i might be no one

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Justice; King; Princess; Prince; Royal; Duke; Major; Bishop; Majesty; J; Lucifer; [using brackets around middle names]; Knight; Lady; [using back slash between names]; Judge; Royale; Messiah; T; I; Queen; II; Sir; III; Jr; E; V; Justus; Master; Constable; Queen Victoria; Regal; Emperor; Christ; Juztice; 3rd; CJ; G; Roman numerals III; General; Saint; Lord; . [full stop]; 89; Eminence; M; VI; Mafia No Fear; 2nd; Majesti; Rogue; 4real; [star symbol]; 5th; SP; C; Sargent; Honour; D; Minister; MJ; Chief; Mr; V8; President; MC; Anal; AJ; Baron; LB; H-Q; Queen V

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There are such things as Spells. A Spell is usually something very unpleasant in one's Mental World. It often causes a person--a Budding Individual--to do things that he or she would not think of doing under normal circumstances. The Spell often causes the victim to do things that he knows are absolutely wrong. It seems he is powerless in preventing himself from doing them.
A spell can originate from but two sources--in one's own mind or in the mind of another person or being.
The great majority of Spells are caused by one's own mind.
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Just the moment you start building-in a Good Spell, you are known in the Higher World as a SPELL WEAVER. Immediately, you become ONE IN SPIRIT with all the other Budding Individuals who are also SPELL WEAVERS. But still more important, you become associated with those of the Unseen World--the INDIVIDUALS ( the High Initiates)--who are desirous of assisting you. You see, just the moment you start moving forward on the UPWARD PATH, you automatically become a member of a great ASSOCIATION OF HELPERS. Helpers who are helping  themselves to EXPAND into a greater and still greater LIFE through their Spiritual and Social Departments of Life, and who have a strong desire to help others who are not as far on the Path.
from The Spell Master (MONOGRAPH no. 29) by Harry J. Gardener (copyright 1945)

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Pocket Notes is putting on a lil thing pretty soon. Let's hang out?


minigames


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At my request Leon later gave us in writing the following definition of a Cosmic squelch eye: "a center eye of light near the top of the forehead of a, potentially, hollowed out--stigmatized--, person, creature, etc. A cosmic squelch eye can be uncrossed, crossed; uncrossed squelch eye can help form other cosmic eyes on the forehead, etc., if the person, etc. has cut such squelch eye into its brain, etc.; A crossed squelch eye can help form smaller ones; some instances larger ones: a cut crossed squelch eye can help smooth out a larger one, depending on the capabilities of that person. If that person, etc., mis-uses such squelch, cosmic eyes; Divine Providence can have such taken away from that person, etc.; through--Righteous Idealed cosmic Robot Governor-Governess, image, at the right side of such a person, etc...."

It should be stated that the full psychological meaning of the squelch-eye episode continues to elude us. However, the Biblical reference is inescapable. In Matthew 6:22, we find: "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." 
from The Three Christs of Ypsilanti by Milton Rokeach

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242. You found it was a pretty country.
243. You discovered you didn't have to stay there.
244. You got a better title.
245. You found something valuable.
246. You could keep any company you wanted.
247. You discovered it wasn't too complicated.
248. They had confidence in you
249. You helped them conquer something.
250. You could leave the classroom.
251. You didn't have to go there any more.
252. Somebody came when you called.
253. You enjoyed a new car.
254. You got out of the cage.
255. They admitted you were clever.
256. You found your hands were adroit.
257. You discovered you could run faster.
258. You discovered you didn't have to mind.
259. You found it wasn't in vain after all.
260. Hope paid off.
261. You had a right to think for yourself.
262. You found you didn't have to be disappointed.
263. You discovered how persistent you were.
264. You knew you could handle responsibility.
265. The world was all yours.
266. You were delighted.
267. You felt good this morning.

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i axed u party

Thank you:

Colin & Peter, Kevin, Bryan, William & Kara, and Russ & Jeanette for your generosity

Danniel, Rebecca, Brian, Virginia, for running things

Danniel, Corina, Macgregor, Luke, David, Tony, Rachel, Timothy, Gregory, Joel, and Roger for reading with me

Love Forever


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This Saturday (4/20) I'm reading with Robert Gluck & Brandon Brown at The Long Haul Infoshop (3124 Shattuck Ave) in Berkeley. If you'll be in the Bay, please come!
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@hero032812： Russia is an evil existence to the whole world.
@春色：(You) exported revolution to the Heavenly Dynasty and afflicted Chinese people.
@孤鸿剑儿：You can keep the territory, but be sure to take back your gang of ax and sickle.
@不了了之：Russian, return Chinese territory and take back your ax party.


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A new review of Eyelid Lick, on Phantom Limb!

"I'm okay with the abuse. Let me explain."

lil ill tour 20!3



my new chappie Slow Motion German Adjectives is out as of two days ago from Mammoth Editions, and Powell's sold out of the first batch they bought the very first day. Mad thanks to Bryan Coffelt of Mammoth Editions and Matthew Haussler, who drew the maze that spans the cover.

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East Coast + Chicago, I'm coming for you like now!
Bay, I'm coming for you a little later!
Seattle, Portland, y'all had yr chance. But we'll talk. Yeah, we can talk. We'll work something out.

Please come and say hi!

If you ask me beforehand, I'll dedicate a poem to you, or a line of a poem, or a word, or something, and if you ask me afterward I'll dedicate a street or a taxi or something to you.

Monday, March 25th: Danniel Schoonebeek, Corina Copp, Macgregor Card, and Donald Dunbar at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, NY

Tuesday, March 26th: Luke Bloomfield, David Feinstein, and Donald Dunbar at Flying Object Bar + Grille in Amherst, MA

Saturday, March 30th: Tony Mancus, Rachel Springer, & Donald Dunbar at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC

Monday, April 1st: Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Roger Reeves, Joel Craig, Timothy Donnelly, and Donald Dunbar, Chicago, IL

April, 20th: Robert Gluck, Brandon Brown, and Donald Dunbar in Berkeley, CA, for The Other Fabulous Reading Series

the new piracy

Amazon would never post, even sometimes after weeks of deliberation, any of my 5-star reviews of Eyelid Lick.

It took them maybe 10 minutes to post my 1-star review.

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The Nerds of Paradise

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Good for headphones, a weird hypno-tape:

Joshaua Marie Wilkinson - Swamp Isthmus / Robert Fernandez - Pink Reef / Rauan Klassnik - The Moon's Jaw

(or go ge.tt it)


You are so with it !!

I'll be reading at two events in Boston this week--please come!
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Mysterium Tremendum
535 Albany Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA
Thursday, March 7th
Doors at 10:30pm, readings at the stroke of midnight.

 A black mass of poetry: Ariana Reines, Rebecca Wolff, Lucy Ives, and Donald Dunbar.
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Antisocial Network
The Harvard Advocate, 21 South Street, Cambridge, MA 
Friday, March 8, 2013 
9:00 p.m. 
Please join Triple Canopy, publishers Fence and The Song Cave, and digital poetry journal The Claudius App for an evening of readings by poets Donald Dunbar, Jane Gregory, Joe Luna, K. Silem Mohammad, and Jacob Wren. 
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I'm also participating in a panel discussion, for anyone who's rockin, for some reason, a pass:
The Creative Writer's Survival Guide to the Composition Classroom
Michelle Burke, Erica Dawson, Heather Kirn Lanier, Donald Dunbar, S. Whitney Holmes 
Friday, March 8
12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Room 104, Hynes Convention Center

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i think it's a "control thing"

Clark Coolidge: What the fuck is that word?
TD: Referential?
CC: Referential. ‘Non-referential,’ that was the word. I thought that was hip in the 60s. But years later people would always ask me, ‘What do you mean by non-referential?’ I finally had to admit that I don’t think there is any such thing. Words all refer to something. Even fragments of words tug the word that they’re part of back into existence, or want to attach to another word.

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John Campbell (of Pictures for Sad Children fame) announced a new webcomic/media project called MichaelKeaton.net. Pictured below are Mister Rogers' fish, after they have made it to the open ocean; one of them chooses the mystery of the hook. If you like Boards of Canada you will like this comic.


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Sidelines

Sum up laws of the one who comes again
sun line of bare sawn plank
repeats the clamp or cartoon
man whose foot on the floor
damp cottons down under ladder
where to hack further out and plant vitals
of notion, the full time riddle

-Clark Coolidge, from The Rova Improvisations 

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yes, yes, yes
(but really, let's try even harder, and do even better)
(and yr dumb if you try to patent a punctuation mark)
(don't do it, you stupid guy)

dear minister of houses

"Actually, the news was so unbelievable that I first thought they were wrong," she said. "It shows our people are thirsty for culture and knowledge." The men spend 100,000 enjoyment imperial head soup. She clearly hasn’t heard my question, so rather than repeat it in full, I’ll simply over-enunciate and ask, “What do you think?” and she’ll grope for words and perspire again and finally answer nonsensically.  All told, he said, well over 1,000 boxes of manuscripts were squirreled away — buried beneath mud floors, hidden in cupboards and secret rooms in private houses, or sent upstream on the Niger in wooden boats.  They will let you bleed out just so they can brag to other officers that they had a 187 caper the other day and can’t wait to accrue the overtime in future court subpoenas. 

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Jim Kazanjian's unlikely homes in 23 Sandy Gallery, PDX

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I reviewed Eyelid Lick very factually on LibraryThing.

I did a Q&A for the Afrikaans poetry blog Versindaba. I kind of got an uncanny valley feeling while writing it, as the South African poetry scene has many of the same issues as the US scene, but very few of the same reference points. I hope dearly to become famous in South Africa, so I can travel there and meet Yolandi and maybe make out with her.

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