Here's a little ditty I think you'll like. It's an ode to aleatory writing practices. I need to work on it more, but have a tasty preview.
Life Is a Room of Empty Frames
1. Follow your natural disposition. You won't miss the target.
He lived in rooms with empty frames
and talked constantly to create the world.
We all talk about breakfast music
a third level deck
the other project
what I love and the space between us
the field and how many geese are in it
the watershed
your feelings, which are surprising,
like when you see someone outside a yurt
and then find them lighting butter lamps inside.
2. The eyes are the sun and moon.
The head the sky, the feet the earth.
You are what eats at you. Be surprised
at this, like when you see someone
and then meet them later in a fight.
The person within the person is the inner self
so we are always three in one. Four limbs
are four seasons, but remember
we're not measuring that way.
3. Balance must be learned. It is the first step.
Schools set mouse traps for copycats
and these are good, he said, handling
the subpoena, the letter from a judge,
the forty people and a couple news crews.
I asked her if she loved me, and she said
that she stopped loving me.
She surprised me then, like when you see someone
outside a restaurant and then they’re seated next to you.
I was sure I would have to get the treatment.
4. Stillness is the foundation,
action is the use. Action is the achievement of stillness.
After she leaves, you must handle
the paintings by the edges
the allegations
the art for these five issues
the partly eaten biscuit
5. Learn to listen to the gradual, quick, hard and soft.
These are good, she said, feeling
the way she does when the heat is at her neck
the fidget is inside her stomach
and she needs to relay at least some of this to Lola
6. Follow the footprints of history,
enter the gate of the method. Handle the beetroots
with exquisite care! Handle the competing uses
of the estuary! It expresses the way I and many other
barefooters feel: I will wrap your coercion
in anxiety and refusal. It will eat at you.
7. In every aspect, research and study. Feel the result with her hands,
the pressure in her head again,
the name of her sister right there at the edge,
the swell of the rivermouth giving way.
See that person there outside the hospital?
Isn’t it strange to meet them again
inside that tired statistic with the peeling linoleum?
8. One studies theory in order to overcome brute force.
I have moved to a place with winter
and very little water where hurricanes
find no attraction, where I can forgive,
where there are not a lot of old school potters
where my interconnection has not been set.
It is socially acceptable.
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