Elle Mundy
PNEUMATICS
underdressed
—compared to some—
supremely relaxed
in public, even
in the back row
facing so much self-referential
anxiety which doesn't affect me
underslept
unfeeling
craving pfressure
more pressure
cannot get enough prussure
3, 6, 89
but PUSH
2, 4, 8mm
goto place
the pressure of bed against body
and body against
body For
body Towards
body AROUND
smash of
swish of
squish of
kept me up
overdressed
—for this heat—
have not depilated
in WEEKS
covering the exhaust pipes
no escape
and craving
never asking
feeling
pressing lightly
lady fat on bone_
inversion of
digging tunneling circling
the drain
would someone else like to
here uh
yeah—yyeah
TAKE it—
—
A MEMORY OF A MEMORY
repetition is the routine
cycle after cycle after:||
each day is the same
each day is similar
each day is slightly different
beat the path by traveling it
wear a groove into a groove
step after step after:||
now construction is the new thing
floor after floor after:||
each floor is the same
each floor is similar
each floor is slightly different
build the tower by climbing it
haul honor out of height
brick by brick by:||
propagation is the new king
frame by frame by:||
each frame is the same
each frame is similar
each frame is slightly different
but take it down by watching it
come down now, out of there
tick by tick by:||
protection is the grasping
same by same by:||
every same shall be the same
every same shall be the same
every same shall be the same
preserve their death by living
squeeze every last drop of life out of death
wring it wring it:||
1995 REFLECTION ON 20th c. PERCEPTION EXPANSION
industrial origami
a solitary slice of cardboard
creased into protective formats
interlocking sans adhesive
a municipal actuator
safely (sup)porting optical equipment
from kumamoto to brooklyn
telephone terminal
smooth ceramic potentiometer
joined at trunk head
world paved in semaphore
plug boot function
polyphonic electrical subjunctification system
enabling global telecom uplink at low expense
french henchman at paris palace
churning, grinding oppositional entities
into massive plume of fine grey dust
old socks and smokestacks
chuffed to meet the maker
splashed mite of surfactant on tuberculosis window
emerging from bath of flailing babe
in foreroom porcelain-enamel basin
saliva sample slipped into
processing receptacle
at yellow compliance zone
obtained journographical physiometric evidence
risking contamination for the test
scrip for comprehensive countenance reconfiguration
optical squelch
chromatic fiber splayed
subliminal spaceflight
atmospheric condition
dynamic visibility rangefinder
surfing the crest of human potential
cow-catching signals on swept electromagnetic frequencies
traversing the vibrous cyclical fractal
before and beyond perceptibility
abstraction is the extent of what we can manage
rejecting consequential self-deception
evolution to subsequential self-representation