Poetry from Mark Young

 A line from Bruce Sterling
  
 A London based electronic 
 music producer uses
 Ukrainian water pipes &
 huge funnel clouds to 
  
 create movie special 
 effects. She calls this a
 non-populist activity, for
 she sees the resultant out-
  
 puts as works of scientific 
 art. There are images of 
 wreckage & personal 
 belongings, the inner 
  
 workings of cells. Debris 
 in the air, but an FX
 hurricane manages to keep 
 the place looking spotless.
  
 
  
 A line from Léopold Sédar Senghor
  
 A user-centric evaluation 
 framework means older 
 people have more problems 
 learning new systems, even
  
 when there is improved 
 access to a variety of 
 language structures. We 
 noted an anomaly: re-
  
 dundancy on both the 
 systems & user side means
 that nominal data is never 
 uniform in the interval
  
 between successive work-
 outs. When you're indoct-
 rinated, not even a lullaby
 will smooth the readings.
 
 A line from Stormy Daniels
  
 I usually stay away from 
 writing self-centered self-
 help articles, let the feed 
 dogs pull the triangles into 
  
 position. That center triangle 
 is very critical. But, different 
 houses, a different set of rules
 for the game of Go. A year 
  
 of headlines about Russian 
 interference; & I feel like I'm 
 running through a minefield
 looking for red lines to remove.
 
 A line from Cyndi Lauper
  
 In the Darwinian world of
 the digital switchover, broad-
 casters were evacuated due 
 to a major embolism, possibly
  
 the biggest thing to happen 
 since the introduction of color. 
 Don't blame the government—
 the High Court judgement was 
  
 flawed. Amnesty International 
 has been sounding the alarm 
 for more than a year that the TV
 channels had strong incentives 
  
 to grow their audiences through
 human trafficking. Now they sit
 there, heels on fire, cutting every
 cost without fear of any penalty.
   

Poetry from Mark Young

paradigm a dozen

The grunge music scene is

teaching old neurons new

tricks. I now have blueberries

on my cereal while two dozen

girls learn about innovation

first hand, getting to witness

a cyborgian dancer. It’s a

scene of midmorning disarray

& excitement that has the citi-

zens of Gettysburg panicked—

Lincoln is coming on the right

day. I’m scared stiff, but why

should I be alone. I bring in my

investors & show a 40-minute

video of an avalanche bearing

down on a ski vacation in the

Alps. It exacerbates their fears.

Fill / loosley & / do not compact

With experience, this copper-alloy piece can be used to create a product that includes all the processes involved in harvesting, production, transportation, & construction. It eliminates all extremes of elaboration, but forces you to leave behind your familiar house, street, & neighbors; & prompts a defection from fixed meaning through the use of non-sequiturs — start off with Magritte & move on to the navigational abilities of the prostate, from Derrida on to the venture capital industry.

single-serve liturgies

A railway line runs im-

mediately behind the

parietal lobe. The placebo

effect could make pictures

of classical architecture

affective as stimulus mate-

rial. Split-brain syndrome

using different lags provides

empirical motivation for

some true effects to exist

at particular intervals. Our

RV got rear ended by a hit

& run driver. Unlicensed

work is non-free by default.

trajectory as far as

What we retain of the
movement is its structured
form. Any steady increase
in template performance
can be processed by the
use of microcontrollers
or some contextualized
analysis of migration &

language diversity. Else-
where, work permits are
only offered to those with
a separate income flow or
the ability to access behind-
the-counter medicines. The
intransigence of light she
found difficult to cope with.

Poetry from Mark Young

Five geographies:

Dushanbe (2)

The markets, held on the
second day after Saturday,
gave the city its name. Was
once called Stalinabad, &
the trolleybuses, with their
livery of the national colors
still carry Stalinist slogans.
Passengers wait for their
buses outside the markets;
& even though Stalin is no
longer alive & today is Thurs-
day, there is no confusion.

Coney Island

A fundamental characteristic

of the scientific & operational

principles underlying leger-

demain is that not all Ferris

wheels are created equal.

Tromsø

The subset A of a top-
ological space X is
the set-off point for so
many claims & cross
claims. Plus, each party
can be both a party

attacking & a party de-
fending so the activity
has the potential to
increase quite drama-
tically. & given that the
parties in question are

a narwhal & the aurora
borealis
, both of whom
have lived here for many
centuries, there are a lot
of other parties making
claims & counter claims.

Stellenbosch

The Red Ants are demolishing
trauma counseling, replacing
it with nativity sculptures in
recycled paper & precious Italian
marble. Nobody else gets a look
in, except for a boy playing with
his ball, & an oxygen mask that
is also used as a sharpening tool.

Padua

No services are departing

this stop within the next

90 minutes. Which gives

some historical context

but minimal idea of the

threat of human impact—

even though amphibians are

already experiencing a mass

extinction. Not all literary

traditions begin with epic nar-

ratives of kings & conquests.

Poetry from Mark Young

A line from Shirley Jackson

I was a cafeteria worker who had
relocated in response to the direct
socio-economic impact of drought.
Was approached, agreed to take

part in a new study on human
mobility. Report released, found
digital traces generated by cellphone
calls follow power law distribution

with β values & can therefore cause
hair loss as well as diminishing cog-
nitive abilities. I couldn’t see how
that affected me so I moved again.

A line from Gloria Vanderbilt

Which spam kill is your favorite?
Doesn’t matter what you answer
because they’re all about to die
thanks to upcoming rule changes.

This is a natural progression of the
male domain — don’t like the out-
comes so legislate to stop them
happening — which is why it really

doesn’t grab me. I offer up chance
with its surfeit of supporting clichés
for my ignoring the man-made strict-
ures forced upon organic structures.

A line from Nancy Pelosi

I keep getting the following

error message — “Sand is a useful

resource for the development

of any society, but reacts viol-

ently with both comprehensive

& incomprehensible sexual

motives.” Based on the Henky-

von Mises theory of energy,

ozonation of return-activated

sludge typically occurs in a

linguistic search engine that

has been designed to help you

write better. Because of that,

each of our used cars is avail-

able for shipment to the con-

tinental U.S. There they are

checked for vertigo, & their peri-

pheral nerve endings subjected

to an inventory before being re-

leased into the wider population.

A line from Frida Kahlo

The last few months have been

tumultuous. Mao’s forces were

poised along the river; San Fran-

cisco has its third mayor in two

months. Now workers in the UK

have been nominated for four

People’s Choice Awards along with

a K-pop boys band whose name

escapes me for the moment. Instead

of the shotgun, spray-&-pray app-

roach they’ve previously used, Levi

Strauss & other multinationals have

taken careful aim on the American

market, have the urban middle class

firmly in their sights with their message

of pain. We aim to arrive around six.

Poetry from Mark Young

a sparse matrix

In league with French counter-revolutionaries resident in Cayenne, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe attempted to smuggle seeds of pepper, nutmeg, & cloves into Yuan Dynasty China. Caught at the border by customs officials, he was told that if he had just tried to bring in smaller quantities of the spices, he may have escaped detection completely. I see, said Mies. Less is more.

Without a Trace

He leaned in front of her

screen. Then he made himself

more comfortable. The dead man

was hanging close to the trunk.

She was thirsty, but that was

not unusual; & if she needed

company then a row of half-dead

plants still lined the pathway.

monkey canapes

In order to stop kids

obsessing over the future,

Government funding is

now available to separate

them into groups &

place them on a range of

intimate couches in front

of refrigerators which all

have smart screens & apps.

modal apprehension

He watches for a while, then he

joins her swim. A large number

of finite automata can be simply

visualized by representing the auto-

mata array as a silver bell caught

inside a perfectly rectangular block.

It’s called a strap-end, using an

archaeological principle that if you

do not know what a metal object’s

purpose was, then just call it that.

As counterpoint, Carl Sagan talks

about the impact of the computer

on the universe. Both movie &

book are told from this perspective.