through prison music shyku (from lime green thimblebook #2)

downgraded into ancient
ineptitude . disappearing eider
down . Bechterew’s disease
autocephalus . The Diversity
Of Life . zooids and corallines
quadrants and sextants .
Mike Higgins ruined drunk
carried passively all the
way to O’Hare . the Kara-
korum Mountains . sampo
curls are purling . Robert
Erikson—The San Francisco
Tape Center . spangled
with counterfeit realization
on the bee-eyed wavelength
Serbian tamburitza to
shakuhachi—a Japanese flute
analytical hibachi . door
height 40” width 28 .
body ten years old and
yanked with breathless
suddenness to zero . Un
certainty by David Lindey
or poor Henry Cowell’s
prison orchestra . composing
to this day in a cell at
San Quentin a piece for
band based on the moods
personalities of fellow in-
mates his famous out-
mates except Varese
having abandoned him .
burnt umber . musk .
bathroom stink of mildew .
lexical anemia where the
truth tone begins . a stuffed
armadillo on the back panel
of a police cruiser . Kalevala
Aesthetics of Disengagement
Contemporary Art and
Depression . Anatol Levin
of the New America Foun-
dation . aphelion . the
Red Mosque Siege . Cooper
Union (an art school)