Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Hank Lazer



VARIATIONS  ON

we are each an
occurrence     part
of an infinite
series     &

in each moment
part
of an infinite series
there are things

& moments
we live among
& to know them

i am a thing
among things
similarly
arising & disappearing

part of an infinite
series
in my sing
ularity which is
so totally
common




INTEGRITY

because it cannot
be taught
it matters
a way
of thinking
that refuses
to reduce thinking
to a set of learned
characteristics
because it can
not be other than
the infinite
complexity of
being itself
there is nothing
specific to be
learned nothing
to teach
& repeat
this is what
i mean by
pleasure
or
integrity




IS

is itself
boundless
joy
rumble
of morning
thunder
after reading
time
to sit
& it is
quiet
again
breath
by breath
& a
quiet mind




THE  RETURN

there is
a purity
upon the re
turn ask
jimmy giuffre
ask john zorn
ask george
oppen re
turn then to
a simplicity
or
call it
clarity that
for equally good
reasons
had been
resisted
ask bob
creeley ask
charles bernstein
or
to a purifying
emotion
so bare
in its exposure
that at its
root has
nothing
to do with
purity
which itself
is a dangerous
& impure
word




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