Delany in the Rhizome

and that
 
 the reticulated
        would be kind embryology
 
held for students
 
& students would be ubiquitous for they would be aloft
 
for him
in him as lexicon
 
he betters all essential students
          & they don’t fray
not withstanding o craft the unbearable
o craft, will the world get better?
 
curious and listen, the voices
inside the character what do they want
 
violence surrounds, and endarkening & he stays
 
steady he does and o he stays all the more energetically
plays the ear, complex he says, listen
& your sentence? again?
 
“we have these peculiar weathers”
at the table, students, a cult circle and
feed on not tainted who hibernate in
 
devices he suggests provoke
& the student will be off on tangent sentence
 
             dear life?
 
& man in his narrative will reveal
his fear or never do this
and alight like redemption
 
there is a stairwell
there is a dark theatre
 
for it his ethos, student, is liberation
can’t say enough stay enough play enough its
taut library inside liberation
 
spectators of revolutions know
then precipitate participation
& who watched was transformed
 
in the magical city
 
was among those
 
was there another digression come back
in or out landscape perfect logic of it
student another dimension may you know student
 
come inside this revolution
enchanted by beauty, sez Genet
 
the white of the paper artifice
of that writing
“may all possess more reality than the signs that mar them”
 
strike the page will not hurt but ear strike strike
I will visit other room and worlds
 
deposit a trace in my body with your homesick blues
student strike it now or you die
 
no considered option here in this opinion of “takes”
“drafts”
but daylight provenance
when do you write and where? maybe why
 
previous page a posthumous sentence
or dimensions converge
much city too and could say “Mu,” a city
on “Irreparable” (planet we said of Robin Blaser)
 
& of memory, a twist
fantasy & ’istorin get spoken
      crucially
 
get up the crux of our story
web it
better put the talons on
 
as if in a basement house straight up
into the quatumsphere
 
where queer might go
 
draft an impossibility of dialogue encounter
intervention versus interrogation
 
staying point
 
not no impossibility, student
 
student the lore of it and student
had written once New York City
 
trauma, desire, desire inaugurate the page
& do that for student & others in their cities
 
you will be springboard
but if you never read books you will be nowhere
you will have to stay writing  a tour life
as I, Chip, tell you this
 
no no don’t want that
 
and not reduce passion
 
would travel in such a way it never happenstance
any reduction to the cut-up
impulse to give the character his way
 
hidden secret pleasure
connected did it with student complexity
 
gives giving give most powerful un- psychic pain
intimacy include the mind inflicts would be the velvet
 
you would not be an “I” he said, never working, that
you tell students
that would not be a prose as purpose
 
convenient with resistance?
 
dreamed the orchid
 
will be my dhalgren
 
directions encapsulated
         repeat this working through mind-whack
for students would marvel
            at memory a history at memory’s pace where you lose “self”
 
would walk
 
he is walking by
 
that is the rhythm and a cane
 
spunk and higher voices raise higher
 
spirit that is unsettled world
 
in a world student would write upon
 
could better be watch what I do
 
follow me but yourself this path reassuring
 
vertiginous
 
body is a work
 
border a tie of sympathy
 
how, they ask your thousands of pages?
 
most human teacher “on a roll”
 
holding
 
never broken that we know nothing
patience with us, your students
 
but delight with you
 
& in  lovely duo-figurement is the dreamer
 
eros a medley
may he be that ever in us
eros a medley
 
outsider no words were his but his & spiders
 
no utterance emits where he speaks but his
 
spectacle he leaves glowing speaking
 
that text off page from the stage soaring reading
 
and expressed, that you know bottom nature
 
this person in that story in the valley
 
most precious belong the myriad directions
 
 

The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Summer Writing Program 2013