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What shall it be, on the sublime?
You mean every word that gets off my mouth
        you’re going to print it?
Ah-haha, ridiculous, oy, really gyud
        (cough3x)
Oh include the coughing
                                            I’m afraid to
open my mouth already—
Oy, that reminds me I have to steal plants
        for my carrel.
Haha, what happened to sublime?
What does it mean? Like: it’s unconscious,
        conscious
Your motivation, which you’re not conscious
        of encouraging into
        an action (cough1x)
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I never used to read, until graduate school.
So I don’t know what’s his name, Ferlinghetti
And the sublime, I think I know some bits
        enough to pronounce it,
                                            as in:
SUBLIMINAL APPEAL. Now that’s talking about
m - e. Like: your fixation of the moment
        could hold all the subliminal appeal
        in all th’ world
for you, and on the receiving end
        the subject may then undergo
        intensive paranoia
        SIGN OFF!! FINISHED!!

 

 

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by Bonnie Jane, in conversation with the poet and a typewriter, 25 June 1988, Dumaguete City

 

 

 

 

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