content warning: pornographic imagery and body horror Two naked men produce the fire by rubbing dry branches together in the forest, and with flame they light two fires, one on each side of a crossroads haunted by wolves… They drive the cattle between the two fires, from which I take up the embers to rekindle the cold hearths in the ghost houses and girl houses I divest myself of all metals / the rope wound round the stake pulled by two chaste boys I divest myself of all metals / benjamin blacksmith strikes out the need-fire on a cold anvil Woman whipstitches witch leaves light lavender and I lay alluring latticework, her wilderoosmaryn literature desert books / The Book has neither subject nor object, and the Book constructs the Book variously formed matters at different rates and speeds, and its several velocities vertical my vision vortex (its several velocities velcro visions to visions gold vein volcanoes) In the Book, as in all things, levels lattices lines of articulation, lines of segmentarity, strata and territories, tarryn antiterra animist anarchies… Anarchies oval autumns architects lines of flight and movements of deterritorialization and destratification Whorl Woman arranges leaves sepals petals stamens carpals and she plants Palm Tree Garden / Eva Eden my midwife and physician (Palm Tree Garden, the spiritually redeemed and ontologically genuine world, revealed to Dick in January-February 1975, when southern California seemed to transform into the Levant… In chapter 18 of Deus Irae (1976, co-written with Roger Zelazny), the vision of Dr. Abernathy – written by Dick alone – represents the Palm Tree Garden) She plants Palm Tree Garden the poststructuralist play and Palmar postimpressionism plunderphonics She arranges acid techno adaxial and abaxial chariot surfaces, and Christina injects my body columns chlorophyll and my vision verses midvein and secondary vein rock frictions My brain nikes nocturne novel nacht knurling My brain nods nightshift sister simultaneous / I play weary blues and my brain simulates waking dreams and hand-eye uncoordinated hallucinations I think about Christianity I think about California Christianity, Palm Tree Garden byzantine Anaheim or Trajan’s Wall displaced in San Luis Obispo and the Central Coast and Central Coast Christ crucifies Central Coast Christ crucifies car crash road construction completely empty constellations My Christianity covens constellations, aerial alice witches and I brine briar broomsticks / black ink emissary engines Christianity chases me cain coptic nag hammadi codex concatenation in surges; Christianity curses me cinch chordoid crytoconchoid symphonostoma alysalolitagesta grand canyon gods gloating chemical curses criss-crossing curses and Yahweh curses me above all animals Yahweh cures me above all animals the subtil saber benjamin jammed into the abject eye Elohim (This eye belongs to Jesus Christ) (This eye belongs to Sabbatai Sevi) (This eye belongs to Christina Marie) I copulate with Christianity as a corpse and Christianity clades cargoes cults desert denominations Christianity clades heterodox codexes carminophilous Christ kinder flesh / I animate Christ’s flesh clutch cargo I animate Christ’s flesh go-go- dancer cages and I hoist the cage above the castles, the body as a public mark of torture and punishment Christianity cuts into the body and chisels the body chasuble full-length vestment vision and the Christianity vertigo valleys my writing Ahab’s vineyard / Jehovah joins Jezebel Jehovah jizzes on Jezebel’s face money shot spirit of moloch and bible benjamin bukkake (semen as serpent seed multiplies mixed multitude and I disorder desert offspring, entangled exodus and exile) I experiment exodus exile erotic immanence in increments / the leap to pornographic pistis and fleshy faith, and the fruition of my faith: frankenstein flowers sexual flows Christianity flows bodily fluids, ocean currents, and plate tectonics / sensual switches, snaps, and spinemind serpents I slough slime the toxic byproducts of puerile Christianity and the slime creates New York sewer alligators and mutant rats the size of german shepherds I shepherd serpent six shipwreck I shepherd serpent seaweed kelpkind corpse crippler Christianity and Christians desecrate the dead / Christians urinate and shit on graves, holy shit sheol Christians fuck on my casket and her cunt juice weeps mahogany matterhorn hacked into coffin soil sewer seepage Christianity casket coffee cooks cocaine and caffeine and my chest spasms speed seizures / Christianity speed kills Whorl Woman arranges leaves lesbian liturgy and her letter chants lobotomize with light Whorl Woman arranges leaves brain lesions light leak layered left locomotives / lesbian lovemaking Blood on the leaves / strange fruit hanging in the poplar tree and american history trailblazes as american violence a slew slop skinned bodies, hanged bodies, burned bodies, shot and speared bodies Humanity history scorches earth clearings cluttered human violence, and I synchronize violence and vision I blowtorch torture forest forceps freebase flesh and lamelliform leaves leech serpent scales I shed leaves I shed leaves blood balloons strange fruit messy bodies / no candles in the dark visions of bodies being burned I shed shaker leaves national lampoon’s vacation Leaves lure me to her lake Leaves logjam my body bell witch or light bantamweight woman, and she barbarians melted lard fuel fat suctioned from my flesh / adipose hallucination Adipose apartment hallucination my living room lacquered with leaves My apartment linguas leaves grand theft auto asphyxiation / I cum explosive ejaculation suicide My apartment leopards leaves sad eyes lady of the lowlands (close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcass of a leopard… no one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude) Sometimes I compose her hymns at the lookout Sometimes I draw her hymnen hymen in forests fog and smoke, and her ghosts appear apartment apparitions burden of dumah / Desert of the Sea and desert to me calling song soma desert snow avalanches (Final Fantasy 7’s eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE and the materia reactors rot roach earth) The leaves remind please be kind rewind and woman pierces my body sprockets lockets cassette tape gears and my analog vision video home system records and recorded echo ego erasure / my vision channels chambers the bridal chamber cranium / sometimes I think the asylum is a head… we’re inside a huge head that dreams us all into being… perhaps it’s your head, Batman… Arkham is a looking glass – and we are you) My apartment asylum anti-oedipus armors ouroboros ordinals and numbers nicotine neologisms / I write nonce god and neogolism glow gore god Numbers nectarine orange nosebleeds a kind of nocturnal gnosis (I bale bonfire broomstick to the bridal chamber)