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The Digital Salon of Allan Revich

Digital Fluxus

  • Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style.
  • Fluxus should be simple. The art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief.
  • Fluxus should be fun. If it isn't fun, it isn't Fluxus

News of The World: July 27, 2008 - a red circle with nothing in it by allan revich


a red circle with nothing in it by allan revich


Something

there is not only this
that we expect to see
and all those other ones
that eat our cheese

when we least expect

to follow our noses forward
into the last refuge
of the dispirited enterprise
adjustment syndrome


Audible Artwork

December Whisper (mp3, about 2 mb)

Massai Song a collaboration with Nicolas Carras (mp3, about 2 mb)

Mmm Hmm (mp3, about 1 mb)

Doof Allan Revich reading a poem by John M. Bennett (mp3, about 1 mb)

Hill Nit Allan Revich reads a poem collaboratively written with John M. Bennett (mp3, about 1 mb)

It Don't Mean Nothin' (mp3, about 2.2 mb)

Throat Song (mp3, about 1.5 mb)

Sweet Night a collaboration with Nicolas Carras (mp3, about 1 mb)

Apocalypse Noël (mp3, about 1 mb) a collaboration with Nicolas Carras

Macaroni and Cheese (mp3, about 1 mb)

Electric Hum (mp3, about 1 mb)

Throat Song Mixdown (mp3, about 3 mb)

Fluxus Blues Harp Blues (mp3, about 4 mb)

Fluxoidal One - Kafka Goes Fluxus (mp3, about 3 mb)

Shuffling and Breathing (mp3, about 1 mb)

James Joyce Nail Tap (mp3, less than 2 mb)

Ulysses (mp3, about 1 mb)

All Art is Political (mp3, less than 1 mb)

Breathing with Mick (mp3, less than 1 mb)

A Love Song (mp3, less than 1 mb)

PoPo PiPi (mp3, about 1 mb)

Pinano (mp3, about 1.5 mb)

This is the End of History (mp3, less than 2 mb)

Jack of Diamonds (mp3, about 2 mb)

A Red Circle with Nothing in it (mp3, about 1 mb)


a red circle with nothing in it by allan revich


He:
  1. He turned a long you are wrong gaze on Stephen of timorous dark pride
  2. He mounted to the parapet again and gazed out over Dublin bay
  3. He turned abruptly his grey searching eyes from the sea
  4. He broke off and lathered again lightly his farther cheek
  5. He shook his constraint from him nervously
  6. He looked in Stephen's face as he spoke
  7. He shaved evenly and with care
  8. He has nothing to sit down on
  9. He folded his razor neatly
  10. He has nowhere to put it
(with words helpfully supplied by James Joyce)

PBS Or Top Ten
  1. Or mark her delicate cheek
  2. Or speaks in thy unclosing eyes
  3. Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx
  4. Or is it but that downy-winged slumbers
  5. Or sound of awe but in his own deep mind
  6. Or painted bird, sleeping beneath the moon
  7. Or falling spear-grass, or their own decay
  8. Or through thy frame doth burn or move
  9. Or gorgeous insect floating motionless
  10. Or think or feel, awake, arise!
(with words helpfully supplied by Percy Bysshe Shelley)

a red circle with nothing in it by allan revich (c) 2007


White Bar Haiku

Bar in simple room
Only clear liquors are served
Limes and clean glasses


White Bar Sonnet

A bar or tavern in a simple room.
The room is either plain, light wood,
or wood painted white.
The bar is a wooden table or a long board. 

Only clear liquors are served. The liquors are
lined up on the bar or on shelves behind the bar.
There are many rows of clean glasses.
On the bar, there is a bowl of limes. 

A simple room in a tavern or bar.
Plain painted white light wood,
only lined up liquors clearly are.
A bowl of limes, with the glasses stood. 

Ken Friedman in Los Angeles in 1964,
opening minds through the white bar door.  

………………………
Original event score by Ken Friedman
Los Angeles, California,
1964
With some sonnetization by Allan Revich
Toronto, Canada, 2006


4njp

Video Fluxus
All art is political
Nam June Paik has died


Rent or Kill

Not wanting to be like any others
The red rat rattled onwards
Looking skyward to fortunes brothers
The real rodeo hound rode backwards

Lately some people were looking grand
And some people poked and pissed around
While others wrote songs in the sand
And the pope went back underground

Fortunately for the farmers field
Luck smiled at the salty sailor
Everybody sauntered along to yield
And cut the robes off of the tailor

The last thing ever heard about pest control
Is that rent paid past due killed the troll


Radiator College

Radiator College of Applied Psychologistical Fortifications
Hereby denounces the pending demise of all relevant
Facts or otherwise remanded prescriptive devices
Fictive emotive parallels will however suffice.

Therefore it has been decided that there shall be no further
Correspondence on the subject of psychologistics
Unless noted elsewhere in this or any other document
Authors of their own destructive impulses may concur.

The incorporation of all cooperating communities
Will be mostly irreverent for all intents or purposes
Except for those persons not involved at the periphery
All others shall become ignoble parasites of blasphemy.

Once written and thrice bitten now here unbidden
The truth lies plainly nowhere well or hidden


Bob Lobster

Bob Lobster

Bobster boy
Bob lob blob
Bird bobster
Lobster bob
Blobster blob
B-rob blob lob
Bomb bay bobber
Flobster bobster lobber

Bob Lobster


Imago Deus

Homo Imago Deus
Deus Imago Homo
Dubito Ergo Cogito
Cogito Ergo Deus


Sunset Politics

Sunset horizon
Red sky clouds in fading light
Pink tip ripple waves
Bits of seashell in the sand
All art is political


There Are Always Two

always two to tangle to tango
to dance away the heart of darkness
overcoming the pall of laughter
in sparrow-eyed glare of hot knives
burning on an open flame the gas blue heat
that dares to light ignite

cast its misty mystic light upon the souls
of those heroes who once ran into the cauldron
but now cower in dark corners
afraid of the shadow footsteps
heard by only those whose ears stay sheltered
stay isolated from the sounds of children

laughing in schoolyards as they torture bugs
and torment each other with barbs
so sharp that blood would be a relief
from the pain that will stay with them
unit they lie wrinkled dry cracked face-up
in silk-lined boxes under cool earth

with only marble headstones remaining
from those sunshine schoolyard days
and their own children have children
of their own now laughing crying running
screaming in some school yard somewhere waiting
their turns to turn over again and repeat the sequence


Fluxus Bible Koran Visual Poetry


Todd is Godd

Dreams scotch bon net
Free lost wrong bet
Four fifths resting hare
Poor hicks testing care 

Weave long ago forgot
Heave strong leg or knot
Piss crater bread haste
This freighter head taste 

Wheat sheaf cab age reason
Heat thief drab cage season
Door knob knocker knee caps
Lore throb rocker three taps 

Wish bone first star cake night
Three wishes can’t make right   


Haiku Number One

Hi queue number on
All art is political
High cue nubmer own



Epistemology of Cognition

The anti-art political polemical subsystem
Of cognitively dissonant perceptions of meta-reality
Reflexively infiltrate into the semiotic dialectic
Or else simply vanish into negative space

Once when I was still a boy I tried to find the answer
So I looked up at the clouds in the sky until I fell
And the abyss that opened under me could not swallow me whole
Or so I believed for many years after that fateful day

When awakened from slumber without adequate training
There are often but not always serious repercussions
And those can be disconcerting when not joyful in abeyance
In the excessive determinants of symbolic taxonomy

Now it seems that any epistemological approach taken
In pursuit of some great meta-narrative will collapse ignobly


Fluxus Red Circle Nothings, by Allan Revich


I Love Words

I love words. Even when they get in the way.

Ilovewordsevenwhentheygetintheway

I'll love swords seven hen hey tin he way.

Ill
Love Swords
Seven Hens
Hey Tin
Hew
Ay


Spinoza Too

Benedict Baruch
Prophet of blasphemous truth
Pauper prince of proof


Mel A. Nomo

I named my mole
Melanomo

Mel A. Nomo
Always by my side


This is The End of History

Every time I say that
This is the end of history
It is the truth

Every time I read that
This is the end of history
It is the truth.

Every time I think that
This is the end of history
It is the truth

But

Every time I write that
This is the end of history
It is not the truth

History always ends
At the present moment

So

While I am
Thinking, reading
Or saying that
This is the end of history
It is the truth.

But

As soon as I have
Written it down
It is no longer true


Normal Where and Tear

This is not about the way that anybody goes
It is about the news on the radio as seen on TV
When the talking head says nothing about me
When the spinning tops plunder what no one knows

It could be said that the world is an oyster shell
Lifting itself above the turtle back frames on spectacles
Like that time the pope wore Chinese food manacles
Or that event when nobody who knew could tell

Some people went out to fight a war for peace
While other people stayed behind to fight the battle
When governments fell among the popular prattle
And soulless priests give sermons on lease

Anything goes because nobody knows
Everyone knows what the scrap heap grows


A Diaper Changing Poem For Georg
Originally by John M. Bennett;
Collaborative Version by "Madawg" and Me (Allan Revich)

>
> stop your sleeve from shitting in
> the lake grease by the wheels
> your bee condition shopping back
> the stomach gaped inside your stool
>
> brick your gas
>
> slop your steve from splitting in
> the fake Greece by the heels
> your tree rendition hopping hack
> the sumac grapes beside your pool
>
> trick your grass
>
> Flop your baby flow shitting in
> the flake fleece by the reels
> your free inhibition trots tracks
> the colon capped aside a school


Angry Mob, by Allan Revich
Angry Mob

First Love

Wind song memory
Gusting thrusting lusting breeze
Glowing embers fade


Tranzak Haiku

Beer on the table
A warm room on a cold night
Winter’s chill outside


Fluxus Medication: Take one capsule four times daily or as needed for pain


Seven Songs

Five years I waited
Seven songs I wrote at night
Five days I loved you
Seven ways I tried to pray
Seven words I meant to say


Tanka to Tanga

Five seven five and
Seven and seven and this
is not me, is not
me. This is not me. It is
not why I said that to you


Writing Action Event

Write this down:
Walk to the end of your road.
Walk home again.
Now go do it.
Write down what you did.


November 11, 2005

War is

War is
Politics by other means
War is
A sunny summer day
A green grassy valley
A bullet in the neck
Bloody breathless breaths
And death

War is
Pride and honour and glory
War is
The lock of hair
On a young man’s forehead
That lies not far from
The rest of his head
As he twitches and flails
And is changed forever

War is
Trying to stay alive
While people try to kill you
War is
The bloated body of a child
The final heartbeat of a boy on Vimy Ridge
Death from the sky in 1945
A grenade exploding in a crowded trench
Severed limbs, bleeding faces, a lingering stench


Nothing Too by Allan Revich


Ice Cream

Cream covered rat
long sky drained

Ice cream boot lip noitanimluf aimed toward
wire flood the niarb heel
couched like stomach finger
all my costs my ,aim and smile

shake the
ice cream mud
spoon

buy my stumbling in the water
raw cream flag sunk, the listed
sky
song plow you languid rednulb llim
blustered matter rent and crawled

noops dum
your frozen restaurant

knife thrown at the flock
gnirb ym eye slushy
same funneled m/ice you
derednelb in the laundry

glaze


John M. Bennett with mut(il)ations by A. Revich

No Know Non
No Know Non


Chairman

mao meow
meow mao
mo' money
mo' honey
das kapital
capital cowboy
girls on horses
cranked up
on crack
or crackers
with cheese
sliced and diced
with mice
rats under rugs
bugs forever
pussy willows
cats pyjamas
printed patterns
paisley ribbons
wrapped around
eyes shaded
lens flare
glare stare
chairman mao


Fool's Tools
Fool's Tools

Sensational

Skin crawl shiver bumps
Goose the red pinch
Blood boiled surface
Follicle erection of
Stiffened hairs


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The Fluxus Blog


BEN ON BEN

Après all chest true that can - ere I am not any
More, dalliers I nay not desire for following. All new art
That I see everywhere has such a relation with the publicise that
Can puts liaise badly to me? They are sometimes remakes

Dancing ideas with new a packaging, Nan Goldwin chest Flux us,
Sylvie Floury chest Presence Antoinette, Levier made of under
Ben without complex. However, it would be said on the other hand that
Those which makes page-setting of the review can make believe that

Chest new. And then in all this art there is really a feeling of
Coinage and return dispenser everywhere. Really days ago our
Jay desire for spitting in soup.


The Truth Will Not Set You Free..

State of the Union

Indian neighbors also a spirit of peace
I am happy to inform you that the continued efforts
Tripoli the least considerable
The style of the demand admitted but one answer.

The Bey had already declared war
Two had arrived at Gibraltar
One of the Tripolitan cruisers having fallen
Lieutenant Sterret which had gone as a tender.

The bravery exhibited by our citizens on that
I trust be a testimony to the world
Unauthorized by the Constitution
Legislature will doubtless consider whether.

I communicate all material information
Legislature exclusively their judgment
I could say that our situation with all
Discovering that some delays had taken place.


DeNiHilism, by Allan Revich


Portrait of The Artist

Dante had two brushes in her press.
It was useless to run on.

He saw her urge her vanities, her fine dress
That time is gone:

But his long spell of leisure and liberty was drawing to its end.
Welcome to our trusty friend!

Heron did not trouble himself about an introduction but said instead:
Ah, do you tell me so? And is poor Pottlebelly dead?

Along the Mardyke the trees were in bloom,
As he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom.

Hello, Bertie, any good in your mind?
Our Merciful Redeemer had pity for mankind.
Try Leopardstown! Said a voice from the bench behind.
Haven't I? he cried. Mrs Riordan, pity the poor blind.


Not to be read allowed

Aggghghrr brrdrrrrh
Grinhkh aggghghrr

Brrdrrrrh grinhkh
Ahhhhhkhkh!

Last night on the news
A story broke of three men
Who died in a small plane crash
Somewhere in Missouri.

Blog mined and frog mimed by
Allan Revich


Ah Ha

Ahhh Ahh Ah
Hahahahaha
Ha Ah Ha Ah
Aha Aha Aha

Haaaaaaaahh
Ahhhhhhhhaa
Ah Ahh Ahhh
Aha Aha Aha


What's all this Fluxus about?
Books About Fluxus

Blog Mining Story
Another Mining Story

I don’t have all the answers; I hope you know I sure do try. Thats like a probation period for some people. the usual questions from everyone "What u doing next? The way you walk, the way you talk with your nonexistent accent.

Gonna keep playing industry whore or find a permanent job?". whew.. sket tuloi ng aking thighs.. hahaha! Bsta! I was just getting the hang of the job. and now it's back to the search-4-contract merry-go-round. ahhh the rat race.

This day is so exhausting.. chusmaryosep! Kakapagod tlga mag cheering and everything.. biruin nio.. d mabilang na straddle [tma b spelling?] jump ang aking gnwa.. pro d ko p rn makuha? Khet papano eh natataas ko nman ang mga paa ko.

But when I toss and turn at night, I sure wonder why- I think of you. pro kelangan tlgang MATAASS.. Found another contract yet? The way you swear, when you think no one is there, no one is listening.


Blog Mining
A Mining Story

We talked about how I don't identify.
When we got there,
there were a few photograhers taking pictures,
I want to hold you
Is that asking too much?
friends don't fall in love...

We woke up at around 7AM and left the hotel at 8AM.
But this will only happen,
I was angry with myself at first for not fitting any of the moulds,
My lonely dreams,
Because you once told me what you identified with.
friends don't fall in love...

Today's first stop was Bryce Canyon!
friends don't fall in love...
I followed your directions and still don't.
I want to hug you
I know now I won't.
but that was it!
but now it seems worthless
because we couldn't see anything yesterday.
And feel your gentle touch...


Blog Mining
Mining Story Number Six


I love being straight.
I can get pregnant by accident
I wish I knew what I was talking about!:
I can say "oops, look what our love did!"
I'll burn ya eyes out,
with fire and aerosol.
I can get married and divorced whenever I please.
I thank God every day for making me straight.
I was either stoned or in college when I wrote this, either way,
I smudged the lunatic
for lethargic hypocrisy
and have a baby.
Then pull out ya brain...
through your arsehole.
turning a paler shade
I can say "oops, look what our love did!" and have a baby.
of deviant solicitude



The American

He had no theory with regard to cold bathing.
He had never had time for these amusements.

Adversity had not only ruined him, it had frightened him.
He was an exquisite image of shabby gentility.

It was our friend's eye that chiefly told his story.
Frigid and yet friendly, frank yet cautious.

He admires the squinting Madonna with the boyish coiffure.
She sent every now and then a responsive glance.

It's a very beautiful subject, said the young lady.
I am not a Catholic, but I want to buy it.

The young lady looked severe for an instant.
And where will you allow us to send it to you?

Everything I want to say is difficult.


Blog Mining
Mining Story Number Three

All commodes and lavatories are installed in the women's room. Hi brothers and sisters in Christ. Well I'm taking the leap and putting my profile on a couple of singles sites. But good ole indian way goes that wee bit of a step further. Let us also remember our bother and sisters that are in places where religion or more specifically Christianity is not allowed!

Told the sis that if by Thursday she hasn't asked this guy that works with my dad's GF out, I would be. I did this once before but nothing much happened, wasn't really interested then. Pray also for ourselves, faithful democrats can buy bottles of ketchup to support their cause, pray that if we are facing the same situation, Holy Spirit will strengthen us and make us able to say, partitions will go up sometime this week in both restrooms. Jesus Christ is the Only Savior and Lord! Wish I had a pic, he's beyond cute.

The new restrooms are nearly complete. Floor, roof and ceiling of the area are done. Lighting is complete. All lavatories and all but one commode are installed in the men's room. On the other side of the world, Indian politics are discovering brand power finally - a restaurant for the new brand-power Laloo thats the hit of the luck-city. The eyes are definitely open now. *sigh*


Blog Mining
Mining Story Number Two

There are some things in my life which I often lied about. And I've been lying about them for so long that I'm beginning to believe that it's true. I remember reading about people who thrives on fantasies. Have been under the effects of the medication, hence drowsy all day. I could tell her anything at all, we had so many in jokes, yet it wasn't totally exclusive, I was still one in a nice friendship group and we always got on well.

It has been such a long time since I can sleep without Ativan and Loremet. Being home, away from work has been great. But I was bored. Isn't that an interesting topic? The f cking for carnal pleasure doesn't interest me. The foreplay seems more interesting. However, I am assuming this from those damnable phys. ed. videos that I was forced to watch throughout my school life. I enjoy the shadows, everything in the light is so generic, so predictably boring. Love.

She hated his laugh. She hated him. She hated all of them. In a few quick steps, her eyes well-adjusted to shadow, she slipped by him and towards the cellar's opening. This actually isn't a new feeling..things haven't been the same for the majority of the year between us, but at one point it was amazing. In fact, sex has very little appeal to me. Yeah, I'm a virgin a.k.a. prime candidate for a cult sacrifice.


Nothing
Nothing

Observances of a dead Puritanism

Short of flat felony
In which the passions roused
On the altar of the Rights of Man.

Suffice it to say
That military operations
Kill as many of one another as possible.

Sitting up all night waiting for news
Like all the others in the room
There are no hats or coats on them.

She is a wild, timid looking creature
Which disturbs Mrs. Dudgeon
Why don't you open the door?


Performance Score for WebCam

1) Hold WebCam in right hand
2) Pinch WebCam cable with fingers of left hand, approximately 18 inches from camera.
3) Drop WebCam
4) Record
5) Repeat


Blog Mining
Mining Story Number One

Kill me, now. Our dogs are hanging out outside. Or forever hold your nuts in
a blender. I have finally and thankfully come to the conclusion I am a lil
gay boy in a lil girls body. I have a friend Jane, who is single and lives
alone. She has multiple health problems. Well, we're at the YMCA on base and
talking to people about God and musicial talents. Sometimes Jane struggles
with insecurity and depression. Thoughts of suicide cross her mind.

One time when she was feeling this way, she prayed for help but none came.
I helped Mike with his e-mail, that was cool. Saturday night I had a rather
interesting dream. In it, I was with some sort of group, I had the sense
that we were missionaries and probably on some sort of mission. We also had
some leaders and I got kind a "Baptisty" vibe off of them. We were issued
weapons by these men, AK-47s.

The urge to commit suicide passed but afterwards, she wondered why God
hadn't sent help. Then one day after talking to Suzanne, a friend from
church, she found that Suzanne had received a prompting the day she had
prayed for help. The Ak-47 is the most popular weapon in the world and it's
not the best but it's not a bad gun either. She had felt that she should
call Jane but sadly hadn't followed through on it.

According to Mike's bible study Tuesday, people are treating the gospel like
their low-carb diets. The idea is to slim down. Well that's ok for the body
but not for the spirit. God gave him a real good analogy. Dan is working.


Blog Mining
Mining Story Number Five

I'm Mary. I'm original, just like everybody else, but I try to be noticed,
because things happen when you're noticed. At the same time, I'm not such a
girly-girl that I don't like to get dirty. i really am considering cutting
right now. OK, I promised I would do this personal post about my epiphenal
insight in a therapy session and I guess I had better quit procrastinating
and do it. disgusting old me...ugh i hate myself so much
sometimes...seriously. i need to.

Yeah...i feel disgusting..i started eating carbs again. stay slim. Anything
fun is good, even if it's completely aimless once in a while. One of the
reasons I want to share this with you all is that I suspect that it is a
very widespread complex of neurotic issues; I'm extremely girly, to the
point that it sometimes provokes eye rolling from my male housemate.

God i really fukking need to. But then i'll get caught and i'll start having
to see those stupid fukkin' doctors more and more and i hate them. i hate
life sometimes. so much. Amber like isn't responding to me. I could really
use someone who understands right now. but i have no one. and i hate it.
Well bye world.


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Knot for Nothing

not for nothing
knot 4 nuffin
knot four nut thing
naught fore no thing
no T 4 no Ting

But it´s still not bad considering that we ran 10 km longer than everybody else.


Visual Poem for Dogs and Cats

Fluxxy-1 by Allan Revich
Fluxxy One


The Invisible Man

He came down the steps towards the tail of the cart.
As if to lay hands on the smaller crate.

They saw the dog's teeth had slipped the hand.
The stranger glanced swiftly at his torn glove.
He went straight upstairs.
The blind was down and the room dim.

There was a noise of hobnails on the bricks in the bar.
Suddenly the dog began growling again.

He felt alone in the room and looked up, and there, grey and dim, was the bandaged head and huge blue lenses staring fixedly, with a mist of green spots drifting in front of them.

It was all over; the stranger had resumed work.


Re: FLUXLIST: woman mashes dog - calling all gentry!
(Detail from collaborative story - parts of my contribution, intermingled with other collaborators)

"Its the one I've been looking for " screamed the
turkey buzzard as if pole-axed,"for nearly 300 years
our family have searched the seven seas and thirteen
ponds of Umpklah to find the sacred shrunken head of
Saatchi the Flame God- I can't belive you had it under
your badger all this time!"

"Neither did I" said Blarney with a withering smile.
As they sat contemplating this new find a strange and
eerie noise assailed their ears, Blarney decided to look within his badger
for Turkey basting apparatus. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Blarney, the
Ooompungokoonoo Indians of Skull Island were busy making plans of their own.
Lulu crawled out of the cravat and prepared breakfast for Uncle Walt. All of
this activity occuring elsewhere soon caused poor Blarney to tire. He
decided to take a nap...


The Economist

He does not happen to possess wealth of his own,
what are we to understand by it?

Some portion of it may lie in another part of the world,
not even in the same state or city.

If he has things that injure him, I should regard,
these rather as a loss than as wealth.

Land itself is no wealth to a man.

Vide supra.
That is my opinion, at any rate.
That is precisely the conclusion we should come to,
pros touto o, pros touton, os.

What shall we say of friends?
Pros touto o,
pros touton, os.


And Joyce Wrote:

In the virgin womb of the imagination the word was made flesh.

On a cloth untrue
With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls
--PERNOBILIS ET PERVETUSTA FAMILIA
Are you not weary of ardent ways,
Lure of the fallen seraphim?
Tell no more of enchanted days.

Contrahit orator, variant in carmine vates.

The scorn and anger in his voice brought Cranly's eyes back from a calm
survey of the walls of the hall.

Pull out his eyes,
Apologize,
Apologize,
Pull out his eyes.
Apologize,
Pull out his eyes,
Pull out his eyes,
Apologize.

Frowsy girls sat along the curbstones before their baskets.
Their dank hair hung trailed over their brows.

Your eyes have set man's heart ablaze
And you have had your will of him.
Are you not weary of ardent ways?
--Thank you.

Then Nasty Roche had said:

--You are quite welcome, sir.


Visual Poem for Helter Skelter Times


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I wrote you a poem. (To Secret Fluxus)

The gifts offered to the dead;

It will not be safe for the
collector to speculate much upon that which he observes.

The student who is pursuing his researches in this field should
carefully note all of the customs, superstitions, and opinions.

The method of burial, including the site of burial, the attitude in
which the body is placed, and the manner in which it is investured.

I must not fail to present my thanks to the Surgeon General of the
United States Army and his corps of officers for the interest and
assistance they have rendered.

Special thanks to the Smithsonian Institute, J W Powell, and Project
Gutenberg for providng source material.



CANADIAN art
Page 80


it isn't a permanent installation
The shifting terrain of both public and private

There is also a sense of ever-present urgency
"silence"--really words--flashing in red,

The wall of windows opposite
like so many of her pieces
(Jesus, Islam)

In the wake of 9/11
viewers are kept outside the work
if we are all to be transported to heaven together.


Homer Wrote These Words;

Neptune had gone off to the Ethiopians
and so it would any one else who does as he did
Still, let us lay our heads together and see how.

Eating up any number of his sheep
she bound on her glittering golden sandals
wherewith she quells the ranks of heroes.

Suitors came in and took their places
which are the crowning embellishments
Tell me of your town and parents.

Maids went round with the bread-baskets
he told the sad tale of the return from Troy
There is no fear of your race dying out yet.

"Is that so?" exclaimed Minerva
With these words she flew away like a bird.


AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

Oh well, as long as you are enjoying it--.
How good of you to come up and see us!
Is it you?

Now you mustn't think that.
It's about an article for the paper.
Quite so, quite so.

Mark my words, Mr. Hovstad!
There is some life and some business doing in the town.
The doctor's article will come in very suitably.

Rubbish! There is some toddy just coming in.
Sit down and we will have it comfortably.
We shan't be able to see it, of course.

It is astonishing how little most sailors care about
what goes on on shore.
I will explain to you later.

Very extraordinary


Collaborative work based on an original piece by John M.Bennett

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Artists/Authors (in order of collaboration)
Bennet, John M.
Revich, Allan L.
Chirot, David-Baptist


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