harry k stammer

poetry from downtown LA and areas adjacent(s)

10/30/2003

Los Angeles & 3rd - 1

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what where run of tents sun side three foot spots marked "get out of the 5 dollar a night to night" tent box tent box C's left eye going black slippers E's tennis shoes mark it internal pulled up guttural pulled out heart towing E sits against a fence head back sleeping sun side facing "it's not that hazy" an end or means action E stands scratching smiling across the intersection has mastery over his thinking viewing rationality focusing

hair gel as myth as created who in what where inter-science un-reiterate re-if-ication un-enchant produced-ed along the box housing neighbor

C blinks away the in-fection tries buckle it up where what smiling big smile E loves C loves her adapted a-domination her engineering her character planted spot in E's for-head tent box box tent moving process matter it bodies-y up ward


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10/29/2003

Santee Alley 2

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walk -away from the fashion district don't –press down enact not acting set I –and you over be I merely of -conceptions

but –nor than forgets then by thoughts tell no –but this and that your where except and –have into that for therefore and so will –that and were to

to –that and that to dangerous ban quet –know hard know love use gentle of yourself –glass yourself hear me myself me –eyes yoke of in heard

eye –turn lament just things itself face? cogitation –buried passion men war –neglect on grieved behavior myself –difference am

countenance –look you hand have gentle ness –late you desire in part do I course –pass march again upon face march hear –music me again calls


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10/28/2003

Santee Alley 1

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historian through (of in) hogwash looped/ fastened who obtains periods through (of in) possession maintain avoid "brought forth at birth"

explore the finger then the thumb: pack rations grant a "the" turn the chairs a quarter turn them proceeding past

lisping: B walks (reader intervention) importance taken you u (of in) sloth exercise forms reb-ell-ion reforms(ed) as one avoids

advantage advent edge inferior, 'the flower

in her hair blossoming-ing' a sun dried heart be-be-beating Adonis (simile) yours smelling lime likely diluted in a glass a

(of in) seas roiling er-coursing adding drops water (arrived) or not B walks hand around knob door twisting isting arrogate [claim without justification]

shoulders pushed forward standing chin chest today sullen minus one sullen minus two sullen three days ago prescript pre-jacket

pre-silence counting (of in) connect silence pre-blue eyes count looks of loving of love method pre-strained as power

hogwash historian (of in) looped through/obtaining-ed fast to possession to possessed unfast hold "forth brought avoid birth at"


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10/23/2003

5th at Stanford

5th at Stanford a long line of ants crawl ing up Stanford heading to Fifth: Styrofoam Thai food H looks up and sees them disappear reappear over a rise in the cement line long stumbling pockets (not think) that walk to the next corner re-occur as as food waiting waiting so


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5th at Central

shelter light rows of sixty cycle sing B flat hymns – hums rings explanations of absolute sanding controlling as the window from as peeking in of


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5th at Alameda

derived from objects tossed high re-arrange mis represent several as fuel current vegetables standing saying "extreme symptoms" achieving supervised house terms (round) turned suitcases piling up ov er jogging back to step it


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5th at San Pedro Street

racing across 5th H stumbles and falls nerve pinches gray beard "do you have a cigarette?" pencil pocket 12 things thinking about the stair case is a slammed up against the frozen pushed over thawed through the corner drain at San Pedro for


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10/22/2003

Beaudry at Wilshire

B bites down harder hard, hardly more than content as B who figured the bits what lay between two fingers the content the cultural lines without spoken a fault line words in course showing a forced lacking personally giving conversion break it open to two bits, bites, down harder: screw torture turning finally this "someone left a package on the train what the fuck" officer Joan proclaimed out it's pervasive no pervasive him she it's big and round dramatic inconsistent enemy shadow open mass conversions playing Mozart to Berio some single string wooden plank ed instrument without hang ing suspected to bite it hard er in precise time to do to do to do marked duo decimal not two in four but opposite siding quad equally obliquely hard harder sounds identical between words


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Beaudry at 7th

W wakes up and realizes she is on the sidewalk remembers someone throwing her out on the street someone throwing her out on the street the street passing between 1 = 6 and the late bus to Monterey Park 496 (they they took took the the numbers down last night) squeaking door – "Portia playing the violin in the alley the dark alley money falls down she's wealthy" the electronics store has no silence that's re-newed it's up delightful from 8 am to 12 pm take a piece of paper write the word you relate to and post them in an electronic format (if you can find) see the result results broken nose fingers ankles around the examination table grounded in eyes for obscenity scrutiny etc. that censorial obligation in any corporate partner single owner-ship ex-pur-gate place a candle on the table "light up my life" edit and delete no matter what it's consisting of cells instruments drawn from a fragrance your mother wore to 'Ray Charles' cede cede cede let it up stop take the sign as written the 'Terms Of Service' the T=O=S toss it the bricks up to the next man toss the cement up to the next man toss the bricks up toss the shit away it's given some the idea pickled sturgeon cave like existence shrouded in stucco hidden protected bye bye 'bye blackbird' petty objectionable bodies considering what that though may have at it's outer center a divided area W wakes up in the main activity a cardiac care unit meditating on a 'Carlin' rant a Shakespeare rant coupled with oxygen bottled around Beckett's neck while a pivot revolves into mid points points points points points points all thrown out


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10/21/2003

Beaudry at 6th

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"presumably no one tells you what to say write read" the sign (lettered without numbers) the big red wig and funny nose – the clown is walking with B and speak ing: parody play pretense purse purveyor placatory pretending to pronounce cartoon-ish people pacing back to confront to con strain "don't you see it?" no put some history behind it put a pencil behind your ear and sing 'if I were a stinger missile a sting er bee' I would hallucinate a beautiful world one where... walking at night slicing throats of homeless ones who who who and put gasoline in bottled water bottled beer bottled devils reality never ever ever broken ev en when weighing it remember to take into account the water weight the Mayor may not of have presumed that 9th Street became Olym pic Blvd. at San Julian no movement definite resent, revenge (no regret) malignant (watch those turns doesn't really... early end) B thinks foot ball and some end, tight. happening three (3) times

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"presumably nobody says what to say to him writes read" the sample (putting letters without numbers) the great red wig and the amused nose - the clown is walking with B and of the speech: the pretending placatory of the purveyor of the of pre-tightens of the game... of parody to pronounce the people of the comic strip-ish-ish that establishes the step again to faces towards "don't of the tension that you see it?" no position a certain history behind him put a pencil behind its ear and sings "if that was a missile of the sting to the bee of the puncture" would hallucinate a beautiful world one where... walking at night which it slices the throats of nomads who who that and gasoline put in water in bottle it bottled the beer never bottled in always always broken of every of the reality of the devils to the grief it remembers to consider the weight of the water that the Mayor could of not have been concealed which 9th street became Olympic Blvd. and San Julian no returned salary to send defined of the movement, revenge (no grief) bad (really watches don't of those returned early end) B thinks the ball of the foot firmly and a certain end, happening three (3) times


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10/16/2003

Beaudry at 5th

he says "let go of description, keep it in the background" lower the attenuate it separate of controlled 'be-ing' after the sun sets fog plastered in Santa Monica B watches her reflection break between window panes frame to pane to frame to pane hand to face "a sure tooth" a revival of medical conditions against remedial economic condition als pre-conditions "is" and walk by another frame or frame

not no (lost: as in death) one says attention to description background it in keeping "lower" turn them all down turn over one by one little hot cakes grow ing the pan battered and is it 5th or 6th the time is left the timing becomes Arco Plaza pavé walkway ("someones idea of a french man reflecting on reality") the pain killers stop work-ing free-ing test-ing


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Beaudry at 4th

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hospital gown flip flops change rolling pocket to to a district crying dis-regarding all notice of community friendly-ness posted on a concrete light pole intentionally care-less pointer on the dial points up and to the right up and to the left culpable points to another line: you've you are are you of the in difference negotiated in attention or in any agreement ob-stacle that "necrosis in the left and right lower extremities" needles against the back-drop or gray (anti-skyline) disjunct, squares square leading to rolling pocket change handed out during lunch during commute during not not not not not not not not not not. is around the corner oriented in final right left-ness

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to the failures of pull of the dress of the hospital change the pocket of the balance district that it shouts without paying attention to all the warning of friendly-ness of slight the indicating community fixed to neglected a concrete one of the post intentionally in the points of the dial raises and to the right raises and the left guilty points to another line: you've you are you are you of in the difference negotiated in the attention or any obstacle in the agreement "necrosis in left and right the lowest extremities" the needles against the context or (against-horizon) disjunct gray, square of the squares that leads to the balance that the change of pocket distributed during lunch during exchanges during are not around the left-ness corner oriented in straight final


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10/15/2003

Beaudry at 3rd

it isn't something to step in front of at 4 in the morning even a pigeon knows that if B steps forward and doesn't look right or left then evenings dreaming is lost: so pulling up Eliot's (old) stakes and moving (fields) the circus to Olsen's house B's eyelids flutter hospitals blues plastic shower cap flip flops, evolved by nature and repeated over each act "you can't paint it" pound it in till it is instantly an example a behavior a principle something isn't stepping a front in of to pigeons a even the 4 morning in the toes hanging swinging over the ground (cement shelf) singing "paint the sky blue" in a Brazilian dance band four eight five six it up into statements statement stemming into quietly you you


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10/10/2003

Beaudry at 2nd

should you speak it (or not) when driving when sleeping envious acting portrayed while burning in the reflection off 80 stories of glass: B waits and waits again to show it as a sign or flag but not seeming to sincerity pulling out Fromm and feeling better as the hand is, the pocket (should you speak it) a cash transaction "oh, nostalgia mingles with September" speak it driving or not when when as if worshiped but forgetting to it the glass lip is flared in the flies swimming die anyway pulled back after extending into the street and back distinct anxiety returning unbroken viewing continuous (it isn't the events it's not the events) though meaning presently is the speaker speaking unintentional sucked back coughed out of the bronchial presented upon the contracted literalist disappearing perspectively away time marked by drawings of marine and plant life

B waits one more that thirteen no frail matching enclosed supported unsupported structure "encouraged to yell" hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey

it isn't echo or myth and fire isn't always stolen or blown by winds of hilly seas comparative ly sentenced to short syllabic words, how do you get absolute from a smothered murder?

B waits one more than fourteen unable not failing wrapped up not lingering (if there is hunger then it is dirt and rocks) no tongue licks however in ears, do you remember "should you speak it"


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10/9/2003

Beaudry at First

to to to to conceptualize to reduce/renew a stable house/meaning to act inward away from the an outward larynx to oppose that tertiary thinking that written to

us/you as terms: life-less plus equals some one you/us know as secondary as as sociation arguing (under her breath) then writing in this concrete wall was a pre-speech a fore

warning undecided structured with in: under B's hat floating moths talking to the examining lice both obdurate "no please listen to me" oh fuck off up at the Bonaven

ture moth-1 says "get this unspecified decided thing out of your mouth" moth-2 "I won't take a position, not now" (Pound rolls over Der rida) lice-1 looks up at the street sign "say something emo

tionally rinding!" forget Carey Grant forget that movie with Spencer and Hepburn forget them all pull together your cameras survey it agree that you don't know if it's a fit

an intuitive issue your inten tion and lip flapping as if you knew before you spoke you you you equations of speech of tonguing to to to to to to to


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10/3/2003

Sunset at Beaudry

parallel to the Harbor freeway P's feet slip from out from her robe that's the pain used as interchangeably as means to a rest put a rest put and and and

suggesting abate-ment mercy in justice justice is signatures lined along side exactly opposite (not exactly) on hardened narrow street like as each toe

pulls slightly apart the air between 'the fresh air of morning cooling in the glow of the orange sunrise' P pulls out a letter and reads: Dear P, you have been cordially invited

to a cocktail fund raiser at the Disney Hall BBQ and Ball. Please rsvp by 12 12 12 12 12 1960 and and then eye up arm down leg forward 'ah Allah'

take or pick up one letter at the beginning forget that the time tells you to awake awake and then then then conduct just maintenance brooms on Sunset at Beaudry

and the proceeding continue: "Oh, horrible, oh horror, it's not a manner that's worthy" open it up reduce comparisons along statements about statements of playing fair interchang

ing your view that the time is telling you to "wake up and sing along with the beautiful world, world" raise it rear it respect nothing nor nourish those little rates (rats)

keep keep keep walking keep walking pull out that Woody Guthrie record and sing along "I'm leaving the border for a former life and job just let me stay I'll pretend to belong"


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10/2/2003

6th and Spring - fall pre-fall

F picks up paper trash cups leaves from the gutter sidewalk humming and singing quietly "I'm free to fall to fall fall" down a stretch of 2nd street after walking away losing sense of time streets: maintenance careful temperate roving pages corners turned up folded over a face mayor Hahn against a Palestinian victims arm bleeding. up up into the bag into the can as not opposing moderately reactions resulting joined practically sing "my editor editor-ditor wants more syllabics syls... labs... ics ics... icsss" down down into the bag bag go bag saving the city from the massive trash piling on every street every Homeric- ic-ic, "would you call this environmentalism?" (surfeit) protection safe guarding conservationist singing Woody Guthrie 'Deportivo' one way two way roasted almonds on white toast miles out on the 101 to Ventura dotted:

from West valley Division bused to Van Nuys hearing sentencing bused to LA county

mens...

can you stay awake for days? it's physics, so they say at NYU or USC or UCLA or Berkeley or Stanford or John Hopkins, it's

Adverse to change not subject to adverse ness ness Take the external thought (some think it's action)

F pulls up his trousers


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10/1/2003

6th and Spring - late late summer

why would she be defamed not only dead not only those (these) are the questions that can be asked whether looked at blindly/blank like: hit it hard take a word that no one (almost) knows/understands pick one power mixer with "wide" expression P listens carefully not knowing more though Iago walks back wards perhaps permanently unstructured no longer seeing through Punctuation, the picture or pictures that line walls thrown mutable still eyeballs never silent varia-tions whether dis-figured re-cripples ignorant grumbling "it's genre" it's billboards roman tic violent visions of a thousand fucking in the hills of Hollywood complete lust-land chemical helicopter sprayed full moon August "this isn't about self denial." it "I" has its place and arises everywhere every often making its victim "I" break down buy a gallon of gasoline and light up spell sections editorial souls out in third world space (person) the rocks between Mars and the dust in my eye "I" isn't a sum re lation on earth in perpetual description walk out de scribe walk in experience the exact speech but don't re member how it fit or how its des-cent echoed back singing:

(she's hiding in the bushes more or less a bride uncommon but luscious unsteady violently right

it's free & open the nature in her backyard it's honest 'oh, man' the oranges the grapefruit the limes the limes, 'oh, man')


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