more from elegy [elegy on a toy piano] huh: dedicated in memory of Kenneth Koch ah fitting it will join the slim silver train kenneth koch book on the shelf here one of just a few poetry slim books "Birds don't sing, they explain. /Only people sing."

Learn By Doing
p40
One walking a lobster on a leash.
One who knew the function of 14 different forks.
Something there is that does not love sth there is in nature
a constructor of roller coasters. huh. railroads, love for that? (a vacuum.)
When Lung Zu looked at the wall, he saw no wall. mm.
When Po Chu walked east, she also walked west. sure. and for a he, a she.
..
An outbreak of meaning in the reading group.
The one letting the doctor diagnose her only a room away. the one? is this a thing, a trope? mc wrote "the one on the platform watches. the one on the train .." or did I? computer lab sjca. young woman teacher "we can't play all the time" to her son says to me "not sure if you are being -what?- or incredibly generous" about my writing. I took to mean about my not explaining. so if not generous maybe the word is opaque.
Only only only only a room away.
..
You write like you don't know the meaning of a single word.
Singed word. no, you like me.
spam oh so the robot turns into a bug. and skitters off. we pledge.
You can't be part of the solution if you're not mixed up.
it's already too much. too. or,
a little goes such a long way.

sylvia pl: far away as health.

what kind of life could one make of it? the one who. me, not me.


Facet p9
I can't make it any clearer than that
and stay drunk. stop. enough. like me. A crash course
in the afterlife..
It worries me I could could no longer care
or only in a detached way like a monk
for a scorpion.

could not care.

Original Monkey p.7
I'm working on my vanishing point.
I'm practicing my zenith.

Interview p53
..he was unflaying.. right.

the phrases the voices.