Leslie Scalapino
from The Forest is in the Euphrates River
The outside floor
completelyharmonious
peoples on the rose desertcruising Toyotas
break the delicate surface
so the rose huge floor goes
everywhere the rose floor of streets
with people
just the outside (word) is harmonious,
though it is
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Our insane maturity is – one is the outside as being, and one is ‘the outside is entirely rejected.’
Iago conflates these to one is only forced by the outside, one rejecting it therefore (which is
oneself) but being it as its convention only.
this is not bud. bud is(lineage)
unborn is there at once
a horizontal night.
If the ill mother can’t be cured there is either only ‘personal’ or only ‘being outside.’ And family
is not ‘personal.’ Outside the forest. Also. The sun goes down as one is walking, at dusk.once. recurring. first
drones
floating
are killing the insurgents who’re
everyone there
the only thing to be is the insurgentspeople cruising the rose desert surface is broken
by beside Toyota cruisers also
is rose black night also
black rose-sewage train so one’s by not from
roof sewage-forest