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3/29/2014

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               1.   I decided to store it in half-pint wide-mouth Mason jars in the corner of my garage.
 
               2.  With the new technology, it will someday be more than just waste.

               3.  This I decided.

               4.  Golden hair, I cd materialize it into hair, spin it like wool.

               5.  That spinning plan fell through.

               6.  And, because I’m a starving striker living in downtown in this postmodern-department-store age (whose work is rarely understood & that I maintain to blame on you WallMart) I thought I cd make a few bucks on the side with the picket on & all.  

               7.  A drink? the lone bowler called X asked.

               8.  I had never seen X up close before.

               9.  Smelled like marble dipped in blue shit syrup & brandy & trash.

             10.  Certainly, I sd.

             11.  On the house I sd, my first motherfucking customer.

             12.  Tastes like apple cider with a bite sd to me later in a handwritten letter written on decent stationary.

             13.  Initially, I found it difficult to fill single half-pint wide-mouth Mason jars completely during one sitting.

             14.  I solved this problem by drinking more water & tons of coffee.

             15.  To quench the thirst.

             16.  Possibly, I thought, I cd churn it into butter.

             17.  Butterbutterbutterbutterbutterurinebutterbutterbutterbutterbutter.

             18.  Perhaps queso? Of course.

             19.  Yesterday, & day before that, my comrades collected Mason jars of it.

             20.  They were going jellyfish hunting on the open seas.

             21.  As I filled number twenty-one, I figured I cd do something else productive while bottling half-pint wide-mouth Mason jars.

             22.  I cd construct tree diagrams of sentences using Chomsky’s formulae for generative grammar with my free hand.

             23.  The lone bowler X returned one day enquiring of that letter.

             24.  Sd I received it.

             25.  Shook my hand, asked for a hug, offered thanks.

             26.  The stench of breath, reminiscent of cooked cabbage & old bus seats.

             27.  Pushed away & gave another half-pint wide-mouth Mason jar on the house.

             28.  Sd my latest plans (see16-18).

             29.  Essentially, the problem with it into wool is that it slips through the fingers.

             30.  The half-pint wide-mouth Mason jars stacked in the corner of my garage nearest the wheelbarrow & workbenches.  

             31.  My friend Francine, who is an amateur body builder, drinks it as an energy supplement.

             32.  She says it tastes like grape juice with a punch.

             33.  She can lift more than three-hundred pounds over her head with it in her system.

             34.  My neighbor, a man from P—, asked me for a clean half-pint wide-mouth Mason jar to store his preserves.

             35.  I sd no sale.

             36.  I told her buy a jar then wash it out.

             37.  He did.

             38.  Francine told me I cd probably use it to create my work & worth.

             39.  “You cd splash it onto a canvas, or whatever the hell you do.”

             40.  I told her it’s been done.

             41.  The forty-first jar, from what I understand, is always the most difficult jar to fill.

             42.  I was diagramming a sentence this morning & I forgot what a prepositional phrase (PP) separates into.

             43.  Then I remembered: a preposition & a noun phrase (NP). 

             44.  Some nice children from the neighborhood stopped by to show their support.

             45.  “Fucker.”

             46.  “Shit face.”

             47.  “You sick motherfucker.”

             48.  They still purchased six half-pint wide-mouth Mason jars for their nice families.

             49.  One can really sense the redeeming coolness of the half-pint wide-mouth Mason jar glass.

             50.  Jar number fifty looked more red than usual.

             51.  Too much cabbage & not enough spinach.

             52.  My work/art was really coming along.

             53.  I don’t create on behalf of science or to attain celebrity status. 

             54.  The challenge, like that of filling each half-pint wide-mouth Mason jar to the brim, is what keeps me striving for innovation.

             55.  The thought occurred to me that it might do more than quench the world’s thirst (see 15).

             56.  The political implications of it far exceed those of nuclear warheads.

             57.  The world’s tracts might unite & form a more perfect, cohesive social existence.

             58.  I also considered the literary ramifications (see 63).

             59.  Later that man from P— (see 37) told me it tasted like scrambled eggs.

             60.  I told him my plans for queso (see 16-18, 28).

             61.  He asked if I had ever thought about converting it into fabric.

             62.  I told him yes, remorsefully.

             63.  It really envelops everything in a network. 

             64.  A bitter wind made its way into my garage as I filled half-pint wide-mouth Mason jar number sixty-four.

             65.  As I filled number sixty-five, I considered the literary once more (see 63).

             66.  I asked myself, What cd envelop us more (see 63)?

             67.  Then I asked myself what connects it more?

             68.  Are we not it?

             69.  By me jarring the network, is that not it?

             70.  I answered myself with a resounding, “Of course.”

             71.  I shook twice after answering myself because I felt proud, & because I only needed a few more drops for number seventy-one.

             72.  The nice neighborhood children returned & asked for more half-pint wide-mouth Mason jars to purchase.

             73.  They sd their families thought it tasted like Margaritas with extra salt around the rims.

             74.  They bought two cases of it.

             75.  I did not ask where they got their money.

             76.  I told them my future plans for business (see 15, 16-18, 55, 57, 60), & I wondered how I might exploit the local families.

             77.  They told me I shd consider making it jelly.

             78.  I considered it.

             79.  But then I remembered my work/art.

             80.  And really, I wasn’t in the business of making money like I once thought (see 6).

             81.  Because work/art is aesthetic operation and magic designed as a mediator between this . . . hostile world and us.

             82.  The lone bowler X returned to tell me about life.

             83.  Sky moved, world shook, & it opened my eyes. Truly.

             84.  X had begun writing poetry & children’s books.

             85.  The lone bowler offered me a check for the free samples.

             86.  The check reeked of stale fish & rancid milk.

             87.  I respectfully declined the offer.

             88. On the most literal level, it is something which is itself & yet stands for or suggests or means something else . . . in daily life also.

             89.  What about the things we expel in daily life? I shouted filling half-pint wide-mouth Mason jar number eighty-nine.

             90.  My dreams of it changing the world quickly spilled out of me as I filled jar number ninety.

             91.  I decided it was high time for me to find a real supplement for my income & work/art.

             92.  I applied for the management-training program at the bank.

             93.  I was accepted on account of my business know-how & can-do attitude.

             94.  My application, they told me later, read like poetry with a working artistic thrust. 

             95.  I decided to dispose of my excesses, cut my losses, but before I poured all of it down the kitchen sink, the neighborhood children bought the last half-pint wide-mouth Mason jars.

             96.  Their parents thought it a cure for pregnant ailments.

             97.  I approached it with its layers of meaning but when I touched it it changed into only a beautiful princess.

             98. I dragged the princess headfirst down.

             99. Drink it with a donut, I explained to her, because it’s damned good for dipping.

            100.  She sd thanks & told me I shd consider the fabric & queso business.

            101.  Like motor oil with a jerk, she sd drinking my last half-pint wide-mouth Mason jar in front of me.

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yr migra blew up Ameríca

3/26/2014

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for maestro Baraka

0:11down

0:12well

0:13the old debajo--

0:20somebody love & of thinking

0:24the hermanita is both domestically & internationally one . . . 

0:29used to cover the mierda of her masters--

0:32dole . . . dome . . . dome . . . dome . . . done . . .

0:36the old somebody a--

0:40they sey—is some . . . terrorist’s liability & retina--

0:44gets a head—it wuz in Maricopa County—claro

0:48yes—uh that checks Latinos—how illegal are you you not me?

0:52partner Sunday—tho it wuzn’t sure a lot of . . .

0:56or—presidente—do w/ virtually any partial

0:59mexicharms—yells did the--

1:02it wuzn’t gonna be in the house to the White Sea diseases—that were--

1:07let people terrorized residents anything--

1:10most humanity as they please for

1:14they sey they sd we want walls we want walls--

1:17who do the same—who is this poll--

1:21who’s telling lies w/ the skies that no borders . . .

1:25thoughts out the world’s who got that plantations—that privatized prison--

1:29incarcecide in Ameríca—sideways levels

1:32who all 28--

1:35who cd show that’s all narco bullet shells--

1:39got this far—got sd this week—that matches & fires--

1:43who kill sey they’ve got it—still little

1:47cd be useful—who wuz the nameless brownface

1:51who Jesús is available—who created every day

1:55partner school grades—sey you only have a good look at it--

2:01who define a lot of fun—science to me—bombs away—the guns

2:05Google slaves—souls who call you—if they miss

2:10who sey they always been seying all--

2:14whose solo tengo—who sold me--

2:17met this hemisphere every days or so we only northward gazed--

2:23who all the buildings got the money—thank you--

2:26money . . . lots . . .  you up wallpapers all--

2:29slave ship southward—well known army—little

2:32nameless ones—who is the friend—who rules--

2:37 who were all older moms . . . wuz a lot you got me

2:43peace we think—the wall—more walls--

2:46altho no toilets—& we want yr oil—let me do it--

2:53who owns sales—who are on the air—along the walls

2:58or rather the migra brown murderers—late last year—old--

3:02will call you—who live in the biggest howls

3:06who do the biggest line—who go on vacation anytime hun--

3:13don’t kill mostly—it’s who kill all browns look a little—since borders bind

3:17ok—you’re the most far-reaching—cables happen

3:21& los Latinos

3:25who all levels below the borders--

3:28television or radio

3:32 even know me all hola Jose

3:36 & behold so they’re also cities make the laws--

3:40all who may wish to visit—who believe the confederate flag . . .

3:44ay baby—borderline concerned abt democracy . . . & even I—no!—in recent memory

3:51sey you decide—didn’t lose it . . .

3:56who did—everybody else got richer while the engine is ideal . . .

4:01previous to this wd change the bottle . . .

4:05wd you like most people—will do most people—who know what abt survival

4:10led the colonies solos to rule the world--

4:14who sey only evil biggest sex education—a whole who all . . .

4:20who all . . . who told you what you think—that you later like that . . .

4:23I’ll bit—late—maybe sales--

4:27okay—CIA who follows—altho

4:30who always learn hot Mexical choices all the--

4:33as a whole—who know—outside Arizona—visibility is low--

4:39does it all . . .

4:41need fossil fuels—something going away—who make tutorials

4:45get the biggest sales—hot weather--

4:48conference against racism—who killed our neighbor--

4:53who kill our neighbor—such a thing—are they going to the elderly

4:57it will be it to make money painting velvet

5:02polls close in Tijuana

5:05al pastor tacos & carnitas of chins—same ones—& kill--

5:08ruled out yeah  

5:11let me know—the one that’s always--

5:15laying they shd love Amurka—well that is all--

5:19don’t like Geronimo--

5:23side put me on hold—already natural habitat of a sudden—who kill you—mean I

5:29sd hey my case made . . .

5:32also what theme wuz it once tribalism

5:39press it who put in place . . .

5:42closely it’s a who wuz in Mexico . . .  is it will

5:46do it—who sent a letter also gave me a little soft sole

5:51ajua!—wuz a lot simpler—lead metal into the rose is a rose

5:55all the people are nice—torture assassinated managed--

5:59the official abt you really—yeah--

6:02satellite Califas Arizona New Mexico Texas sd

6:07who got the most sensible—when the--

6:10it’s who the jurors in invisible cases--

6:15go to jail if he hears—remain inside immigrant wars— all

6:21who got shd roll back into power—who got but she’s

6:24that payload shithole--

6:29who decided so that’s it goals reconstruction the New Deal

6:34year great societal--

6:37who does our deporter-in-chief with 2,000,000 holes in his legacy—&

6:42well . . .

6:43cool the gusano—who know what got us—deported--

6:48on the lease—the visa card--

6:54calmly new w/ botas picudas

6:58also scenario it polo--

7:02pressure who wuz it wuz it he chatted with the boys in jail--

7:06seying that when that narco met me let me know—when do I start? —it is where all the

7:11hollywood edits--

7:13who sd that much—that all who need to chase it—wuz only a little

7:18whose house is really white—as it went our stay—brown adobe home that day--

7:22why did you all stay away—quotas rule--

7:26explosion allow newspapers sey the devil’s face to the CEO

7:33to make money—whole—the who—might go

7:36for sale who want the world like it’s--

7:40who wants a little like it--

7:43national so hot that

7:47bullets—who’s most powerful--

7:51well you know the seying—that but anybody seen the devil . . .

7:55like analysis . . . believing in yr life  

7:58like an owl—tho the devil—altho I love—all day--

8:02like that—all the schooling & fire--

8:05we have questions—we’ll play it like there wuz nothing crazy--

8:10laugh our nalgas off a little while walls that whole us--

8:14pin

8:21do

8:41do

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biometrics please

3/23/2014

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0:11withdrew the

0:32cabeza third

0:36not going to stop & see what his testimony abt what

0:42ideates my work relates to the paperwork explosion !rats! paperwork

0:51analysis

0:58!all right!

1:07has

1:11exploded caution to the wind

1:17always been a lot of nasty Aztecs thirty-day wanted to make a living

1:22before there’s more than ever before site

1:27today’s back in the past there always seemed to be enough modernity & slaves to do

1:31paperwork

1:33there always seemed to be the cusp of modernity

1:35there always seemed to be enough slaves to do the paperwork but they . . .

1:41always seemed to be a tough modernity & no slaves to do . . .  that—weren't there

1:46 yesterday

2:05theories &

2:07today everyone has to spend more time on paperwork management best to spend

2:12more time on paperwork secretary passes that more time on paperwork

2:18companies have to spend more time

2:20was the worst

2:22salesman programs syngeneic governments this supervise

2:28patterns

2:31Quetzalcoatl harvests managers bankers

2:34both leaders natural conquerors

2:36has to spend more time playboy

2:41general

2:50came from a week ago some help

2:53the--

2:54go anyway carnitas on the stand by the end of quote was dictating has realized that

2:59the interesting anti-violent referred to as many there were

3:02treatments of most of the idea of what the product with a representative when I

3:06worked with racism is not admissible in a biography decision

3:12doing one of the leaders of the office equipment machine & ideally called

3:17n_t_s_b_ overwhelmed by the name of the products that are beyond since

3:21savvy & help you with the time it takes to do the paperwork

3:35firms

3:37Mexcitement that I can get four times as much a banking records it was

3:41like advertising company & twice as long as they came into treatment of

3:45school secretary planning at the end of the estimated to be interesting to hear

3:50from Al Norte automatically at the rate of the page of every prevents through

3:55systematically movies are machines increased slaves’ productivity by

4:00thirty percent of the time to think in that regard stringent distribution

4:04centers the M_c_t_l_a_n__selectric composers consequences assessment

4:09by the emissions can do the work

4:12so that slaves have time to think

4:14machines should arrive on the slaves should be the same thing

4:19& that’s what their best instructional people

4:31fraud

4:34cried out doing what’s right for a moment

4:37itself & it’s a thing

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