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Songs in Demonstration

Track List

also with the Passerines:




Poems in Process

Table of Contents

Having to Start Somewhere
Invisible Traveler
Infant
Behavioral Intention
Waltz
Physical Events
Hands
My Name
Straight Lashes
Dug a Hole
Preemptive Strike
3 Physiological Poems
One Way
5 Short Poems
Mangled Banner
Life on Earth
Idealist
In the Bunker
Strategy: Buy and Hold
Ponytails
Take Care
Farewell
That Everyone Should Be
ll
Something into Something
They Were
The Villainic Mind






















Having to Start Somewhere

Having to start somewhere
in an infinite
process it's not
the process
that starts
but
just its
perception
by a witness
who can see only
with great difficulty
and by inference
that the process
continues
whether
or
not she
perceives while
some others would
prefer not to no-
tice that it not only
predated them but
will go on long
after they
are gone
be-
lieving
that when they
turn off the T
V nothing is on


and that if a tree falls
but they invest too
much in measure
thinking that
what is
known
is more
than what lacks
a knower as
if the latter is
less extent but it's worth
remembering not
only that the
ongoing
goes on
with
out the
witness but
that the witness
goes on with its own
process unmeasured in
the absence of an
other and that
the witness
must be
a
finite
process which
finds itself in
the position of

(mid May 2004:  revised mid July 2004)