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France Urns F ‘absurdist’ lay right gene Ion    O

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       day      urned
layright         O gene Ion,    O
       oMan           f & F
                         the
world’s most performed au-
thor
          died at 8

             f Paris

quo
        art

                o slyly

x & F it
      red        “His vi
sion of the world--        surd,
iron     ,      dis   --  pro—
                     our era,”
sd              F     
er       
ean d’Or     . 
       oman          tell              so
urned his death, describe
       it as a         O O O
“                     death
       parable lo      not only
for     man   but     o for
the whole              d,”     distin-
guished                         Ion
     all                in            all.
O     f        the pre-eminent “ab-
surdist” writer whose work
             war
eat      ion     o      pict
                one    pair in
                        ten delicious
          lays
“                to say is
          to say,” he once
sd in a typical
           phrase.  But I
                     think.
     say             is per-
haps         deo     shot,       f
      laying uninterrupted in
Paris       f
       gene        Ion
               38 exiled
                    anti   unit
f       ascist       oses
        Prima       deo    Donna.
               outs.    cessful
Ion.

               (Ode on the death of Eugene Ionesco)




&

sky—color
of a cuttlefish
belly

&

brain
measured
in mustard seeds

&

want
the world
to crowd directly
into nerves & nodes
today

&

Living-Chain-Man
Self-Regulating Man
stare into blank screens Man

screaming:

madam I’m adam
madam I’m adam
madam I’m adam

(the bullets just
drilled home, the bets
not yet pocketed)

&

an old gentleman
stinketh
of piss

&

runneth
to catch
a train

&

blink

&

blink

&

n,e,v,e,r

blink 

a,g,a,i,n

&

the baby
w/

chrome
brains

(in the arms
of the

young
woman
running

jangling
rings on

ears &
fingers

behind the old
man)

thinks:

“0/1
“0/1
“0/1
“0/1
“now
“goes
“perishing
“the
“e,m,p,t,i,e,s,t
“of
“ANGELS”

&

among
this moment’s
coffee
guzzlers 

&

crumb cadavers
of terra cotta physique

who
will stop
to lay a golden reed
against the sun?

not a one.