10 October 2024

Four Poems by Mark Young

a small gazetteer for harry k stammer

 

It is a bipolar re-

ordering, unencom-

 

passed by direction.

South is elsewhen —

 

places you came

from, been, are.

 

North is the point

you move towards.

 

Bosch's oranges,

dreaming giraffes.

 

 

 

re: verse

 

rage road

unseen sight

example shining

mail express

paper daily

charge static

card credit

merchant dream

stones rolling

pot chimney

fire open

cabin holiday

shave close

fight title

water open

pole south

chapter final

 

 

sequins / sequence

 

appear

 

fruit

of the

loom

 

the punched card

programmed

loom

the fruit

of

Joseph Marie Jacquard

 

who was

the apple of

Babbage's

eye

 

lum-

inary

for

Turing

 

enigma

 

 

Badiou’s Bad IOU Blues

                    aka A line from Alain Badiou

 

The word as notion. Love is.

Don't the moon look lonesome

shining through the trees? Who

does Badiou owe? Why does he

 

wish to pay them back? Noun as

an oddment, the minimal form of

communism. 33 words unscram-

bled from the letters in NOTION.

 

Sent for you yesterday & here you

come today. What is the reason

for his ill will & when did it come

about? Evil is the interruption of

 

a truth. Can it be comprehended

through listening &/or reading?

How will he achieve his desires?

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