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Toasted susie is my ice-cream.

[anneboyer]

for when you do not want to read closely or faraway

Read the poem as something it isn’t. Read it as a constitution, love letter, or recipe. What happens if we remove from the poem our expectations of what a poem might be? Can you put together an IKEA bookshelf with it?

Read the poem...

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"The pen is mightier than the sword." - Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1839. An old PEN logo, circa 1950.

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Preciocilla // Gertrude Stein

Preciosilla by Gertrude Stein

Cousin to Clare washing. In the win all the band beagles which have cousin lime sign and arrange a weeding match to presume a certain point to exstate to exstate a certain pass lint to exstate a lean sap prime lo and shut shut is life. Bait, bait, tore, tore her clothes, toward it, toward a bit, to ward a sit, sit down in, in vacant surely lots, a single mingle, bait and wet, wet a single establishment that has a lily lily grow. Come to pen come in the stem, come in the grass grown water. Lily wet lily while. This is so pink so pink in stammer, a long bean which shows bows is collected by a single curly shady, shady get, get set wet bet. It is a snuff a snuff to be told and have can wither, can is it and sleep sleep knot, is is a lily scarf the pink and blue yellow, not blue nor odour sun, nobles are bleeding bleeding two seats two seats on end. Why is grief. Grief is strange black. Sugar is melting. We will swim. Preciosilla Please be please be get, please get wet, wet naturally, naturally in weather. Could it be fire more firier. Could it be so in ate struck. Could it be gold up, gold up stringing, in it while while which is hanging, hanging in dingling, dingling in pinning, not so. Not so dots large dressed dots, big sizes, less laced, less laced diamonds, diamonds white, diamonds bright, diamonds in the in the light, diamonds light diamonds door diamonds hanging to be four, two four, all before, this bean, lessly, all most, a best, willow, vest, a green guest, guest, go go go go go go, go. Go go. Not guessed. Go go. Toasted susie is my ice-cream.

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Vija Celmins. Moon Surface (Luna 9) #1 

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BE AWARE OF INVISIBILITY

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"This Outline (?), or  Depiction (?) is  found in Anima Hominis. (on pages. 88–9) from Charles Hoole’s English translation of Comenius’ Orbis Sensualium Pictus* published in 1659" -Ptak Science Books.

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Etienne-Jules Marey

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Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)Triangular prism presenting one of its bases to the air stream, fourth and lastversion of the smoke machine equipped with 57 channels1901Modern print after the negative plate with gelatino-bromure on glass

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Étienne-Jules Marey, 'Flight of gull', 1886

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e.e. cummings