The American Word

2. The American Word: Writing in America

The american word:
writing in america

Things that were once on a table in any home: Food. Plates which once held food. Mail. Envelopes which once held mail. A single glove. A set of keys. A bottle of vitamins. A book. Things that could be found strewn about in any public place. Food. Plates which once held food. Mail. Envelopes which once held mail. A single glove. A set of keys. A bottle of vitamins. A book. Things that are, strictly speaking, American. Food. Plates which once held food. Mail. Envelopes which once held mail. A single glove. A set of keys. A bottle of vitamins. A book. Nothing is strictly american.

Walking - taking liberties that were not mine to take i considered the ground upon which i was walking. Walking in vain, walking with no purpose, walking across the american continent. The american east - on city streets littered with Food. Plates which once held food. Mail. Envelopes which once held mail. A single glove. A set of keys. A bottle of vitamins. A book. Picking up the food, i fed the hungry. I was hungry so i ate. Now, with plates which once held food, i was alone. Then a letter, without a return address, into a mailbox and again i was alone. At the bus stop late that day i noticed a man, with one hand in his coat pocket, the other naked and i wondered why he was alone. Was he alone, or did he have a spare set of keys. A home is proper nutrition, and a pill is anything that gives - a man is alone without a prescription allowing him to find safety. The only object which is truly objective is a book. Finding a book is a process best left to those who are not alone - those who are not alone have Food. Plates which once held food. Mail. Envelopes which once held mail. A single glove. A set of keys. A bottle of vitamins.

If ever there was a true american, his name is unknown. A phone book is a place filled with the names and addresses of individuals, couples, and families. Names found penned on bathroom walls, painted under bridges, costing a by letter amount in newspapers, and on billboards are bound to become lost between two opposing forces: a meeting of bodies and a meeting of strangers - a meeting of strangers bodies. A parallel to godliness: at birth we are all strangers. Strangers link godliness. Whatever is done to one side of an equation must be done to the opposing side. We are united within the context of america.

Notable "American" Professions
1. President
2. Blind
3. Blind President
4. Astronaut
5. Homeless
6. Homeless Astronaut
7. Academic
8. Ghost
If i was to call myself a poet, i would be a poet.

I will write you a letter. Full of verbs it will call you to live in the present. In the present,
america will become filled with poets. Living each day in verse - a newspaper, a lunch menu,
a billboard - allowing safe passage. This nation of poets will cycle through each of these
professions in time.





Notice: Architecture has become a thing of the past. We build cities on grids for just such a reason. To systematically recount steps, or greet strangers. Each unlike the last. A matter of motion. To embark on a great discovery. On dance floors. In car accidents. To precipitate reality; discover hands. On smooth aluminum. Around a tea cup. If ever there was a chance. Take back. Talk to neighbors. Buy a wooden shovel. See great cinematography. The forest. Space between front teeth. Unexpected. Weigh options. Of course. You and I met. Had met. Is never. A glass avocado. A package of cigarettes. Reservations required. Enter the hospital. Leave the cathedral. Try. Taste. A checkerboard. The parking lot. Tomorrow will be better. Everything is wanting. A pen. A pen. Is only. A new haircut. A pair of boots. There is only one left. Cognition. Capitulation. Recapitulation. Tell me you are reading. A pair of scissors. Animals will be restless. Like skeletons. Like asphalt. Never had i thought of being.
Never was I a father. Think of it like this.

It was as if: You, asleep in fibers creating dreamsandshallow breathing Becoming a part of two windows - 1) a ledge to hold life born out of turpentine and 2) miss matched china plates holding planters. Holding planters growing children it needs A catalyst: therefore, when water touches earth + the graceful slip of a wrist into nothingness (suspended in the air like bricks in motion on their way down towards the sidewalk) = the culmination of all that was ever, was ever, was willing And it was.

If you start to see things like this, then it will be easy.

Think: if was is wanting and thisiscreating a sound is a spectacle is an image in the void of color.
To create pictures out of sound and sense a new beginning. Taste the foremost sense and how to create it
on a page. Instead, inhabit sound. To forget:

SH
SHH
SHHH

she only speaks in verbs,
they said to engage the 'is' a quality of action
but only in the present. When you said 'was'
but are forced to 'is'. The action active.





Now reread. There is much to find within the previous line.
And that which comes before. The motive an ation of or it is
to forget. To regret. Motivation, or Things that where once left or have been returned

the proper owner What can be fit inside the confines of what it is to understand. Holding

heavy handed
and a shopping
bag filled with
prepositions, thr
own around like
direct addresses: Because you were a proper noun
because now you are progressive, (tense and grip an -ing)
Because the only way to remain grounded.
Because the only way

To act in the
past. Is to act
in the past. Is
to act in the past in which is the past. Made clear in bla and whi ck and te stress the sonic
quality and 'POP' into existence

and

HE
HEA
HEAR

himself

is bound to stasis is
like yelling at the
or the
or
the
is like to run
away
from/from,
or

It can be easy when you get the hang

to hang by
feet or by
ideas or by
words

the collar bone
the gall bladder
the forcing of life into a grid.

A pattern coded simple yet breath taking.

I must become a text,
the same in a book, the
evidence and a lyric

must be one who speaksandhears in predictable places:
In surgery incapable of
extracting the written w
ord it is now beyond exercising

Cut and paste
piece
by flesh
by breath:
is the thing
is the like
is
ever
only

It will be this way from now on.

Take a deep breathe.
Prepare.

This will be

In sequence: words after blank space white and stitch a story through instruction.

For the

Duration, each new attempt to capture or relieve re or astound live

Now

Saying: how easy it will be.

A life rewrite again the -ing the present becoming or to became

Relearn the art of construction Contracting seemingly disparate images of or out of everyday.

That which you wear,
or those who you eat,
are places you will go
when the time is . It is just that.
Now you have been taught, engaged: the formal expectation simplified for the now if the time is right to jump from the surface of the world and into Before you will be allowed the chance to sleep with Bride::Engage ment::Groom ing- a celebration preparing the margin to fade

So then.

You getting no chance restricted
breathing
becoming
and forget
ting to wa
nt for anything except particles

They made
you:

and making everything
a molecule
so infinitesimal
and
clear

Eyes that see the foremost image. Saying brick but meaning that which builds is to enact the substance of these thoughts.

Like cities. Like sea. Ties The space between the corresponding bodies. Bod de(ga) ies bodegas Of water wan (t) d(h)er Those things that are found in the most inauspicious places. We live in nomads

We live in

We have never hidden anything from you.

and so

You to become a silhouette
a morning
a means of keeping time
in pebbles Shadow
imprint.

Temporarily

becoming lost (a parking lot)
, then

(a public library)
lost



Held within these walls are books

a place only stories until

are electrical outlets

to charge cellphones

are men grooming in (a bathroom sink)

shaving, lathered from hand soap, they

are writing across live wires are writing in open air are writing because they can

open spaces

narrow
aisles.
must

trigger:
a new sensation

a smell: Dust and floor polish.

Only because it is so hard to hear a sound. Record each footstep
in linoleum, and hardwood prints.

Record: a public domain.
To dominate. To do what is right. To create a new media. To meet like a joint

in two separate floor boards. to meet
at an intersection (Smithfield and 5th ave.)
To skip pebbles (the 10th street bridge;)
each one a secret and a hawk -

so much damage to passing motorists

we laugh

Together - beneath canopy, (the local state store,)
told that outlines take one body;
become more of an idea,
a creative thought, or a short work of prose.
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You are becoming less of an individual being. (In text) You an I are becoming more of one another.

Now Text will become a sound. Many voices encouraged to speak. Consideration has become a thing of the past; You are primitive notions of modesty > SPEAK UP! When you cease to understand, listen closely - there are these things for certain:

Everyone who speaks eventually finds True silence
If absence of sound Breathing at the right silenceamplitude was possible
If you find no one to be uncomfortable.
just think loud thoughts.
yourself in said situation would realize just how loud frequency could becomes
ever when you speak, stay perfectly still.
impossible
The speed of sound is 299,792,458 m/s;
is 340.28 m/s,
I assume. Whoever invented glass, breaks velcro
Beyond an object When white noise, is 340.28 m/s, there is the speed of light
break a whole rainbow of sound.
while therefore I must have been deaf
it makes a cracking noise,
impossible
It is nearly you your circulatory system
long before a whip can see
while the sound barrier is a good example.
to hear you.

I can focus on only one sound.

You will become a shadow

You will become (in) time.

A sound.

To suppose

there was Once a time when this was common place.

Creating new (nu) an sees no one sees nuances For what
For you

Relocation bringing cities back.

Subtle: crooked tooth parking lot Dawn
made fresh foot: steps painted - lines and
ticket stubs. City, before downtown

(closed doors) eat your fill:
out sourcing gold brick drive
rural hills Peeling tar wondering
bituminously Communicating
auto cycle traffic lights
morose code -

first yellow, then red - stopping
minutes The meeting ` long lost
friends. Wonder:
A predictable a grid of empty spaces.

This a found text.

The way

A manual for understanding.

In other words:

1.Everyone who speaks eventually finds silence to be uncomfortable.
2.If you find yourself in said situation stay perfectly still.
3.True silence becomes impossible when you realize just how loud your circulatory system is.
4.If absence of sound was possible no one would ever speak, just think loud thoughts.
5.Breathing at the right amplitude and frequency could break glass, I assume.
6.Whoever invented velcro must have been deaf.
7.The speed of sound is 340.28 m/s, while the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s; therefore I can see you long before I can hear you.
8.When an object breaks the sound barrier it makes a cracking noise, a whip is a good example.
9.Beyond white noise, there is a whole rainbow of sound.
0.It is nearly impossible to focus on only one sound.

Notice: You becoming the reading. Held within the confines of the visual Painted we all are sound..

Critical: On How To Read What Is Not There
I Will Teach You How To Understand:

Until now you have not seen. Being
born is like walking. You havealotof
arms and then, you forget something
and have to turn around. You have to
turn around but still you see yourself.
(In a mirror)You are a kitchen a window
You are a pair used running shoes
You are a color. To reiterate, not to
win do of sh sho yous, to col lor (call
her) green. Thus, progress the kitchen
painted cooling on the windowsill and
you and i in stocking feet. Like children
or like transistors charged static packs
of breath rain or particles electricity
on and the We think like children
Informed decisive tantrictantrumtandum
2 eyes + 2 hand + some 2 legs + 2 stones
= part of a person whole at the middle
(asection)
symmetry was what was needed