"the absence of production"

written in the kitch, the form
baker is alive! (i’m not dead: i’m
just… paralyzed!), not eye,
my pen alp!, our nows coincide?
, trance & highways, talent
books, the ink tends to chip or
flake, the absence of production?
, blow the crap out of the gutter,
believing myself to be a poet,
compositional miniatures,
only all, actual canadian,
i i & i, zap eight, deep
imp pression ink, imp
pen etrations, end of psi
kick, sounds in tents, mutual
fun (manducation, did i
read?, wasn’t he one of the
i think it was four joes?,
always already at, imagination
all compact, plause button,
what do you do when you
reach the edge of the paper
?, pops up an explodes at
head height, i guess i did
read id, for a good clause,
wasn’t that a strong dream!,
we fit in here, istolation tank,

"a noistic matrix"

crack coffee, iffi, contact list
contact, the mowent, tinygurl,
put it on the get rid of list,
overnight replenishment, just say
no to art, chevalier no less,
sabbacetaso, the literary industry,
why don’t we include your book in
my book, entropic graphomania, pons
asinorum, the heart of the concrete,
minute contemplation, a tavern
puzzle, cell elixir hinged,
pre-ordination, gray blank, words
flowing in and out of the text,
kalpa, sult, moneyless art collectors,
are you calling me by my name,
ongoingify, fear of chat, text
remains to be, the multilog, nosim,
a noistic matrix, brecht from
natural and biological sciences,
an opinion leader strategy, the
arts of the new mentality, the art
maze, hat soaked, it’ll fit zine,
the day’s eye, meatflux, drilling
graffiti, back to the original,
gutterslick, the toner pendulum,
what does this say to the eye,
pun itch ameant, a beautiful
waste of paper, breaking the book
holds, a network of one, nothing
but beauty, we’re going to have
a whole little book by the end
of the week, expanded substance,

akademgorod

luru, i included your name in my
book, the book is not ready until the
pages have been cut, just call it a job
of work and have done, a viral poem out
of control, the curves of the paper give
it a sculptural quality, dead eye dick,
caija, are you getting enuf poetry,
armp it, seeming in quotation marks,
tornado flakes, loogar, souhaita
reposer, you might prefer the cover to
the book, committed to the book,
editio durus natio semper, sign it
like you mean it, miva, this is a
lesson in nossel, holding a house,
i don’t recognize these people, as
long as the wheels are spinning,
experian, strk mesox it, you got the
wrong ray johnson, a long long
story the end, you might prefer the
artist to the art, wait til you see
the thing itself, history and
community each, authentik and
historikal, the irrelevance of what
is physically original, nothang,
robbing event, pink wigging, olfp,
the avatar of boredom, tepco beach,
the clay movement, carriers howl
like empty, akademgorod, pinche,
requinto, the font keeps reverting,
thrips, aesthetic categories, the
blank is the only thing that
matters, marxians versus marxists,
chatphobia, hardcore do it yourself,
you can see the difference in the
way the pen writes, missed points,

[see longhand]

not colour coded, the only
true friend of poetry,
how about a game of babble?,
buy the time, think you can
read?, a poor thesis, what
was goin’ on up there?,
who let the whole thing in?,
just us & this peace of
paper, little r revolution,
blank it state meants,
unshrunk, this bird-like
shape (shifter, eternal
occurrents, slipping tru,
this paper is n’t saint and
hard, taking care of busy
ness evry day, [see lh], or
itchin?, expensive words,
place to go, mid loathing,
confusing things, did for
us, class eye, we have
people, the last of it,
mist roving, entropy play,
visited each other in the
places, went your way,
make any frenzy, bulk c ode,



the longhand

(insert apostrophe)

perhaps you have overlooked something,
goodbye gee bee, how can you call this
nothing, wow paint, this elaborate
shape represents nothing, now here’s
something worth typing up, a red
circle with everything in it, capreol,
you can’t afford to be ate, actually
carry the card, nestshaker, the maw
of the network, ganesha, ecozoic,
the suasive power, noumenal energy,
hamiota manitoba, paumonock, tired
of being in books, one wage-earner
who supported the artist mate,
highly empathetic correspondent,
thou shalt not communicate, deep
grid work, folk reality, in the
meantime online, a diary enlarged,
artmind, fiorinal, chocha, time is
the simplest thing, jungian slide,
giving a penny for the old guy,
still more remains to be processed,
being reading this, chose grot,
kartika latha, sign debt, the
copy is just as good as the original,
a week’s worth of text, luru point,
coffee abuse, your ideas feed my
ideas, you don’t even know what
a double bind is, you can tell
by glancing at it that it is
empty: the text, everyday i write
the book, and you write it back
to me, hot off the press and
straight into the trash,
caffiene, really do it yourself,
cwazy art, flux of meat, writ graf,

"autodiegetical"

caffeine, the politics of the face,
sales can’t go down, rage on son,
there are no illegitimate diamonds,
have a pretty serious hat on,
facebooking the boss, ju’, pop tax,
with or without the addition of
art, sunnys, you just have to read
all the little bits and bytes,
triolet, word golf, antonymical
poetry, autodiegetical, the
danaides, the hackneyed example
of the cretan, aliterature, a
clausula that concludes
nothing, coming to the end
of a history, etnet, bentmoon,
your hat sitting on the air
above your collar, the tailouts,
our poetry is now the realization
that we possess nothing,
neuroimaging, assman’s
funeral parlour, corbel, puhol,
upnates, chatable, we are all
beyond the book, ontinue,
still publishing, are we doing
this together, memorize blank,
finding nothing beautiful,
if nothing was a verb, these
artists are improving, not even
the publisher is reading it,
illegible textuality, toner
owner, the text seems to be
at speed, gutter slick, the
original note, woote, comicimoc,

"the watching machine"

did you remove your original?,
more of-a-piece, i & i & i, open
bracket, days old, where all
the money goes, promoting
other culture, the border is an
imaginary line, this literature,
owning a book, mass turbulence,
bo_P, maybe it is all right, free
tables!, as quickly as possible,
saint what?, raw action, throw
the close on the watching
machine, a little doubt (double,
restwork, the poetry lobby,
in the nay, hitler was a
vegetarian (picky-choosy,
double ditch, day of the sun,
thru the eye into the, roar
too fard, come thru for, pal
lap (alp, once they get in,
either black or white doesn’t
matter, from away home,
slaboratory, good behaviour
self, miss pent up, following
devious courses, overlaid
than never, call so & so
call, a significant profile,

"levelution"

bach rings a bell, tiss, no
quarter no penny, signed nothing,
making a mockery of the book in
general, flashpackers, they
phased out the good stuff,
dawn void, lulu voodoo, non-
thetic, freedon, crank back the
clock, constantia and consolas,
men politics, admirably
beating, hit the font jackpot,
slunge, was dug, a crime of
desire, levelution, kakania,
ronsonol, fluxus flesh power,
anybody who thinks they know
what art is, empty coin, ipecac,
penny ice cap, meerkats, hocus
crocus esquilocus, kawaii,
frailejones, vocational
rehabilitation, return-to-work
interventions, hanging chads,
open the door to every tom dick
and harry, learn how to write
so you can write graffiti,
this is the moss envelope fold,
you can see there’s something
coming up from the middle
there, first thot worst thot,
pass it on: beautiful chaos,
blood smeared all over the
car, and the back pages too,
how can you call this copy of
a copy of a copy an original,

"mechanically constructed letter"

slick toner, meditate on the
blob, it looks like some sort
of writing, the mess is the
message, really only one copy,
we were we’re werewolves,
this is all part of the ongoing
text, from nobody to you all,
leaving one out of the equation,
it bled thru, lapstrike, crank
these out to a full page,
mechanically constructed
letter means, the fattest
emphasis, the twenty-five grand
delgado, make a mark with
a gun, blank charity, undream,
snailmail is not a priority,
living in jail, drawing words,
nobody is actually printing
the damn thing, what is
stopping you from reading
the text, buddhist marketing
techniques, saint nunnery,
if you want me to read it
send me a hardcopy, chatplay,
she’s giving you a sign,
assbook, nothing is that
beautiful, pick a face any
face, help yourself to a
body, the whole her, presume
nothing, chatlure, one wants
the view from the gutter,

"the seam"

sideways dee, the actual moss,
total waste of ink, bunch process,
see what you think, what
photograph?, what writing?,
blue equals white, even better
(even worse, waste of toner,
really collage, which is it?,
free!, the same these me the
seme, the seam, how we are
changing, mixed in with,
every, whenness, dread reason,
tongue oppressor,
hypersensitivity to acoustics,
a national trance, harmonious
enjoyment of a common, economic
and historical context, eye
surrounded by not-eye,
about to big in, she inserting,
the colon of crys, still
active ?, mindmade & is led,
end to psychic all war intestine,
the it inside, over the return,
must be ness, four different
writing instruments, deunite?
, class contest (grade five,
synth you mention, mind
connected with aitch, still
exploding, ta king of time,

"net puppetmaster"

on the bubble, ghunk, say it
with me, syncrons, are karune,
you can hardly tell it’s a lulu,
trench art, facebook creature,
died to general indifference,
what’s this little rider, have you
said your matins, make note of
the blank, furboats, umbilical
limbo, comma but comma, there
is nothing erotic about money,
net puppetmaster, message up
on the sun, would you rather
interact with humans or machines,
you can’t get ink for it, fear of
disconnection, love at first
chat, three two two two, the
peintre nato, what can we
learn from excess, daze of
the weak, millions of books
being published, random love,
a code so difficult not even
the writer knows what is being
said, citore, make a point of
googling, i don’t care if you
read it as long as you buy it,
unconsumed consumption,
trebuchet is, eat down,
mechanized chaos, toner heart,
pro- thuck, the thing as such,
the smell of coumarin, writing
to a stand still, a bad
halfbit, happening lines,

"telecommunications art"

betty stork, gaudy penny, the
pleasures of winter, lickable
split, orange stamps, suny side,
meditor, advance documentation,
aurry, massification, netclubs,
telenetlink, telecommunications
art, internet workers, keypal, the
pre-doc, lustra, the paper
revolution, kitayamasugi,
verdana mandala, watching for
the ink fade, penning it down,
inkados, thanatope, rastro, in
the binary field, cold text,
don’t read it just examine the
font, bad writing in a beauty
hand, can you identify this
stain, run the degenerations
as an animated movie, toner
in a vial, a stack of blank
paper, toner is made from, ink-
worm, moving to a standstill,
tonerdance, and gone, a green
smell, eat green feeds, antropy,
nothing always changes, lizab,
avatars in love, owning the
substance, feedom,

guess

oppression lift, all that ink,
untorn again, on reverse,
global warning, only in canada
eh?, support search operations,
seriosity level, read sense, is
there much call for paper(s)?,
the moss a microcosm of the
forest, black whites, first
initial basis, books within books,
chocolate in the gutter, the
pointlike present, affection
for the self, i was just thinking
about that stone, all is just
an emanation, ewomanation,
starts with a zed & ends with
an ex*, difficult reading time,
african saints, run & get some
reference material, trace the
trance forming one into the
other & the other into one,
geuss stop oh son lake, busy
being born again,
connected things, the name
we are known by, trance
migratin’, let’s have a
potlatch!, exlarva,
* astir risks, done!,

"forced art participation"

the last of the green, rust
event, money is for fools,
memorize the code for green peppers,
roasted facts, xeroxing copies
was illegal and conviction often
led to imprisonment, trance
bridge, zaumnost, acmeism,
vacuum poetry, telnetlink,
cinderella stamps, live node,
forced art participation, the
author’s original draft of this
text is available on request,
a communication-happening,
brainstorm versus lone ranger,
hypercard stackware, slave-
terminals, facesmack, net
puppet, fuck we’re running out
of ink, not two but seven
thousand cattle, it only takes
a second to google it, empty
text empty text, carharts, this
rock green moss companion,
choss, munge, spill food onto
the art, a time of none, why
should we waste time with
your text, now that is not
sane, high koan, one has
looked and seen it is good,
we would rather stare at
blank text, maybe she is
done with you, on the erotic,

cornucopia tsunami

are you writing a copy, time enuf
for rust, join the stack, grueso,
zarchive, extra slash alter citizens,
schablone, the vacuum bubble,
the not even working class, the
unemployed class, the last of
the green ink again, you can’t
get ink for it, miss twists, you
can try up the hill, botargo,
galoubet, nacelle, caillebotis,
equal a happily chosen, bad
exoticism, anterior exile,
homemom, lag sausage, net
burnout, i wrote this with my
dick, yahoozicon, premium
twine, cornucopia tsunami,
ten years past prime, no need
for detective work, limit your
eye time, entity created by a
housewife, number grid verse,
how are you making out with
that grapefruit, aziyadé,
maitreya lithography, lola
galla, simulated freedom,
hammering away in silence,
ratava, handwrite scan e-mail,
e-repeats, losing face booklets,
write green, nothing green, this
text is a movie, animated
degenerations, everything is
moving to a standstill,

"scoptocracy"

pulling back from the edge, hit
the dark button, the starry so
far, what the paper is supposed
to be used for, robot writing
machine, the chose was, british
columbia is a maritime province,
do it now, bone journey,
holding a house, a joint-
knowing, anatta nobody,
what is sharing?, scotomization
not sodomization, out of us’,
over sighs, talking war,
whose italics?, ex-centric
to himself, lit odes, a mute
trance, i got a readache,
scoptocracy, megaphonics,
canadian commodity poetry,
sigh tax, cum oddity, change
the cover, al(read)y, drawning
connections, new desire,
it was an air or, section mark,
jumped or was pushed out,
potential modern, the
pounding above, where
did that speck go?, hey
hey easy on the eyes eh!?,

vizwise

eet geen vlees, she’s working
barefoot for you, reflexbewe-
gingen, red arrow to your heart,
to your seven hearts, we caught
a glimpse of the thing itself,
it’s different on different paper,
yellow plastic striptease,
follow alla, barietprint,
overprint, bether, seek deep
within the collage, collage
yourself a foundation, you
can’t tell the process from the
product, vizwise, innocku,
least but not last, virtus
justitiae ancilla, the best
town by a damsite, the only
contact allowed, thuy tien,
money you forgot you even had,
what’s the convention with but
and the comma, asemic sibyl,
neeps of faith, a language
worker, theoretical anti-
humanism, remember not to
fight, i don’t have time to make
love to you right now but you
can watch me make love to this
other person, triple x freedom,
art now won train, leaping
into laps, orange splatter blue,
nothing saint rep, take write,

pregroperativism

a small green object, political
graphics, make an appointment to
see the art, a sawbuck, ten people
a day, a greater aptitude for
patience, gray eminence, pull
my information, actual linotype,
watching for the inevitable
fade, wow we sure got a lot to
say, the flaming iron, stevens-
johnson syndrome, mail-tapes,
never ending orgasm, copier
proficiency certificate, the
pony farm, it’s nearly now,
rezando, art is a prison, don’t
pigs have long orgasms, time
square, pregroperativism, pro
zac pocket, clortalidona,
escritorio publico, sound
acupuncture, the league of
the hat, t lobsang rampa,
my shadow is my graffiti,
artathlon, chrononaut, yantra,
limnetic stickleback, frenemy,
shopper-tainment, vivimind,
relocalization, elimination
of cancer heart, the burj,
zerogatory, if this bookmark
could talk, vegetable globe,
my avatar is crazy for your
avatar, literature splattered
with orange, nothing strep,

nothing™

hot ink, good contrast, how they
might fit together, white ground,
by comparison, the temp is late,
a produced thing, you can’t
just go and underline, she
wants it back, thin k, getting
thru (out, domination day,
trance substantiation,
getting the bad noose,
fungus in the insulation,
the imp risen, out of our
league, naked crown?, how
seriously can we take this
stuff? ( self-decapitation,
read what you want to read,
poland in the original, them’s
fightin’ words!, zinemark,
you gave money to these people,
the em in flame, verbomotor
skills, hiring now, word
capital, what kind of ecstasy
you’re after, nothing™,
neck taming, trance history,
some kind of space-time,
plodding east, photocode,
headlesson, disunited states,

"thingma"

do you think you could move some
of this writing for me, people
with writing problems, putting
out a little toner, text not to
be handled, book as apparatus,
from here to poetry, we’re still
brainstorming on this, the dead
skin of the artist, the good
stuff is back in stock, we
still need ink, i’m happy with
a zero budget, sari dienes,
thingma, eight things is too
many, do you have a feeling
for the copy, i can’t even
remember who this was anymore,
i meditate my voodoo on you,
hoping for something material,
the writer is blind, grotty
gresik, kayak, drill with pen,
everything has to be copied,
luru crack, caffeine overload,
slick bach, i could show the
run of deterioration, more
text on the page, the entropy
might waver for a moment,
let’s chick, nothing material,
how many times must we fall
into the gutter, the original
note bach played, overlook
literature, coffee comix,

"hard copy edition"

hard copy editition, cutupia,
seeing gremlins, black buzz, red
juice to multiply, mailart
millionaires, goest thou to a
woman: do not forget thy stick,
do you really think you are
somebody, snoz softgeometry,
keep you eye on the million,
help people empty out their
drawers, image loss, duckles,
rudderstamp, african bobbins,
snox, mekalite, duraznos, snoz
partyline, ink levels are
dangerously low, the consolation
of alcohol, jiao, document with
same name bumps, mailart much
bether than telefon, colour
for the sake of colour, poetry
is a job of work, blank portion
to be removed, candiru font,
hototogisu, writing thru the
paper we are writing thru,
black says copy, blue says
original, spip, reach out and
touch the small green object,
eat green veggies, technique
for moving words, immortal
texts, brazil lizard, your
avatar is breaking my avatar’s
heart, art is sustenance,

"the image nation"

messy cage, time plate, black
figuring, somme losses, which
is today, diggin’ the ditch, welld,
desperate for ink, establish a
cosmic harmony, headlines the
cultuwordular energy, wasp-
swatter, a drap o’ ink,
intoxification of reading, ho
use for sale, relay message,
component-imp, five point one
on the richter scale, not having
seen, sex log, this was the
bottom, without uttering a
word, the alphabet tattoo,
prime the psycho pump, does it
still stand?, make no mistake,
true & false, reduce to manage,
the image nation, mining the
present, by a woman, that
face (south, char, miss be
have your, minute garden,
two ells two enns, recycle the
wind oh!, not following the
guidelines, chunky circulation,
work it off, plastic fantastic
lover, how much is your time
worth?, make it too easy, burst first!

"ataraxia"

genuine nineteen-eighty-five mexican
photocopies, cybernauts, note fold,
all we want is just one book, the
year bearers, ataraxia, terreño,
autohistoricization, mineoism,
enigmatic and completely
hilarious, business fiction,
chair of ling, salcichoneria,
the concrete aerial bridge, milug,
failed to show at the gig, did
you ever think you might be
addicted to it, overdocumented,
account author, desires sex
and death: not necessarily in
that order, a word that would
not let us go, i forget what the
little bits were, hued and
cried of each’s colour, pointing
you towards trash, put the
magic spin on it: it never stops,
is the ink getting gray, nothing
goes to waste, depends on who
the author is, the early history
cancelled, the evolution of
the seahorse, obzine, you set
me free, minor crime, blank
as newly fallen snow, you can’t
just add a couple of letters
out beyond the justification
line, let the typewriter do the
talking, which do you prefer
the copy or the original, this,

destiny

just pretend you understand this,
it’s the white nothing, hinerwadel’s,
shrink-wrapped art, maimism, when
in rome new york, they trid, the
zack desiny, don’t forget to thank
the reader for turning the page,
kamikaze pilot with red hat,
self-historification, secret
agent artists, completed home
everything, excellence and
heartrending comedy, if i’m
paying for webspace i’m gonna
use it, t, somebody’s got the
knack of eternal orgasm,
faecesbook, this text is suitable
for any occasion, a bottle of
demons, stealthswitch, the
parsimony principle, lotman’s
system, tkaronto, échantillon,
the telephone is less intimate
than internet chat, a scanner
performance, one is a document
handler, writing is a job of
work to do, you have to do your
own erasing, love goes over the
line, mockba, nothinglamp,
chiquita thick as bog, o
uncreated nothing, location
granard, peo-freebody, i’m
hardcore but to a degree,
this text is complete,

facework

yes you’re highman, still their
deal, black mark king, already
gone, cellular energy levels
are humongous, side by side
(no relation, in deep end end
arms, ossifer if i cay shun,
the hero is a collective ego,
beneath criticism, me the x
is, influencing the machine,
need our trance fix,
incorporation thru the eye,
indebtpeondance, thimble full
of meaning, not her position
to throw, the crusty towel,
same place we always are,
don’t forget the open, the
uncommon courtesy, when
rot emit, a moment of facework,
dew nu, see all over the,
reset!, rose pride, re trance,
eat candidly, all knowing
is temporary, suss ink t,
open her e, sifting thru,
sign schmign, none of it, the
small print on shampoo
bottles, dispose of this mess
(age, or land on, the old flag,

"no me digas"

loves you are, in mailart everyone
is everyone’s guru, lobsang rampa,
correspondemons, salt lick press,
the plough position, no one has yet
succeeded in taking a penny into
the next life, formularism,
krononuts, albanil, a wheelbarrow
of concrete, the ultimate piñata,
alacran, chayotes, communication
disease, a permanent eclipse of
the sun, gosprom, population
thirteen eighty-nine, herb coqco,
are you in a band, what i thot
was a buzz turned into an
earache, i’m beyond the car,
a paper computer, nothing going
on time, you will see what
difference it makes, acedia,
huxley’s chirpy essay, legover,
no me digas, gumbotill, green
moth, fix it now, fix it now,
constant as a corbel, wipe-
writer, let’s see if there’s
life in the old network yet,
distro!, a gob of work, might
not be able to find the magic,
let’s lay down in a bed of
moss, we are together in green
time, editedit, edit tide,
bulletin letter system,

"gold-plated feces"

orgone music, the magic is held
up with glue, glory shack, it ain’t
hard to stumble, when you get to
the bottom of the page just add
dear so-and-so at the top, the
perpetual motion top, my gyroscope,
why do we feel the need to touch
the things themselves, various
intensities, the walking penguin
blues, nazario zarakanustra,
what is the point of making
only one copy, makes a hefty
chunk of writing, nose-pots,
famous mountains painted on
lima beans, vermillion velvet,
gold-plated feces, burping
bowls, pop op min kin con pro,
extinctualism, essentially
harmless conformity, you are
doing whatever you do, nopal,
bizfic, buckitos, alcalde,
your total communication
bill for the month, fear of
losing our connection, going
out? bundle up!, henny penny,
yabo, abseil, mouse party-hat,
ellinas, a little fondness,
one code without lucidity,
now where we headed, the blank
is all we care about, the ink
is going, ribbon getting jammed,

"dispositif"

maybe you should get your hair-
cut before you go up north,
the fall has fallen, the economy
of us must go utter, strategically
hip, the exact same text (thru
the wringer, rent a mental,
fixing the trance (mission,
the letter a tattooed on yer
hide, newer ones, screef,
painful to read, biocentrism,
spending two million every
minute on military weaponry,
one person, chug busters?,
overlays, five million dollars
worth of damage, propaganda
by deed, copycat riot, whown it
gets to em, must dust, floating
dispositif or widget, know
things, & am a tronic (time
(sand & plastic, let’s hire a
summer student, tree pan,
embraces are cominglings
from the head (even to the
feet, new soft spot, shoot the
sun, the french for blow job,
a matter of excision, flip thru
& not out, phrasing not
sentencing, solar meditation bow,