Steve Dalachinsky
as collage / p29

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something materializes
it will become a part of me
a word    -   JEWISH
becoming a thinking human being
looking up at the sky
searching form    becoming feeling
the richness of insight
of what one can do
achieve

my patterns becoming
undone.


72

i go cute space
when in for their prefix
went
lunch  & when i want a foreigncon champion 
campeones del mundo 


73

me - hello – 
is this steve (up)
yes it is – (my 7th day of a severe kidney stone attack)
- wow you’re as hard to get a hold of as a pickle in a pickle drive – 
(a new one on me)
this is Vanessa of AC services – 

i hang up.

Poet/collagist Steve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse) won the PEN Oakland National Book Award. His most recent books are Fools Gold (2014 feral press), a superintendent's eyes (revised and expanded 2013 - unbearable/ autonomedia) and flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015). His latest cd is The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014).

Some parts of as collage have previously appeared in FIRST LITERARY REVIEW-EAST (no. 4) and in Truck (nos. 9-12)

 
 
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