A new passion project.
The answer to all questions about one's conduct.
Q: What are you doing (there/in that bar with those old men/outside)?
A: I'm collecting American Vernaculars.
Q: Why do you work so hard?
A: Work is the original American Vernacular.
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From now on, assign random tags to your posts (see the bottom of the post box), based on unimportant words in them or previous phrases from other posts. On this, I insist. Tagging, too, is a kind of American Vernacular.
Check out the news feed, too, on the bottom left. This blog just got new underpants.
It occurs to me that the tags will make a kind of poem as they expand down the left hand column. Already, they have formed a solid line.
However, the challenge: they will arrange themselves alphabetically, soon turning against coherence.
Why must language push this way and that? Some days too neat, other days too bedheaded. Always, a few days off, thinking the other way might have served [something] better
Anyway: Tend them tags, tend them well.
The point: to create a chance encounter with this blog, modulated through a poem structure that, given its allegiance to the alphabet, we must fight against.
Furniture Musik 2.0: Making reading (of it) fun again.
I just started clicking on lines in the accumulated "tag poem" to the left of the blogspace. Interesting. At this point I think it'd be only appropriate for someone to lean in and begin whispering a little something smart about "interbraiding vectors".
I should let you in on a small secret. I have been using the "New Post" window as a way to write drafts of new poems. I've been working with the surprises that occur when I post them--in breaks and lineation, mostly.
So hopefully you don't mind if I post new poems. You can take it or leave it. And if you begin to notice that some of the poems begin to disappear, that's because I will have been busy removing them from sight, to send to journals.
So this will be a vanishing blog too, I guess.
Let's see if I can figure out how to set tags on this thing...
I could tell this blog was birthing some useful language for you, and I love that.
The tagging thing is fascinating me at the moment because it's a way of writing through selecting, through indexing, etc. Once you start in, you'll see what I mean.
Below each post, just start typing in the label box. Old tags will come up, or you can write new ones. You can tag old posts, new posts, whatever.
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