'Tis heresy in some places to say it, so i'll go on saying it: Phil Seaman & Joe Harriott made as perfect a drum/alto sound as ANY of the American masters. Hear how tight Seaman's chops are – crunch-in, then gallop OUT – in great contrast to the lilt (no chaser, rum-style) and spiritedness entwined of Harriott's playing on 'Formation', for example. Long live the British Jazz Invasion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3gZYual7vM

from PREPARATIONS) Vision: a porno flick

from PREPARATIONS)

Vision:  Brian and Mark make a porno

Click through petropolis

The whole elephant, therefore,

DES desolation,

And my white castle.

And fomented emigration

fricasseed, fracased

I n the gaunt chapel

glode over earth till the glorious noted, in the

Here moment’s moments’ ague

like the set Dan said

Ordinance crams its streaking dirts

into the distance.

Nobody talks of genetics, anymore.

The Swordfish was used, increasingly, in

professional equations (originality

things deciduous of hard sea 

These sights you carry

exposed as supplying the academe with its fragrant

in-breathing somnolent

So’litaire: 

Albert Einstein — 'Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.'

Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives. Audre Lorde, "Poetry is not a Luxury," Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Freedom, Ca: The Crossing Press, 1984), p. 38.

CHARENTON [*] (excerpt)

translated from the Galician by Erín Moure

and now the panopticon is a ruin

but never mind for i can imagine the landscape however i want
if a desert, it’ll be a tell
if rich with vegetation, wisteria will grow over the buildings
if in Antarctica, it’ll be a phantasmagoria of ice

some folks (working women, crazies, schoolchildren, poets) still live there, they don’t realize no one guards them

for in times of plenitude, systems of domination don’t pay attention any more to populations, it’s not their job to feed them

it has to do with what you were saying, that “capital is illiterate”

i have to get out:

exit biology, remain in my body

Positive, wishful thinking is a worthless, hypocritical delusion if you eagerly participate in the reproduction of a psychopathic society. “Mary Pierce, a woman who claimed she was filled with great love for everyone in the world, was killed today by a man who says he didn't know that.” (George Carlin)

Perhaps it's true that only through agreeing to play by the rules and not offend the delicate sensibilities of the middle-class will the Bernie movement become a true political majority. But it's not clear what's to be gained from such growth, if in exchange we make sure to refrain from doing anything that disrupts the smooth reproduction of the status quo. The filling of U.S. voting booths and streets with millions of people doing little but complying is unlikely to bring even mild reform. No, to do that we'll have to resort to the old strategies of the strike, the blockade, sabotage and — one hopes — the occupation and expropriation of private property.