People's Park by Julia Vinograd, 1991

This is People's Park
where tattooed fighters planted rose tattoos
and roses grew
blood red.
It's not a peaceful place.
The vines are tangled with our nerves.
Grass untidy as a drunk's beard.
Trees grow shopping carts.
Bushes grow sleeping bags.
Lilies of the valley smoke cigarettes
they just bummed, but with such style.
Here are sunflowers that'll steal your backpack
when you're not looking,
daisies crooked as game booths at the circus
and violets sticking out
their impudent purple tongues.
Or is that us?
I don't know. It doesn't matter.
When people come to Berkeley
they always ask to see People's Park
and when I show it to them
they don't see it.
Next time
I'm not going to walk them a few blocks,
watch their faces and try to explain.
Instead, I'll show them my hands.
"Here's People's Park," I'll say.
"Here."

have we?

mexico city 10'

listening to..just lovely

Golden Bird 1919/20

Constantin Brâncusi
French, born Romania, 1876–1957

Mina Loy

Brancusi’s Golden Bird

The toy

become the aesthetic archetype

As if

some patient peasant God

had rubbed and rubbed

the Alpha and Omega

of Form

into a lump of metal

A naked orientation

unwinged unplumed

—the ultimate rhythm

has lopped the extremities

of crest and claw

from the nucleus of flight

The absolute act

of art

conformed to continent sculpture

—bare as the brow of Osiris—

this breast of revelation

an incandescent curve

licked by chromatic flames

in labyrinths of reflections

This gong

of polished hyperaesthesia

shrills with brass

as the aggressive light

strikes its significance

The immaculate

conception

of the inaudible bird

occurs

in gorgeous reticence . . .

1922

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a word

tired. watched a production of oliver twist this evening in a dark, cozy black box. otherwise, a line came to me in the car ride home . i see you like you see an index card. i can t recall the line now knew i should have pulled over and written it down.

i will not make any more boring art iwill not MAKe anyMorE borING ART i will Not Make Any more boring ARt i will not

snapshots contt.

snapshots cont.

1. patti smith+kids by annie leibovitz

2. kim gordon in performing/guzzling

3. louise bourgeois, maman

i will decompose this OnE

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cut off!