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NO DIMES FORTHE DANCING GYPSIES

LINDA KING

B L A Z E V O X [ B O O K S ]Buffalo, New York


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No Dimes for the Dancing Gypsiesby Linda KingCopyright 2016

Published by BlazeVOX [books]

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Interior design and typesetting by Geoffrey GatzaCover Art: Absence by Natalie Trujillo

First EditionISBN: 978-1-60964-225-9Library of Congress Control Number: 2012944191

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beyond a theory of meaning

you are done with the tellingthe casual dependenceon truth as utterancemeaning by intentlike wordsounds making truthfrom a promissory note

our language acquisition devicehas fallen on hard times

has moved far beyonda theory of meaning

random points place nameselevation markers iconsthey disappear from mapsunable to bear the weightof certain ways of being


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sentences have new rules

the interest in nouns is wavering

wait for instructions dust for fingerprints

research the philosophy of the fallen

grief speaks some foreign language

where everyone is a political prisoner

the lines are broken at cruel places

a reaction to the brutal remarks from Wittgenstein

with enough sin for constant atonement


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no coordinates

you can only look backon scrubbed clean cravings

soldier child

look both waysa thousand milesof oncoming traffic

voided tram tickets

finderskeepers interlockingsentencessorrow and crossbows subject to the weather

beyond every said thing

adjectives forecast regret

they arecompelling interpretations

from siphoned ink


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accidental alibi

you write the words that merge into times expectations of survival runs its courseunder shunned contingency open secrets erasures waltz into grief the future storybeyond the filigreed beginning maybe messages sent from a stress test word graveafter the storm the blank page is never neutral a sad reasoning the frame is blackand white pulls the letters off the screen this is not a correction but rather red linesin the margins off the mark stretched thin meaning not meaning inside the circleyou have cured yourself of those failed days and a city hidden with dream wordsinside the letterbox make it worse try to make it worse the way to calm the panica disturbance of position standing without permission hold tight like soft gunfire

tangles in an explanation one way ticket to payback the violence of languagereconstruct trophy words talking in tongue at the scene of the accidental alibibone marrow and ash voices from another room read from the tele prompter


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t the mercy of gr vity

knowledge the steep price of words where language goesto know and unknow how language is broken down

a queen-anns lace vocabulary tremble ofparticulars distilled half-remembered

hypnotic utterances on stagemagnetic configurations

locked into spacetimeheld captive


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declare your sadness at the checkpoint

you will need

additional material different

from what is

merely a possible suggestion

gestures are a separate reality

you will wail in all tenses

wild animals at the gate

will tear into your humiliated vocabulary

all meaning is representational

a throw of useless dice

like existential skipping ropes


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fledgling

access point

self

sentenced in those transparent methodswandering so far into solitudewhat is place but language

space and detours

answers for everythingand everyone

cognition in a nest

of collective perspectives

you mimic the speakingrecite all three wishes

catalogueeach rare birth


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other dichotomies

a mouth full of sorry in forever renewing lines

never surrenders

no reconciliation available

just a glossary of spare parts

those mother remnants written in demolition script

strategy is meaningless

language twisted every sweet song erased

mirrors hold the chemical drip of time

or else philosophy


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you occupy every space with pain

with what is outside the alphabet

a passed-down vocabulary

pre-wired for disappointment

like little shocks

of old language


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trying to somersault

the problem

with that step

into the void

all that pantingfor air

slow implosion of realityin your load-bearing heart

the limits of language

of speech

reach the edge of fluency

you arealready weeping

you know

your good intentions

dont matter here


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knocking against language

this silence goes transparent

nothingresembles itself

chalkon the sidewalk

more sad stories

codes to decipher

philosophers on the marqueethe being demons

naming thingsinto existence

the passwordis a simple cave drawing

smudged linesfrom a childs inkwell


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a historydevoted to mystery

not mercy

the sub-titles

untranslatable


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what you know is this

there is no speaking beyond languageand yet you depend upon small momentsangels buckle your shoes

you are careless with realitythe order of thingsconclusions are blood soaked

the daughterwho left a daughteryour history washed away

water filled with waterasp listening for the flutemoonchanting hours

every darkness is a nightthat hides the weight of objects

halting steps to the real

its like belling the cator glass wordsbreaking

you no longer havea return addressthere has been a change of plans

call in your favoursbeing has becomea crime of passion

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