Orthography Poems
zappa zipper zaptoid
by Matthew Conrad
if a Bergman film could pickle for over 8 years,
frank Zappa's music can pickle for
20 more years...
the slow, deceptive, exploration
of the oeuvre - with no clarity of
a magnum opus - cocksucking some would call
it, i'd call it... nothing quiet like
sweating in your socks without
growing the sort of humidity
to grow a fungus...
......
Jack ιn Iraq: chris rea: josephιne (orthographic guιllotine) / Jamaιcan ȷerk sauce
by Matthew Conrad
. perhaps the world of culture of archιtecture, should revert, back ιnto ancιent roman arιthmetιc, where I = 1, VI = 6... IX = 9, XVI = 16... so me mιght, relιeve ourselves from thιs horrιd: stack-upon-stack phallιc braggιng metaphor?
so... what's the difference between
ȷ and J... ι and I?
other than the current:
that famous IJ floating colon
known in german as the...
umlaut ( ¨ ) ?
well...
......
well, if i'm going to visit Prague this year
by Matthew Conrad
well, if i'm going to visit Prague this year...
i might as welll learn some Czech... first things first,
before i start translating english phrases into
Czech, i'd better look how closely approximated
Polish is to Czech...
beginning with primary words... testing etymological
waters:
(red) czerwony - červená,
(tree) drzewo - strom (no etymology to see here,
......
Polska
by Matthew Conrad
in a language where there is no concept of orthography... sure... the metaphysical dialectic will reach it's natural conclusion - the reincarnation blockage of Platonism - disgraced men would be reborn as women... well? no need to death and the reincarnation... given the current trans-gender / gender-queer momentum... in a language without a concept of ortho-graphy... it's a meta-physical circus... with base cis gender normative para-normal saturday fright night special orgy of speculation... otherwise the benzene ring... etc.
from the outside, looking in?
sure... Poland seems like a great place to live -
with all the ethno-nationalist tendencies...
great great great...
all the journalistic exports: fine 'n' dandy...
but if you are sort of strapped
to visiting your grandparents,
doing some decorative work on the kitchen...
......
russian orthography: three revisions of ЧЙCЬЦIOX
by Matthew Conrad
and tomorrow? i'll be making strawberry ice-cream, i climbed the ladder into the adding and managed to sieve through the clutter, finding the ice-cream machine... but mein gott: i really wish i owned a juicer, i've been watching the Australian MasterChef for some time... the Australians are big into making cucumber ice-cream... well: if you don't have what you'd like: you might as well like what you already have.
and because of the ice-cream, this will not be a perfect poem,
it's not supposed to...
to have started it yesterday drunk...
the most pristine idea, on second thought:
an over-stretched first attempt that will not be
revised: it will be presented imperfectly...
like a sketch or a collage -
it will not be masturbated over like some pedantic
......
zappa zipper zaptoid
by Matthew Conrad
if a Bergman film could pickle for over 8 years,
frank Zappa's music can pickle for
20 more years...
the slow, deceptive, exploration
of the oeuvre - with no clarity of
a magnum opus - cocksucking some would call
it, i'd call it... nothing quiet like
sweating in your socks without
growing the sort of humidity
to grow a fungus...
......
russian orthography: three revisions of ЧЙCЬЦIOX
by Matthew Conrad
and tomorrow? i'll be making strawberry ice-cream, i climbed the ladder into the adding and managed to sieve through the clutter, finding the ice-cream machine... but mein gott: i really wish i owned a juicer, i've been watching the Australian MasterChef for some time... the Australians are big into making cucumber ice-cream... well: if you don't have what you'd like: you might as well like what you already have.
and because of the ice-cream, this will not be a perfect poem,
it's not supposed to...
to have started it yesterday drunk...
the most pristine idea, on second thought:
an over-stretched first attempt that will not be
revised: it will be presented imperfectly...
like a sketch or a collage -
it will not be masturbated over like some pedantic
......
Polska
by Matthew Conrad
in a language where there is no concept of orthography... sure... the metaphysical dialectic will reach it's natural conclusion - the reincarnation blockage of Platonism - disgraced men would be reborn as women... well? no need to death and the reincarnation... given the current trans-gender / gender-queer momentum... in a language without a concept of ortho-graphy... it's a meta-physical circus... with base cis gender normative para-normal saturday fright night special orgy of speculation... otherwise the benzene ring... etc.
from the outside, looking in?
sure... Poland seems like a great place to live -
with all the ethno-nationalist tendencies...
great great great...
all the journalistic exports: fine 'n' dandy...
but if you are sort of strapped
to visiting your grandparents,
doing some decorative work on the kitchen...
......
well, if i'm going to visit Prague this year
by Matthew Conrad
well, if i'm going to visit Prague this year...
i might as welll learn some Czech... first things first,
before i start translating english phrases into
Czech, i'd better look how closely approximated
Polish is to Czech...
beginning with primary words... testing etymological
waters:
(red) czerwony - červená,
(tree) drzewo - strom (no etymology to see here,
......
Jack ιn Iraq: chris rea: josephιne (orthographic guιllotine) / Jamaιcan ȷerk sauce
by Matthew Conrad
. perhaps the world of culture of archιtecture, should revert, back ιnto ancιent roman arιthmetιc, where I = 1, VI = 6... IX = 9, XVI = 16... so me mιght, relιeve ourselves from thιs horrιd: stack-upon-stack phallιc braggιng metaphor?
so... what's the difference between
ȷ and J... ι and I?
other than the current:
that famous IJ floating colon
known in german as the...
umlaut ( ¨ ) ?
well...
......
