Thu, 19 May 2005

a hymn in sixtyeight chapters
[I wrote a shorter version of this for scrytch and Scotto asked if he could publish in in Trip #6 (Fall 2001), so I added some more material and there you have it. This piece has a hidden meaning, and if you do a little hunting you’re sure to figure it out. There’s also a parallel version of this, called “a curse in sixtyeight chapters”, which is currently in limbo.]

  1. a training which takes place in dreams
  2. attacks taking place in zero time
  3. hiding places which do not actually exist
  4. the shimmering defense
  5. a trap of marvels and prayers
  6. finger-snares in the hair of the bystanders
  7. use of the false truth appendix
  8. the trial of impossibly heavy weights
  9. the endless litany of chores each day brings
  10. the discourse of infidel mathematicians who prove the impossibility of resolvable conflict (may they rot in hell)
  11. my secret heresy of anti-closure (an inversion)
  12. a lock of your hair i keep in my dresser
  13. the advantages of darkness and famine
  14. the abuse of certain black solvents
  15. the impossibility of sentience in the mirror-world
  16. nihilum, its use in banned strategems
  17. a room made of large flat sheets of muslin
  18. the lioness, up amid the trees
  19. the inability of x to equal y
  20. binding spells caught in liquids, applied to the lips and tongue
  21. the extention of lightning in o-time
  22. tree-forms worshipped by barncats and raccoons
  23. my obvious attempts to sit next to your heart
  24. a view of the fading world
  25. memory-zones as mapped across the apartment
  26. a reconstruction of attack patterns in multiple-headed beasts
  27. (not an allowed statement)
  28. a curst legend of divers insect-calls
  29. use of chemical spills and low-level tension
  30. revised claims of ownership
  31. insomnia as tool, weapon, and excuse
  32. lines repeated by dead people
  33. the disturbing pattern of encroaching light
  34. the company of strange women who do not respect personal space
  35. coincidentia oppositorum as a mixing of contrary fluids
  36. the use of social circles as spies and carriers of bad thoughts
  37. how to disguise yourself as yourself
  38. on the treatment of prisoners, lovers, and doctors
  39. a coding-wheel for rings on fingers (size, shape, symbolism)
  40. everyone who loves you will one day have to leave
  41. steam-tunnel hotels; how to capture your enemy therein
  42. relics of prior generals taped to specific parts of the body
  43. places you can no longer go (hermetical sealing)
  44. the diabolical encyclopedia of burnings and reductions
  45. distance attacks by clusters of misled warlords
  46. time weapons: delay, tedium, memory
  47. eight letters i never sent you which i am destroying right now
  48. tremor-calligraphy and its use in battle-maps
  49. infinite routes of escape from any enclosure
  50. methods of fooling weather
  51. debilitating foods (rot, certain discharges, waste, promises)
  52. charmed and cursed doorways
  53. a weak winter light stuck at the window
  54. red torn nerves lining the old rural highway
  55. a store where emotions can be exchanged or incinerated
  56. a certain safety in being completely alone
  57. on the blinding of witnesses
  58. the wolves at the door
  59. i believe you are a superhero, i believe in you
  60. on the book of errors, wherein dwells the most high god
  61. the transformation of moisture-touching into corrupt forms
  62. the sea flattened and brought up
  63. birds which have forgotten how to fly
  64. the fat of the mouth-worms, and the narcotics they can produce
  65. moon-vapours which may contain pods or seeds
  66. an erasure of myself from your memory
  67. a list of presets for the instant apology generator
  68. a longing, like a spinning, like a falling thing disguised in sunlight


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