J. Crouse


Apostle Apolo

I. Fourteen Holy Helpers God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking God I beg in earnest asking What is that humming sound and what Can be done about it being That it is unknown and not a Virtue but a reason for what It does mean to be trapped within The consistency of the flesh? Symmetry long since forgotten. Now left with the anomaly Of a thalidomide baby Excrement itself breathes with the Heavens in harmony with death. Norms originate as habits Forbidden by indigestion. Platitudes do not redeem and Sculpture is built because there are No easy answers to be found. Why question the profane when trust In the risk of a body in Pain is wholly autonomous? Is atmosphere found wanting if Love resides in a pool of sick? Not if God is alive in pus. Who is to say what conscience is? They that are deserted now and Forever as original? Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Sudden sinner! Phthisis is ethic incarnate! Dignity is intestinal! Moral dilemma is sterile! II. African Saint Settlement of Apolo the Apostle to the pygmies had Far reaching implications for The soul that was obedient To the clerical dictates of Mammalian reminiscence. Itinerant mound builders in Pre-historical Kentucky Were people of the blue water Who studied kinship and marriage And were the prophets of the earth. The Devil had walked with the great

Apes through the flora of Egypt. Rural hours reading roots was Second nature in the grassland. Huguenot heritage had a History of holy boldness: Reasonable enthusiasts Causing disquiet in the land— The ambassadors of Christ and Caesar set apart to serve up Blueprints for Zulu royalty. The account of Assyrian Deeds six minutes before sunset Chronicled the life of Pilate. Technoscientific angst led The Sea-Dyak of Borneo To study guinea-pigs and rats. Had the immigrant kept the faith For twenty-five hundred years the Elephant graveyard would have been A common thread in search of light. Homilies of the highlanders: Sentimental upturned soil flowed Home from the harvest to the sea— The laws of the tricolor sun. Her tragic fate followed him to The kingdom of burning trees in A deluge of dust and ashes: A mystique of hysterical Joy lending authenticity To quotidian loneliness. Calvinists were blue in the jaw Over Transylvania voicing Praise for contributions made by The dreamer in the paper boat. No worries South of the West where A dispossessed ancestry in Search of an identity were In a world where flowers of the Field were growing through the brick floor. The Bible was bone and verdure: Promulgation of the Bab in Testament to Khusrav the First— Functional communication. Causality and consensus: Stout effort in the uttermost East to return to happiness. Along the way a decision Reserved for an Episcopate Was made in pursuit of Jesus. Stones cried out for the Taghmical Art of expounding scripture by Ibn Ezra on Isaiah. Stoik were beyond the wolf line when Obdorsk graves were without crosses. The Friars came possessed by God. The Y.M.C.A. confronted The young men with the Living Christ. The prisoners of the Purple Having eclipsed the Scottish had Uprooted humanity and The fate of Admiral Kolchak. Scotsman in Western Canada Conflicted with the sub-arctic Echoes from the backwoods fur trade Sweeping winds of unrest through the Blood-drenched altars of Mexico Building a State on Puget Sound. Lengthening shadows had produced Peaceful change in the Pacific. Mongols did not fear the giraffe: Deformity in animal Life had an adversary in Heaven according to Noah.

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Fortunate were they that saw the Image of the invisible Eve on the way to Ninevah. The village scribes were the human Agents of the cosmic power Of painful pious charity By the Catholic avant-garde For the wounded Diocese of Cork in the fray of the Memra. The statutes of Coptic nuns were Advice to a desolate France Where pilgrims were vested in grace By the prayers the of Senators. An unbrought Hindu polity Of stratagems and spoils ended The human basis of romance. The revolt of the tenantry Was a retreat from Eleusis— The sense of the real was solace. Victorian insolvency Had popular opposition. The limits of influence on The unimaginable had The infinite potential for A haphazard reality. Incidents in the life of a Quaker child accounted for the Gospel labor of Chinese wives. Armors of great men were found in The biography of the blind: Creators of the age of steel— A fringe of the descriptive world Without Oriental outlines. The problem of Uralistics Complicated colloquial Hungarian assumptions on Apocalyptic adventures. Concealment of the explicit Four meals of flesh and blood revealed His majesty's secret agent— The Gazeteer of Chittagong. Human understanding had been The brainchild of the Bogeyman. The system and structure of the South Indian omen had soon Limited the lies that were lived. Ladies with large hearts delivered Babylonian loan contracts— A cow of sin was incanted. The imperishability Of the dots of destiny were Astrological in nature: The remnants of unclean spirits— What was a razor for a goat: The occasion of a comet— What the kolanut was saying. Miscellaneous and minor Collections of European Manuscripts in the India Office Library classified Finds in the desert of Judah. The Biennial Review of Ethnobotany archived a Backlog of descendents and the Discovery of grandmothers. The genealogical and Heraldic history of the Landed gentry of Great Britain Had records in two hemispheres. The perilous voyages of Men without countries promised death In a dreamland reconstructed

By the Czechs of Oklahoma. The pioneering period In the war of the dispossessed Was a social transformation For the Isthmus of Panama. Cannibal encounters were the Cost of conquest for the frontier Mission in Western Honduras. The Tolupan Indians were Masters of animals in the Last colonial massacre— So by the Lady of Mercy: A rediscovery of God. A transcendental argument. The divisions throughout the whole. The analyst and the mystic. The pilgrims of infinity: A speaking aristocracy That usurped the unquiet soul. The scope of Slavic aspect and The parameters of Slavic Clitics were common to problem Slavic palatalization. The panslavic eastern question On near eastern Southern Slavs was Asked by monks of Mount Athos who Lived in the land of Ararat. The rise of Maratha power During the siege of Lucknow was A seafight in transition for The Bahmanis of the Deccan. The religious in thought of the High priests of Memphis did not die. The gospel of the cloister and Jungle were the wayfarer's words: An archaic human landscape. The envy of the Greek peasants. The Westward approach to Vinland: Proceedings of the Eighth Viking Congress in Western Christendom. Congo and the Berlin Act looked Ahead in quest of gorillas: Rear column in white man's country. Big game shot on the equator. Giants of Zazzau government's Administrative craterland. Riddle of where three empires met: A face aflame on monsoon seas— The hill folk were a prelude to The downfall of the Dervishes. Worldmindedness was slumbering: Father Hyacinthe lectured on The social sanity of a Man on your back at the crossroads— Shibboleth was strong and free then. Time was longer than rope in the Good company of the harmless People in witch-bound Africa. New allegiance had ended the Heralded tenure of Tench Coxe. Schism and continuity In a money economy Caused a problem for cattle thieves. People spoke of the black lamb and Of a struggle for a by-path. Domestic discord and the deaf Were equally dangerous to The glamour of excavation— The apple was made on the earth. Doctors looked at love and life in The sexual behavior of Their upper-cultured patients when

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Detumescence caused a decline In the affairs of Dame Rumor. The task of social hygiene in An age of fear in the midst of Plenty was a false equation: Justice for those at the bottom. Race death on the side of mercy Was each for all and all for each: Centuries of phallic worship— The right to be happy was wrong. The suppression of mutiny Was at them with a bayonet. Unrecorded bones were scattered. A Himalayan blunder had Been witness to the century. Laxman had been the sole spokesman For the sub-regional movement Against untouchable freedom. A dissident principate was The architect of corruption. The tarnished policies of the Triumvir were barbarian. Leaders and masses were in the Early world of the friendly king: The storming of the heavens by The pagan martyrs acted as A triumviral narrative— The beginning of written Rome. Medieval prosopography Deified abstract ideas And constructed identities: Augustine aristocracy Was the mask of a parasite. The Iron Age community Consoled itself with laughter in The shadow of Vesuvius— Pannonia was fortified. Morphologies of faith in a Secular city were making And remaking the beginning And end of a vision for man. Blackness and the life of the stars Were part of a lost tradition. Ante-Nicene fathers were the Black gods of the metropolis Humanizing cities through the Christological process of Patristic inculturation. Liturgical consummation Of a Filipino plain style In the second one thousand years Was a requirement of the Lord— A discovery of causes. Brutally mandated bygone Days were the birth of dilemma-- Untamed years on a path of blood. The abdication of the white Man in the far interior Had been nothing but explicit. The lost search for simple justice Obstructed a muted fury. The vanishing Irish upland Had a transforming effect on The French demographic landscape. Mobility and migration Brought a century of murder To the village and the seaport: Decentering the Dutch seabourne Empire was a distant magnet— The cohesion of oppression. Aspects of the Hebrew genius Had ministerial problems With Christian interpretation— The case of the chosen people:

Divine legation differed to Light amid the darkness of the Face of God biting on granite. The Samaritan plea for the Children of the gilded ghetto Generated a decision. Bypassed ethical treatises Were hated gests by pilgrim men. The insulted and exiled spent Challenging years dissolving views. Communities in stress saw to It to pity persecutors. Comparative approaches to Policy in a place apart Divided archival theory— The principle of provenance. The fatal inheritance of Favoritism among the Second Umayyad Caliphate Was not enough in a world of Conquest and assimilation. The language of the annals of Ulster was a Celtic who's who Of Welsh law and Cornish sea-words. Artistic decipherment of Graffiti on pottery was A reduplication of an Indological disorder: An uncolonized and obscure Acre of green grass had emerged-- A jubilee for Prester John. Compositorial practice Represented spirited life. Practicing cultural power Became necessity to a Fictive people caught in the act. Death of the King's son Marko bore Shades of Serbocroatian song— An anonymous formation. Paradise became inferno In the revolt against the Turks In the twilight of life beside A secret river of rifles Endowed by transpired aspirants. Early jurisprudence studied Scientific indication. Scientific social surveys Researched violent solutions: Conspectus of the Mycenas. Command of vascular flora. Calcium antagonism. A trilingual dictionary Of pure and mixed dialect was The doctrine of a future life Discontent in diversity And searching for the Spring Babbler. Marginal women were broken Icons of intuition for The children of conformity In contextual transition. The mind went forth speaking of man's Story sequence analysis— Brain exhaustion had been taboo. Personality adjustments Used personal documents for Research and test development. Correlations were influenced By age and bodily changes— Brain watchers charted happiness. Man's mental pathology had Been his supreme inheritance. Blood ghosts were a people apart— A rejoinder to resurrect.

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It was the word that was given Feeble minded children needing Nerve control for besetting fears And the dread of the imbecile. The almost etheric damage To the face of disaster by The psychology of beauty Was celestian aberration. Debatable reach of the dead Was the coming science in the Then present-day visible world. A star-crossed renaissance had the Unique status of fatigue for Feeling with prolegomena. The nature of prejudice was Found in the social life of ants. The childhood ape mentality Of a well-rounded life had been A dialectic of morals— The depth of the infinite man. A.S.P.S. proceedings were An interplay of opposites: The serpent and satellite of An American gentleman— The peep-hole of the family. The genetic logic of thought And things for the mind in action Were not beyond tragic vision. The search for truth had been concise And laws of thought were limited. The follies and frauds of freethought Through agnostic spectacles had Appealed Sunday legislation Defending theories of the earth. Nature and revelation had Sacrificed man and the two worlds. Chemistry was pre-Adamite: A life-work of near heretic Scientific nomenclature— Tragedy of the undivine Blood-voice encountered in Eden. A Gupta Age chronography: The changing patterns on both sides Of agrarian reform where Holy land lies were uneasy Fragments shored against their ruin. The ambivalence of progress In the temptation to exist Astonished the world with farflung Acts of the perpendicular. An interpretation of the Ordinary was the nature Of one's candid recollections Of one's elders and one's betters. One's unhappiness had deprived A still life from being elsewhere. Dogma was without compulsion. The passing and the permanent Had been conceived without thunder. Belief was a human venture. The universe was unfinished. A perfect life was not vital. Immortality was a guess: A moral use of dark things where Living perplexities were a Little lower than the angels. The creation of converging Worlds was a holy alliance: Parity in dread of plenty— A cultivating company Kept the fruits of mountain lords freed of the social banditry In the war of the black heavens.

The social space of the rising Generation of machinists Was a brotherhood before the Enemy was within the walls. A turbulent spirit had split The limits of militancy. It was the decline of the South. Beggars on horseback practiced a Politics of benevolence. The African bourgeoisie had An absorptive capacity. Egypt's underdevelopment Had enhanced cooperation. Paradigms had been confronted. Competing for human faces Was a source code of exception. Educational expansion After pomp and circumstance was An ambivalent adventure: Restructured resistance to the Decline of donnish dominion: Surprise heir to a troubled South— Pacific and Pacific Rim. Radical relations with the Jacaranda Melanesian Were a critical enterprise: A serial syntax of the Crucible of Carolina— The development of Gullah. Nagaland was inter-lingual: A standard pidginization— The depravity of wisdom. Appeal to expert opinion Controlled the imaginary. Intentions were contested while Canons were negotiated And identity was ignored. Screaming for survival was at Root a course for human beings: A communication skill for Mothertongues of the foreign-born. The processes and prospects in The Ecuadorian Andes Entwisted and revitalized A grammar of Tariana. The pluricentric reconquest Of District Six was eminent: The evidence for a sound change. The sole function of a twofold Harvest for the exploration Of some of the hardest glosses. Cambro British languages had Always been a goblins movement— A register of the council: Port book tribal law and custom. Thirty years of white mutiny Was the structure of the ordeal. The double identity of Bushwhacking in the far province Under the rebel commandant Vindicated the scrutable— An emergence of harem life. The sequel to an Anglo-Dutch Rivalry in the Malay world: A physician at the court of Siam was on and off duty— A consul in paradise had A sportsman's opportunity. The great image was a menace seen through the eyes of aliens. The Lords of Life were pacified. The post-classical ancestral Neighborhoods of honorable

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Harafish were inherited. Nominal accentuation Was confronted with perfection By both the Aryans and Balts In the two decades following. The laughable stories of the Likeness of Christ were collected In the letters of Rim-Sin where Protective refutations were Epistles of consolation. Venerable philanthropy Had a social dimension where Living thoughts of relic caskets Would enlighten nuns and pandits. Discerning traces untied the Knots of emancipatory Identity transformation. The politico-religious Universal king conception Was paradoxical in its Felicitous understanding Of legitimate fragrances. Dead faces were remembered through The social reproduction of Enmeshed bloodshed and vengeance by Lost world voices singing with pigs. The edge of existence was a Place of misery displacing And dismembering a native By fishhook for a feathered god. The tradition of the coma Had social continuity— A wonder that was with malice The rise of a permanent way. Unknown disturbances in the Gorgeous East were only theory While still under experiment. Preliminary practices Of the innermost essences Were combined with the water-bird Into the inconceivable. The reconstruction of social Thought was the inevitable Victory attributed to A declaring unbeliever. Birth anniversaries were a Discerning hybrid furthering The foundation of discipline. Psychiatric aspects of the Giant crab captivated the Concealed minds of the fortunate. The syncretistic learned horde Recognized the reflowering Of a festive dissolution. Practical hints to fiord region Travelers were scientific: The anger threshold at the Green Island Outpost of the Lost was A medical experience— The great Northward course of empire: The last of a few cavalier Impersonal relationships Dismounting among Eskimos— A lineage system of the Childhood hunters of caribou. The disintegration of half Hour biblical sources into Schisms and sects of assassins Was a struggle for a spirit Of unified variety

Objecting to controversy. The fictive tie of a thought that Did not bleed had no fixed abode: Gynecology became the Making of man-midwifery— A letter to Grantly Dick-Read. The anonymous passion of Conscience was the foundation for Riddles of untold phantom fame— Proud shoes and a star to steer by. The foes of New England bygones Were forerunners of expansion— A preface to preparedness. The seeing of the sunny South Through the eventful Natchez Trace Was the backbone of politeness. Representative families Of the Board of Proprietors Of the Eastern Division were Members of the Safety Council In the Hunterdon tradition— The iron in New Jersey pines. Mounted riflemen marched across The wide Missouri cow country Gathering at the river of The family of God to shape The paths of old-time religion With the dissenting voices of Self-made men of the wilderness. Documents related to the Louisiana limits in The journal of Paul du Ru were Sesqui-centennial record: An army mule photographer Roamed the border and buffalo On roads of brimstone and chili-- Frontier law was a crow killer. The general society Of mechanics and tradesmen were The human story behind the Great Blizzard and Triangle Fire. Horatio Seymour and the Disposition of Loyalist Estates in the Southern District Proclaimed an oath of devotion To a critical period. Hagiography transplanted The examination of mirth. Experiential response to Corpse reduplication had an Onomatopoeic echo— A loneliness for what was not. The outline for a treatise on Lackadaisical upheaval Was autobiographical: Silent people spoke against the Prowess of animal acts of War in the Garden of Eden. The scars of evolution were A gift of the estuary— Faunal remains of the river. Human skeletal remains were Of old American God-Apes. Manifest duty predicted Visions of an interethnic Burden signified by serpents. The savage side of meekness had Expected immortality In the wake of the goddess and A road back to living through eyes.

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J. Crouse lives in New York City. He is a member of Remote Choir on Specific Recordings.
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