Wednesday, July 13, 2005

John Crouse & Jim Leftwich ACTS 867 - 899

ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN


very well hung: “i don’t write”

fucking textual sheep: “lies, he said.”

turgid in cage: “(i wrote it”

beckett bent over: “down verbatim). you”

thinking his cant: “are free to”

takes no more: “read lies if”

theres a theory: “you wish, but”

over his head: “that says nothing”

a quality of: “about my writing.”

chafing becketts boredom: “she was bored”

the craft of: “with his games”

makes no sense: “and wasn’t listening.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT


can beckett say: “get out! she”

was lying like: “screamed. and don’t”

a boredom quality: “come back. i’m”

anything you want: “sick of your”

the craft of: “silly magician’s tricks,”

saying stupid and: “like a shell”

of ourselves and: “game in the”

of everyone else: “back of the”

prostituting profound shit: “bus, and you”

and paraphrasing johns: “want me to”

layaway curs ban: “pretend it’s mystical”

makes perfect sense: “philosophy. get out!”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTY NINE


i am saying: “i tried. tired”

can you say: “of trying, but”

i have nothing: “what else can”

in the poem: “i do? you”

makes no sense: “want some zen”

therefore you also: “master to slap”

imposed condition enforced: “you in the”

to speak for: “face? tie you”

was a text: “up with haiku,”

characters keep moving: “leave you kicking”

fact is unforgivably: “and whining on”

characters cant help: “the railroad tracks”

but not to: “in a cartoon?”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY


its hopeless beauty: “i can do”

the rheophile ming: “that, but you”

now you got: “won’t like it.”

emotion but its: “old cartoons made”

now you got: “to mimic even”

emotion but its: “older movies, a”

its hopeless beauty: “box inside a”

the rheophile ming: “box inside a”

now you got: “box, then a”

emotion but its: “copy of that.”

now you got: “keeping it real.”

its hopeless beauty: “i’m leaving now.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY ONE


more than being: “next came next.”

bored with his: “we called it”

game she was: “retelling the story.”

bored with her: “it was a”

own verbatum games: “cheap replica of”

of making wishlists: “a broken simulacrum,”

and humming them: “faded around the”

like mute vespers: “edges and thinning”

at his dreaming: “in the middle.”

ears whispering so: “you wouldn’t believe”

that he dreamed: “how it lasted,”

her fears away: “nor should you.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY TWO


box in a: “normally, a dialog”

box they slept: “doesn’t look much”

and dreamed was: “like a mobius”

her casket tucked: “strip, the double”

in his and: “helix twice twined”

somehow that made: “around itself, but”

them feel good: “through the miracle”

because the writer: “of the text”

of these words: “(television would be”

says that dreaming: “better), the code”

of caskets makes: “deciphered is encrypted”

them feel good: “again as this.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE


calling him reductive: “she told him,”

reduces her to: “not once, but”

tears compiling wishlists: “several times, not”

in the dark: “to venture too”

accusations clatter into: “far into the”

finally disabled to: “the dark wood”

decide which animal: “of the words.”

she would rather: “there is a”

the pulled rabbit: “dragon disguised as”

be anything but: “metaphor, she said,”

a rabbit reduced: “and it guards”

to a rabbit: “the prison house.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR


since each was: “it’s an inferno”

free to read: “in there, she”

lies they stopped: “said. the rabbit”

reading and started: “looks like a”

telling truths their: “duck. your perceptions”

species came clean : “know nothing of”

writng own books: “semiotic theory. you”

leaving zen masters: “have to crawl”

and looney toons: “through the bowels”

to tape loop: “of satan to”

rides in their: “come to your”

own fake readings: “own fucking sensorium.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE


after deciding ink: “it’s an old”

didnt matter they: “christian myth, she”

couldnt decide what: “said, just another”

matter meant after: “fossilized ideology, but”

deciding against screen: “you must admit”

they still knew: “there’s a little”

nothing about screen: “poetic vigilante justice”

after deciding against: “in having the”

voice they heard: “hero emerge from”

lungs breathing and: “the devil’s own”

hearts beating their: “asshole on his”

cosmic poems meter: “way to paradise.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY SIX


after disbelieving every: “ i admit it,”

word they said: “he said. it”

they decided to: “reminds me of”

believe lies which: “carpocrates, and a”

as long as: “few other cherished”

they both did: “heresies, like the”

their parts remained: “do it yourself”

lies which they: “aesthetic, and the”

decided to believe: “haute couture death”

after disbelieving every: “text women. worlds”

word they said: “of stuff in”

in their vacuum: “the devil’s asshole.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY SEVEN


caring and fault: “fucking shellgame faultfinding,”

were beside points: “she said. they”

as well points: “got very stopped”

in questions they: “in ass, as”

stopped asking as: “it were. caring”

every time they: “and beside, questions”

got quizzical they: “asking time, quizzical.”

got horny so: “horny fucks invented”

they fucked figuring: “points, she said.”

faultfinding invents god: “they ass, they”

shellgame invents mystics: “sofa, figuring gods,”

fucking invents people: “inventing mystical people.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT


splash of my: “attire eruption excessive.”

feces he said: “shadow bush secant.”

the sum of: “dazzle backorder influx.”

all fears coughing: “numerous taxonomy nettle.”

gorgeous devils a: “histamine canadian vivaldi.”

christian invention geode: “hieratic unison chaperone.”

turd emergent heroically: “fluxus hearse linkage.”

edens brimming bowl: “composite indorse truant.”

snake slithering sidesaddle: “peaky shrivel ornament.”

christ talking backwards: “viburnum potassium algorithm.”

spheres of music: “camera shrunk hover.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY NINE


my perceptions know: “detergent stopover glove.”

nothing he said: “deduce blaster lodgepole.”

for example this: “cumulus parole proffer.”

talking in twisters: “kidney starlight empirical.”

bowel crawls satanic: “helical frescoes wrench.”

instead of being: “arcade vigorous skindiver.”

christian myths christian: “cult prophecy crane.”

myths are what: “rectory skeletal precipice.”

enough people need: “vocable stolid pastime.”

be written in: “dispersal updraft plankton.”

stone christian myths: “tissue angelic wiggle.”

are christian myths: “lowdown cultural faucet.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY


the rabbit looks: “flop buzzsaw simile.”

like a rabbit: “duel schoolwork allocate.”

while its called: “longhorn shady dodge.”

anything you want: “jejune defray acerbic.”

its being a: “horus fathom testate.”

rabbit has not: “eros lawgiver spokesman.”

one thing to: “tunnel reception savvy.”

do with you: “regime garlic profiteer.”

while it burns: “advisory chordate prowl.”

you in your: “sensuous duly munition.”

fucking semiotic sensorium: “amok tibia arroyo.”

inferno knowing that: “dimension clockwise onward.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY ONE


dragon disguised as: “romance numerate matches.”

metaphor is simile: “that tricky bastard.”

standing in for: “washbasin tabular sacrifice.”

words adventures scouting: “embody firmament coax.”

dollhouse singsing locales: “holy fucking shit.”

ten watt bulbs: “barely guarding cardboard.”

cardboard backlot set: “settle dollhouse swords.”

as castle keeping: “forsooth froth forth.”

shaking turnkey lizards: “resolute aeschylus nightdress.”

to badbreath dragons: “abdominal perchance booze.”

guarding fiery numbnuts: “sneaky little fucks.”

barely electric thrums: “erect bosom yoga.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO


next came before: “wayside dreary namesake.”

it came next: “slimy magnesium tether.”

we didnt call: “impromptu paragon lineage.”

it anything it: “flintlock ashen caliphate.”

didnt feel cheap: “stricture bangled otter.”

as lived it: “fiendish airborne boxcar.”

replicated if anything: “baseball causation icarus.”

itself leaving itself: “elegiac defector tantrum.”

everything but alone: “vortex kitty centennial.”

brilliant and fat: “catabolic deity stunt.”

cinch believing it: “glaciate carload sensor.”

disappeared right away: “avalanche omen beatrice.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY THREE


where he asked: “somehow emitting hiatus.”

is encrypted and: “remit enlightened chisel.”

when is encrypted: “bedspread inception fret.”

says who encrypted: “whole lumpy theorem.”

isnt pumping gas: “paranoia poison scripture?”

semiotic theory or: “wholesale benign quanta?”

is semiotic theory: “degrease contrabass censor?”

about life on: “deft basket lozenge?”

mars if encrypted: “tarpaulin bespoke haydn”

describes my living: “flute viaduct committee!”

is description living: “cheshire butterfat filmdom?”

when encryptions death: “knead saddle sweater.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY FOUR


what came first: “trash is good.”

prescription or inscription: “dirt is good.”

anxiety or contentedness: “garbage is good.”

semiotics or speech: “debris is good.”

word or letter: “jetsam is good.”

dragon or lizard: “flotsam is good.”

postmark or cancellation: “detritus is good.”

fight or flight: “talus is good.”

rabbit or hat: “scree is good.”

castles or kings: “karst is good.”

jesus or christ: “zawn is good.”

eeney or meeny: “refuse is good.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE


itinerant beheaded astonishing: “the chicken, therefore”

revive whole revenge: “the egg. it’s”

underworld oblige nibbles: “a phony conundrum.”

grottoes blanched fathom: “we know the”

entrance pool ardously: “answer, so the”

celebrant dimness deeds: “game is boring.”

starved highland specs: “there are plenty”

niches disenchantment cowboy: “of real unknowable”

candle whacks bowel: “unknowns, as donald”

propitiatory culminating headlamp: “rumsfeld might say.”

bended knee bedrock: “we don’t need”

cell phone bones: “to invent them.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX


upward at eternity: “swarm extension hologram.”

into the hillside: “vascular ocelot pluto.”

home was needed: “sleuth plunge monolith.”

disenchantment slip away: “without the above.”

without the cave: “synthesis confident suitcase.”

the portal deep: “the mountain high”

above the mouth: “of the basilisk”

plunged satans anus: “emerson admonish maelstrom”

had either slit: “thorium nameplate caulk”

and arms akimbo: “hump maudlin mandate”

including one pile: “uplift dingy pitfall”

of tiny bones: “of tiny bones.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN


climbed a steep: “would not outline”

in rushing stream: “would not faint”

restore the world: “would not restore”

the spacious chamber: “would not climb”

to the glory: “would not rush”

at the heart: “would not spacious”

faint to reach: “would not keyhole”

through keyhole slots: “would not dry”

off dry pools: “would not chin”

wading chin deep: “would not steep”

outline of hand: “would not stream”

would not emerge: “would not world.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT


a lineage splits: “splits ode divine.”

folding clothes ode: “splits divine truth.”

to err divine: “splits truth connection.”

heavy glyphs truth: “splits connection nocturne.”

severalfold ancestral connection: “splits nocturne accumulate.”

johnny mop nocturne: “splits accumulate epics.”

mutations must accumulate: “splits epics divinity.”

pumping gas epics: “splits divinity symphony.”

intermediate stages divinity: “splits symphony heaven.”

turd splash symphony: “splits heaven gospel.”

middle of heaven: “splits gospel lineage.”

speeding ticket gospel: “splits lineage clothes.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY NINE


we think we: “when you make”

therefore we are: “the two into”

thinking we know: “one, when you”

the answer simply: “make the inner”

by answering the: “like the outer”

phone titillated by: “and the outer”

the rings we: “like the inner,”

count as countable: “and the upper”

therefore all knowable: “like the lower,”

heard before so: “when you make”

omniscient like dumbsfeld: “male and female”

sows our seeds: “into a single”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY


toothy snout excitation: “one, so that”

invent endless poisons: “the male will”

sees solid data: “not be male”

follow that smell: “and the female”

past chopped words: “will not be”

diseases without patients: “female, when you”

for chewing meat: “make eyes replacing”

nostrils shift backward: “an eye, a”

anyway cats skinned: “hand replacing a”

letters parses words: “hand, a foot”

masticates stitches grunion: “replacing a foot,”

back to onion: “and an image”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY ONE


coming origins resemblances: “replacing an image,”

homologues go hopping: “then you will”

tiered soaring fish: “enter the kingdom.”

as they go: “let one who”

recently invented grugs: “seeks not stop”

defeat meticulous studys: “seeking until one”

evolutionary series deployment: “finds. when one”

wild species diverge: “finds, one will”

no material explanation: “be disturbed. when”

mutual adaptation collection: “one is disturbed,”

collaborative frangible record: “one will be”

coevolutions allied revisions: “amazed, and will”

“reign over all.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY TWO


dummys ordered eggs: “chicken engraved regrets.”

over easy by: “doldrums seemly squared.”

deeming the egg: “denied chicken reality.”

unreal and the: “teeming over stomachs.”

chicken unknowable his: “bordered by grease.”

denial begets wargames: “the hand unknowable.”

sure as espousal: “regrets questioning shouters.”

deems questioning boredom: “luck equestrian thereby.”

conundrums doubters broach: “eggs by legs.”

begets buck sergeants: “the hissing wargame.”

brave questioning the: “espousal bordering roaches.”

chicken therefore rumsfeld: “salutes the feldspar.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY THREE


safe from cyclones: “wigs fright chordal.”

wrapped up well: “biota hidden veils.”

get into fights: “longing spleen guts.”

been leading full: “happening same forms.”

along a thin: “reading as beckons.”

revealed as flowering: “strictly homeland cycles.”

suddenly become raging: “welcome lights lull.”

a strict reading: “then flowing ragged.”

biology in public: “atavistic proleptic lemma.”

according no more: “reading republican morals.”

might come along: “same specious wrappers.”

twigs as species: “gluts mean longing.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY FOUR


rain scale prayer: “knot around ripening.”

steay black swirl: “slick plectrum address.”

mass of flowering: “ridge means class.”

been better adjectives: “steak brain sale.”

bridge in there: “graffiti as media.”

assess the situation: “agitprop via boxcar”

plenty of bush: “like state propaganda”

lick your sweat: “delivered through cable.”

gripping a shovel: “blank letter scour.”

around the time: “hear others pray.”

hot clear sky: “world flowing abject.”

be anoother stinker: “sweet hovel mime.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY FIVE


it slid partway: “thunders noise dread.”

that cracking thunderstorm: “burst cyclical locks.”

always slipped away: “spatial balm cracks.”

was dead calm: “the difference between”

nothing more spacious: “woman through a”

a niosy flock: “cobwebbed window by”

into the night: “wynn bullock and”

you get dialogue: “the art crime”

case of cyclones: “graffiti by eggman”

under a blaze: “is a difference”

the latest cloudburst: “of altitude in”

in hazy sunshine: “the cultural hierarchy.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY SIX


was boiling over: “defiant read stripes.”

good versus evil: “ear chosen lungs.”

plunged into turmoil: “our culture is”

choice of targets: “in love with”

fear it generates: “pornography, that’s why”

strike at will: “there’s a business”

the latest outrage: “section but no”

in great peril: “labor section in”

spread panic around: “every daily paper.”

no such inhibitions: “boots verses latent.”

defies the imagination: “antic hovering anvils.”

no final victory: “embroils argent triage.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY SEVEN


cargo ship docked: “random thirsts tonal.”

sparking criticism from: “trope breath restive.”

knocked out yesterday: “scarred knots sparkle.”

huge financial windfall: “writing about prostitutes,”

barred from running: “but nothing of”

arrested for assaulting: “sex as power,”

death of fetus: “power as violence,”

top election watchdog: “property as pornography.”

tidal waves destroyed: “shopping critical doubt.”

first exit polls: “fiscal forms erection.”

branded a terrorist: “wavering exodus clocks.”

email fan flames: “from yesterday windfall.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY EIGHT


publish fossils adapts: “slot homeland implosive.”

pudding sneeze faith: “prolegomena to neoteny.”

detention phenomenon second: “announce daily cash.”

private weasel haphazard: “blank banner blizzard.”

treated happened manner: “believers ordnance begging.”

archipelago entity plank: “persuasive connective sanctions.”

sections ready wash: “arch treatment privacy.”

interconnected unawareness day: “tension puzzling rubbish.”

unpersuasive vocation renounce: “facile sleeves nominal.”

hugging sanctum implored: “easels pens entitled.”

ordinary pistols oklahoma: “reading awareness vocables.”

nonbelievers poorest sloth: “anchors pistil protist.”


ACT EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY NINE


catch seasons escapist: “dense borders plots.”

usually marshes spent: “metal albumin wine.”

fronds electrical clearing: “roost movements exported.”

hundreds lashing kettledrum: “loud rabble concave.”

water grocery bitumen: “mint dreaming rags.”

barracks invite off: “bats later hungry.”

raging miles blind: “fond manual latch.”

creamed numbers boost: “reasons marching tricks.”

imminent broom alcohol: “cash grovelling invents.”

concession student movie: “war at home.”

crabs neighbors expectations: “bile humble doom.”

clouds slots wharf: “piston spin cleaning.”