Like Bismuth When I Enter
Playlist by Nightboat BooksLike Bismuth When I Enter is an urgent undoing of sense and syntax, an epistemology of disruption, a move toward a lawlessness of language. Surrealistic or post-surrealistic, fast-paced, not quite humorous, not quite tragic, fully felt and full of oddly affective new imageries and juxtapositions, the book invites the reader to reread past, present, and future micro and macro worlds differently, disparately, and spontaneously. - Jason Magabo Perez, from an interview in Ploughshares
THE NEW DESNOS
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Excerpt from THE SALIVATION ACTOR
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Shallow mothered beans, across the sinister tangerine blood ball, scoops a jealous reservoir breathing hole. For you to be healthy in the plain, for great song gel killing, for umbrella graves that boost themselves over floods. A fallacy shown to divers. One fig from the flagrant craft. Exploratory genocide forgery capsule, romantically sealed in the skatepark from hell, or coagulation meddles with its wings. Superb ponies reduce themselves to an email address.
In a federal diagram choker, headgear responds, as a pamphlet of death’s duty, as a cage where assault is unrehearsed. Consider the other parcels of sodomy. Consider stylistic panic from a merganser’s pole. Consider the delicate floor flame. How it walks within the bells and spheres already indicated. Who propels a foolish game of unfurthering the yellow stationary eventual.
Beryl blue leaf, quotidian quiz, lift the rain of Kansas from a human purse. Repeat the teal skies like that. Osmotic replevin of the grey shine, dissonance in the real trials of turpitude. Cash and indecent plant photography. Natural plight of the scales in mourning.
Excerpt from GOD WAVE
[...] demand does not look to end catalogue chemistry doing surprising reconnaissance transparent & at certain seaside distance remaining plasticity & conscience we called them combinations keepsakes in expertise volume & their silver wolves are central to extend its play perfectly honed how death of consciousness is thought also & one with irrevocable fragments drawn out the only thing of silent solitaries the way to death by means of work within one’s own I do not know the internal constitution of other men or even of thine whom I now address the subtitular epitome of divine relenting the restless list that begins with the makers the claim to electricity genealogy towards what one considers magnified imbalance the thought becomes a thought not the name of thought or the moment of an ethereal wave what is using the still mind still in its creation the still conclusion of thought in stilted speaking states of an atavistic mind nervously to cooperate etcetera mimicry of itself through cervantes to reincarnate something remembering everything it resembled without knowing anything & then it breaks one day & totality all over again process & trace & shadow & all the other parts it has a beginning that becomes every art & its placement in the world of things become art to say money is another concept behind the previous sublime morning paper of a rectangular dwelling symptoms of incomplete attrition the attack on day then night refusal to say the garden the poet is the same sad & withered streak of poison in each green movement the self-contained face of drugs going to speak in a man’s place revering eagles of imitation the capable & their ways composure in the smallest car seeming to other people a darker sorter seasonal looming & women opposite the universe blakean monogamy in space time show human ok blooming of geometric years constitutes you you simple binary capital host & guess about the others then nothing in vain I on fire at times believe & disbelieve your logo your need to seethe in crystal flats or masturbating to grieve the human patiently like up next is a weekend of the week your ticketed sun filtering & withdrawn to distinguish what the coming of the luxury of definition the populous harvest of smiles I have come to sleep & destroy the sleeping I own the gun & the slogan sectio aurea bread playing for money & I gamble younglings saying seriously spitting in the urns of gravel the entire seduction of zero & who sings & thinks he is a mortal temperature is not trust abandoning banks calmly the situation the always game energy in the direction of the situation it’s like living with paint & panic appearance began as a thursday began as a systematic capacity as energetic summer alerts & that is that as opaque body at full-tilt was parallax waves to worship to feel the nether & say favoritism I will trip should a circus think of possibility of the verge & dreamful commercialism latent spoliation of magic to ossify babies born around the sun your blood goes up & down tomorrow should seek out the world of the sun with utter ambition to season the luck blade our stirring stirs through mammal laboring through sleep through verbs style was girls who turned death’s crux into their eggshell original & open with arced events only in major cooperative deeply fortuitous blue as the glass weakened light within the home they kept saying this was up & coming or that that was & is soon to be margins of history like who loves her & stirs to change the boring life she let leave shows the strangled single self anonymously to have fun in the cities of tentative enervation there wasn’t a day without gauze whiter gauze evinced at beachside or some confusion eponymous reduction of time in a coordinated response being bergsonian toward the full motion of seething found pinkly being there within arrangements of shadow shadows arranging a wheel of blood or fiction mouth from word evidenced & unwhole an I the purity of money in a faceless basket dinner & disease a word to arrest the average lottery & locus of the year the coeval monuments blacken everything the ear the featured curse of cause a renaissance & the actual moment of numbers incapacitated substance believing the musical rose like coming & making more a sense of noise creeping closer to gods than a god fear arose the autumn arose a fear of her diamond shape in a minute cause of self became a livid fascination for possibly several courage it takes of reviewable life having version & constitution thereof creation in you & creation within to seeable & foreseeable is what I as I would normally confer upon the guests of my life ending universes like fucking ascertainment preconception what do they say to explain & what have I really done besides nothing [...]
LIKE BISMUTH WHEN I ENTER
flexure thunder mommy precious stretched cow wing the mind glandular is not a particular is not a gust or fountain of youth Manhattan has refrained from the morose Eucharist of precedence annihilation and knowing hoarding the rhymes of beyond self we say gladness is a god-thing we say maddening love we say constructed goose or Memphitic pain of a Rothko of Being pouring coffee methods into my youth and me to write the zippery light of style that never wavers the spring looks the cubic planning its peak and defining diamond like strictly in the month of May through golden frontal lobe indigenous luckily I said I love the beach because you know geographically I saw myself unchallenged by loneliness loving mostly the ceiling or strategy which won’t go away like one beautiful solemn siren this picked me out of the fantasy trees this huge distillery smile the blade that brings the eyes and all the octagonal wares that terrorize winter my god this is lubricious and symbolizing weird fire but still nothing knock out the snowy butt of daylight like a whistling I hear when there are statues of you to uncover never confiding in anyone ever again but still like a scalpel of course everything that is marked by it is Martian and all along the love lines those who don’t know remain rivered even now even in the admirable Las Vegas of all situations the big blue verb the long Iraqi risk feathers taken away from the hours of the oughts of agency and listening to the bribery of the bribery school we are pitched from the throne of beauty illegal fear and gothic dust do I have an excuse a Lazy Susan of sleepers but I am asleep and beauty unlocks a chimaerical levy a shadow of the form of a Diplodocus:
finger snowman key to flow ghettoish load of stars text wise pantomime hold nine satellite beast seat nonchalant olive oil true to Dusseldorf Pyrex villainy slaughter sandwich flailing storm trim fire vine jack-o-lantern of a thousand silence nihilist slide cigarette timber flash bags troubadour vest phonebook labor soil nasal cream good shit vellum profits under eagles sidewinding killer birth blang change when it went Seagram’s comet stint:
a mind more distinct than the copies of vicarious selves fuck the world and this bullshit:
oh you want a new bandana a havoc slogan which your prenatal natives can wash aboard a scar: well this is it: