-COLCTED WRITING 1
Just me me me
A sree in smow will probably go
repeatedly unnoticed
Instead Tse just me me me
cand noting’ there etren us
The frst German F who spoke to me true
‘ea in English trambaton
led but 0 ew
He sad tots of things lowercase {can’t remember
sand fr the sake of going capital
Strid bard 10 last December
Little laid there and complained her brain was
breaking. Always befor ic was her so-called
heart but ehat at lease had caused great bursts
of energy, “Brin breaking isa physical handicap
= I mean broken brain ie’ physiological
‘hing 1 can fel ie malfunctioning or misficing
noe fring.
Tes torlly acked up (you hear tears hers) I swear
{Tam so stupid and I used eo be smast I am so
stupid [can't remember anything! Not even
‘What matters to me most, said I. ‘Come ON!" said
‘he. Total sobbing ensued. There were tissues
and talk of Nietzsche. The Use Abn of Hitory
‘hich Tread at least three times and was using as
he cenral inspiration for a litle something
wanted to write for you about forgetting. it
Stars off and there ate these cows and he's tcying
{9 up this notion of non-historicty of having
no sense of pastor future and so he describes
these bovines and how they chew theie cud and
fare quote unquote happy as they forget one
‘moment and then the next. Ie'scotally youthful
and idealistic i's like the greatest ~s0 enyway he
describes ~ three types of historicity and ies
$e fucked up i1 could remember three cigs it
should be these and I don't and ... He says
‘Ifyou don’ remember ie Nietzsche's faule noe
Yours, iit was good or worth remembering you'd
remember." No way, ic was worth remembering
but I'm no good, I cannoe rctain the information,
T think Ihave a use for this business of forgetting,
‘an angle on it, a reason for it, but obviously Fm,
an ioe because I don'r remember an definitely
ddon'e feel the happiness of the cows and that’s
the part of forgetting ehae was so attractive at
the oursee!
Forgetting something
and saying quite amatber
sed baving no words
Seried for ber merber
Mano, she leaded, at last won't yon kil me
Or buat me till senseless
or till ease again thrills me
‘The brain aflicted with Attention Deficit
Disordet (A.D.D.) likes co linger an liebe because
because because because because — becanse
ofthe wonderful things it does. Ici the only
thing i knows ~ che basis of pious illusions —
sading the same thing over end over but
‘ot reading ic really, i mean tally really reading,
just consuming and never knowing anything
‘ew: Ie alli knows this uncontrollable i, it's all
this uncontrollable i knows...iis serious here
this i knows ao thing. Oh no to go outside of
Self delight and vague impeesions and crippled
analysis, not easy, not easy for i a all,
cannes think with ibis dseare
0 felling nighely to my knees,
but praying not
ist fal of curse
sand stupid emp rhyming vere “
say poor me and sh my god
‘my brain reuires a lightning rod
cand if 8 srack me yo eal se
‘ow things would flow more easily
‘ike word: and names
‘or dates and places
bardly have traable with people's faces)
To think and spk clear and eomcie
wba perfect bis, it'd bes nice
‘The brain ficted with A.D D. likes to linger on
love because because because because because.
its cern remembering gescue, i wants 10 sy
‘remembering exercise but realizes that has too
healthy a connotation, i wants to doa lot of thingsso do with whar they don't really have
fon account of noc being able co fully
thae exist outside of its infection,
Seflection. i doesn’t get so far i has already
che topic was love, Fora brief moment
sehich fle like being touched was
“eb buc wich a capital |. Love, asi was saying,
in remembering geseure, which isn't
elly, better or correct, rather, to say love
fa certain remembering gesture that is
Jike fingets to a chin or through some
OF like shoppers to a store —a habit ehat
or hateless or both, depending on the
‘of the harmer or nonharmer, depending on
scare even, maybe, i mean the state with @
Seal 5, but i can’t touch chat topic. i has «0 stay
from capitalized words. Good good because i
seriteen name or title) is actually derived
this ertor in capitalization due to American
‘on a German keyboard (where the sife key
be isa lesser-than sign, which looks like
“wacever comes before che subject i less chan i
‘ecaning iis greater than such and such oF so and
“s2). But chat’ t00 involved, i’ really all in
ihe way i looks; less than, with no capital, and
fot great at all. Good. Good god my iis no good.
“good maybe only in the way of possibilities,
ss in ‘sounds good, $0000, s0 much for i and its
selacion to capital
“The research says an A.D.D.-eris likely to be
creative because in spite of his general condition
‘of lack of focus he is capable of brief spells of
lucidity and concentration.
‘The weight ofthe wow
never did know
Ibu it pushed down the branches outside
They droap but arn’ falling
thir resistance appalling!
(0b 1 with hat the forest wold die
“The research says chat an A.D.D.-er often speaks
impulsively with lieele consideration for context
fr consequence, Wieveil kostec diese oder
that comment? That's whae i never even stops
to consider, kost, koneext or Konsequence.
P sai tof TM call you tventy
ase yore Hk a toenty buck whore
‘yore smarter ad all than a booker
It Ureally can’ afford shat mach more
“Twenty, why cheap?
Lm unfit to discs my eomonic 6 social satis
‘inily guide me to your sec apparatas
1 fas 9 goad to kre te sore
‘went for tenty, chy ask for mare?
‘At a dollar por year, i's all mine forme
1 fall ease the economy
“Toenty isa reduction and a projesion
shes to times toni the worng direction
When I mer n0ony
never once did I consider
the notion of payment
would always stay with ber
Shes cheap itt fact
and ete, ce was
‘bu wo one will love ber
unless for cause
But you can’ fel sorry
‘She os wba she's doing
ve bard that she's good
cand well-worth puraaing
Bus she cries everynight
till a quarter past wine
‘ose she os it ain't trae
Sede Fras awn shin sein
‘Aber mein, aber nein
Du birt mich nich screen
ih bin sch, ic bin cbr
‘Shots totally lying!
(Ad, du dks das ist wabr ?
‘Du bist boveand schlech.
‘Ach, br plight is 00 common
‘Stet som die of melee!
‘She may say she's pretty
Is that's not enough
bis poor wayusard child
lacks the nourishing staf i
SUSE ME MEE 0856 COULECTED warns m
Well 1 by ber our
any day ofthe wok
and for that should get
atleast just a pak
st my bosom
or bottom
theyre bth 35 inches
Will that's way to small
for the boys in the trenches
Afford it mot (can) you say
Unaffordable this way, ok?
Accot me not can't you say noah?
Nie ader Nein, say both taday
Accrae Acorue is what you do
can't afford the cat of you
A coursty love could grow anew
ink nas the cos of what you do
cursed dit are nt nate wed
‘bat interest in your love bestowed
4s money fr my Banat heart
«4 piggish bank, ot dollar smart
Conflate conflate, 1 must myself recascitate
‘The eradication ofthe F and or [factor is supposed
‘0 allow for me to behold myself to myself and
or see myself being seen of held
A person cannot bear this despair fora lifetime...
‘hae’ litte variation on what I heard someone
say the other day...1 wouldn't wane my kids
to have co suffer as I have, that’s what he said,
Drobably alot of people say that bue maybe
4 lot of people arc talking about suffering with
finances, or prejudice or political injustice...but
he's talking here, 'm ealking here, bout just
Plain day to day self-loathing. Suffering Suffering
‘We think is bad and one second of objectivity
‘reveals is not s0 bad, but SUBJECTIVITY
‘pow that tells a different story. That is why love
is such a good antidote because there is some
objectivity, subjectively speaking...chac takes a
load off the subjectively disadvantaged subject.
Ts been feeling sory for iself all its life. Mostly
because Is ugly...and ifnoe exactly ugly, jase
‘not exactly preety. Now chis I doesn’t want to be
round people even though I's want o be around
people, because Is rather be preety around
People than be ugly around peope...and being
around people most ofthe time I's feeling ugly
and if nor ugly thea not exactly peeey...and
‘nor exactly being bue thinking about being...
and chinking that being, ain just being, is the
‘optimum stae...whereas thinking about being is
8 way of aoe being anything but a thinker of
What Lis noe. Mostly ics the shape | imagines
its making...a shape with surfaces both of which,
surface and shape, are muddy and istegular.
sither there's a film of fileh over the sueface or a
littke excess shape...or there's an ok shape with
4 cleaned up surface which loses i's shape causing
the surface to distore after the loss.
How docs an ok shape change, or lose, so that i is
‘or ok...I'm not sue,
People are sick and dying. and Iis sick and noe
dying and ot even sick, asin cellulrly sick, just
sick a in wholeularly.
Conflason isthe tack (at hand)
Condensing, larving
venlie a man
‘inst person fir third person arks
1s tbs tbe omy light in whic you banque?
Soy to say itis this way
sand mentered critics I dn’ display
1 take to task the tenble at hand
of ery man and woman and thir land =~
only show me, me and mine
sand how they wallow quite supine
jin ansloed problems ofthe heart
‘ut from this should 1 san depart?
sand take upon a larger daty
perance approach the literary?
But bjore that lap
L mast confess
the work | flan is jast a mess
sand fx it om (nos na!) or never
are words Utell myelf forever
aca Us and tern at night
cand bore you with my appetite
amy work's ot done
my bra’ ot right
‘the page is blank and ips are tigheR
Dear me is all sere soma 1 be
swith no Lack of inarvculate poetry
ists and confessions
reveal an intention
dus mot bow 00 relive a banal obsession
relax, the ebymes will bold tight
any green meandering insight
which may or may not produce
«a plan with which t reintroduce
4 wosnded subject
sa crippled ain
and Thought or thoughts which evar, amspectactlar
whenever ‘derail its own train
And 0 ‘Te foreign obj looms slow
Demeas a curvacsos borizon which be cannes know
in the forging zome
ona logics ine
drawn eve inward ~
the spiral of ‘mine
and mining what’ mine
isa womanich task
1 write out ofa circle
is 0 Utne 1 ask
with ach trite petition
is ic pusible ra signal
the sck-suveres in crit
ofthe rpeatd initial
Ob sis spiraling mess
will amravel but slow
just cut and glue lines together
fol fr sow
‘Ae sboing or showy
“Emre trade
I can do it for me
bt i this for bi
B
Dear Me! — 1 shoulda's have said it
Am acumnlation of testers
«a now! com make
a newness aspiring
10 gi and to take
if omy nat omce it comgeas in the middle
the sentees Lang
the thoughts, slightly lle
dot little or nota bigmes develops
cand winks at the author
whose ope it enedopes
and enloed or discord
the contents delight us
return for a viss
thon dip just thie wt,
Ifa equals b
sand then b says 10 me
stop refrting toa
‘who you rally mean me
‘thea L say toa 0 1b or whomever
ve compleely lest rack
Pm not all that clever
Then a rays
and says
«a if they wore singing
were one inthe same
we avi’ deciving
Wall fre yom say ome thing
and then its another
or a sinple equation
yore rally a batho
‘The cleaver she lgic
the border totter
the mecning which binds
these 1 laters sogesber
Research also says that the A.D-D. afflicted person
often finds respite in focusing concentration
fn a love object. Ob research said ic becer chan
ican, Should it read ruserch she, or research
demonstrates iostead of research says ot rusarch states
~ can research say, maybe i likes for research to
say instead of state, show or demomrate. Often
‘cimes i likes alot of things that juse don'e sound
right. i likes the way i brings attention to itself
«00, this kind of attention getting just isn’t right,
research says, or will one day, because ’s A.D.D.
is here to stay.
If A.D.D is here 10 stay
TUL ry 10 tart anew today
cand since Ucan' go out 10 play
1 sew bere in my disarray
Although my brain so broken be
still you are you and Tans me
and sorry 1 cannot form the we
usr ME 07(088 COLLECTED Waring 1
to whom Lowe tht misery
No 1 won't send any of this
(8 it ir ted to that afd Mss
‘and that isthe anchor that olds ms still
‘me, my words andthe time 1 hill
For "Bliss was this! but thie is wot
«a bliss that grows or gees a lt
sand in its neufound gravity
is just its and sare at me
1S nt inside oF up wnder
rarely a word, a painful Blunder
Tsai it nee and that war enough
no let's ove on £0 ore sensible staff
Goodbye. Hello. You say Goodbye and I say
‘hello — and do you know where hell is?
Hall is in hello. Oh not Oh know, and that brow
is with a K as in 0b mo, I dow’ know oF what
DOI knw? A question asked a hundred times
4 day, hey you, I go, you non-knower mega
hiello-sayer, hey you (that’s me) [ ask, what dp
ou brow wail casual waddayabnow mutates into
the most horrific instrument of masochistic
‘orture, I muse stop calking to myself before ie's
‘00 late. So, Hi, I'll sy, hoping there's no
‘trace of hell there and my arm will seetch out
and well se that’s my handae the end of
it attempting co perform a generic gesture of
affection: A touch isn’t much!
Confined t0 sou through lighs and wire
‘the distance lends to tit desire
thtration bolds the 2d promise
that words on pages can transcend xs
A book is nce
or is blood beser?
‘it rushes through must evry letter
‘but eters booked may stop the beart
‘that purps men's boa 0 every part
cand bleadless parts area sre sign
‘that somone’ beart will nt be mine!
Angry I lok at me looking at my melancholy
sce i's just the same as before
‘next utterance will end with ‘man’
sand more ges fr the times I Ui, the words 1 read,
‘he damned rspite
those promises unpromited, promivad
0 quench a thirst that came down on xs
But yon drank a differen drink, your glass balf
empty atthe sink —
Td Ue 10 know just what itis
hat yon bave sipped and whet U did
1d ike to nw Ud lke to bow
Pd lke to now Vd lie o brow
Some poems as you bow
‘ead painful and slow
‘ut they flirt with war's wickdly fast
‘the brain lle that wiggle
sommes when a giggle
equates what is felt with a fact
conetng is copious thing
ip a bay from it wing
«4 wing from the bady is mor usual staff
ther way re pluck i rough
cand so batterfly's mow butter
stupidly series to flutter
‘Ici all over with me’ wrote Goethe's young,
Werther. Goethe's Young sorrowful Werther sti
cannor beat it any longer. Today I sat by
(Charlotte. She was playing on her piano all
Sorts of melodies. With such expression!
‘Tears came inco my eyes. I leaned down, and
saw Charlocce’s wedding ting; my tears
fell — and as if by chance she began to play
that favorite cune, chat sweet ait which has so
‘often enchanted me. I fele comfort fom &
‘recollection of the pas, of those bygone days
when [ heard that melody; and then I recalled
all ehe sorrows and che disappointments
which I had since endured ~ and then —
{walked up and down the room, my heart
choked with painful emotions. Finally, starting
toward her with an impatient outburst, 1
Said, “For Heaven's sake, stop i!" She stopped
playing, and looked at me. Then she said,
‘with a smile which went deep to my heart:
“Werther, you ae il; your dearest food
is distasteful 0 you. Go, I ask you, and ery
10 calm yourself:
And so young Werther tre himself away and
said to himself "God, Thou seest my torments, and
wilt end them!And my Usaye 20 itl
Wold hw mersy-msurder me
sed moe going verily
10.4 place bot with beacon
ald with bellic bubs even
Ts sill, Diseased isl into corr, to pare its,
appease itself
While lying om top ofa tall ching Below me
Tf its complaint
it seems eager to thine me
‘ur ‘thro is tw strng
cand ‘it is, well, wrong
4 there sme way t8 determine
sebetbor oF wae 1 belong —
ce wate om the wait
ofthis serous blonde
ance ead
Werther’ srw
sell play ot tomorrow
ou op of a ill with ome gruss
on what's eon saddir
is lcerature's Mader
am aly leah in your pants
1 id's dit ays dards poet
teh’ eager 0 write off romance
eben your ace lets yom dow
and grammar can’ be found
thats when you with
Charlotte dare smacb your bead with a pipe
bus pernaps ome Last kiss before all of tit
ends me wen in the facet my grave
I won't complain ofthat band in my death
if i's avoking my suffering brain
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