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hittin ol whitehorse tavern--from Alaska Poems

8/13/2013

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 downtown

& talkin art w/ self-identified Alaskan AmurInjuns

& temporalities

& colonial identities minus interludes

into poetics of vanguardism

& what us Messyskins call vendidosity

now don’t play yrself                         they’d just

been to that big museum I’ve never

stepped in but been advised

to step in

& hell tomorrow’s as good a day

as any              & she         white conqueress

another Haidan Malinch

captured by these Alaskan artists

run to New York to meet him

& ask him specifics abt his art

caressed him w/ minor or no poetic

reflection but w/ thoughts on craft

& that he thought cdn’t hurt anything

& that wd mean keeping strict to regiment

& forlorn extended reflection into metaphors

& all those complex architectonics of literature

both good & bad & extending

his own texts into circulation w/o extended study

institutionalized as masterhood of any fine art

& also avenues of circulation

of social & historical structures structuring

experiences of living & yes dying

hierarchies of being from through in to time

& strict accounting of space

imagined & represented depth & surface

tone & touch

well all those artists sitting around

pounding good ol Amurkan cheap draft

beer poured in pitchers one after another

all came together to think of poetry

as something distinct nor cultural

& he thought from what he remembered

that his poetry wd never do well in Alaska

b/c he nearly fell down stairs outside

lookin up toward wall street smokin

his ciggy b/c his boot caught & tipped

up a board 

& later vomited down his shirt 

in his cab uptown
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