Spanish red
 
my friend said read
this novel it will change
your life I said what if
I like my life the way it is?
he stared at me a full minute
 
but I slept well on his
advice this allowed
the night shift boys to
tinker with things I bought
a different flavor of Greek
 
yogurt at the store next 
day I told my friend he
stared at me a full minute
he said look my dear friend
the world is full of ideas
 
passing you by okay I said
the world is also full of
diapers and hair follicles
death indignity dartboards
I stared at him a full minute
 
is this a staring contest he
asked I said let’s one two three
both cry uncle and order
a bottle of that tempranillo we
often enjoy together
 
I like that idea he said.


Spanish Red - a poem read by Dave Desktop

Yielding - a poem read by Dave Desktop

Seminar

faculty cocktail party to
snore or not to snore
someone asks my teacher

why do you do 
what you do?

We wait of course because 
we all collect strings
of pearls what will he say?

he of many a higher 
order reasoning conferences
master of critical thought 

goodhearted language 
composition pedagogy
says what exactly?

“to keep something 
going”

that's it? years in the 
academy for that? who
among us is not feeling 

ripped off then? I think 
this requires thought 
the not-said in particular 

requires some thought so 
there you are in front 
of colleagues and

vegetable dip mediocre 
French white always
the teacher.


Seminar - a poem read by Dave Desktop

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This is the result of experimentation, inspired by the poet Caroline Bergvall. The poem consists of 35 different English translations of the first line of "Panther," the well-known poem by Rainer Marie Rilke, who wrote in German. I have (Microsoft) Dave Desktop do the reading because I don't want listeners distracted by my or any other human voice.

35 Panthers
Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehn der Stäbe
  -  First line of “Panther” by Rainer Marie Rilke

His gaze is from the passing of bars
His gaze those bars keep passing is so misted
His sight from ever gazing through the bars 
His gaze has been so worn by the procession
From seeing the bars, his seeing is so exhausted
His vision, from the constantly passing bars
His gaze, from passing on the bars around him,
His gaze from passing by the bars
His gaze upon the ever-moving bar
From the passing bars, his vision has become 
His gaze is so tired from overreaching iron bars,
His gaze, made tired from the passing of the bars, >
His gaze has grown weary of sweeping the bars
Pacing past these bars has made
His gaze, from pacing behind the bars that stand before him
His gaze has, from the passing of the bars,
His gaze, blunted 
From seeing only bars, his seeing is exhausted. 
His sight, passing by the bars, 
His glance has become so weary from pacing 
The weary passage of these bars 
The pacing past the bars, the steady stare 
His gaze is from the passing of the bars 
His gaze, so worn with passing through the bars, 
His gaze is so wearied from the bars 
Its gaze grown tired from passing
His gaze has from the passing of the bars
His gaze, from the constantly passing bars,
His concept is overwhelmed by bars
His tired gaze--from passing endless bars--
His Vision from the Passing by of bars
His eyes became from passing bars
From going through the bars, his gaze has become so exhausted 
A thousand bars surround and charm him there,
His gaze is, from the passing of the bars


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