FUTURE OCCUPATIONS
FUTURE OCCUPATIONS
© Lee Gough 2012 Cover art by Lee Gough
LRL little red leaves textile editions www.littleredleaves.com
© Lee Gough 2012 Cover art by Lee Gough
LRL little red leaves textile editions www.littleredleaves.com
Future Occupations Lee Gough
little red leaves textile series 2012
Future Occupations Lee Gough
little red leaves textile series 2012
From the tree, nested wars Lost limbs the paper Still life not to turn into something else, not even to write wars to include (This)
Repeat: (
)
They don’t have enough interpreters, to draw from blunt languages: “These are her brains on the ceiling” “these were her weapons” and magazines
[1]
From the tree, nested wars Lost limbs the paper Still life not to turn into something else, not even to write wars to include (This)
Repeat: (
)
They don’t have enough interpreters, to draw from blunt languages: “These are her brains on the ceiling” “these were her weapons” and magazines
[1]
Of the other unassimilated part: a light arms museum Mortar and board, bricks the victors trench tranche rpt identified w/ a letter
[2]
Of the other unassimilated part: a light arms museum Mortar and board, bricks the victors trench tranche rpt identified w/ a letter
[2]
Of the other part a wooden chair made of white branches shouldered for the measure, “who gives the measure” the teeth of a lion Glazed blue at the arch (school) of the dead tree in the pit Ishtar dug with her sex minute apples If you don’t have a question you can eat (for the settlers) the blunt handouts
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Of the other part a wooden chair made of white branches shouldered for the measure, “who gives the measure” the teeth of a lion Glazed blue at the arch (school) of the dead tree in the pit Ishtar dug with her sex minute apples If you don’t have a question you can eat (for the settlers) the blunt handouts
[ 3]
Beginning with capitals, and branches having replaced bough, The phantom limbs “this tree was used to make a bat or a plough” Without paper holding a knot in each hand open virtually The “dead eat food as the living” as if out there in the digital world, or here, given an exact latitude and longitude they could be returned to wired trees for sentences and relatives clogged with furious hair spun in live fruit
[4]
Beginning with capitals, and branches having replaced bough, The phantom limbs “this tree was used to make a bat or a plough” Without paper holding a knot in each hand open virtually The “dead eat food as the living” as if out there in the digital world, or here, given an exact latitude and longitude they could be returned to wired trees for sentences and relatives clogged with furious hair spun in live fruit
[4]
Wrapped in the newspaper : a trap door in the ground and another tree, a housewife and child run a rehearsal for catastrophe, turned down casually, the desire of the lion orders, by repetition she blasted several graves for opened, the open box Was the lion in motion?
[5]
Wrapped in the newspaper : a trap door in the ground and another tree, a housewife and child run a rehearsal for catastrophe, turned down casually, the desire of the lion orders, by repetition she blasted several graves for opened, the open box Was the lion in motion?
[5]
“Who stares into an open window never sees as many things as someone looking at a closed window.” (Pierre Baudelaire, Paris Spleen) To see the “whole”, “competent bird” the prothonotary New World yellow, crumb-eater, H. thought “a brief purity” from prison “What can be seen by sunlight ...” Prisons: what work is there?
before,
and after My father’s work of himself-like Was himself like some other humans (he learned on water) Loss there was no lee
in the head for
Normally it’s to moor but where? they use some bodies as nots
[6]
“Who stares into an open window never sees as many things as someone looking at a closed window.” (Pierre Baudelaire, Paris Spleen) To see the “whole”, “competent bird” the prothonotary New World yellow, crumb-eater, H. thought “a brief purity” from prison “What can be seen by sunlight ...” Prisons: what work is there?
before,
and after My father’s work of himself-like Was himself like some other humans (he learned on water) Loss there was no lee
in the head for
Normally it’s to moor but where? they use some bodies as nots
[6]
to make letters without more text
of circumstance. “You must be trying to open a goose”
The circumstances of which out of themselves, designed 27” x 79 3/8, 10 gauge steel welded more joints of this, one-sided questioning of a corpse, or The corporate furnished and erect steel terms “high-risk” occupants flammability tested, orders bed and space What is inflammable space, for sleep (without an antecedent)
[7]
to make letters without more text
of circumstance. “You must be trying to open a goose”
The circumstances of which out of themselves, designed 27” x 79 3/8, 10 gauge steel welded more joints of this, one-sided questioning of a corpse, or The corporate furnished and erect steel terms “high-risk” occupants flammability tested, orders bed and space What is inflammable space, for sleep (without an antecedent)
[7]
If these are dummy pages, for interned books It just fits (the dummy pronoun for example) Bunkers, The interred occupants, relatives Who must have been
“Given a match”
[8]
If these are dummy pages, for interned books It just fits (the dummy pronoun for example) Bunkers, The interred occupants, relatives Who must have been
“Given a match”
[8]
Inter-ed and furrow, bodies of the future Midnight, Lower midnight into the literal
pelagic
orders
fort of outside, Orders It was thought, necessary in Cicero’s time, to erect
the short
empire-hand
and tongue
the possible Sun a line to the exact
a “criminal event”
and terms
They hit you up for pain
Nobody will look
at the terminals
they feed into sentences, digits where they hide
their innocent
and ours: a panhandler named Rambo, faked a missing arm for 20 years, served In “Da Nang Viet Nam ’72 - ‘73”, faked
[9]
Inter-ed and furrow, bodies of the future Midnight, Lower midnight into the literal
pelagic
orders
fort of outside, Orders It was thought, necessary in Cicero’s time, to erect
the short
empire-hand
and tongue
the possible Sun a line to the exact
a “criminal event”
and terms
They hit you up for pain
Nobody will look
at the terminals
they feed into sentences, digits where they hide
their innocent
and ours: a panhandler named Rambo, faked a missing arm for 20 years, served In “Da Nang Viet Nam ’72 - ‘73”, faked
[9]
what he learned “from history books” “ I made him!” around the corner Stolen valor? What was there To steal From whom? are our sentences, ending point, stop, gylph, the value of one marked by a comma
[10]
what he learned “from history books” “ I made him!” around the corner Stolen valor? What was there To steal From whom? are our sentences, ending point, stop, gylph, the value of one marked by a comma
[10]
“I can tell
the edges of the old”
and new squares boxes on the street in the wire cloth
the dead the sutured
grid.
Virgil couldn’t stand with pulp in the dark,
wove lead (yellow)
The fingered virile self to move with trauma, I slept on a train Once
I was yellow and learned to use a protractor
To measure degrees.
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“I can tell
the edges of the old”
and new squares boxes on the street in the wire cloth
the dead the sutured
grid.
Virgil couldn’t stand with pulp in the dark,
wove lead (yellow)
The fingered virile self to move with trauma, I slept on a train Once
I was yellow and learned to use a protractor
To measure degrees.
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There was no government after it hung left open, leaves, without degrees except for small arms which armed The open branches the yellowwood dropped. Then making it move again, just sit, there
chairs and gun-
stocks, furniture for the future, there is no drawing for obstacles and distance, at the speed of a bullet Still “justice isn’t fairness”
[12]
There was no government after it hung left open, leaves, without degrees except for small arms which armed The open branches the yellowwood dropped. Then making it move again, just sit, there
chairs and gun-
stocks, furniture for the future, there is no drawing for obstacles and distance, at the speed of a bullet Still “justice isn’t fairness”
[12]
The fair redoubt rough-dressing Stones, the same color Dust and light, another country in my dream I never knew how to win and work for a moth the same color, wings open at rest, wiped off A counter “After all there was no setting fire” to themselves monuments of “endless love of horizontals” and “eternality of the will” and the quarried black hollow spaces to win, drawers of petrified beauty. Just think of the uses.
[13]
The fair redoubt rough-dressing Stones, the same color Dust and light, another country in my dream I never knew how to win and work for a moth the same color, wings open at rest, wiped off A counter “After all there was no setting fire” to themselves monuments of “endless love of horizontals” and “eternality of the will” and the quarried black hollow spaces to win, drawers of petrified beauty. Just think of the uses.
[13]
But “beauty was beauty in every degree” and private’s private invented a machine for everything in the kitchen Drawer, or mouth “to be able to taste something” red like for red ink and xenon use the invisible blood security, colored monitor “there is no distance from” or measure
the box, cell
for the new icon(s)
must be close
Red drift --home ec
General knowledge
for the new thumb
Iron
white hole
or an iron
for the new icon(s) dodges the paper. But the veil “left the eyes free” [14]
But “beauty was beauty in every degree” and private’s private invented a machine for everything in the kitchen Drawer, or mouth “to be able to taste something” red like for red ink and xenon use the invisible blood security, colored monitor “there is no distance from” or measure
the box, cell
for the new icon(s)
must be close
Red drift --home ec
General knowledge
for the new thumb
Iron
white hole
or an iron
for the new icon(s) dodges the paper. But the veil “left the eyes free” [14]
These petrified forms hang around inside the occupiers passages in between, the displaced people who thought the right thoughts Hydra, appeared to have an extra head, but the octopus had too many hands for her mouth and couldn’t see the concrete things all the squares and underlying detours or orders stone upon stone, Sing Sing’s silent system prospects all the squares, to see in some degrees
[15]
These petrified forms hang around inside the occupiers passages in between, the displaced people who thought the right thoughts Hydra, appeared to have an extra head, but the octopus had too many hands for her mouth and couldn’t see the concrete things all the squares and underlying detours or orders stone upon stone, Sing Sing’s silent system prospects all the squares, to see in some degrees
[15]
from blue holes depends upon the actual Bunkers you are liable for the cut stones and trees the trees have become barrels, and drawers the building plans It depends on
[16]
from blue holes depends upon the actual Bunkers you are liable for the cut stones and trees the trees have become barrels, and drawers the building plans It depends on
[16]
Lee Gough lives in Brooklyn, NY. She occasionally teaches art in New York City public schools. More of her recent poetry can be found in Antennae 12, and more of her drawing, print media and (coming soon) experimental animation work is at leegough. net
This little red leaves textile series chapbook was designed and sewn by Dawn Pendergast in Houston, Texas.
Lee Gough lives in Brooklyn, NY. She occasionally teaches art in New York City public schools. More of her recent poetry can be found in Antennae 12, and more of her drawing, print media and (coming soon) experimental animation work is at leegough. net
This little red leaves textile series chapbook was designed and sewn by Dawn Pendergast in Houston, Texas.