

Class Notes: A Communication Model

how to make paper fly

How to make paper fly.

September, nine million square feet of office space.

Step one: fold the paper in half. It doesn’t have to be any particular size,
just big enough to fold.

Ninety percent air, ten percent building.

Step two: open the paper & fold the left top corner diagonally towards the middle, along the vertical fold made in step one. Repeat with the top right corner.

Two 767 airplanes 137 tons.

Step three: fold the top left corner diagonally towards the middle again along the
vertical fold made earlier. Repeat with the right side.

Two flashes thirty six minutes apart

Step four: fold the mirroring sides into itself along the first horizontally folded line.

Twin ten second pulses, the south tower at 9:59, the north at 10:28.

Step five: make wings by folding an edge along the entire paper from angled nose
to square tail.

it rained office paper all day.

Step six: throw.

return to New times.

systematically dis-
assembeling the news-
paper cut &
opened sections be-
tween the lines

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa fireside lounge, brown
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa couch, no fire, just
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa papers. tons of papers.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa torn papers with doodles
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa all over the edges.

while its new
unfolded, dented, creased,
packed from a plant
traveled across highways
typed in New York
city.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa a story with so much
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa narrative it smelled
laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa like fresh paint,
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa not ventilated,
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa a headRush.

Two Fortune Cookie Fortunes in One Day!

I wake up an hour before my alarm (set at 8:30).

I sit at the computer,
Full of too-early-morning yawns,
Where someone left me their
Good intentions:
Plan your work and work your plan.
Europe: Ou-zhou

Later we get sweet and sour (chicken),
And watch the sun fall through the trees,
After a day of vomit, papers,
And motorcycle tears:
You will be showered with good luck.
Telephone: Dian-hua.

I go to bed hours early (10:30).

the smell of paper*

PARTICIPANT

nose the size of a
ripened pear shriveled
sun dried & sandblasted

short black hairs
a wool coat brushy hair
dune wrinkle lines

each doubted expression
a cartoon caricature
missing teeth thirsting for water

a mosque's tower in background view or
an ad for Pepsi Cola
Yelling always

it was Sunni out
the crowd of Shi'ites
carried four blackened away

a final hajj
from Karada neighborhood
to Page A8 one dollar.

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*or war poem through fingers and cultural lenses of a twenty year old white upper middle class american male at school on the computer his parents bought for him.

2)EDUCATION

Sunni Muslims are the orthodox
branch of Islam whose adherents
believe that Muhammad's successor
should be elected.
They comprise 85% of all Muslims.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Shi'ite Muslims are the
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa branch of Islam
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa whose adherents hold that
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Ali, Muhammad's cousin & aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa son-in-law, was
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Muhammad's successor.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Found in Iran Iraq
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Afghanistan Pakistan.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa


3)PERSPECTIVE

news three days
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa away

curfew cooled sectarian violence

do not draw a picture
do not say a name

at least 75 Iraqis
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa (no u after q)

Mahdi AK-47 years old
379 people and rising


90% of Arab

population are dependent
on water that originates in

non-Arab lands.

numbers mean nothing.
words mean less.

car=bomb

Askariya Shrine in Samarra
a golden explosion

the CNN predicted civil war.

news

time escape unedited hands free listing capabilities
am i wasting yours mine and hours?
the sunni VS shi'ite
pckn out the times

lines of forecast bordered summers
do you get mad when criminals who are guilty are not convicted?

perhaps if you lived within a frame a tiny
photograph of my great grandfather enginer henry i imagine his name to be
pipe in mouth sepia tones full face in the cab of an elevated line in Queens

its transient its paper wirlwinds and soviet attack codes

perhaps not

its a feeling that something inside must be done and completed and said and revealed
a feeling that it could work out if i just found the wording
if i made a form inventive enough
to speak on its own
without my interface
with just you with just darts with just strings & perceptions & simple
formulaic relieve of quantitative emotions
haircuts at john the barbers shop with dubble bubble
always a mushroom
bowl
6th grade hair don't done again and again

trimmed