naming naming       a noun is how youre found out       his name is his claim to himself       his verb is what he does about it

today i wanted to shout out loud HOW ARE YOU softly to myself no use unless the rest make clear their relation to you       is that clear       i will attempt to make my relation to you clear

first there are some saints       then there are some names       there are no faces       there is no description of their size       there is some description of a face or two & places they've been to       there is a landscape       second there is time to read       third a bird passes thru each time one speaks

voice:	i want to set a scene with no explanation of my name       there is a plain thru which a river flows       it is very old & folds & folds & folds       now there is a cloud hiding the sun       this could be a description of anyone at anytime       the difference is that this description rymes
2nd voice:	i want to talk about strawberries all of the time       is it very boring       there is a pouring of milk folding over red berries in a bowl & a face that smiles because it is so       later there will be no description of any noun       later there will be less signs of frowning & more happiness       lately everything glows
1st voice:	there has been too much statement       where there is statement there is no discovery       there must be some statements       some things have been discovered
2nd voice:	that's enough uncovered       later there will be much more       that is not a promise       do not promise more than you can deliver
1st voice:	& the clouds flow the cloud flows like like like like like unlikely tho       over everything one sings liking strawberries very much fresh from the garden when the sky is blue & your lady is your lover is beside you just so

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madness is language is how you use it       if you are not mad you use it one way       if you are mad you use it another way       these are not categories       there are many ways of both ways

    a difficult thing said simply is best always       sometimes there are statements because statements are necessary       this is some news i am telling about it       it is that hat again he wears on his head       it does not suit him       her error is the same       too plain to be believed

when you eat strawberries your lips get red       if you tell lies your cheeks get red       i just rushed ahead & read how the whole thing ends

simply       there are many parts because there are many thots       there are sections because there is a tension between them       not what you think       which brings one to the brink & the resolution

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strawberries julia are best fresh better than frozen       straw barries & tin men & cowardly lions & let us continue the book of oz again

resemblances

tenses
            & past
participles

nipples are red as strawberries

a list is just sense

i rushed ahead to here
& the whole thing ended
as intended

is that clear

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now
let me say this

he said it

good then it's over

let us sleep       let us be       i was so happy just eating my strawberries

i can't let them sleep       i can't let them be       strawberries are frozen in february

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now let me say this again

he said it again

is it over

no

it occurs to me

it just occurred

it is my sense of self your selves deferred to a better judgement

it is sound & a startled sense of what is

tis

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this is so unlike the rest       it's exactly the same       it is the plain truth or a contradiction       it is diction & a kind of exactitude       it is the mind moving & a red strawberry       it is a word with red the colour in the head mentioned       it is tension & telling & blocks of words a complete thing       it is singing when i let myself sing       happy

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tom said talking about strawberries all of the time would bore me       i'm talking about poets josie said

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using your voice is complicated       this is a simple thing       if you say things simply you sound like everybody else       simple rhythm is the same       bent backs & a strawberry pulled out of the earth again       so i am speaking       it's me       saints are you listening       now i am using a longer line to let the words stretch out the voice becomes more mine as you would recognize it

                              & the vision between
                              the eyes & the world
                              focussed on its skin
                              you can't see

except to say it is this combination of words is me       these signs       as long as this book exists       longer than the red strawberry