FUTURE OCCUPATIONS

FUTURE OCCUPATIONS

© Lee Gough 2012

Cover art by Lee Gough

L R Llittle red leaves textile editions

www.littleredleaves.com

© Lee Gough 2012

Cover art by Lee Gough

L R Llittle red leaves textile editions

www.littleredleaves.com

Future OccupationsLee Gough

little red leaves textile series 2012

Future OccupationsLee Gough

little red leaves textile series 2012

[1]

[1]

From the tree, nested wars

Lost limbs

the paper

Still life

not to turn into something else,

not even to write

wars to include (This)

Repeat:

( )

They don’t have enough interpreters, to draw

from

blunt languages: “These are her brains on the ceiling”

“these were her weapons”

and magazines

From the tree, nested wars

Lost limbs

the paper

Still life

not to turn into something else,

not even to write

wars to include (This)

Repeat:

( )

They don’t have enough interpreters, to draw

from

blunt languages: “These are her brains on the ceiling”

“these were her weapons”

and magazines

[2]

[2]

Of the other

unassimilated

part:

a light arms museum

Mortar

and board, bricks the victors

trench

tranche rpt

identifi ed

w/ a letter

Of the other

unassimilated

part:

a light arms museum

Mortar

and board, bricks the victors

trench

tranche rpt

identifi ed

w/ a letter

[ 3]

[ 3]

Of the other part

a wooden chair made of white

branches

shoulderedfor the measure, “who gives the measure”

the teeth of a lion

Glazed blue at the arch

(school) of the dead tree

in the pit Ishtar dug with her sex

minute apples

If you don’t have a question you can eat

(for the settlers)

the blunt

handouts

Of the other part

a wooden chair made of white

branches

shoulderedfor the measure, “who gives the measure”

the teeth of a lion

Glazed blue at the arch

(school) of the dead tree

in the pit Ishtar dug with her sex

minute apples

If you don’t have a question you can eat

(for the settlers)

the blunt

handouts

[4]

[4]

Beginning with capitals,

and branches

having replaced bough,

The phantom limbs

“this tree was used to make

a bat or a plough”

Without paper

holding a knot in each hand open

virtually

The “dead eat food as the living”

as if out there in the digital world,

or here,

given an exact latitude and longitude

they could be returned

to wired trees

for sentences and relatives

clogged with furious hair spun in live fruit

Beginning with capitals,

and branches

having replaced bough,

The phantom limbs

“this tree was used to make

a bat or a plough”

Without paper

holding a knot in each hand open

virtually

The “dead eat food as the living”

as if out there in the digital world,

or here,

given an exact latitude and longitude

they could be returned

to wired trees

for sentences and relatives

clogged with furious hair spun in live fruit

[ 5]

[ 5]

Wrapped in the newspaper : a trap door

in the ground

and another tree, a housewife

and child run

a rehearsal for catastrophe, turned down

casually, the desire of the lion

orders, by repetition

she blasted several graves for

opened, the open

box

Was

the lion in motion?

Wrapped in the newspaper : a trap door

in the ground

and another tree, a housewife

and child run

a rehearsal for catastrophe, turned down

casually, the desire of the lion

orders, by repetition

she blasted several graves for

opened, the open

box

Was

the lion in motion?

[6]

[6]

“Who stares into an open window never sees as many things as someone looking at a closed window.” (Pierre Baudelaire, Paris Spleen)

To see the “whole”, “competent bird”

the prothonotary

New World

yellow, crumb-eater, H. thought

“a brief purity” from prison

“What can be seen by sunlight ...”Prisons: what work is there? before,

and after

My father’s work

of himself-like

Was himself like

some other humans (he learned on water) Loss

there was no lee in the head for

Normally it’s to moor

but where? they use some bodies

as nots

“Who stares into an open window never sees as many things as someone looking at a closed window.” (Pierre Baudelaire, Paris Spleen)

To see the “whole”, “competent bird”

the prothonotary

New World

yellow, crumb-eater, H. thought

“a brief purity” from prison

“What can be seen by sunlight ...”Prisons: what work is there? before,

and after

My father’s work

of himself-like

Was himself like

some other humans (he learned on water) Loss

there was no lee in the head for

Normally it’s to moor

but where? they use some bodies

as nots

[7]

[7]

to make letters without

more text of circumstance.

“You must be trying to open a goose”The circumstances of which

out of themselves,

designed

27” x 79 3/8, 10 gauge steel

welded

more joints

of this, one-sided

questioning of

a corpse, or The corporate

furnished and erect

steel

terms “high-risk”

occupants fl ammability tested, orders

bed and space

What is infl ammable

space, for sleep (without an antecedent)

to make letters without

more text of circumstance.

“You must be trying to open a goose”The circumstances of which

out of themselves,

designed

27” x 79 3/8, 10 gauge steel

welded

more joints

of this, one-sided

questioning of

a corpse, or The corporate

furnished and erect

steel

terms “high-risk”

occupants fl ammability tested, orders

bed and space

What is infl ammable

space, for sleep (without an antecedent)

[8]

[8]

If these are dummy pages, for interned books

It just fi ts (the dummy pronoun

for example)

Bunkers,

The interred occupants, relatives

Who must have been

“Given a match”

If these are dummy pages, for interned books

It just fi ts (the dummy pronoun

for example)

Bunkers,

The interred occupants, relatives

Who must have been

“Given a match”

[9]

[9]

Inter-ed and furrow, bodies of the future pelagic

Midnight, Lower midnight orders

into the literal fort

of outside, Orders

It was thought, necessary

in Cicero’s time, to erect

the short empire-hand and tongue

the possible Sun

a line to the exact a “criminal event” and terms

They hit you up for

pain Nobody will look at the terminals

they feed into sentences, digits

where they hide their innocent

and ours:

a panhandler named Rambo,

faked

a missing arm for 20 years, served

In “Da Nang Viet Nam ’72 - ‘73”, faked

Inter-ed and furrow, bodies of the future pelagic

Midnight, Lower midnight orders

into the literal fort

of outside, Orders

It was thought, necessary

in Cicero’s time, to erect

the short empire-hand and tongue

the possible Sun

a line to the exact a “criminal event” and terms

They hit you up for

pain Nobody will look at the terminals

they feed into sentences, digits

where they hide their innocent

and ours:

a panhandler named Rambo,

faked

a missing arm for 20 years, served

In “Da Nang Viet Nam ’72 - ‘73”, faked

[10]

[10]

what he learned “from history books”

“ I made him!” around the cornerStolen valor? What was there

To steal

From whom?

are our sentences,

ending

point, stop, gylph,

the value of one

marked by a comma

what he learned “from history books”

“ I made him!” around the cornerStolen valor? What was there

To steal

From whom?

are our sentences,

ending

point, stop, gylph,

the value of one

marked by a comma

[11]

[11]

“I can tell the edges of the old”

and new squares

boxes on the street the dead

in the wire cloth the sutured grid.

Virgil couldn’t stand with

pulp

in the dark, wove lead (yellow)

The fi ngered virile

self to move

with trauma, I slept

on a train

Once I was yellow and learned to use a protractorTo measure degrees.

“I can tell the edges of the old”

and new squares

boxes on the street the dead

in the wire cloth the sutured grid.

Virgil couldn’t stand with

pulp

in the dark, wove lead (yellow)

The fi ngered virile

self to move

with trauma, I slept

on a train

Once I was yellow and learned to use a protractorTo measure degrees.

[12]

[12]

There was no government

after it hung

left open,

leaves, without degrees

except for small arms

which armed

The open branches

the yellowwood dropped.

Then making it move again, just sit,

there chairs and gun-

stocks, furniture

for the future, there is no drawing for

obstacles and distance, at the speed of a bullet

Still

“justice isn’t fairness”

There was no government

after it hung

left open,

leaves, without degrees

except for small arms

which armed

The open branches

the yellowwood dropped.

Then making it move again, just sit,

there chairs and gun-

stocks, furniture

for the future, there is no drawing for

obstacles and distance, at the speed of a bullet

Still

“justice isn’t fairness”

[13]

[13]

The fair redoubt

rough-dressing

Stones, the same color

Dust and light, another country in my dream

I never knew

how to win and work for

a moth the same color, wings open at rest, wiped off

A counter

“After all there was no setting

fi re” to themselves

monuments of “endless love of horizontals” and “eternality of

the will”

and the quarried

black

hollow spaces to win, drawers of

petrifi ed beauty.

Just think

of the uses.

The fair redoubt

rough-dressing

Stones, the same color

Dust and light, another country in my dream

I never knew

how to win and work for

a moth the same color, wings open at rest, wiped off

A counter

“After all there was no setting

fi re” to themselves

monuments of “endless love of horizontals” and “eternality of

the will”

and the quarried

black

hollow spaces to win, drawers of

petrifi ed beauty.

Just think

of the uses.

[14]

[14]

But “beauty was beauty in every degree”

and private’s private

invented

a machine

for everything in the kitchen

Drawer, or mouth

“to be able to taste something”

red like

for red ink and xenon

use the invisible blood

security, colored

monitor “there is no distance from”

or measure the box, cell

for the new icon(s) must be close

Red drift --home ec General knowledge

for the new thumb Iron

white hole or an iron

for the new icon(s)

dodges the paper.

But the veil “left the eyes free”

But “beauty was beauty in every degree”

and private’s private

invented

a machine

for everything in the kitchen

Drawer, or mouth

“to be able to taste something”

red like

for red ink and xenon

use the invisible blood

security, colored

monitor “there is no distance from”

or measure the box, cell

for the new icon(s) must be close

Red drift --home ec General knowledge

for the new thumb Iron

white hole or an iron

for the new icon(s)

dodges the paper.

But the veil “left the eyes free”

[15]

[15]

These petrifi ed forms

hang around

inside

the occupiers passages

in between, the displaced people

who thought the right thoughts

Hydra, appeared to have

an extra

head, but the octopus had too many hands

for her mouth

and couldn’t see

the concrete things

all the squares

and underlying detours or orders

stone upon stone, Sing Sing’s

silent system prospectsall the squares, to see

in some degrees

These petrifi ed forms

hang around

inside

the occupiers passages

in between, the displaced people

who thought the right thoughts

Hydra, appeared to have

an extra

head, but the octopus had too many hands

for her mouth

and couldn’t see

the concrete things

all the squares

and underlying detours or orders

stone upon stone, Sing Sing’s

silent system prospectsall the squares, to see

in some degrees

[16]

[16]

from blue holes depends upon the actual

Bunkers

you are liable for

the cut stones and trees

the trees have become

barrels,

and drawers

the building plans

It depends on

from blue holes depends upon the actual

Bunkers

you are liable for

the cut stones and trees

the trees have become

barrels,

and drawers

the building plans

It depends on

Lee Gough lives in Brooklyn, NY. She occasionally teaches art in

New York City public schools. More of her recent poetry can

be found in Antennae 12, and more of her drawing, print media

and (coming soon) experimental animation work is at leegough.

net

This little red leaves textile series chapbook was designed and

sewn by Dawn Pendergast in Houston, Texas.

Lee Gough lives in Brooklyn, NY. She occasionally teaches art in

New York City public schools. More of her recent poetry can

be found in Antennae 12, and more of her drawing, print media

and (coming soon) experimental animation work is at leegough.

net

This little red leaves textile series chapbook was designed and

sewn by Dawn Pendergast in Houston, Texas.