Wednesday, 24 December 2014

"...right here - left over..." ‪ Wolfgang Günther‬ (Germany)/Cheryl Penn

1.
the seas rise
& the average
adjusted profit...
electricity still
optimizes smiles ...
both
the surroundings
& the sheer infinite
need poetry...
to take part
doesn't mean
to live...

2.
caught in a breathless
whisper of
18th C existentialism
the lights went
out
the switch was caught
Right Here
said the fixing Man
hovering,
one foot in the abyss.

“”What is living”?

3.
possess & maintain life...
riding shotgun or
the mopane worms
of Mpumalanga -
&, well, nothing is
wrong in being
a secondary entomophagian...
using the wisdom
of the crowd to get
as trusty data as infallible...
account for life
is also quantitative...
not forgetting
Drake's equation...

4.
If I may:
for fear of an old dream
an alarming symptom of being
a PHANTOM
again
I try to persuade the
metaphysical dimension
back into the pages
of history books
where
Drake's equation...
remains problematic
in the Milky Way.

5.
mayday, yes...
    top priority for
    all matters of fact
    & facts of matter -
    the tangible
    & the intangible...
    new insights
    into the patterns,
    that connect...
    metamayday, yes...
    once left
    something fake,
    now being
    is same such must...
    the end of off...

6.
MayDay????
distress.
life threatening
MEGA/META Mayday
May Mean Heidegger
motions Kierkegaard
to
a definitive definition
of
the subjective thinkers form.
Fretful Fractions
may result
here/there in
inauthentic existence.

7.
strolling Calle Antonio Machado...
I summoned Heidegger...
as I  scouted a sparrow...
scratching in the gutter
next to the left posterior tire
of a Ford S Max...
& pecking at  little remnants
of prawn tofu balls...
that little thing was using
his techniques to survive...
from down there
having a nice look
at the artificial lobster garden
offshore... & manmade... 
Heidegger was about right...

8.
stockpiles of sparrows
this way and that
and then again its
Friday night
mean time - or
being and time -
a position right off center
ensures
artificial hearts
keep pumping while seas rise
and the infinite
mountain of death
beckons.

9.
sun raised children...
certainly caught to make lines,
could be pure napalm:
they are poised
to more evil even can do...
down is because how man...
"the ammunition is already
on our soil..."
answering alive  
to ends of...
the conduct of the so called free...
engineering  death...
policies understand blood,
lethal  messages,
pupils' vain affairs –
answering alive to ends of...

10.
staccato rap
and
discordant cords
tapped
The Turn.
The pianist paused
Rachmaninoff stalled -

any requests for
Meaning of Being?

a veil of darkness
descended
the world upended
the answers remains
un-questioned.

11.
sticker than sicker...
S.W.R : An artist
needs only 3 things –
praise, praise, praise...
& wanted to be...
then here than there...
tell you watts & knots...
iron domes & paper grounds...
thousends of people
sourced out & do the porozo...
it's hard to like to be wanted...
love to be a major troll in the rain...
sticker than sicker...

12.
Praise?
Who/Which/Why/When?
Maybe.
“Man is a Knot of relations”
says Saint-Exupéry
Lord Berber in a citadel
among the sands
sifts
creativity with a
microscope
dissecting the cause.

13.
I remember:
During hours
of idle talk
(when)
the Lord of Knots
(who)
from the odd
town of Nightmute, Alaska,
(which)
& in the middle of
Daisy's dilemma
(why)
with all its ids
went suddenly
left and over...

14.
2.1 people per square mile
the crowds are deafening.
Knot Theory
We’ll NEVER get our shoes off.
Inverted knots undone
will untie
the anchors of the world
and
…right here…
     …left over…
the planet will
     Reidemeister move.

15.

Radermcher, Rutengänger,
Reidemeister, Rosentreter etc.
They all deal with mud.
Do they mind
taking their shoes off?
Among the maximum
XPs of meaningfulness...
Flash animated
under the cloak rack?
Shoe covers would do...
What if you're out of space?

Aren't we all left undone?

16.
undone/strangle/mangle
can freedom mingle
with
tears of the slain?
mud skippers - we have them here
BUT
there are no R’s in Gobies
but neither in
in cloaks.
helter-skelter
Time to go -
where are you planning on going with
all this?

17.
Once again, people: 

De duly informed.
Left right out!
& include me
out of this jungle
of concrete immaterialities
ences such as
subsistence, competence
& existence
as well as encies like
consistency,
efficiency  & sufficiency.

Yes, only
knowledge & material
precede the arts...

18.
Reprogramme the transponder
Right here
move left over
moderation in the corner
nod if you understand
about to move
run towards the tree
nod
I’m on the satellite overhead, 
dropping deeper into fair play.
When you dropped in the
encies
the isms resumed play.

19.
agapistic
              solipsism
nihilistic
              casualism.
right here, left over
& for hire.
logins, trekking shoes
& good will
firmly included.
the algorism
of abouts to move
as sleep paralysis
comes to its end
&
A along with non-A 
coexists...

20.
epistemological solipsism
endomorphic atrophy
mathematical mapping
of right here -
left over concepts
in isolated corners
whimper =
just BEING is naturally
hazardous.
I told them -
Every lock can be picked
all you need is time.
this will be more beneficial
for them than I

Teaching is the hobby
Finding a way IN
where no way exits.

21.
I left the cave of
fixed  
bulimic
culture.
A surplus of  minusses.
& over there the thermal pool
of unexpected self-reliance
& with a nice level of potassium.
The  deghom in premeval dialogue
with quantum vacuum & me.
A solidarity of everything
that flows like time & blood.
& I - again - became
my own included middle.
Still I asked him:
Should I check on
my chromosomes 10 & 14
or is it just a bad habit?

22.
Another day [another habit]
What’s solidarity?
the Japanese lady knew
rain off her umbrella like quick silver.
she is in charge of
potassium levels.
look but don’t touch
call me Nuke my mother calls me doctor
10 years of tattoos
the biggest kangaroo crew ever
Trust me
you don’t want to know.
That’s your research division?
things have changed
we’re not an army
we’re the
chromosome resistance.

23.
Wallabahmullah later changed
into the suburb of  Wooloomooloo -
its sky of very fresh methylene blue
& friends with whom I so vastly ranged.

Oh, Henry Longfellow,
what rhymes with chrome yellow?

&:

Mozarella is  right on wrong -
only solidarity makes us strong...

Even the self-willed  anthropos anarchos
should use extensively dental floss...

24
Playing drums in the air
why Wooloomooloo?
Cerulean blue too
had much to say on chrome yellow -
a place of plenty
    or fields of blood?
the self-willed  anthropos anarchos
replied in pale beige tones-

Wala-mala,
         The Burial Ground.

 25.
To remember.
Approximating an end.
Non scholae sed vitae disciplimus.
Adapting people
  - to come up with the fact
  - to fall short of all expectations
  - to stay in tune.
Scaled knowledge.
Keep quiet & go on.
Tinsel on body & soul.
Chlorine chicken with rhubarb sorbet.
Right here, left over.
We'll perish with democracy...
The words are changing.
From why to how.
To cultivate bikes.
Everything stays different.

26.
Approximating an end
you can have the compass
she wanted to make sure
he would always
find his way
back to her.
Down here,
the polarity is
reversed
so take the hair
out your eyes
tie the bamboo stacks the music is rising
democracy is failing.

27.
Still living in the greenhouse
of my Mother Earth
I use her compass
on a daily basis...
Homemade pumpkin tart
&  forests seen as
antinecromantic social sculptures.
Instant the bhubezi
& the gender-neutralized nonsuches.
From hearsay & by safe assumptions.
Do we know what we are up to..?


28.
water falls flowing from afar
streaming among rocks with no end.
and the dandelions
are bigger than oak trees
     if That’s real,
is This?
the fantasy?
slow down
I’m right here
left over there
not all caves have         
Plato shadows
even if we cast one.



Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Books of Ether - Untitled as yet Marie Wintzer/Cheryl Penn





Somewhere we decided that this book would be made of altered images JUST of the clay books I have made.  I had great expectations/future for all these small works, which unfortunately did not eventually amount to anything as boredom set in - doing things TWICE sometimes sets that monster in motion, so 40 of these small books just, well…. Marie has managed to revive them and they now exist as something else - an unexpected twist in their path.







Thursday, 11 December 2014

Collaborative Vispo and Asemic Writing - Marie Wintzer/Cheryl Penn (Part 1)



Its ALWAYS good to work together - evidence follows :-)!  This will become part of The Books of Ether series published on Scribd - here's a sneak pre-view. Marie has a touch that is foreign - and familiar to me - this is the essence of true, successful collaboration - no voice is louder than the other, no one style takes dominance - the work just sings together in poetic harmony.  I had made a series of clay books (the plan was big but boredom set in). They languished in a box gathering dust.  Then, Marie stepped into the images - and … they are new, fresh - she created work that would NEVER have existed otherwise.





Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Black Box Theory (for Rod Summers)

Originally written for TICTAC's Zine in a Box Project.

I signed for custody of all theory
but she got away.
did you do the world a favor?
whatever you heard
the lights overhead are hanging low
and
since when did this become reality
- verbal soup on white cloths.
did you ever work here
on your feet all day
you don’t even have the right shoes.
Will we ever graduate
from a life of balloons?

I don’t want to take up too much time,
I got this idea years ago
I tried to build it myself
a theoretical box
go ahead
put your eye on the end
what a shock
stagger into the glass light
the rain drops
he did vote for you
but the merry-go-round
came to halt.

 what’s wrong?
I want you to know
you can tell me anything

the city is sick
in a way

I had not realized.
the last target?
It doesn’t matter
they’re all guilty
that’s how we feel
everyone
that’s why
we let them all down. 

state of the art
a century  of centuries ago
but the sheer drop -
to theory of forms?
his torch went out.
will you remember my books?
they’re my dad’s.
can I talk to you for a minute?
down there,
over here.

Black box theories
may be
defined
only in terms of their function.

Specifically, the inquiry
is focused upon a thing
that has no immediately
apparent
characteristics
and
therefore
has only factors for consideration held within itself
hidden
from immediate observation. 

3rd one from the back
the desk lights flicker
as the telescope unwinds to reveal
reflections on steps and organ pipes.
Looking around corners
to Bach
and dark wood -
We found nothing.
Newspaper clippings in fluoresce
its just a box of paper clips
I didn’t think anyone would mind.

The term black box
first recorded used by the RAF of approximately 1947
         that kid
cleaning the dishes
he saved something for you
a full bag
hid in the
refrigerator
some sort of sealed container
promotions all round
get the kid a suit
while the table clothes sunk,
once lifted by a strange wind.

describing  the sealed containment apparatus of navigation
recording functions
occurring within
Why did he crash and burn?

He paid his rent on time
it worked
was everything  fake?
there must be something to this
our only lead.
he had his ways I had mine.
You hear laughter
it sends you spinning
not with joy
pistachio spellbound
with wider application
after 1964.


No-one MOVE!
there was only 1 target
and they got him.
And everything he thought
the precious thoughts
of the man hiding
behind his history
or sense thereof.



could I have some change?
Too many late nights leave me
craving
the early morning sun.
I think you have secrets

- What so you want me to say
that I do?

 radio transmissions occurring
within our space
- causality
a classical feature of
Newtonian mechanics
leaves us rummaging
through coloured orange boxes
rather than black.

Aim the telescope higher
to finepoint
“What does it mean”

Bad dreams continue to
wash out on ancient desks while
pearls scatter.

scientifically computing,
black box  device
-       input,
-       output
-       transfer characteristics
-       ?
without any knowledge of their internal workings.
(Refer Outlanders)  

opaque implementation
algorithms of inspection
what’s the new programme then?
There are easier ways
the tired old words
you need to keep
your strength up
as ties are pulled
and weapons of choice are slotted
into  neat boxes
internal combustion ensues.