phd cut-up; a found poem

born the son of a barge man, “I was six
for my first dead bodies”. active in a theatre
of war during 1939-45. the concept of the
parasite – Like a maggot in a turd he hid within
the word. Neil Young talks about Pocahontas. X
feels sad = X feels something, the history of corn
or gold-minding. I am interested in his opinion on
rationality. With my poor English it’s hard to
describe what I am up to: And now I am eager to
prove THAT and show it in detail! Thank you!
Orderly, dispassionate, and rational Europeans.

non-euclidean

ebenezer the ghanaian is contacting the radio broadcaster
to say, ‘there’s too much on islam’, & ‘what else is there?’
then, as though a direct response, a story about a metal-head
monk who praises jesus in front of iron maiden fans in rome.
now, if you still need proof, try measuring the angles of
furniture built into a triangular room—try to prove that there
are angles, firstly, & then try to fit them into a number. & now
say, for example, that there is a need for these three numbers to
be split again or rejoined: what I mean is, if you boil an egg you
can’t unboil it, so who’s to say that a number can be subtracted
or added with no undoable effects? I’m interested to see if you
could find an angle, or if there are numbers, or eggs, or islam.

how many fingers am i holding up?

i’m typing this with dully blurred eyes.
maybe it’s better this way, not to focus
like blades on words and their form and
the way they knit tightly into permanent
positions. this way, they are light and grey,
shifting imperceptibly and making sluttish
geometry.

(i don’t know whether i’d consider last night’s
dinner a real dinner. it’s a classification that
troubles me greatly.)