But socialism cannot, as has often been observed, grow up within the interstices of capitalist society. Like Malcolm X said of capitalism and revolution, “It is impossible for a chicken to produce a duck egg, even though they both belong to the same family of fowl, so-called fowl. A chicken just doesn't have it within its system to produce a duck egg. It can't do it. It can only produce according to what that particular system was constructed to produce....”

“the exercise book was green” i.m. Lee Harwood

“the exercise book was green” 

                i.m. Lee Harwood


earth a beautiful blue
clouds in the morning red
as it was a single orbit
n’est pas the tents tangl’d
rolling pins in pinked evening
excess not opposed to being
under cover of truck starkness
the trash strata baggage
claim teens temping their first
spree when control plus
zed fails EUREKA
red cedars to return things just-so
rigged tip shawls whetted want
well structure floral lens faltering
obedient sows of so-so danger
we were taught to walk
Adur Arun from sibylline shackles
flood as cold signal brawl

where there’s a till there’s
a weigh as in aureate
matter the yahoo dot co
dot UK worde package
customery brood pressure
contrast standing ceremony
Snowdon’s histrionic café

stepping out from the pyramyth
golden arches secure first sight 
so steal hospital colouring
books false weekend starts
obtuse sharp-shooter jinx prize 
rabbit epidemic shoo first utterance
dharma Damocles ampoule ampelopsis
solar tea dough machine-fun
office marks ex-centric drift tensity
walk a little further
an atomic line regurgitated
tax privilege sworn to
harvest blue-gray of atmospheric haze

white lilies to Lee’s windowsill
answer for Schwitters’s green blood
man utters her best man
tasting iodised salt mango St
Elmo’s fire sunspot activity green
tea-water medium AURORA
green is fluid
particles of the night serpent fire

friends pass phrases seaspent
spraying ochre buildings commanding Church or Western Road sites complaining
exoneration green graphic count
less desires to come into day very
very dark & some
space covered by dense cumulus
home here indefinitely
& green
a degree of infinite infelicity

relief to Klein’s equal blue
stunned by live oak sunning
swimmers generic pus slow
thesis strand
haunches for slow hut
shackles cognate strata but
this is only an excuse

Sonny Sharrock 1988 Knitting Factory

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?” Muhammed Ali, 1967

for Ron Silliman

for Ron Silliman

Say you’ve got a right to be here.

Coming up for air

from the hollowed prayer 

Taking to the lazy lizards as I write.

Freedom is access to

two competitive grants

Nature abhors a leash.

Capitalize not every other

but the last for force

Swig-fizz of shit beer

brightened by insect chants

by my bite-swollen ear

Drab cardinal whistles

to mockingbird it thinks

is a mockingbird

Cricket walks

up the porch post

to get to the tree

The cat in the Kabyle.

The lighter side of… Centcom.

The Nono simply in your head

...

Wanda Jackson Funnel Of Love

Doesn't get much better than this: That
lil' snarl on the vocal slays me every time.

Zines: The Power of DIY Print (short documentary)