MONOLOGICAL POEM #4 You pursue your own eccentric designs you re- fine the images you order the moments but you donât listen to them as quite differently in their own ways they pursue their eccentric designs refine images show chance movements move differently in the same spaces and damned if theyâre going to listen to you. That is the nub.
MONOLOGISCHES GEDICHT NO. 5 Seltsam was mich noch immer umhaut ist diese Plötz- lichkeit mancher Augenblicke. Z. B. das helle Blinken der Bauchseite wenn ein Delphin sich herumwirft und durch den hochgehaltenen Reifen am Arm der Dompteuse springt. Oder der kalte Sekundenbruchteil wenn eine 61er Bildröhre auf einen Schlag implodiert und dir erst über den Splittern klarwird daà da immer schon kein Gedächtnis war (was also sollte verlöschen?). Vermutlich kommt alles von dieser feind- lichen Lichtung in deinen Träumen dem schiefen Tableau aller toten lebendigen Dinge tagsüber abgedrängt in jene diapositiven Regionen wo jedes so unabänderlich wirkt nicht wahr und trotz allem kaum länger dauert als ein paar tausend REM.
MONOLOGICAL POEM #5 Strange what continually a- mazes me is this suddenness of some instants. e.g., the bright flash of a dolphinâs belly on its upside-down arc through the hoop the swim- suited assistant holds aloft. Or the brittle split second when a â61 cathode ray tube implodes at a stroke and it is only looking at the shards that it dawns on you that there never was any memory (so what was there to be wiped?). Presumably all that is generated from the menacing clearing in your dream the crooked tableau all the dead living things repressed by day into those shady slide-show regions where everything seems so immutable âyes?âand for all that lasts barely longer than a couple of thousand REMs.
MONOLOGICAL POEM #13 (SONG) Take a good look, before they          sell you a pup or down the river.                      Amigo, the clearest insight is in the air.              You donât need to be quicker or cleverer.          (Thatâs part of it.) There is gainful          employment (which makes it prefer- able to the pursuit of happiness). In