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Sunday, March 1, 2020

Olchar Lindsann - Five poems


Olchar E. Lindsann is a writer, theorist, publisher, historian, teacher, performer, archivist, organiser, and translator, dedicated to the formation, maintenance, and transformation of marginal countercultures. A co-founder of the International Post-NeoAbsurdist Collective, he is also actively engaged with Fluxus, Neoism, the Eternal Network, and many other radical and avant-garde projects internationally. He is the editor of mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, and of the print periodicals Rêvenance and The In-Appropriated Press. The author or co-author of 40 books of critical and social theory, verse, historiography, performance scores, visual poetry, polemic, and collage, Lindsann has performed and lectured extensively in the US and the United Kingdom. He maintains several archives of contemporary and historical countercultures. Lindsann teaches cross-disciplinary Humanities classes, writing and history at a progressive school in Roanoke, Virginia.



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1

                         Chattering o
                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~
       “liticts in the midst of imaginary conc”
                   – Stendhal, The Red and the Black
       “urgen from jargo
       – James Branch Cabell, Jurgen
                  ~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~

       “Gentlemen with the use it, pray?”
              put [the wrote a] great
       glittering shirt. “Yes, (Here
                     with words, would
writing as frivolous as words from the Master)
“Politics,” replied the three commas “and a
                            this.” the
months. Politics in the sword,” replied
“cannot remain upon a pistol shot in
       ear-splitting indefinitely.”
              with the sound (of from) the
              mortally offend palace
       everybody other, who will
       energetic in Arthur, [who with]
              “If Nine Worthies of
              Guenevere win for joined
              is not”, the flung away.
         
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2
Tubes of Canthar
   ~{~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“even chambers there stalked, in fa . . .
  se – the dreams – writhed in and about,
  taking hue from the roo”
       –E.A. Poe, 'The Masque of the Red Death'
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~}~

     flumes of revenge ,yea ,bite
     wreathing in poisoned points
        of narrative foaming ,sleds
        of almuninium-hock ,looms ,see
     fastened forceps upon the sap-
        smeared armourial ,bannisters
        sweating their bleary munchkins
     :  eeeeoouuoaaieieiaaouuooeeee  :
     hunting mouldings backlog peak
     ye spindle fledgling to an arc, yo
     nimble forward at the hazmat ,aardvark
     violet as the second-person, folding
     catnip into cantharides;     fork ,o ,sleek.ß
    
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3
Wading for the Lick
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“arriage of the wading rose a”
            –Jim Leftwich, Doubt

Jelly for God's sake beans”
            –Harlan Ellison, “Repent, Harlequin!”
                                    Said the Ticktockman

“nife like the cock of Chri”
            –Jake Berry, 'The Confession of Devi's
                                    Lawnboy'
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e wading-pool is packed with pricks
et rustflecks f, licking holy
lap again, st reaming flanks
(long shaftedge long torso long)
rib-corrugate lick butterbean factory
peeking through the skin-rifts, e
n sprays of verdure-clumps: thorn
at marsh-cash-salt,s licking
god at the chemical, bells, bat, bathe
tinctured in rosestem pustule hat
stroking hymnal in the archive jelly, teeth
a waiting a ,tatchments fro, licking
real estate of cherub microtonal vowels
clock-soil mesh tutelo eloi squish
buzzard-calisthenics fish, ye flag ye
paddle lump: et rosethorn feed chapeau
buzzards rocking silth à na, val val,ley
(sacred à gaseous nailed à my shrivel)
pooling near un abacus of rosar, ovar,
ies – messy as any aquatic trigger caress
         yo bride o toss the
boquet, out-bleed, out-squirm, &
                                    gizzus a kiss.


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4
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f re chré la
pp f ghr lk
sph y nboi
sd rue stid
lk ô wèf gh
plü fr chré
yu sd n' pp
a snivelling
iob ô ffla åi
y fr giur ,sd
df fr pp in I
fgoße, u, re
eding ffla re
stious rue re
gho ,ére pp!

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5
                   Loon Leader
   by Olchar Lindsann, Victor Hugo & Kilgore Trout
   ~#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“s commerce frightened at systems; it is the merchant
who wants to sell; it is the tumult which terrifies the
counting-house; it is the shopkeeper armed to defend hi”
                –Victor Hugo, Preface to The King's Diversion (1832).

                               “artilaginous stalk ran out from each
hole horizontally for a few inches and then abr”
                –Kilgore Trout, Venus on a Half-Shell (1974)
   #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~$~

The period of political The natives
                        curious. loon tires.
when all acts of despotism inflated skins with
part consisted of trated by ideas of
fast in July, 1830; which grew from
three great advances ered with a hard shell
            contained the brain Now in the march of
            out of breath, sexual systems.
these generous, was a round hole.
            go on. each hosle horizontally
abruptly curved straight, and give them
these of all that approximately two feet
                                    tests, in two eyes
comprehend, Halfway down each
afraid of new ideas. flash a light like a firefly's
ruffled by theories. for illumination and
                        it is the merchant turns.
            fies the counting-Simon thought they
                        leader project himself.