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I haven't seen a trace/tissue issue of my Transforms for years. Each issue was different -- different poems selected, selected poems rendered in different colors, seeking an/other dimension/s to each poem.

A firm believer in the immediate, the eternal ephemeral, I completed fewer than a dozen issues. I never kept one of my own, but found one copy in my mother-in-law's files. Here's one of the poems (look for a couple/few more in the next couple days):

What if letters refused

to be colonized by words? There would be a revolution of word, a revolution of world. There would be a shutdown of written words (that would be the initial strategy of letters, in an attempt to narrow the power of words over readers and listeners). Spoken words would have a path toward survival, but the revolutionary lettrists would attempt to intercede, to disrupt word. Letters would colonize the discourse of words, resisting the colonization of letters. They would chant:

"All letters are created equal. Not words!"

"The father, the son, the holy letter."

"Don't ask what your letter can do for you but what you can do for your letter."

"You must be the letter you wish to be in the world."

"No letter is an island."

"Don't bite the letter that feeds you."

"Absence makes the heart grow letters."

 

--for Nico Vassilakis

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Ten Things To Do With Mom & Pop Cremation Urns

 

 

1. The Practical: Bookends; Doorstops; Paper weights

2. The Sporting: Play catch with Pop; Play catch with Mom

3. The Circus: Add bowling ball and juggle away

4. The Procreative: Open them up, mix them together, make as many little urns as you can

5. The Decorative: Put them in the window as part of your Halloween display

6. The Musical: Use them as the beginning pieces in your percussion section

7. The Carpool Lane: One in the shotgun seat, one in back – Don’t forget their seatbelts!

8. The Two Party System: One up, one down

9. The Recipe: Add water and see what happens

10. The Metaphorical Burden: Bones chips on your shoulders

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