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All MyEggs Are
Broken
Michael Basinski
BlazeVOX [books]
Buffalo, New York
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All My Eggs Are Broken by Michael Basinski
Copyright 2007
Published by BlazeVOX [books]
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced withoutthe publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews.
Printed in the United States of America
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First Edition
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For Dee
Wendy and Mari Blish belovved Swim swans swens Knots
entwine Fingers vow Necks More of bathing with Nut Blush
More touch than torch But torch too Toe mingle twine as fingers
ming Nile as fish Nike Weave vows as seams As vowels ring
Rings too our fish and fingers Two waves swims in water More than
water frogfishes and fish Oz Wish finghers in Nuts shrine More
than bathing witch the fingers Pine fish pixies More cutecumbers
and toes May toes Princess frogfigs figs in spoons More than the
possible outside Possible inside meeve ever more than cups Fush
foosh Fash fis figs fing Fis fing rings Ablush Ur us
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Contents
..............................................................................................13Songs of the Night...............................................................................27
Heart and Stomach..............................................................................45
All My Eggs Are Broken.......................................................................51
Lines Concerning Magic Mice...............................................................57
Homage to Hedgehog Mushrooms........................................................59
poems that mirror themess of mice .....................................................65
All Dwell In Frogs ................................................................................ 71
MoistSqueetoes ................................................................................... 81
Come See the Elephant Pee..................................................................89
Remembering a Face in Five Breaths ...................................................113
INSECT.............................................................................................115
39 Different Words For Snow .............................................................117
The Story of O...................................................................................121
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All My
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Improvise.
The poem and poems arise from my reading of theMedical Museums section
on: Thee Heart and Stomach. Once upon a time, Medical Doctors discovered
what they thought were stones in the hearts of the deceased. They did notknow what they were. A heart full of stones seemed like a grand place for
poetry. (Somewhere through the poem I had a conversation with Christi
Brown at Rust Belt Books. She told me about Monarch butterflies, butterfly
migration and their relation to milkweed. The milkweed and their seeds fall
into the work from that conversation. If this poems were found in an old barn
some of it would have fallen away or rotted or been forgotten[ ], some of it
would be a beautifully broken memory and some of the poem composed of
sound scapes and various other developing or embalmed literary devise
(symbols, visuals etc.). fishfish ish about the writing of the peom. A wen is a
cyst(cistern
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Wen the pie was openedThe birds began to sing
Amun som Teartured papears; Coptic Cup veffel the flowollowing, so called
Open Pies; purfurescented in the Totality of their Incomprehensible
Incompleteness. Thee seam to Rung together the Meowdical Musemums ofthe 16
thmilkweed (Centcherries Frogmented with non-fragmented
trainjectories) of the many Hands Held in the many Nhight of our
Paleoalphabetic August of Wishings and Whisperings; Tree Witches; early
translationary margarinalia and ready improvisationaland otherbowls
swim withinFlo Spi iikes of Feburary
Fungi Inside
You Mayspeye
Mo
thi[ ]that bees for sweet
bor[ ]e[ ]
memb [ ]mily [ ]bu
memb [ ]mily [ ]bu
[]gu[ ]voin in[ ]
i ni n iei L
v-v-v eee eeeeel c[ ][Refers to thee psychological structure manifested by the emptiness dark mutilations of flesh by the Nuns
of the Absent Heart; Probably pronounced verberus? a supposition of thee witches] ate[ ][ ]oup[ ] glay [ ] pling
ells[ ] Ltiss leyeze [ ] nnellline (refers to the circular tigers surrounding the upper thighs of Aphrodite the witches)la [ ]ca[ ] un Mayoon[ ] issed
phlate [probably refers to a foreign word, an unknown, unseen, prior, has light opened the poem upon itlike a butterfly seeking the witches]
ffec [ ]plasmaids oteens [ ]
on [ ]hum[ ] emb [ ] kidney
currents chestnuts
an stol the witches[ ]rrrrrrr forms of birdfish K
oves uc ing fuf uch
uc ut Ur Urs
ual lux rubs ou ufed
ru uruins lu cu lufush lude ut ufmuf ubs
turue u uttuffed
auf ua und uc cu uc cu
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HOT CROSS BUNS
According to the medical museum the heart formutations fometimes contains
little bones or bonbons and mysterious hard bodies or hard candies; the heart cannot
be trusted with words; Platerus found a bone in the middle of the platypus heart (itwas not an arrow or arrow head), it was aniinvisible worm (the vulvee TV is opem a
butterfly, the pennis is not and is the tail of an eastern pond turtle with yellow
markings upon it thee thee witches clinch churches) when diffected difference parts
sandy differences tunes up one stone was the head of a chicken; to hear wash up upon
the beach the head pointed towards winterpin, his heart needed no plow, no salt (no
salter, that is)(no salt, no fat, nothing too silly, nothing too much like
fundamentalism). Contentment was a whiskey window that opond a door, small is
fine, no fire please ; outside was the snow fell like peanuts, or leaves which she
caught in her mouth in their descent esophagus. Elephant esophagus. leaving
In the morning the lustore in the corn she wore a black dressOf birds Sing the last time
When I think of how I she visited a dream
I[ ] how I
I twist
[ ] and turn Nocturn
Yellow when you came in [ ] the morning
there is a spider built a web in the corner
[ ] of the limacine (lionized milk it
wasnt on the radio, the salt on her black dress small yellow flowersshe ordered sturgeon and nibblettes
I cut my chin (Colgate and Gillette)((
I Tristan and Isolde))
Shavin[ ] two hearts can not touch (and I bled red
[through the shower curtain]
In their flesh[ ]
like fingers a window cut my neck
dance across the tre bells of a windew when bells were feet
In the morning lust of letterbells of birds singing in pine trees
Of black birds in icesing lusty birds are letters I at bath bells[desire for the stillness of desire in the quiet
Between the air I breathe for stillness
i wish inlit which I place a finger
CW unlit cigaretteTwist and Shoutmy fingers web clear the weteye of a fish gone on singing
fish songs swim forever fesh fish fishing met )finishing
When they opened his heartthey found aDairy Queen
a used car lot,
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on the corner by the 7/11
an upholstery store and plans to build
a Targetnext
toHollywood Video
[ ]
in his right ventriclethree oblong ftones
as big as peas, pens
colored as embers would be coloured
like when his city was burned
weighing a spoone
[ ]
each of your valentine fingers
[the tips burned the jam burned]
ushed blackberry jelly redemption
into my soft liverlal er izo tems
downy hairs and milk juice
oro ob ong ooo
n the heart swam silver and gold minnows sleep
with sleepsliver black eyes I sleep above the water
through her long letters she looked out
The Lone Ranger
Away---
sheer sliver
blizzard of soundtuft of
uzari Jinn
desgiucouzarin Jinn
syrioJinnogenin
xysmaloJinn
in her letters to him were silverfish
eating slowly his hands has paper walls
Well she looked at me, and I, I could seeThat before too long I'd fall in love with her.
She wouldn't dance with another
Whooh
WhUUUUUUUUUUh
Who-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-h
swam the fingers of swans spread
the genii of Julys soft alphabettur cup o
theletter O Iwish I O
my embraced light of my darkness
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by o
rolling down the hill intoe Cayuga Creek
they are not bullets Nuts ballerinasshe is the shape of your heart
the nights milkwee
the way she curves the way she is as a stone
not a bullet, lip, or horseshoe knot a nok
she is a sheet of paper
the curve of a swans wave
as a bed n breakfast in blossom a bed in bloom
with insects singing all at once and alone
understandable and not understandable
and full of animals not seen eating insects
she might be that they are bats
are the stones found in his heart
some of them in your heart
they remain in the cavities and do not hunt
moles and mice only only birds and singing insects
bride the melodrama of seacluded crayfish
water spiders across the halter top of the water
o
each house has within it a marble
so she is with her heart someplace
a marble in a crystal candy dishexcavated after falling from a purse
in Petra in a Paris evacuated
it has been a long time ago
they mind as well be the marbles in his heart
for lack of any better word
they are not shoes or mermaids oor memories
hot round fish, perfectly round held them a gun
in my mouth swam them around
swallowed themMom
Quas foundthree little stones
as big as peas, as bees
of a ruby color
in his lifetime of lungs
he was frequently affected
with loves palpatreasonsin the wall
he built her a nail
Quazimodo
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Upon opening a letter a man, supposed to have died of some mysterious
wasting, from some form of intense intestines longing or wishing (not quite
desire), a hard stone, big as a coffee cup was found in his heart in was in
an insect alphabet No description of the many July mornings of the white cup
on the roof of summer or its ghostly nature remainsas an aura of words
that make in each each heart purses or pockets
pixies slip into the purse
and leave their Xs stones fell inPet Milk
rrresponsible for discordant noise and jangled tempo
feized fee ftill fee ftill inferted fub fis fub fnot fize fe fe fu if fe ft fce ffes fa
fer veffel
CP
aland on the moon
His heart was a big as a toasterand audible
it went opium
ufe ur ceff
obf wer og hu
bane bite ver
ferv orc utv
XHis heart was as big as an oxsheart
as big as a microwave
he went fizzzzzzz.
his was four times bigger than a Snickers, a volume of Shakespeare
than a wash pail,
as big or bigger,
than a washing machine
or your weeks wash, in July.she became round white in the August sun.witch her hair the color of hylighter and marigolds
Aghost
She increased in cavities,like eating candy forever
as daisys would, in dialog,
in it, in the villi,
in the shaggy fibers of the septum,
with partitions between the many
many ventriloquists,guests and ghosts were held in form
by Scotch tape, [ ] vague preminum cat liter
that everything comprehended liter after letter [ ]
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Actually, in the ventricles were found three stonesas big as big peas,
or bigger, as elephants [ ]
move by witchs wish
n longer need to speak in the morning to you
evening I say are the marbles rolling about my headI swallow them and they roost in the atriums of my heart they
are birds and begin to sing
ar lue o tar lue ot lue uoooOOOoooOOO
when the moon has empted her and him
which goes like this
Ar lue o tar lue ot lue uoooOOOoooOOO
you go to a witch for butter
the letters to have her stones removed from thee
if it were only as easysimple as a finger touching
another finger
look at pretty lip mantis
Witchin the wavesshe the tide of his heart
as if they were at the beach
in sand and warm water a wash cloth
sang her hand moved about his ballshis clouds full of geese
and red Buicks and watermelons
or tiny frogs watermelon seeds
gazillions singing zebras
make a frog noise NOW!harp tunes of bull frog rib
a mattress stuffing with pancakes
As they spread the bones upond the tablehere the tiny bones of her feetand here her shoulder bones
here two stones
on his Giza plateau, lips,
the swami wonders at their purpose
them bones posed as dry corn
the hear so frequently the moon
at non
A vowel, a stone of 14 grams like a bezoarwas found in my heart
bezoars grow in the heads of toads
the bezoar gives the toad her golden eyes
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her broom, her lint brush, her tits,
how the bezoar found its home in my heart
and why he died of a stone
and her eyes
it was a yardstick and clothespins that caused the dinosaurs
to commit the venial sins of dreams and extinct Tang
the swami wonders at their purpose, death and the heart
each has five letters
eash has a t
and an e and an a
one is art and one is eat. Which one?
See, says the swami, I am a great poet
today he ponderssweat and sour pork
or chicken with lemon grass?
An EleloeafUnder the spreading chestnut tree I Michaelaphanta stone as big as an Indian elephant, an African Elephant
a horse, a plasma TV, a Toyota, as big as Sri Lanka
as big as the red owl that hunts moles and mice
from the crescent
finger moon a Cthe heart was double in size
as big as a capital consonant,
Constaninople or a continentAsia almost as big as her first is figs
and a sharpened pencil
when stabbed by one
will grant you lead poison
and you will die
if a moth sits upon your nipple
the kiss of which will make you deaf
and your penis will be an eraser
on an idiots yellow number two pencilpink and softly rounded
shredding and nearly
gone,
it will wear a hole in your paper
and you will die
it will be bitten off
in second grade in line at the water fountain
once, as a kiss
a chestnut fell and fell into his heart
and in his heart a stone
the size of chestnut was fountain
the frequency witches say: love comes to everyone as gum on the sidewalk
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a purulent urine runs rain
for feveral festival days from a woman of pulp
the pulp of whofe whole heart
was fuppurated
puppeturated ruptured and yingas yesterdays reliance on the alphabet and words
appliances like a Whirlpool dryer, the microwave,Miracle Whip
and deep and important emotions
meaning worse feelings
and the clever clover,
the witches sing in sight of rocket scientists and poets.
[the lamp of the lightbulb undone, cracked and gone,
busted and the quivering lip of filament limply sea ofNivea Cream [a
copper colored
heart shapped taghangs from the cats collar
I fold the laundry
item by item
July and August
Sep
Socks]
[ ]
[ ] bones[ ] moons
[ ] stones
[ ] we Ra hear
[ ] birds
[ ] Mari and Wendy
[ ]Jinn abowve
Foxglove
Co lo fo no oll oc
I open o woo l f onto ofOne co lo fo non oll oc co lo
O wo fo Ove of orax found as to find
In the principle branch of the coronary
The bones of a crow
Convex compact
Glickering naked in the cavity
Disordered moon membrane
Fible on the external surface
For with these words I dance
For the heremThe fleshy columes of Columbus in the ventricles
Foi to moft of ox od bon
O oa bows of worms
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Words in the three atriums OReins and obfevers
Of theves flickerting veffel
ncewish we were fisin whenight of August mot
I wish your window open
so I can hear youring singing
upon nopening a night
when they are cut noenly the part of the body concerned is paralyzed
fupposed to have died of lic
A hard stone Big as a nutmeg
If rain has her her the number button
Wear the rain sleeps
As an eye in butter
Night swam in a sea of milkweed
As an eye in butter opens Cleopatras nevel
Fondue in her heart
upn upon dissection of his body
(the sprouts eaten like asparagus of geni)
weary leaves by waves
her rain was found intact
in his water windy heart
rising little red grains
of sand and red giants
clear but clouded
like gummy bears
and some of Gregory Corsos
penguin dust
fishfish
A hard stone Big as a nutmeg
paralysis in order to prove tightnesswe work with releaved letters
where the union runs over the coarse flute
the operation: Fall
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to get rib of these holes in the religion,
to treat common diseases,
to repute
the moon purse lips of milkweed
Oh sewing tread
Oh poisonous plants of Indiathese caterpillars that crawl forth from you
deviations of the social order or in a box
restricted to a slab of paper
the tepid stupidness of memory
imposes upon love
loves leaf eaten
WeWe
this paper is the same thing
the dried substitute
for ipecacuanha
the root power
febrifuge, anthelmintic, depurative, expectorant and laxative.
the letters are bitter
and because they are trivial
we easily see we
If rain has her her the number button
sand and water two equals three
milkweed O isomorphisms
the unit and counit
satisfy the triangular identities
a biuniversal arrow
satisfies all through it
is not necessary we construct:
fevers, rheumatism, indigestion,cough, cold, eczema
asthma,
elephantiasis,
nausea,
vomiting, diarrhea fortunately, as you know the longevity of love
measures
in the half-life of a stick of gum
arriving with the frequency of email
Wear the rain sleeps
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clothes vertically horizontally
natural formations
except that this preserves
composition and identity
Smuckers for every object
in this appear paper colmitssea cormorants
drown the notation
all small categories V
each cohearen henisos
a window
a milkweed
fingers fell in love with
a window
closed
As an eye in butter
(Is there any reason I should try to get my poems in Conjuntions?
Oh dont be stupid. You dont know whose reading.)
here a weak decoupling results
half spaces, spines
intestines, widn, bells
give an edge configurationsalt is used to remove the hair.
the morphisms continuous map
two cells must in order tomaketoe
the various compositions
associative and unital
if we regard May
as a descrete category for all
pseudo limitstime, objects
omit
O Mit catch the baseball
on the 6th
grade dirt diamond
that I mistook for the breast of the moon
plum-iting groinwword
word as a window in the way
i j e obj j
a b a b a bmor a b b if h
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Night swam in a sea of milkweed
These examples show there are more ways than two to compose one.
tight in a sense
the random measure of a fingerupper bound and finely large
auxiliary random
provide suitable probabillististic
on the surface
with the lettuce rescaled
saying that the cluster
insects the finfishing nets
and sewing thread.
for any bounded there exists
only the volume
As an eye in butter opens Cleopatras nevel
Asclepiadaceae dance or decaycoy or swallow wort
proof deviation (or POOF!)
endowed with weak topography
the constellation consisting of a finite intersectionadmit a baseball implies
lower
true we a butterfly weed
measure a subsequence of origin
Fondue in her heart
LOrals probabity blue or subsets red
ane vent Lent is said to be increasing snailsmon-dreaming procolation
compeared with complicated models
Tyra Banks or Heidi Klum
then the law stochastically dominates
thee chastity
the box centered at the origin
is the set (TV Set)
if there is a path of opened edges
forgive me
the sites of A which have a nearest neighbor
Arrested Music Periodically the Word is Winnow Window
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TupperwareCelery in and out paper in a lax functor
between Cosmopolitan and a
weighted potaetoe
transformations between crows
and caterpillars
it is a two-way street
like up the ying-yang
Playtex
is a poem whats
identity in morphine
-must satisfy the coherence diagrams-
composed functors
wintering in Mexico where your eggs hatch
when you sign on for poetry
I didnt imagine the job
to stick the genii in a bottle
HeintzKetchup
or
Clorox
Milkweel Speels
Forgetful Functions
another beautiful fundamental fondle
sley or sloop the invented liquid
flow (not a flower to romantic for a magazine
or a word in a random medium.
these these lettuce with bacon broom
or fat tomato vertex
phase coexistence o
so write a homeopathic poetry
beginning in June which is really springnothing else in the edible lattice
a spiedeer with 8 letters
otherwise witches it is infinight