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Transcript of Future Occupations by Lee Gough
FUTURE OCCUPATIONS
FUTURE OCCUPATIONS
© Lee Gough 2012
Cover art by Lee Gough
L R Llittle red leaves textile editions
www.littleredleaves.com
© Lee Gough 2012
Cover art by Lee Gough
L R Llittle red leaves textile editions
www.littleredleaves.com
Future OccupationsLee Gough
little red leaves textile series 2012
Future OccupationsLee Gough
little red leaves textile series 2012
[1]
[1]
From the tree, nested wars
Lost limbs
the paper
Still life
not to turn into something else,
not even to write
wars to include (This)
Repeat:
( )
They don’t have enough interpreters, to draw
from
blunt languages: “These are her brains on the ceiling”
“these were her weapons”
and magazines
From the tree, nested wars
Lost limbs
the paper
Still life
not to turn into something else,
not even to write
wars to include (This)
Repeat:
( )
They don’t have enough interpreters, to draw
from
blunt languages: “These are her brains on the ceiling”
“these were her weapons”
and magazines
[2]
[2]
Of the other
unassimilated
part:
a light arms museum
Mortar
and board, bricks the victors
trench
tranche rpt
identifi ed
w/ a letter
Of the other
unassimilated
part:
a light arms museum
Mortar
and board, bricks the victors
trench
tranche rpt
identifi ed
w/ a letter
[ 3]
[ 3]
Of the other part
a wooden chair made of white
branches
shoulderedfor the measure, “who gives the measure”
the teeth of a lion
Glazed blue at the arch
(school) of the dead tree
in the pit Ishtar dug with her sex
minute apples
If you don’t have a question you can eat
(for the settlers)
the blunt
handouts
Of the other part
a wooden chair made of white
branches
shoulderedfor the measure, “who gives the measure”
the teeth of a lion
Glazed blue at the arch
(school) of the dead tree
in the pit Ishtar dug with her sex
minute apples
If you don’t have a question you can eat
(for the settlers)
the blunt
handouts
[4]
[4]
Beginning with capitals,
and branches
having replaced bough,
The phantom limbs
“this tree was used to make
a bat or a plough”
Without paper
holding a knot in each hand open
virtually
The “dead eat food as the living”
as if out there in the digital world,
or here,
given an exact latitude and longitude
they could be returned
to wired trees
for sentences and relatives
clogged with furious hair spun in live fruit
Beginning with capitals,
and branches
having replaced bough,
The phantom limbs
“this tree was used to make
a bat or a plough”
Without paper
holding a knot in each hand open
virtually
The “dead eat food as the living”
as if out there in the digital world,
or here,
given an exact latitude and longitude
they could be returned
to wired trees
for sentences and relatives
clogged with furious hair spun in live fruit
[ 5]
[ 5]
Wrapped in the newspaper : a trap door
in the ground
and another tree, a housewife
and child run
a rehearsal for catastrophe, turned down
casually, the desire of the lion
orders, by repetition
she blasted several graves for
opened, the open
box
Was
the lion in motion?
Wrapped in the newspaper : a trap door
in the ground
and another tree, a housewife
and child run
a rehearsal for catastrophe, turned down
casually, the desire of the lion
orders, by repetition
she blasted several graves for
opened, the open
box
Was
the lion in motion?
[6]
[6]
“Who stares into an open window never sees as many things as someone looking at a closed window.” (Pierre Baudelaire, Paris Spleen)
To see the “whole”, “competent bird”
the prothonotary
New World
yellow, crumb-eater, H. thought
“a brief purity” from prison
“What can be seen by sunlight ...”Prisons: what work is there? before,
and after
My father’s work
of himself-like
Was himself like
some other humans (he learned on water) Loss
there was no lee in the head for
Normally it’s to moor
but where? they use some bodies
as nots
“Who stares into an open window never sees as many things as someone looking at a closed window.” (Pierre Baudelaire, Paris Spleen)
To see the “whole”, “competent bird”
the prothonotary
New World
yellow, crumb-eater, H. thought
“a brief purity” from prison
“What can be seen by sunlight ...”Prisons: what work is there? before,
and after
My father’s work
of himself-like
Was himself like
some other humans (he learned on water) Loss
there was no lee in the head for
Normally it’s to moor
but where? they use some bodies
as nots
[7]
[7]
to make letters without
more text of circumstance.
“You must be trying to open a goose”The circumstances of which
out of themselves,
designed
27” x 79 3/8, 10 gauge steel
welded
more joints
of this, one-sided
questioning of
a corpse, or The corporate
furnished and erect
steel
terms “high-risk”
occupants fl ammability tested, orders
bed and space
What is infl ammable
space, for sleep (without an antecedent)
to make letters without
more text of circumstance.
“You must be trying to open a goose”The circumstances of which
out of themselves,
designed
27” x 79 3/8, 10 gauge steel
welded
more joints
of this, one-sided
questioning of
a corpse, or The corporate
furnished and erect
steel
terms “high-risk”
occupants fl ammability tested, orders
bed and space
What is infl ammable
space, for sleep (without an antecedent)
[8]
[8]
If these are dummy pages, for interned books
It just fi ts (the dummy pronoun
for example)
Bunkers,
The interred occupants, relatives
Who must have been
“Given a match”
If these are dummy pages, for interned books
It just fi ts (the dummy pronoun
for example)
Bunkers,
The interred occupants, relatives
Who must have been
“Given a match”
[9]
[9]
Inter-ed and furrow, bodies of the future pelagic
Midnight, Lower midnight orders
into the literal fort
of outside, Orders
It was thought, necessary
in Cicero’s time, to erect
the short empire-hand and tongue
the possible Sun
a line to the exact a “criminal event” and terms
They hit you up for
pain Nobody will look at the terminals
they feed into sentences, digits
where they hide their innocent
and ours:
a panhandler named Rambo,
faked
a missing arm for 20 years, served
In “Da Nang Viet Nam ’72 - ‘73”, faked
Inter-ed and furrow, bodies of the future pelagic
Midnight, Lower midnight orders
into the literal fort
of outside, Orders
It was thought, necessary
in Cicero’s time, to erect
the short empire-hand and tongue
the possible Sun
a line to the exact a “criminal event” and terms
They hit you up for
pain Nobody will look at the terminals
they feed into sentences, digits
where they hide their innocent
and ours:
a panhandler named Rambo,
faked
a missing arm for 20 years, served
In “Da Nang Viet Nam ’72 - ‘73”, faked
[10]
[10]
what he learned “from history books”
“ I made him!” around the cornerStolen valor? What was there
To steal
From whom?
are our sentences,
ending
point, stop, gylph,
the value of one
marked by a comma
what he learned “from history books”
“ I made him!” around the cornerStolen valor? What was there
To steal
From whom?
are our sentences,
ending
point, stop, gylph,
the value of one
marked by a comma
[11]
[11]
“I can tell the edges of the old”
and new squares
boxes on the street the dead
in the wire cloth the sutured grid.
Virgil couldn’t stand with
pulp
in the dark, wove lead (yellow)
The fi ngered virile
self to move
with trauma, I slept
on a train
Once I was yellow and learned to use a protractorTo measure degrees.
“I can tell the edges of the old”
and new squares
boxes on the street the dead
in the wire cloth the sutured grid.
Virgil couldn’t stand with
pulp
in the dark, wove lead (yellow)
The fi ngered virile
self to move
with trauma, I slept
on a train
Once I was yellow and learned to use a protractorTo measure degrees.
[12]
[12]
There was no government
after it hung
left open,
leaves, without degrees
except for small arms
which armed
The open branches
the yellowwood dropped.
Then making it move again, just sit,
there chairs and gun-
stocks, furniture
for the future, there is no drawing for
obstacles and distance, at the speed of a bullet
Still
“justice isn’t fairness”
There was no government
after it hung
left open,
leaves, without degrees
except for small arms
which armed
The open branches
the yellowwood dropped.
Then making it move again, just sit,
there chairs and gun-
stocks, furniture
for the future, there is no drawing for
obstacles and distance, at the speed of a bullet
Still
“justice isn’t fairness”
[13]
[13]
The fair redoubt
rough-dressing
Stones, the same color
Dust and light, another country in my dream
I never knew
how to win and work for
a moth the same color, wings open at rest, wiped off
A counter
“After all there was no setting
fi re” to themselves
monuments of “endless love of horizontals” and “eternality of
the will”
and the quarried
black
hollow spaces to win, drawers of
petrifi ed beauty.
Just think
of the uses.
The fair redoubt
rough-dressing
Stones, the same color
Dust and light, another country in my dream
I never knew
how to win and work for
a moth the same color, wings open at rest, wiped off
A counter
“After all there was no setting
fi re” to themselves
monuments of “endless love of horizontals” and “eternality of
the will”
and the quarried
black
hollow spaces to win, drawers of
petrifi ed beauty.
Just think
of the uses.
[14]
[14]
But “beauty was beauty in every degree”
and private’s private
invented
a machine
for everything in the kitchen
Drawer, or mouth
“to be able to taste something”
red like
for red ink and xenon
use the invisible blood
security, colored
monitor “there is no distance from”
or measure the box, cell
for the new icon(s) must be close
Red drift --home ec General knowledge
for the new thumb Iron
white hole or an iron
for the new icon(s)
dodges the paper.
But the veil “left the eyes free”
But “beauty was beauty in every degree”
and private’s private
invented
a machine
for everything in the kitchen
Drawer, or mouth
“to be able to taste something”
red like
for red ink and xenon
use the invisible blood
security, colored
monitor “there is no distance from”
or measure the box, cell
for the new icon(s) must be close
Red drift --home ec General knowledge
for the new thumb Iron
white hole or an iron
for the new icon(s)
dodges the paper.
But the veil “left the eyes free”
[15]
[15]
These petrifi ed forms
hang around
inside
the occupiers passages
in between, the displaced people
who thought the right thoughts
Hydra, appeared to have
an extra
head, but the octopus had too many hands
for her mouth
and couldn’t see
the concrete things
all the squares
and underlying detours or orders
stone upon stone, Sing Sing’s
silent system prospectsall the squares, to see
in some degrees
These petrifi ed forms
hang around
inside
the occupiers passages
in between, the displaced people
who thought the right thoughts
Hydra, appeared to have
an extra
head, but the octopus had too many hands
for her mouth
and couldn’t see
the concrete things
all the squares
and underlying detours or orders
stone upon stone, Sing Sing’s
silent system prospectsall the squares, to see
in some degrees
[16]
[16]
from blue holes depends upon the actual
Bunkers
you are liable for
the cut stones and trees
the trees have become
barrels,
and drawers
the building plans
It depends on
from blue holes depends upon the actual
Bunkers
you are liable for
the cut stones and trees
the trees have become
barrels,
and drawers
the building plans
It depends on
Lee Gough lives in Brooklyn, NY. She occasionally teaches art in
New York City public schools. More of her recent poetry can
be found in Antennae 12, and more of her drawing, print media
and (coming soon) experimental animation work is at leegough.
net
This little red leaves textile series chapbook was designed and
sewn by Dawn Pendergast in Houston, Texas.
Lee Gough lives in Brooklyn, NY. She occasionally teaches art in
New York City public schools. More of her recent poetry can
be found in Antennae 12, and more of her drawing, print media
and (coming soon) experimental animation work is at leegough.
net
This little red leaves textile series chapbook was designed and
sewn by Dawn Pendergast in Houston, Texas.