Jeff Bagato
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A multi-media artist living near Washington, DC, Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music, and glitch video. Some of his poetry has appeared in Empty Mirror, Futures Trading, Otoliths, H&, Ex-Ex Lit, and Zoomoozophone Review. His published books include Savage Magic (poetry), Spells of Coming Day (poetry), The Toothpick Fairy (fiction), and Computing Angels (fiction). A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at http://jeffbagato.wordpress.com.
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Hashing the Input
not one that has died
but one which
was born,
a ghost word becomes
fact by repetition
and use; the phantom finds
body in being seen; only
after an event
does history offer receipts
a plastic voice box
sounds like the real thing;
a severed limb still
sends messages
from beyond the grave
no race, no win,
no turning back—
knotted words clutter
hollow lands with bytes,
hacks & clues
more ash,
more klinker,
more smog,
more slime—
emit damage
and what decays
to defeat real truth
wherever there are ruins, lies
like flames
dance across time; empty
towers, a broken fortress, stone
dead markers on an open plain:
night can’t fall on an empire
already drowned under
an inky sea—
its books all gone to the secret
dark of a lexicon salted
down with nonce
and hash
A multi-media artist living near Washington, DC, Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music, and glitch video. Some of his poetry has appeared in Empty Mirror, Futures Trading, Otoliths, H&, Ex-Ex Lit, and Zoomoozophone Review. His published books include Savage Magic (poetry), Spells of Coming Day (poetry), The Toothpick Fairy (fiction), and Computing Angels (fiction). A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at http://jeffbagato.wordpress.com.