Monday, June 15, 2009

Park Somewhere

When you come full circle someone says,
“Go left straight right, again”
Right?
On circle
Right
Go on
To make
The left
Is the right
Go left
Forward, straight
Two more down
But before this

Pass on the left
Here it is, up ahead
Forward, slowly
Not here just yet
Here, ok, right, there
Just there up
Straight right
Left there
Right in here
There slow right
Straight forward, oh
On the left up ahead
Stop, no, go, straight
Go right
North of here
Left up there
Right is east
Left is south now
Turn around

To the straight
South lane again
Straight turn forward
Left now turn back
Forward right
In there
Left just here yet
Straight and here
Great left! Up ahead
Here left straight blvd
Left on the right straight
Back up, left forward
Left up ahead on the right
Left up there is right
Let them pass left

Left forward,
it’s on the right

Straight ahead straight left
Let them pass again
Right ahead
Perhaps veer left, pass
Slow down ahead
In the cul de sac
Straight, but merge
Slow down there
Coming up, pass
On the left, or here
Straight merge
Yield left straight

Northbound curb

Past the east exit
Curve past
The 1st thru st
Speed up past
The bushes left
Slow but merge

Curve veer straight
Towards here, right
45 mph, back
Past the left up ahead
On right block
Go straight and merge

Maybe forward

Wait, back there
U-turn and park
On the right again

Upper level left

Eastern terminal
Right here again

Park just there
Or go around
There it’s not here
Park somewhere

4 comments:

LM Rivera said...

Kenneth Goldsmith?

Grada said...

Ha, I wish. This one's a new one I'm working on (kind of superfluous like the "These are those" piece).
If I'm aiming for 4-5 pages, is this too redundant or does it seem to be heading in the direction it's heading in?

LM Rivera said...

To what purpose? Are you trying to reinforce some linguistic estrangement or is it insistence (in the Steinien sense) or something else? I see no purpose here. There is nothing compelling for me as a reader. If that is the point then: you are moving along the lines of "conceptual poetics," but I simply have no interest here.

Grada said...

I don't know what isn't "conceptual" these days/anymore. If something isn't conceptual it still is in that it's not.

I'm mostly experimenting and then bouncing ideas off you guys. I have some pieces in the works that are less "conceptual" than this one which I'd like to send your way.

Thanks for the feed back.