Proposition Hems

--for Eliza Newman-Saul


Use your hearing to see.

Then should we say, “Do you tear that”?

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Alter this color blue without touching it or seeing it.

Put it elsewhere.

If blue can not be put here, put it here.

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Each thought is a vestment rolling upon another vestment, opening.

Fold your thoughts as many times as possible.

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Through the other side of everything you see.

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Zoom.

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In

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Your eyes are not flashlight beams or headlight beams or spotlights or X-rays or animated gifs or surveillance devices or GPS satellites or cell phone headsets or distant video monitors with the contrast all wrong or torn billboards or a dissolve to white.

Your eyes are ___________________________

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Thicken your ears.

Like concrete.
Like cake.
Like come.
Like money.
Like resemblance.

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Before you think – hear.
Before you hear – think.
Before – you think hear.
Before – you hear think.

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Fail to be similar.

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Fault every union for despair.
Doubt empathy totally.
Criticize continuity.
Hate hate.
Fuck fucking.

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Feel a function of thinking.

Imagine such a function without thinking.

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Your eyes are convoluted (tied).
Your eyes are pink.
Your eyes are tweezers.
Your eyes are little Gods.
Your eyes get fucked when they see.

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You are the glass our lips both kiss.

I am the fog on that glass.

We are the glass shattering but not the fog clearing-up.

Our eyes, like dreams, are made of milky blackness.

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Preliminarily believe.

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See “dream-images” near to eyes (30 cm.) and everywhere else.

See smoke aswarm with fear, “the primitive gloom”.

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You are the glass our lips both kiss.
Remove these lips but not the glass.
Do not stare into this glass.

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Stage each degree of being…

each devil, each name, each moment of history.

“The primitive gloom” and a conative light.

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Fail to be different.

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Put it here.
Hear it put.
Put put.
Hear hear.
Here here.

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Reach inside inside.
Reach outside inside inside.

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See through the other side of everything.

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Preliminarily disbelieve.

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Believe in belief only.
Doubt to believe.
Believe to doubt.

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Put it there.
There there.

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Picture a vacuum. Vacuum a picture.

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Think with your ears.

Thicken your eyes.

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THHIIIICCCCCKKKEEN.

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Hallucinate the literal.
Hallucinate the littoral.
Hallucinate the clitoral.
Hallucinate the pictorial.

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Compose for an hour in a minute.

Compose for a year in a second.

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This color has no name.

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Pretend your body can occupy no space.

What would this look like?

Draw a picture and bury it.

Call this place of burial the place where nothing can be put in space.

Call your body a sudden resting place.

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Think of a correspondence between a color and a place.

Name this correspondence differently then both the color and the place.

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Ignite the space your body can’t occupy.

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The sun is a giant cataract.

Catamarans seem to float in the sun.

There is nothing similar about the sun and a catapillar except when we can see the solar sea.

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Die. Cry. Spy. My. Arrive. Pie.

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Divulge the true name of this sentence.

Change this true name and don’t divulge it.

This too is an event of conscience.

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Believe in the value of this sentence.

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As if… night were not upon you.
As if… you were all of the same substance.

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Real people are actually ghosts.
Actual ghosts are blurry shapes.
Blurry shapes are often letters.
Letters are ceaselessly meaningful.
The ceaselessly meaningful is only real.

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Make these words disappear.

This word, in particular, has no sense.

Blind the rest of the world for one second.

Imagine nothing then and only then.

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See and hear nothing.

Be nothing.

Nothing nothing.

Be near nothing.

Nothing near.

Never.

Nearer.

Hear the clear light.

Make the voice in your head heard aloud as constantly as possible.

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This ringing.

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Play alive.

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Nearer Nearer Nearest.

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Have no image of yourself that is not the image of everything else too.

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Move in time to move time.

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Move time without time.
Move time without space.
Move space without space.
Move space without time.

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to move time.

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Hear shadows, the flaying of the sea.

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Pretend a sea never existed to be seen.

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lay live

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“Is only real” “people are ghosts”.

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Nothing as something.
Something as nothing.
Something something.

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Through the other side of everything you see.

What Tomb (Some Questions for Matt Mullican's Bulletin Boards)

What pictures.
What pictures have in common.
What pictures death.
What fingers of dying.
What describes them.
What fingers of decomposition.
What poses made of light.
What is a pose and what is a picture.
What is the difference.
What has only transcendence.
What has no transcendence.
What is the lightness of dying.
What is a picture of death.
What is a picture of a corpse.
What is a picture.
What is only a picture.
What closes the eyes.
What eyes close.
What shudders.
What shudders when eyes are closed.
What distrusts eyes.
What eyes distrust.
What distrusts real eyes.
What makes death.
What makes dying death.
What makes eyes.
What desires.
What eyes desire.
What desires death.
What does death desire.
What is so like a tomb.
What is frozen.
What tomb.
What seems most like time unfreezing.
What seems most like time frozen.
What seems time freezing.
What is seeing.
What is seeing like.
What is seeing like when it is not like seeing.
What is seeing when it does not see.
What is to see.
What is a preparation to see.
What is having seen like.
What preparations do we make to see.
What preparations to have seen.
What do we do when we are not seeing.
What do you call one then.
What then does one call seeing.

3 Disassociations

For Matt Mullican

1.

To pin
down the finger
in its own skin

would close
our eyes
if the eyes would

how we consent
to pin down
a mode of pins.

Bulletins.
Bullets.
Ken.

2.

Close the eyes
light dark
toned

brightened refract
in spoons reflect
on shield

for certain a move
of eyes
in the painted

nears an object
of photography
let’s pretend

tend to
sit, still, while,
the world ends—

O another re-
flection, and O an-
other,

close your
eyes
for this world.

3.

Nature morte,
more your grim,
ace moves, or
tower, pinned
down, caption,
swells tongue,
more like a
gum, the blotter,
gummy
guns, of these
eyes,
bleed, a,
patina,
frost webs, meets
its own,
swelling maker,
wholly, twisting
like that,
frieze, gum,
to twist guns,
to hidden consequences,
turns, insider
of light,
or dark tons,
the movements of,
tuning the of,
of no longer,
for,
the light
in these trees,
accreting, those,
synapse below,
rage node lower,
attention range
brown noise,
limbic note,
liminal,
limn, signs
syncope
pictures,
to attention,
you really,
pin me,
an image
if I can’t think of
an image,
nor for then,
you, it is you,
I think of,
then,
not a
place as imageless,
as sex,
less
with fingers,
a kind of death,
a kind, death
in your sexless,
mouth man,
a part, the prose
rotting away,
the intimate, narrowness,
of hidden all,
in reflection,
chills, reflect
almost,
whiter,
like having,
they are almost like,
having, the world,
morose, or it is done,
with remembering,
done for,
distraction,
by disassociation,
the fingered, guilt,
of a blotted,
guilt,
a,
cross, me,
my less,
in, description,
blots,
too content,
to consent,
light,
a privilege,
gums
a twist,
to tongues,
the, print,
and smudge,
it singly,
pin,
discolorment
not,
in history, whiter,
of the subject,
fuzz stillness,
to have,
history,
all of the,
space of these eyes,
psyche,
to die for,
in this tree gazing,
between, we keep
things for the,
sunny,
towers to not,
see,
to see not