北京麻雀 (Sparrows of Beijing)

无 Void 2016 - 3

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i

Delaying for the Dead

The ship on springtide days

Awash in half-remember lilts

Qvis multi grace te puerile love

Scribner version fortify and host

Wrath divine Peleus Achilles

Maris et terrae¹ number of the day when doom

comes to feast on the birds and all our venison²

Hua Yang Nian Hua³ mispronounced

In birth as well as death.

Whanderlarder is unknown who the father is.

As by a unicorn held still,

Because who does,

until the sequel unprepared

Villa is iuris tibia to strange

procession baptismal prolix

Generation by generation squib

In the name of the Alcaic

of the Asclepiadean⁴

and of Sapphic Adonais

Amender Amenerdath Cnosii⁵

One of the seven deadly sins

Benigna the Beguine,⁶

(an infatuation) voltage in the

si iuris si liqua⁷ (sic)

Solidarność sodalizio elision ⁸

to the revolution benedetto Agnello⁹

poema sacro posto mano¹⁰

cum tu coöp eine leine hausbrauerei altstadthof ¹¹

And then went down to the ship

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

O navis, referent in mare te Novi

By none but me can the tale be told,

And he stoppeth one of three.¹²

nunc desiderium curaque in levis,¹³

Autumn wind clear

Autumn moon bright¹⁴

misanthrope mislabeling in misapprehension

misbehave mislead by misusing.

Ideology death premulgia symbology

a parallel world Rembrandt Reubens from the lake lure

Orderly continent astronomy geometer

astrolabe globe Proust repeats arabesque.

Picture with picture with picture

Painting in the anime animated brown

Voi ch'ascoltate¹⁵ Mondrian O’Keeffe

Laserlike il velocity ombra

Tomato of despair

e i cape publishes authenticated

las vegas los angelos

e'l viso discophages Louis XIV

The ugly duck thrice removed Grimm

I wish I was in Suspiria censoriously

albeit allusions Guadagnino

intriguing mechanical risible Meinhof group.

Fuge indignant sub umbras.¹⁶

We are stars, every one

Only the dead, will come

back to Iraq and Afghanistan

A device the day

which they became not what they are

But what they will become

before sanding of water

And unto Circe.

Venerandam,

While these visions did appear.

Vergine Madre, absolute citron

I who cries out before thee

Not you, not but, or how

Release from this drink of pray

Sw Sw SS wS

Ws Ws SS Sw

Sw or as to say¹⁷

No gonna swift the Swiffer day

you who is of color facile

an imp e later stelle¹⁸

Once upon a time, everything made sense

The Odes of Horace, the clues to a murder,¹⁹

Joycean rapture, TS Eliot fuming,

Woolf in her Orlando Furioso sosumi²⁰

But now – a drain of derision

SEAL Team Abu Ghraib distraction

Taliban jojosan disruption

And tock-tick says the watchman²¹

What would Hu Yaobang do?

That flows eastwards rain the sound

it is inside your head most fallow

telling lies while telling the legalistic truth

as your predecessors before and after did-do

Laborum et laborer each degree finely divinias

Ghlaborem ex-finite lux decide quid files

Lano septum one auctore factors

Fog and clouds go buy half-remember deity.

Sinai and crossplay on the backports sprandn

For in the metasparsematrix in destiny and densify.

βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.²²

Shirt waisted triangle fire²³

Over the green zone to danger zone²⁴

B-2 bombers and the wobbling goblin²⁵

parade the goshawks of the day

Skittering blasts oval awful,

to sand beneath other glass

blood sinew intestine shard

laying, lying, half-forgotten slide arm staring at the sunrise.

grinding glaring beneath the rays

on pop tense even tensor matrix statistic

generations equally tracked,

as truth is fornicate de random hurly-burly skews.

Folds of cotton cloth billow

mashed crash monstrously

egging on filthy hand mumbling private parts

made public on a nano-fly.

This they say in rude torture exposition

though call it ethnic cleansing sink.

ii

The Rhyme Spare

Flames celestial trespass power

malicious choking fumes Tuesday trial pivot,

prey on altruism, impoverished en dente

Rich and grandeur operating glove

Laura of Babylon, avaricious in a sack²⁶

Ire of devil, to call to God inflamed

How idols crest in sacred name.

Fountain of every ire,

The temple of every heresy and school of error,

Once was of Rome to the utter East²⁷

For all who weep and suspire.

Desire their surprises

which fortune viscous intuition bends

In my flight and ga instrument err.

Love who live with death and reigns

e 'l so li from putonghua.

Devore tranquille,

chante grenouille:

caresse immense

depuis aquatium.

Espere immobile,

lunaire royaume.

Vapeur murmure,

velours chatouille.

Bouche, peuvent -

caprice peuvent -

céleste peuvent.

Garçon de chamber,

jamais sommeil.²⁸

What mere disadvantages

strange climate

by best estimate

voluntary mortal.

六月四日²⁹

It is the lost portrait.

A Christmas Carol of women's suffrage

To the vergina made born anew

with passing germination Leon d'amor.

At the Station where the sky

of course, oxidant and prior accidents are they

flies regardless who foresee another

Keeping alone in that fetid place

the strained cornered

pilgrims double process and more and more

and then thou solitaire

frantic at the finish of her journey

taint of constellation

that comes briefly to repose

the pain and noise and melody of passing obelisks

Visitation of visitation in Manners style

Pontormo a la Hudson,

a visite Margaret Guten Morgan

Last Florentine Republic (1529–1530)

without a Democracy until America's

15 v-minutes of Stravinski Stradivarius fame

Song, I may never be quenching nuance of

gold which descended as a precious proving

seeking the fire Jove Pledger sense

enflamed by gays incensed

and way falcon flamed

altitude of her image, mad called to honor

not for another figure is the prime Laurel stretched,

or if it is I do not know of it.

Ovid Metamorphōseōn librī:

The Divine Comedy,

(which the name secured Commedia)

Rome and the Deified Ruler,

A or The Pathos of Love by Avenging Gods

In Nova, fert animus mutates diverse forms

Which Lully Gracias Agricola

Consul for a single year

But is it Art?

(a joke sub-earth:

or his brother Son of Sam...)³⁰

Segue to advance my decision,

Stately unadvantage always from silvan to silvan

the range of I transform every fugitive

solitary and vague as allusion is.

Rumsfeld Roulette.³¹

To make a gracefish his venom,

and punish the day, a thousand,

Clandestine love reprisals bar

A man, who now waits

There my Virtu improve Canopus

now ebbed all notion nor grey,

Do not ask what question comes.

Do not ask.³²

Temporarily closed dove white flight

Paradise Theatre last Krugerrand.³³

To make climate change,

on must see the nub -

as von Schelling, Hermann³⁴ did

or see the signs as Katrina³⁵ was,

or watch for The End on the wall.³⁶

Hearing them scream in many tongues:

“Not I Not I Not I...”

iii

Recursion

We must accustom ourselves to Asiatic assertion

Every breath take, I'll be watching you,³⁷

watching you on the wireless,

Listening to The Anatomy of Revolution,³⁸

and why the German wasn't.

Mathmaster on the 4 shells.

Love between my brothers and sisters,

Early death troubadour Rime Sparse

Provencal profound and radiant

unyielding radical clarification Commedia

translation canzone Frustration lovesickness

exhortation arrangement commentary

syllables obliquity l'amoroso pension

l'animoa leggiadria. speranza later cry.

In the name of Wagner, the father;

and Nietzsche the Son;

and the holy Freund, world without end.

iv

Medea

Elenna-nórë ad Melkor tu Sauron Quenya³⁹

Akha gûm-ishi ashi gurum legendarium⁴⁰.

Thine obesity commodius viscus⁴¹ of recirculation,

His citadaer of refugee status from the UN.

Comes eternal light, brought for morningsong eternal.

The Progeny descript valueless cohabitation,

by the censors in Washington DC,

Potomac anthropotomy alogo sane πόταμος,

Ἀργοῦς μὴ διαπτάσθαι⁴² on a wing magisterial

As cuneiform: half-beast, half-man under the blue auxesis.

From muskets to drones polypriden tanks

that man was surrounded by a gaping void

Void of melody, void of family

suffered from the problem of his meaning

The word becomes sovereign, leaped by command.

One whole no longer lives at all.

Where the Citroën Fjord deposit blooms

red on sweaty faces here is no rock⁴³

εἴδομεν, οὐκ ἐξ ἑτέρων!⁴⁴ Sword cross saltire,

εἰ δὲ κυρήσαι δαίμων οὕτως,

θνητοῖσι θεοὺς ἐπιβάλλειν;⁴⁵

Unreal city,⁴⁶ There I will go with you!⁴⁷

Shamash:

You suspend from the heavens the circle of the lands

But it is Inanna that rules and overrules: Bilgamesh,

Who answers his peoples droit du seigneur⁴⁸

with epic quest for Enkidu

interweaving at wedding night for Μήδεια

Men are heroes of older myths.

Ashurbanipal alights on gentle winged slight.

Kiki es ga Bilgamesh Elle fremedon not,

wuldres welded woroldäre world without end,

geong Guma göde gewyrcean Grendel,⁴⁹

Trystan ut Isolde urfus faer ut ford.

Sheridan sceadugenga scëotend swaefone longgestreona ne⁵⁰

意外,意外, 意外.⁵¹

Byrd with him sheet white by sail φευξούμεθα.

Giant steps BDG 10 at the center of the infinite corridor,⁵²

Libraries, public, private, personal, estrangement -

I was dreamin' when wrote this so महाराज me if goes astray,⁵³

oh-oh-oh umpahdo ohoh da da doo doo,

ii IV V⁵⁴ glam core akkadû Yr Hen Ogledd Kom-brogīwey

Rhydderch Hael iii-ii-I ragtime spiel forshorten

by the influence of Y Gododdin विश्वेदेवाः oh.

Building 7 Building 7 Building 7⁵⁵

Step to love, and the breakdown into a kind of madness,

where the anamnestic decay hors du combats

Love with ever mindful Death in agape.⁵⁶

Echoing the plumes Liebestod erotic sensuality.

Of the long since forgotten modernistic facade hedonistic.

Ko-ko⁵⁷ clattering a sconce dewdrop rain,

Give birth to the place, instead of cloistered haute couture

Bairn to atheling betwixt carle between

Beowulf wæs bireme blæd wide sprang.

Wide of days, अग्निमीळे पुरोहितं यज्ञस्य देवं रत्वीजम⁵⁸

He who has seen everything has seen Bilgamesh.

Gish êribam ûl iddin Grendel came forth in the dead of night;

Was she Medea, to be transformed into zygote,

and stake an omnipotent plenipotentiary silence?

Paris loves lovers, when does it go to be born,

On fixed Thames, or flooded North Sea?

Μῆνιν ἀμφίεπον πολύτροπον Μέντορι.

Compressed the wisdom of learning never done,

Instead, a teacher misqualified numb with scattered sound.

Treated Βίβλος γενέσεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ for another tongue

Not understanding either, aither, or neither.

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος the smooth beginning

of a line, which hides the foulest rants,

trembling terrors βιβλίῳ τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ ἀρνίου.

For which we come, to which we are going,

Ever haunting the paragon of misbegotten blish.

And of and I I I and perchance to be written.

Of and and sou vide soa

Καὶ εἶδον οὐρανὸν καινὸν καὶ γῆν καινήν⁵⁹

Καὶ εἶδον οὐρανὸν καινὸν καὶ γῆν καινήν

Ἡ χάρις τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ µετὰ πάντων. ⁶⁰

A meta burning upon us all like Porky Pig Directors Cut.

I hope you like it-it-it.

ἐγὼ μελέα τε πόνων⁶¹, Dagger in my hand,

To turn, through which direct, so sublime,

towards sex and death in Wagner's vision.

Fear of caress, double backward and confused,

excoriates hodemhupward eviscerated conflagration,

trajectory as hyperbolic arabesques undertracing

Mayhem of a dram draft audacious impromptu

Chopinesque at the Dexatrim anonce.

Banality of Dachau rumble refound

with Proustian unknown slyness.

Nothing ventured nothing dystopian slathered.

Αἰαῖ, οὐρανὸν and let me slip into the Void

Where Miyamoto Musashi calls my Death

ἐξέτεινα τοῖσδ᾽ ἐναντίον⁶² corpse of corps de ballet cold.

With slip and slide bedazzlement.

Suicide Durkheim redux.

花樣年華.⁶³

Welcome to Jungle.⁶⁴

Romeo and Juliet never made waste to the world

producing no progeny to heir them out.

v

Shakespeare on the Lawn

It was a slake revolution of Odes Horace,

Collected by the cruelest month, breeding,

Agnomen, washers at the ford,

Elevan only, the Aesir were,

Celtiberian camps they came,

In the deep sequestered streams,

thunder, lightning, or in rain?⁶⁵

Cast not the castor finish spandrol,

Vomiting obsequious torrent famish,

I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.

You do impeach your modesty too much,

They that have power to hurt and will do none,

Indi, come orologia alcun figliuolo,

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ixnay itbit

Circshift spawn dependency tree,

Parallel deserialization span vector annotation

Equality of empty ranges err reorg.

Writerly jealousy spandex enlightenment.

Omnipassionate onomatopoeia omniscient omnivore,

Will the shakes comforts Beatrice in disguise of Violet.

Roll the dice, once, twice, thrice.

Will that woe into another's wheel,

That calls anonce in other's stance alone,

To prove by absence the undiscovered cavern,

Which creaks and groans the arrondie of Death

What sex upon idle flowers remonstrance unorgasmic

Do flow from need to unresponsive need

And yet turmoil to rot whence rotundity voice

No voice can aspire without a sound of orotundity.

For I am king and god and law.⁶⁶

Secret stand sephora sequence Slytherin soapstagram⁶⁷

Until the ur-movement arrest tempo atrot

Reminded that urticaria besotted challenge

Until the usury did synonym dot antonym forsake.

Count the lucre, count it twice, for the third,

doest fain on upon triv and quad.

Adding, multiply, power, till half an hour

Waste land when stabimobilism seamy squad.⁶⁸

Pantocracy symbolism in luscious nude,

A wishwell chronicled in Dalloway's viscous hall.⁶⁹

1 Horace Odes I.28

2 Homer, Iliad

3 Wong Kar Wai, 花樣年華

4 Verse consisting of a spondee, two or three choriambi, and an iamb.

5 Horace Carmina 1.16 “light arrows in contrast to heavy spears of Cnosos.”

6 Begin the Beguine

7 if Law then liquid

8 Solidarity socialism

9 Agnello, Bendetto Mantua Ambasdor in Venica, 1530-1556

10 Dante, Paradiso XXV shaped from 1-2

11 Nürnberbeger, Beer Hall

12 Taylor, Samuel Coleridger The Rime of the Ancient Mariner L. 2

13 Horace Ode XIV L. 18

14 Li Bai, Autumn Wind

15 Petrarch, Rime Sparse XIV.1

16 A pun on Virgil

17 Pattern of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (W Weak S Strong)

18 Dante, Paradiso XXXIII L.145

19 In the fine script, Ardelle Li poeticizes:

Punishment by Pandemic

Incarceration penitentiary unit

prestigious mansion labor

murderers’ employees

unpaid clemency

violated thwarted

confrontation verdicts assimilate

Think Tank

ambitions chattel language

circulate retaliation portions

nonessential functions

infected barracks hierarchy skeletons recovery.

20 So sue me

21 Ellison, Harlan ““Repent, Harlequin!” said the Ticktockman” and Moore, Alan Watchmen

22 “Kingdom of Heavens.”

23 The Triangle Fire

24 In Bagdad

25 F-117

26 A pun on Petrarch

27 Pun on CS Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

28

Devore quiet,

sings frog:

immense caress

since aquatium.

Still waiting,

lunar kingdom.

Steam whisper,

velvet tickles.

Mouth, can -

caprice can -

heavenly can.

Chamber boy,

never sleep.

29 June 4th Event Liù yuè sì rì

30 Berkowitz, David Richard

31 An under armored Hum-V

32 TS Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” L. 11

33 Styx, Paradise Theatre

34 von Schelling, Random Walks of a Particle

35 Atlantic Tropical Storm, 2005

36 Asimov, Isaac, “Mother Earth”

37 Police, I’ll be Watching You

38 Brinton, Crane

39 “Melkor and Sauron in Quenya”

40 "No life in coldness, in darkness”

41 A pun on Finnegans Wake L. 1

42 Euripides, Medea, L. 1

43 TS Eliot, “The Waste Land”, L. 322

44 Eurypedes, Medea, L. 654

45 Eurypedes, Medea, L. 1115

46 TS Eliot, “The Waste Land”, L. 60

47 Goethe, Mignon L. 21

48 “first night” a right of the lord to have sex on the wedding night. Bilgamesh had that right, though it is likely the medieval lords did not.

49 Beowolf L. 20

50 shadow-goer

51 Accident Yìwài

52 MIT

53 Prince, 1999

54 Jazz beat.

55 MIT

56 One kind of love in koine.

57 1947 rendition of Ko-ko, widely seen as the beginning of Bebop.

58 Rig Veda 1.1 “Om, I praise Agni who is the Purohita (Priest) of the Yagya"

59 Revelations 21:1

60 Revelations 22:21

61 Euripides, Medea L. 97

62 Euripides, Medea L. 1323

63 “The flowery years”, the Chinese title of In the Mood for Love.

64 Guns N' Roses, “Welcome To The Jungle”

65 Shakespeare, Macbeth L. 2

66 Shelley “Mask of Anarchy.”

67 J. K. Rowling, The house in Harry Potter

68 TS Eliot, “The Waste Land”

69 Woolf, Virginia