Many Musics, first series ***Complete***

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This afternoon added Many Musics, xiii, Zurich Dada, I was reading about Dadaist art and had the chance to see a Dada retrospective in Washington DC, it brought a spate of poems out...

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This afternoon added Many Musics, xiv, Berlin Dada, I struggled with whether to include this run of poems in the Many Musics series, but decided that they were indeed kin and belonged...I've let this series be looser at times, run where it will, then other moments I want there to be a web here and discernable paths from one song to others...I suppose this is a rhythm in itself...

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this morning added Many Musics, xv, Hannover Dada, this one reminds me of some years when I was so deep into reading the Latin American poets, how they held firm their footing and yet did fuck nutty things with their words, I read them awed what possible, and the translation factor stranged me more, and I think I've kept them around since, though of course Hannover is in Germany and some of the Euro poets are gone daddy too...

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this afternoon added Many Musics, xvi, Cologne Dada, not sure wherefrom but certainly a sense of unease...

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tonight added Many Musics, xvii, New York Dada, maybe I was thinking of Marcel Duchamp offering up a toilet as Art, thinking of how even the pretty common thoughts don't always run all the way, but why can't flesh be fun, why a cage ever, why something to fight to release, must be? Must be?

[judih]

i somehow missed the entire dada detail, and so what a marvellous dada it's been for me.

i do love NY
have to say

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tonight added Many Musics, xviii, Le Ballet Mecanique, inspired by listening to a performance of George Antheil's 1924 Dadaist composition of that name for three xylophones, four bass drums, tam-tam, two pianists, seven or so electric bells, a siren, three airplane propellors and sixteen synchronized player pianos, all put together at the DC museum I was at, pretty amazing...

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this morning added Many Musics, xix, Another Torrent, seems mostly about what might have been, I'm sure we all grapple with that one sometimes....

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tonight added Many Musics, xx, "New Prayer," I suppose this one is obvious but it came out fast and hard, I caught it, held, something to show for that hour's hard struggle...I'm not sure I'm alone in thinking as I do...

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this afternoon added Many Musics, xxi, "Much Sentiment," nothing goes away and nothing returns, pretty much how I see the big picture of human relations and lives...

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this afternoon, added Many Musics, xxii, "Siege," dark, pushing, being pushed, pushing back again, the pretty perist against the ugly shut down...

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this afternoon, added Many Musics, xxiii, "Simple," a bit of paranoia, I think, maybe something else in it too, rebellion, rebellion and paranoia...what a combo...

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this afternoon added Many Musics, xxiv, "Bed's Silence," a love poem of sorts, less romantic than some try at true...

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This afternoon added Many Musics, xxv, "Spark," one of those poems with questions and few answers, a hunch or two, but not enough to sum it all up...

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tonight added Many Musics, xxvi, Wedge, another love poem of sorts, i was remembering a moment now years ago now hundreds of miles away when KD and I stood kissing in a rainy hotel parking lot, barely knew each other, high with this mystery, its chances gesturing with hope onward, but such moments burn the heart's skin perpetually...