Canela,
Me verg–d–k, it seems. I have been accused of being single-minded like one
of those smart bombs, drive'm through a doorway at three thousand miles,
close the door on the way in. I need some new metaphors -- back to the
Salvation Army, the Good Will.
I do really like that poem.
Bill
(Of course, the trajectory of wryness is not innocent either, just had to
say that. It diverts.)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: canela [mailto:canela@xxx.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 8:55 PM
> To: fishbreath@somewhere.net
> Subject: re: meanwhile, in a rich country...
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> Aim, Bill. I was talking about aim. Options for pointing. Trajectories.
> Interpretation. And I was still just being wry.
>
> Also, I was thinking about a poem by Charles Ortleb, which begins with
> the inscription, "Sexuality grows out of the barrel of a gun. --Homage
> to Jancso." The poem continues:
>
>
> In Vietnam
> eels live in the water
> until they are stuffed
> into the vaginas of the opposition.
> Do not think of the women.
> Think of the eel:
> bloodstained, hungry,
> staring out of
> the cunt
> having completed
> a political journey.
> ... Chile,
> Cuba,
> Lawrence, Kansas,
> Dallas, Texas
> force and sexuality
> go together
> like men with men
> on horses,
> like whips and marriages.
> Force seeks sexuality,
> sexuality seeks
> out force.
> There is all you need to know.
>
> -- from "Militerotics"
>
>
> 'Tis the season...
>
>
>
> ~Canela
>
>
>
> > Is the gun we're talking about a penis? I thought it was just a
> gun (that
> > you put in my hand ... or someone's hand, your hand?) This was about
> > responsibility.
> >
> > Maybe I slipped.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: canela [mailto:canela@xxx.edu]
> >> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 11:06 AM
> >> To: fishbreath@somewhere.net
> >> Subject: Re: meanwhile, in a rich country...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> There are other options. Like: point that thing the other way.
> >>
> >> A poet says that men know nothing of sex. "Ask a man what sex
> is/ and he
> >> will show you his penis."
> >>
> >> I don't think that's necessarily true. It's a question of
> >> interpretation. Some men will point to you.
> >>
> >> ~Canela
> >>
> >>
> >> > Sure, I understand the point. But I'm still trying to decide
> >> what to do with
> >> > the gun in my hand, shoot myself or someone else.
> >> >
> >> > Bill
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> It was an irony. Desiccated perversion. That was the point.
> >> >>
> >> >> ~Canela
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> > by whom?
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> Soldiers for "civilization" should all be shot.
> >> >>
> >> >
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