Tom Beckett
DISARMATURES
Tom Beckett's most recent book is Appearances: A Novel in Fragments, available as a pdf download from Moria Books
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Our blinds’ slats section the Outside. Nothing but interruptions. “I’ll have a piece of that.” * APPEAR TO LOOK BACK. * “Do not forget that a poem, even though it is composed in the language of information, is not composed in the language-game of information.” —Wittgenstein, Zettel (#160) * Picture planes Open doors Vanishing points * “Let me in,” some voice said; “or, maybe, out,” same voice said. * Punctuation is a fingerprint. * Watching over washing over watchsing. * Our blinds’ slats appear to recur. * Repetition (modulation) massages attention. * The inexistent insists on afterimages. * Parentheses multiply and shimmer. * DO NOT FORGET TO REMEMBER. * Even though a poem is neither in nor out of facture. * Hypnogogic gag reflex. * Even though a poem is neither in nor out of the moment (that garment of time). * The slipperiness (of separation) exceeds recognition. The frontier of our body breaks out in space. * Our blinds’ slats repeat their regular rhymes. * INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE INSIDEOUTSIDE * Between or around a phenomenology of feeling arpeggiated words s p o o l into mood music (aka arousal). * Is a ghost a dissolving boundary? * Even though a poem is ether a poem is ore. * I want to be the mistake you have to make. I want to be the rhyme you can’t avoid. * The space of thought is bifurcated. * Even though a poem is nothing but network. * Even though nothing is a poem. * Who am I, you, we, they? Where, why, when, how? * A person wears a tee shirt. An I is printed on its front. A YOU is on its back. * The space of thought is hypnogogic. * Go flesh!!! * Our blinds’ slats resemble a grid. * What is the space of thought most often mistaken for? And what’s the mistake taking up the most space? *
Tom Beckett's most recent book is Appearances: A Novel in Fragments, available as a pdf download from Moria Books
2 Comments:
I like there's so much air surrounding these packets of words packets of thought
Thanks Rosaire. Space is the place!
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