Wednesday, November 22, 2006

A guy at a party showed me his dream machine. It was actually a flicker film - wasn't like what Burroughs made. My brother launched a pingpong ball in Burroughs' drink. He got angry, creaked. Only call the police if you have to. Nick Call-the-Police looks for Pendleton shirts. A man came out of the forest near Burroughs' house and knocked on the door.
"Do you have a daughter? May I take your daughter out on a date?"

I went on a date.

"Will you look at me?" Burroughs said. He was old at this time - his daughter would have been old enough to be someone else's mother. He did not call the police. You do whatever you have to do before you call the police. You send the man over to the neighbour's house. The neighbour is a judge. He has a 15 yo daughter.

Burroughs cannot find someone who knows how to repair his swordcane. He reads a book by Mario Puzo. I am making a piece of art for a rich lady. She thinks it is a big brass tube.

The guy at the party showed me his flicker film. As I knelt in front of a small tv and loaded the disk into the dvd player, he draped a sheet over me. He turned off the lights and left me in the dark. I started the disk and closed my eyes. First, I saw blacks, greens, and reds. Yes, my childhood was punctuated by red. Then I saw black and pink. Pink. Finally, I saw tan. One girl claimed to have seen people wearing suits and skating. Another girl made cupcakes topped with plastic dinosaurs. he mother is British and works at a library. She says "diploughdoughcuss." A man with a foot fetish asks if the library has any books about feet.
No.
Will you show me your feet?
Right!

He took his underwear, hanging from the drawer.
He took his underwear hanging from the drawer.

With someone who knows sign language. I am fascinated by sign language and small black hairs. North American Indian Sign Language. Are you watching my story? Why do you simply listen?

A nestled structure.

He hit his mother backing out of the driveway.
He hit his mother, backing out of the driveway.

He hangs from the rafters.
He hung from the rafters.
He hanged from the rafters.

Burroughs has a photo memory, but he forgets he's holding his coffee mug. Ginsberg visits Burroughs because Lawrence is so cheap.

There was another guy at the party who was building a dream machine. He asks me if I feel my eyes moving in my head. He went into the forest at night by himself. He blasted the Stabat Mater. "Just do it with some beers in your belly and you won't be nervous."

"You are amazing."
"You are failing."
"May I go to the bathroom."
"A really impressive guy."

Hello. This is your mentor. You are in the Wheat Belt. I knew I wanted to be immortal at 18. I wanted to be fully formed as an artist, so I did not go to readings. I did not read. I did not go to hear Miles Davis.

Hit for the eye, the nose, the chin, the throat, and the "stomach." Keep cool, keep cool, keep cool.

The balloon which disappeared contained an unusual gas.
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balloon
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disappear
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gas

The key which opens the vault disappeared yesterday.
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key
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open
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vault
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yesterday

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