Sunday, August 23, 2020
A Definition of Finity
The state of human beings as a finite set of consciousnesses.
The inability of human beings to attain sublimity due to the finite nature of their numbers.
Human beings try to reach an infinity of sets through sex.
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Advancing to the 2nd Level
Advancing to a Second Limit
The Next Finity
I squeeze you for a new soul mission .
I am good to think I may be okay .
Friday, August 21, 2020
Farthest
You can always be farthest away in time.
You can always be farthest away in space and time.
You can always be farthest away from space and time.
You can be furthest
You can always be
You are the one person
The other person is the farthest....
Then you.
From You.
You always go
away to the end
of time and space
.
This is a question
of logical choices
of metaphysical physics....
The you you are is
The mind of the We we are.
Everything Everywhere Always Now Everyone EveryWord
Yes.
Start with Nothing
I reach my hand inside myself -
I'm not me or anyone or anywhere.
I'm no angle or direction,
No shape or idea.
' Did the Fall happen yesterday? '
Semi de Coco
I feel an object. I exact the definition dimension, data-space-time. Can I do without a word? Am I before a word? Electronic re source. Light user. Animal reanimal. Grower, Liver. Neighbor, 40 years, 33 miles, 10 years, 2 days... She, he, they cross a street. One week schedule. 10 hours on a bed. Air-conditioned 2,000 square feet. Industrial bakeries, soup factories, 500 acre ranch. Feed Lot. Backyard Garden. AaronAndee's front yard. .... 6 books, 7,000 pages, 1 million words.
Speaking Friend
Listening Friend
Understanding Friend
David Lynch Theater
Weather
Meditate
Stay home and Work
Why bother with all that bad outside?
My mind changes
I try to think of what is good
Still what should I do?
Better
I relax
My sleep posture
Better pain
Comfort
Less distracting
More Eternal
I change my mind
I find an answer
The End . . . .
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
If there were only 2 people
and it's 1992.
I am special because
I am never more special than you.
If it made any more sense
We would be a tractor on the dreams of tomorrow.
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Let's watch Defiance, Ohio
and weep over Ed Harris's head.
Is Ed Harris alive?
Let's make love at the video store.
- Twin Peaks - Surfer Blood
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Friday, August 7, 2020
Yellow Bathing Suit
Alea Gott
- Teal bikini
- white and orange surf board
Marian
- orange top, teal skirt
- black and blue board
Clive
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Franco
-
Xu
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Holy Ghosting
Got an old wooden sawhorse and two old satellite dishes
You think love is real.
it is a space holy ghosting
The Local Vestibule of Bicuspids
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
The Feeling Mill
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Ellen Burstin's Negligible Proximity
Hell and Hollywood
Monday, August 3, 2020
job, on paper
Mugsy
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Awake in Nanjing
the instant the sky wakes my eyes are shut I’m listening to the rainfall huh
huh huh listening to half a lifetime of rainfall isn’t romantic
the sound of rainfall approaching unites with the sound of a solitary car
the car going away pushes the sound of rainfall away but maybe it’s not pushed
away so much as letting up
like someone’s existence maybe it’s not the person disappearing so much as
lightening
imagine raindrops hitting the ground umbrellas raincoats scenery soaked
one two three four five six construction sites of silent scaffolding cranes no
workers climbing up or down or all around
a shop owner figures umbrellas and raincoats will sell in weather like this
strange
light rain from the country falling on hard heads in the city
apricot blossoms in the light rain peeping through a window at a poetaster
sipping tea this is my image of Jiangnan
this is the Jiangnan of the scholarly landlord and the peasant in concert with
the maxim that houses of gold and jade-like faces are contained within
books
but are the Jiangnan of the small-business owner and the day laborer still
Jiangnan the capitalist’s Jiangnan
is definitely not Jiangnan since jade-like faces no longer seek shelter in books
why don’t the birds sing is it the morning’s fault or the birds’ fault
don’t they know I’m searching with ears of the blind
in Beijing the birds start singing at four a.m. but here what time do the birds
start singing this is a Shakespearean question
or else the birds have signed an agreement not to sing
Meng Haoran died about 1,300 years ago and for 1,300 years the little poem
he wrote about birds singing has lived in his stead
that’s a long time for an American but won’t impress an Egyptian
Meng Haoran was used to a life of sharp mountains and clear waters so we
can infer how sharp and clear he looked
but we can’t imagine how he could make a living as a poet without representing
advanced social productive forces
it wasn’t strange for him to get something off his chest from time to time
and tell it to the river
is this why he stood apart from the crowd how trading up on his grievances
he associated with Wang Wei and Li Bai
but Wang Wei and Li Bai never acknowledged each other when they were
both in Chang’an they looked down on each other
the river flows on night and day oh the river flows by my bedside oh this is too much
I’ll withdraw it
the river flows by the door of my hotel in Nanjing or Jinling or the ancient
capital of the Six Dynasties
is this a hotel or an inn or is this a guesthouse or is it a resort
to friends on the phone it’s a resort it’s an inn to me
what’s the difference the ancients only lived in inns and wrote poems on walls
but in the Republican era Fang Hongjian got a girl in bed only to find a dirty
ditty on the wall behind the pillow
written yesterday
girls girls though red lanterns are still raised over the river Qinhuai at night
there are no more seductress spirits just snack food
on a clean white bed lie four white pillows I use only two
body comfortable erection comfortable I’m in my yesterday not in my day
before I’m not in
in the symmetrical room in the mirror is another me are you the me I’m
symmetrical with
the red light in the left lower corner of the black TV screen is on to show the
power is on like the Young Pioneers showing they’re ready at any minute
use me
a press on the remote control and it’s the world of media
I open an eye and then shut it
who will die today whose nude photos released which factory explode
which police department will commit brutality today which bridge collapse
which politician detained
at 7:20 I hear the birds singing that’s incredibly late am I in some deep ravine
in the split sense of reality in my mind the birds started singing hours ago
I’ve never told anyone that the birds in my mind come from Jingting Mountain
not far from here
Li Bai saw the birds on Jingting Mountain all fly away but never learned
where those birds went they flew into my mind and won’t stop chirping
they’ve divided into sixteen competing camps and decided to hash it out in
my mind
hashing it out they have no idea they’re singing for the rising sun
while the birds singing outside do their best to satisfy Meng Haoran’s
eavesdropping
as if the world outside the window weren’t the real world only the world
where accidents happen is the real world
a world where accidents don’t happen can’t convince people of its reality like
Baudrillard’s simulacrum can be unsure sometimes
so someone who jumped off a roof was caught by someone on the street
stretching his arms
the one who stretched his arms to save him was crushed into paraplegia the
townspeople were so moved by the appeals in the newspaper they
donated money and goods
and the one who’d been saved refused to make a donation the turmoil in his
mind the night before he jumped
and the shocked parents of the one who was saved thought there’d be calm
and peace in the world
sounds of people in the hallway the bacteria in the carpet eat up all the sounds of footsteps
at 7:25
the residue of a dream
Xia said the water in the pool was too cold so she got out put on a shirt and
went back in
the manager told her to get out he said you can’t wear shirts in the pool if
you’re cold you’ll have to put on three swimsuits
at 7:27
the residue of a dream
Feng hears someone knocking at the door asks who is it on the other side
someone says in a husky voice it’s me well good guy or bad guy
Feng asks what is it and on the other side someone says in a husky voice I’m
not sure
is a dream the past
if a dream isn’t the past why does the past try to keep up with dreams
I hear a toilet flush I’m alive others are alive too
the water-treatment plant in the vicinity of the Yangtze might make a
difference of thirty percent
but to piss directly into the Yangtze I won’t do that like Mencius ate meat
but kept clear of the kitchen
it’s a little hypocritical it’s the hypocrisy necessary for civilized behavior
if I can lie in bed looking at the Yangtze I will hypocritically and happily give
thanks to both legal life and illegal life
outside the inn at night there must be Chinese sturgeons swimming by in
the Yangtze but what kind of fish is this
such a grand name such a mundane name who conferred it is it an endangered
species
why isn’t the giant panda called the Chinese bear
the sand barges on the Yangtze ride low in the water paint blotchy not a
single boat is new
the women baring their breasts to the water at stern and bow all women’s
women not a single one ugly
Du Shiniang threw her treasure chest into the water
of all the pretty flowers on the banks not one blooms because of this of all
the cheery lanterns not one goes out because of it
thus eastward do the torrents of the river flow
last year I took a trip here and gazed at the river from the Yuejiang Tower it’s
reconstructed all wrong
I pretended I was the painter Gong Xian gazing at the openness of the river
I tried to pretend I was the poet Gao Qi ascending Rain-Flower Terrace to see
the river emerge from ten thousand peaks but I couldn’t get it right
the Yangtze changed its course from Rain-Flower Terrace you can’t see the river as it was in the Ming dynasty
from my bed I can’t see the river either which means I’m not Emperor
Kangxi I can’t see all under heaven
I can’t see the teeming multitudes in Guangzhou I can’t see the teeming
multitudes in Chongqing
I may as well accept my fate as an ordinary man at least I have nothing to do
with the plight of the empire
reading the paper reading online news worrying about everything under
heaven it doesn’t do shit read short stories instead
my grammar-school teachers my high school teachers they ruined me for life
they trained me to be an observer
an observing peach or plum tree doesn’t even need to blossom
the paulownia trees in the city have been felled the property developers have
friends in city government
if I were the next mayor I’d have all the Republican-era paulownias replanted
back where they were but this is impossible
so I don’t make that kind of friends
I don’t drink my dad doesn’t drink my grandpa didn’t drink
so I can easily open my eyes at 7:30 my bleary brain just lets in the light
I look at the ceiling obviously in luxurious European style but it’s made of plaster
who gives a shit about mountains of plaster wealth so lofty it’s scary
who gives a shit about the three beef patties that fell on my head yesterday
who gives a shit about a modicum of fame
accomplishment comes too easily for engineers accomplishment comes too
easily for masters of arts and crafts
who gives a shit about liking to pretend not to be so vulgar it’s vulgar who
gives a shit about average talent but even that isn’t easy
but who gives a shit
power and influence were of supreme importance to Han Feizi but Zhuangzi didn’t give a shit about them
my brain is wide awake buzzing for my soul to wake up
which is greater that which can be understood in history or that which
cannot be understood
how can refined taste be propagated in a crass age
propagating refined taste means propagating the seeds of the collapse of the
country take the Northern Song dynasty for example the new tycoons
aren’t buying it
ugh the discontent you can’t speak freely and the complaints you won’t make
out loud
I should get up and shower bedhead makes people think you have nightmares
every night but that’s not the case
I should lose some weight my teeth need brushing I have bad breath when
I get up
Han Yu wrote a poem about losing his teeth it must have been before he
turned fifty
at 7:35 who wound me up like a watch to make me take such good care of myself
last night I flipped every switch I couldn’t figure out how to turn off one
light so I left it on until now
sounds from last night’s banquet still linger
two men hugging each other they drank so much two tongues fattened
by alcohol
one said I just went to Frankfurt look at my bag the other said I just went to
Paris look at my shoes
they were talking about package tours to Europe man see ten countries in
nine days
Confucius traveled through the central states if he’d kept that pace there’d
have been no degeneration of the rites under heaven 2,500 years ago
but running through Europe just proves there’s nothing to see there
or else proves they come from a lately developed country it’s not easy for
them to relax
but it’s nothing like spending time in Jiangnan and watching the river flow
from different angles
when Emperor Kangxi came it must have been a real campaign
it’s almost Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival doesn’t mean anything in any country it only means
something in Jiangnan and Jiangnan is this area beneath my bed
it was the kingdom of Wu but was it also the kingdom of Chu
I have friends from Chu I have no friends from Wu I do have some friends
from Jiangnan but right now I’m on my own
how far into the distance stretch the roads inn after inn along this road
reduplicating themselves to the end of the sky
I toss off the blanket slide my feet into two paper slippers
a deep breath
and I stand up
—Translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein
If you enjoyed this poem, why not read …
- “Mourning Problems” by Xi Chuan, also published in issue no. 213, Summer 2015?
Corpse Mantra
An agroecology similar to that proposed for the Archaic Southwest probably existed among the Eastern Archaic peoples, but it has been difficult to document. Eastern groups had well-established bases from which they foraged, including shell mound sites used for thousands of years in Kentucky and Tennessee. At the Koster site in Illinois, a semipermanent village dates to 8400 BP, and a more permanent settlement was occupied beginning about 5900 BP.
The earliest locally domesticated plant in the region is squash; examples appear between 8000 and 5000 BP on sites in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Maine. Squash seeds from the Phillips Spring site (Missouri) date to about 5000 BP and are within the size range of domesticated squash. Although a squash was domesticated in Mesoamerica by 10,000 BP, genetic and biochemical research indicates that the squashes in eastern North America are a separate subspecies that was domesticated locally.
Another early local cultigen is sumpweed. A drastic change in seed size indicates that wild sumpweed fruits were harvested in Illinois about 7000 BP and that by 5500 BP a domesticated, large-seeded sumpweed was being grown. The average size of sumpweed seeds continued to enlarge until about 500 BP, when the domesticated form became extinct, but wild forms have persisted.
Sunflower is another crop that was domesticated in the East. Small wild sunflower fruits are reported from the Koster site in an occupation dating to about 9000 BP. By 5000 BP at the Hayes site in Tennessee, larger domesticated sunflower fruits are reported. Wild sunflower is not native to the East. Rather, wild sunflower appears to have been introduced somehow from the Colorado Plateau in the U.S. Southwest. Sunflower was never domesticated there, however; sometime after the start of the European conquest, domesticated sunflower was introduced to the region from the East.
Chenopod domestication in the East dates to at least 4500 BP, when thin-seed-coat specimens appear at the Cloudsplitter and Newt Kash rock shelters in Kentucky. Extensive collection of chenopod fruits began even earlier in Illinois.
Eastern Archaic peoples were becoming increasingly sedentary by about 4000–3000 BP. At Poverty Point in the lower Mississippi valley (now Poverty Point National Monument), people built a complex set of geometrically arranged mounds that date to between 3800 and 3400 BP. By 3000 BP the Eastern Agricultural Complex supported a complex socioeconomic system exemplified by cultures such as the Adena and its descendant, the Hopewell (see also Woodland cultures). In much of the region, communities became fully sedentary; in addition, pottery had become common, mound complexes began to be built over a wide area, and populations were growing rapidly.
Also at about 3000 BP, archaeological sites on the Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky provide clear evidence that fire was being used to clear garden plots. Burning was widely used in aboriginal North America as a technique for clearing the forest understory; it was also used to maintain stands of fire-tolerant species such as oak. By creating forest openings and edges that exposed the trees to more sunlight and less competition, burning encouraged more nut production.
The earliest corn in the East appears in the central Mississippi valley about 2100 BP. The introduction of corn did not displace the use of locally domesticated plants. Instead, it seems to have been an addition that did not immediately have an obvious impact. By 1600 BP corn was grown as far north as Ontario, Canada, where no form of crop production had previously existed. By 1500 BP the Hopewell pattern ceased. Two distinct systems followed, the Mississippian and the Late Woodland, both eventually supported by corn agriculture. In the Mississippi valley and the Southeast, urban centres with temple mound architecture had developed by 1000 BP. At almost the same time in the Northeast, people were beginning to establish longhouse villages and towns. The common bean was not incorporated into agricultural production until about 800 years ago. By then substantial socioeconomic changes resulting from agriculture had transformed the human landscape across the region (see also Northeast Indian; Southeast Indian).
The region from southern British Columbia through California and west to the Great Basin is increasingly being considered as the domain of a fourth agricultural regime. Nearly all of the native peoples living in this region managed habitats and plants, and some had small gardens at the time of European contact. Perhaps because the first Europeans to visit the region did not witness the extensive geometric field production of grains with which they were familiar, they assumed the indigenous peoples did not have agriculture. Nevertheless, people such as the Owens Valley Paiute irrigated the grasses they used for subsistence. Other groups used controlled burning to manage oak stands and increase acorn production, often planting tobacco in the burned areas. Another management technique was to tend sedges (Cyperaceae family) so that the rhizomes became long and unbranched, a practice that made the plants easier to harvest. These complex plant and habitat management practices blur the distinctions between hunter-gatherers and farmers to the extent that many anthropologists are no longer classifying these people as hunter-gatherers per se (see also Northwest Coast Indians; California Indians; Great Basin Indians).
Gary W. CrawfordAgriculture In Ancient Asia
On his way across the Pamirs in search of Buddhist texts (518 CE), the Chinese pilgrim Song Yun noted that the crest of the bare, cold, snowy highlands was commonly believed to be “the middle point of heaven and earth”:
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Friday, July 24, 2020
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Day Stars
Forty Flowers
There are only 10 flowers per quadrant.
I got in a hot tub at 11
it was kinda hot , but not really , not as hot as other times
engulfed in summer light and air
lingering high pressure systems
i put about a shot of rum in my creamy coffee
then i put a little more than a shot in my water and added diet ginger ale, Canada Dry
I watched GMM and More, on the TV because my mom went to get her eyes checked
i made migas. we made refried beans.
it was all right , beans still too salty
i put the VORW podcast back on a few minutes ago. The Voice of the Report of the Week . . Short Wave
he is very nice
i think we will go to a couple stores today
i am wearing navy pants and a tie dye shirt
i like you
i like being with you, communicating, exchanging words, presence, thinking about each other
being each other
i like me too
share life, anything we do , everything we are , forever
good bye
God be with you
go with God
I watched some of Nelson Sullivan's vlogs
they're fun , i like him , he is really nice " kind and gentle "
i put on a leather belt
My mom got rid of old stuff a couple days ago
The belt was in a box of Terry's hats
It's carved with mountains and eagles
The back says, BUCKWORM
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Neighbor Wonder
Our southern neighbor drove away in a white SUV
I wonder if they are going to get food or drinks or both or other objects
Kinda What ?
i been listening to Locust Toybox and drinking Cane Run rum .
Lost Pop, Bewarely
This is like a Free Write exercise
it all is nice
I free the yodels from the throats of Green Grossers'
I have been a lone Ready Tide for the Yellow Ness In Ing SHeeples' Heap of Humble Knowing of No thngs
I know I was ewe
I dreamed group devils under fun billious moon scabs
I dumped the love bundles under the tree tomb fore the gold golf wangs Whom of Which I was Miss Spelled to be Numbers of Great Holly Lu Jah for Peace in the Time.........
I wake the homie, he said free my house, I said for holding dollars
i watch Atlanta
New Real Hope
Now
I just got happy, and the reasons were too wite and slippy, No Eagles Feign Justice and Freedom
I dap the dope, no one was Me
There is it
The End
Friday, July 10, 2020
" Blood " [ irish TV - Carolina Main ] - Mike's Harder Black Cherry Medical Physical Examination Explanation . . on YouTube , 17 : 11 . . . . Canada ?
I don't know
I don't care
I don't know anything
I don't do anything
Who are These People ?
Why - What - How ?
Do it Now
https://wimastergardener.org/article/whats-in-a-name-understanding-botanical-or-latin-names/
When first learning botanical names, don’t worry about what the names mean (plant names don’t always tell you something useful about the plant anyway). Just add these words to your vocabulary and use them when you can, just like any other word. You wouldn’t worry about what “Joe Smith” means — you just remember his name and what he looks like.
Whad Ya Say?

Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Botany 7-6-2020
Landscape design and horticulture
it feels so weird , like 20 people , their rooms , A yellow wall to Beauty , a red bicycle , a tall green plant , Long Leaves. -- Vanessa Morgan
Grounding ourselves , Understanding the Why , Community - Beauty - Health.
Hayley , Re mind me of twin peaks i wanna cry
care and try.
27 Souls and 8 more to come . . . . and Learn.
All about what we need and hope to Do For the Hope of A L L.
Reader , Read her
Reeds
Full of Water and Shelter
Monday, July 6, 2020
a cloudy humid sleepy walk about 6:30 a m
september twenty first
birthday cakes
funny weird dramas at alamo drafthouses
salted BUTTER
Sunday, July 5, 2020
It's sometime after 1999
I don't know where I will be
I don't know how we feel
Please hold on
Ple-ase ho-ld onnn
We are Potatoes roasting
Burning down Trees
Dragging Bodies to and fro
I wonder if we will ever know
When the end is.
I want to eat food all day.
8 a m to 10 p m
I sleep for 10 hours straight.
I am a lone, I am a friend.
Small Songs
Friday, July 3, 2020
Possible Titles
All Things in All Things
Attention Intention
Attention to Attention
Self in Self of Self
A Tension Attention
A Tension in Tension
Toledo Lights at Night
W A I T
All Things in All Selves
All Selves in All Things
Can We Feel This ?
We Always Take Us Cycling by High Way Lamps Going to Everyone
Infinite Selves in Each Self
--
[ these are for a picture i drew , i may scan it and post it
in it is a sign by a river that says " Atention: This River goes Everywere " and a stick figure labeled ' me ' saying " Hi , tree " ]
Sailer
Another slow learner with the bolo ties
Baby got stuck too far up my uterus
Baby got stuck too far up my uterus
Baby got stuck too far up my uterus
Thank God that didn't work.
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3 o clock is okay with me
I don't worriy about Ballet
I try to type words as fast as I can
Dare I say it
incentivise
Soosan
Put your shoes on
need
must
want
Live
There are always 2 of you.
it's very early like 4 or 5.
I now remind me of me at age 18 or 19 years old.
be cause and i am in the middle bed room The kids.
I kind of like or enjoy this it is like Being Tired
or some thing of some Thing
Some Clarity , Clear Body / mind , samething
I weird i wish
I got A little or medium hang nail
got to cut off . .
The Way Out . . . of listening , Maybe Tear
My dream affects me, A Beauty and Pain
For eyes and Soul, Places Trees Houses . . . Wait.
. . .
You agree Yourself Do you ask
Thursday, July 2, 2020
Broadway Kitchen
Wash the dishes with a toothbrush
You know where Time won't go
- Lyrics by Gregory Wredberg
