CW: contains suicidal ideation
See it – feel it – taste it Once you have had it, you will never be the same BLOOD MANIA it’s a deadly nightmare
Come and see the blood in the streets and the street crocodile clamp their jaws on charred corpses / fire transforms the city into a brick pizza oven roasted anchovies a human ear I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
Come and see the blood on the streets and the streets strobe stratocasters and stratofortresses Jimi Hendrix wails the national anthem on electric guitar and invisible airplanes drop invisible bombs and leaflets on my apartment / roof caves in eloah elohim I run elijah into the desert difference deserted difference different string divisi
BLOOD MANIA maps hypomania onto my musculoskeletal system and the system stereo staggers quadrophonic / terraced Taryn surrounds me Taryn Tetrapod and Tetragrammaton tows ton front and behind left and right a compass rose with tiger thorns and blood battle field / map matures and ages in alchemical milk, an inked iron gall prima materia
BLOOD MANIA molars mercury and I listen to Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde Taryn on Taryn Tesseract and the triangles trumpet angel apocalypse The river bend or bend blues note bugles Wassily Kandinsky’s angelic colors frenzy bloodied flesh the low locust apocalypse
Locusts fly manic grasshoppers and I read e.e. cummings grasshopper poem (its official title: r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r) and I enjoy the re-arrangements of the grasshopper, imagining the life cycle and metamorphosis – I admit I don’t even know if grasshoppers undergo a true metamorphosis (as hemimetabolous insects, they do not undergo complete metamorphosis; they hatch from an egg into a nymph or “hopper” which undergoes five molts, becoming more similar to the adult insect at each development stage) The grasshopper transforms as grasshopper and she examines the nightingale's code Code chymicals krystal kryptos, another grasshopper, and her viscous lip upward my body surreal
Anyways Blonde on Blonde or Frank Ocean’s Blond(e) and Taryn always-already ales beer barley blonde It's the blonde that batters windows like hurricane winds Two guitars of the same colour playing with each other, melodic line on rhythmic line, blonde on blonde I overdub aleph or aleph and the continuum continues infinite Christina (I sing these lyrics to Christina: Here in this collapsed lung of a Borough there is no sunlight the sunlight is manufactured in a windowless room distant and incoherent business men hang themselves Christina laughs. Why are you laughing? This is serious business. Thursday is like the AP History kid who thinks he’s an authority on racial issues. You were an AP History kid. That's how I know the type! What are your thoughts on Glassjaw’s first album? It probably reflects most people’s subconscious feelings toward women. I like that album a lot. Does that mean I hate your guts? You bought me that album. Does that mean you’re a self-hating woman? Of course! We live in a patriarchal society. I just try to chip away a little at a time. Well, I love you as a woman. I love you as a female Christ that leads me to my Cross. You probably love me 76 cents on the dollar you love male Christ. I love you more than the male Christ. I’m a heretic. I love the woman more than Yahweh)
I listen to Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands / Staying up days in the Chelsea Hotel writing Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands for you Although sometimes I write the Book for Christ or Yahweh, I always and always-already write the Book for Woman: I write the Book for Asia and KRYSXTRYN Anyways – I say anyways I like the Gospel of Mark says immediately – anyways I can’t write a song like Bob Dylan and I don’t try to mimic his use of lists and questions but I admire the intensity I admire a wedding song and a song of praise and a psalm of mystery / Just listen to that! That’s old-time religious carnival music! I attend her carnival constructed from insect corpses; their exoskeletons beat swings, flyers, and atom smashers Carnival corianders into subterranean cavern and I dance blind painter and dark shaman Carnival… Ah fuck, I abandon the carnival – some Scooby Doo villain gives chase and terrifies everyone out of the place
He hunted humans for the sheer sport of killing… and made his island paradise into Hell on Earth! BLOODLUST two beautiful young girls… defenselessly against the deadly ancient crossbow the foulest passion of them all!
Philip K. Dick says to me in a dream: the pulp contains the Divine! The Abject contains the Godhead! I scout pulp as an alpengeist or activist and pulp plumbs pipeline Pulp pavanes play position velocity vision Fuck I want to erase this about pulp: the pulp or pulp in general guts graphic and I want to transform it into “high” art bone awls bullshit and I write bullshit pretending my Book exudes plastic shit better than pulp or hard-boiled fiction in genre fiction – that shit sells millions! I have five renders or something on my blog I’m not better than pulp – it doesn’t need to be transformed It exists happily on its own
Or want to do – all I do – involves transforming texts And I should transform texts through combination, permutation, tiling, rearrangement, whatever but I shouldn’t pretend that I elevate the original text Rather, transformation experiences the text in my mind and body, and I embody the text: the text then transforms me in return Fuck, I’m 37 and I just figured this out? Or have I figured this out before and I just forgot? I often forget my discoveries and epiphanies – I write them down to remember
Anyway (anyway) the transformation tickles twin transformation
Transformation trickles then floods my Tabor Flesh Transformation, and the second dream of the high-tension line stepdown transformation tremolos pulp drone porn drone pop drone
I hunt humans but not for killing but for history: my history human history and the history of pulp and pornography pipes integral human I hunt humans and Robert Alter’s translation of the Book of Genesis states: Human from Hummus, and the Adam from Adamah, sonorities Son of Man Sonorites Son of Man hunt mastodon and his spear drives mortar minotaur Son of man hunts mastodon wit ha human face, and his spear drives mammoth side turned minotaur, also with a human face I gaze the god incredibly human and my face fangs animal I roadrunner into the streets and I sight marfa lights and the lights ghost UFOs will-o-the-wisp Philip K. Dick said the supersaturated image and image in superposition of Christ resembles will-o-the-wisps and UFOs, and I realize the marfa lights hide Zebra or VALIS / Domain Divine many names and apparitions Marfa lights lattle lambda, a cosmic latte, and Anton Webern’s String Quartet, Op 28 plays
The String Quartet is composed using twelve-tone technique. The tone row on which is the piece is based Bb – A – C – B – D# - E – C# - D – Gb – F – Ab – G is intricately constructed and based on the BACH motif. The first four notes of the row are the BACH motif itself, followed by its inversion, followed by the same motif transposed up a minor sixth. A special property of this row is that its inversion, G – Ab – F – Gb – D – C# - E – D# - B – C – A – Bb, is equivalent to its retrograde.
I write marfa lights and their inversion and retrograde reflect my eyeshine earthshine shimmer: shimmer backwards lumes identical shimmer upside down and my animal sustains the highway My animal sustains the Desert Doorway and its frame leaks ghost lights weird lights mystery lights chromatic lights lights only limit my body / my body only limits light and light opens sets sheafs shelves shores
Weird creatures return to life in FRANKENSTEIN’S CASTLE OF FREAKS
I like weird I like weird and weird wires wrench into writing I write weird woodwinds like Anthony Braxton playing contrabass saxophone or contrabass clarinet, and the lowend blares fog horn morro bay Weird wildcards wishbone and I snap from my hip and pelvis and my body bends halves as a Jason Voorhees kill I embrace weird wormhood and I drink absinthe green faeries I dream the Weird West Wordless and I draw my pistol – no, it’s a revolver, perhaps a Colt Single Action Army – and the corpses become the undead
I like weird I like weird and weird wires whiplash and Flashback threw its riders rough before it was dissaembled and probably sold for scrap Weird woodbines word and word whoever watches Lost Highway and Inland Empire Word whistles wildfire waveforms and the form weights female figurines or female werewolves (Last night, Miles was asking me about what happens at the edge of the Universe, says Christina We chatted a bit, and I told him he should be an astrophysicist when he grows up. He said, “I’ve already been an astrofish for 17 years.” Straight face, too. And he told his dad this morning, “Isn’t it funny my mom thinks I haven’t been an astrofish for 17 years?” Thomas said Miles said it so casually but like looked for Thomas’ response out of the corner of his eye. WE think he’s either going American Psycho or Catch Me If You Can, says C)
I like weird and weird withdraws from my wreckage and my writing wrecks paged bodies and pages numbered bodies I write body which is my body and my body creaturely carves whetstone The whetstone grows weeds the kelp Krystal and my body leaves stone and mineral, iron sharpens salvia iron I return to the carnival and the carnival cabinets or coffins creatures and I cinema creature, my Frankenstein body in film I watch an interview of David Foster Wallace with Charlie Rose, and he seems to think simultaneous: he thinks in multiplicity, the thought and then the thought of the thought, an awareness in breathing I first mentioned David Foster Wallace in my writing when I attended the nursing program more than ten years ago – I still haven’t read any of his major works but sometimes I’ve maintained an admiration for him I romanticize his suicide because I experience suicidal thoughts and sometimes I want to hang myself but hanging hobos hell and hell for the most part drags I experience hell alive, so how can it be any better dead alive I write, and I talk to Asia, Krystal, Christina, Taryn…