Julie Herndon
Singularity (no use in a centre)
for singing cellist
2018
Text from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein Act so there is no use in a centre. A religion, almost a religion, any religion, a quintal in religion, a relying and a surface and a service in indecision and a creature and a question and a syllable in answer and more counting and no quarrel and a single scientific statement and no darkness and no question and an earned administration and a single set of sisters and an outline and no blisters and the section seeing yellow and the centre having spelling and no solitude and no quaintness and yet solid quite so solid and the single surface centred and the question in the placard and the singularity, is there a singularity, and the singularity, why is there a question and the singularity why is the surface outrageous, why is it beautiful why is it not when there is no doubt, why is anything vacant, why is not disturbing a centre no virtue, why is it when it is andstretching why is it whenhit=is44 and there is no doubt, there is no doubt that the singularity shows. moving,
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Julie Herndon text from "Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein
(no use in a centre) for Helen Newby
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