ORGANISM: NOTES

by Anne Waldman


     "The Bulk and its senses must be freed!"

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     "A poem is as much of me as an arm.

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     "The direct emotional statement from the body
     (from the organ and from the energy of movement)."

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Organism - organized system or body, com piled of organized organs, organs originally applied to various instruments (in versions of the Bible and allusions thereto), then musical instruments consisting of pipes supplied with wind & sounded by keys.

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                  14 structures
                  14 new skulls
                  14 front page news
                  14 symmetrical symmetries

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HEADLINES:

     EACH BON MOT HAS COST ME A PURSE OF GOLD.

     COMPLEX PROTEINS AR E LIKE SUBMARINES.

     CUPID ONCE DID NOT SEE A BEE SLEEPING AMONG ROSES.

                          &

                          continues

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     build up - center - center down

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             crossfire

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     I bear a body singing!
     skull rattle in the breeze

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I have been living with Michael McClure's excellent Organism published by The Institute of Further Studies (Box 482, Canton, New York 13617) all summer and am sustained.


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