The News by larry goodell

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The News Instructions for Performing The News- (January 1969) Items to have 1 - a green Quaker Oats box containing cards with a green square painted on the back 2 - a red Quaker Oats box containing cards with a red triangle painted on the back 3 - a blue Quaker Oats box containing cards with a blue disk painted on the back A wood pipe from a church organ (or any reasonable substitute). I have a C note Gross Flute which is a wooden pipe. An Audubon bird call. Shuffle the green, red, blue cards separately. The green box of cards goes to a woman who volunteers to read a card when I â&#x20AC;&#x153;playâ&#x20AC;? the Audubon bird call. The red box of cards goes to a man who volunteers to read a card when I blow on the organ pipe. The blue box of cards goes to any three people who volunteer to read all together like a chorus, a card when I clap my hands. Green: 14 cards shuffled. Blue: 9 cards shuffled. Red: 12 cards shuffled.

mThe News, 29Jan69, presented at the University of Albuquerque on the West Mesa, shuffle poems read from painted oatmeal boxes. Presented again in Albuquerque and April 21, 1972 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Note: a rectangular wire representing a TV screen may be affixed to the mouthpiece of the organ pipe so that you are looking through it when you blow.

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THE NEWS green Quaker Oats box containing cards with green square painted on the back No, the President cant see you now because he's being served to the Cabinet. * I am green. I am present. I am 15% protein. * There is nothing but me. And you and I are the same. And since we only have one minute to experience everything, why dont you listen more carefully? * YOU ARE THE WAY YOU ARE THE WAY YOU ARE THE WAY * Hello, this is yr tempting galactic apple. Hello. 55 cents. Hello. Am I coming thru? Yr words & yr communications media set up a barrier of noise. Am I coming thru? Hello, this is yr tempting galactic apple. Have I lost my figure? Hello. 55 cents. Can you trace this sound to me? Hello, Earth. Birth. Dearth. Barf? Burf? Bert? Bird? Bird? Bird? Hello, this is yr tempting galactic apple. Bert, are you there? Hello birth. I call it so. Time onions. 11

Stare on the stairway. Lost at call station. Flounder faggot. Burn turb. Heblow? Heblow? s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-sssss! * Dr. Nicholson says we are birds in the evolution of the universe. * I am yr prize-winning meatloaf for today. Eat me or tear me apart, eat me or tear me apart, eat me or tear me apart. * Yes, the President is interested in yr problem. You can believe me since Ive had my green apple transplant. You see, we occasionally do get thru to people. As I am now talking to you. * If you were born on January 14th, 1969, Yr color is green, yr time is now, yr demand is tubular. You deny all dates. * Miss Quaker Oats, 1969 Fat, 6%. Carbohydrate, 66%. Non-nutritive Crude Fiber, 1.5%. * If I cook in one minute & I meet you and you havent started cooking yet, is there a chance we might meet in time? * I am delicious with milk or cream and sugar. For a special treat try adding jam, raisins, chopped dates, brown sugar and cinnamon, or your favorite fruit. * No two messages are alike. One was: I am yr friendly bar of soap. The other, received at the same time, was: I am yr friendly soap opera. When they were fed into the computer they came out: Sorry, I am washing my mouth out now. * Am I zookeeper for you or are you zookeeper for me? If I could see you could you also see me? * (14 cards shuffled & read by a woman when I make bird sounds with the Audubon bird call.) 12

THE NEWS 29Jan69 red Quaker Oats box containing cards with a red triangle painted on the back Good evening. 1 out of 4 Americans is looking at this program. Are you? * The last words of the Colonel were: I am a football & you are a sea-horse. Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there some way we can communicate? Then shaking with the only love, he was jettisoned and left floating free in space. * Passing the Sea of Tranquillity, the shattered face of God came close, too close. * I'm sorry to disrupt yr holiday, but 90& of cigarette smoke is gas, and there is only the weary comfort the bereaved can offer to one another. * In the last 24 hours there were 389 traffic deaths, 4018 resurrections, 2000 marriages, 15 million divorces, an absurd race to death in Mexico, two triumphs in space, an unheard of number of copulations, a round of insane dancing in San Francisco, and the death of Herbert's pet spider in Washington, D.C. Now here is a word from our sponsor. * Now with the Russians building the first space platform in space, it appears the Americans have wasted time on the moon. * Good evening. Today in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame the most grievous wounds were inflicted on the Vietnamese nation & people. * 19

The Biafran child has eaten only yams this year and no protein at all. * Today absolutely nothing happened. One poet is happy about it. Good evening. * SAVE THIS LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY. THE APOLLO 8 ASTRONAUTS ROUNDED THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON AND BECAME HYSTERICAL, BOLTED OUT, FLOATING ON NOTHING. * Today the President sharpened his tactical skills with a game of Vietnamese chess. * "I believe the power of prayer is responsible for me being where I am today," says Andy Warhol, who recently recovered from a pistol wound. * (12 cards shuffled & read by a guy when I blow on the organ pipe.)

The News 29Jan69 blue Quaker Oats box containing cards with a blue disk painted on the back I offer flowers. I sow flower seeds. I plant flowers. I assemble flowers. I pick flowers. I pick different flowers. I remove flowers, I seek flowers. I offer flowers. I arrange flowers. I thread a flower. I string flowers. I make flowers, I form them to be extending, uneven, rounded, round bouquets of flowers. * seven seven seven seven seven seven seven seven seven seven seven seven seven seven seven seven seven seven * You walk in beauty You walk with beauty before you You walk with beauty behind you You walk with beauty above you It is finished in beauty It is finished in beauty * OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-QM-OH-OM-OM-OM-OM OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM-OM * YOU ARE TEACHER OF YR TEACHERS---YOU, NOT I, ARE GURU. OH, I 26

WORSHIP YOU SWEET PRINCE! THAT COME TO MY SCHOOL ONLY TO SHOW THAT YOU KNOW ALL WITHOUT THE BOOKS, AND HAVE A BEAUTIFUL REVERENCE BESIDES. * six six six. six six six. six six six. six six six. six six six. six six six. six six six. six six six. six six six. six six six. * NOW EVERYWHERE THERE WILL BE 30 MINUTES OF SILENCE. * Hear me talking to you, try to understand. * If you look at the end of a single hair, you can see all the kingdoms of the ten quarters of the universe. * (9 cards shuffled & read by 2 guys & a woman when I clap my hands.)

“Event” Poems of 1968-1969 mMaking It 15May68, Larry Morris’ class, 68. stacked boxes with 7 different “definitions” of poetry acted out by poet & audience. Presented numerous times for various schools and audiences. mThe Fool 21May68, Steve Rodefer’s class. Poet acting out aspects of human history silently while audience read texts from cookbook to poems on scrolls & objects. Presented in the Kiva at the University of New Mexico and other places. mThe President, 13Nov68,“Event” poem enacted in Placitas at the “New York House,” with masks & texts for the participating audience. mThe News, 29Jan69, University of Albuquerque, shuffle poems read from painted oatmeal boxes. - Larry Goodell

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