We resume a regular meeting schedule, but on a new day & at a new location!
We will meet this next SUNDAY 10 November at Multi-Kulti 1000 N. Milwaukee Ave.
The meeting will begin @ 3:00pm.
We will begin with a reading & discussion of two poems by Jackson Mac Low, which can be found below.
Please join us!
Remember that all our meetings are free & open to the public. Anyone is invited. Leave your expertise at the door.
Jackson Mac Low
Giant Otters
They were a close family of giant
otters
in Surinam giving a low growling sound
when
they were insecure so they were called
the Hummers.
Trace elements had landed near them and
thy effloresced
in even amounts throughout an even eon
and an evening more
fortunate as they were in knowing
nothing
or peering curiously into unknown
presence
alert to no future living the past as
presence
whose elements were traces in their
efflorescing being
going as far as they could within the
world they were
as fortunate particularized occasions
within unfolding
breathed upon by memory's wraith and
anticipation's all but absence.
Where were they going but farther along
and through
whatever their being eventuated in
clearness no demand for clarity
as the eyes are unsealed and the world
flows in as light?
13-14
February 1982
New
York
36th
Light Poem: In Memoriam Buster Keaton--
4:50 – 6:18 A.M. Sat
1 January 1972
As a Mad Scientist
Buster lights a
Bunsen-burner flame
that starts a series of
processes
that eventually releases
The Monster
As an Undertaker
Buster lights a
Bunsen-burner flame
that starts a series of
processes
that awakens a drunk who
was about to be buried as a corpse
As a Muscovite
Buster lights a sisal wick
in a sesame-seed-oil lamp
that suddenly lights a
mystical orgy
officiated over by
Rasputin
As a Boater
Buster beats a cascade by
floating out beyond its edge
borne by a balloon
lit by wintry sun
As an Unwilling Passenger
on a Drifting Liner
Buster the Millionaire &
his rich Girl Friend
learn to cope Alone
Without Servants
when forced to rely on the
light of their Upper-Class Intellects
As a Worker
Buster arouses the
Compassion of the Nation
in whose light the
Corporations
sell themselves to their
Workers
As a Key Man
Buster carries around with
him
an enormous bunch of keys
lighting his way with a
Keats lamp
As a Beatnik
Buster meditates in a
Redwood forest
seated where the Selenic
light
first falls at Moonrise
As a Leaf-&-Feather
Gatherer
Buster Means Well but bugs
everyone in the Park
spearing the ladies' hats
& the picknicker's salads
in featureless Hollywood
Light for the century's first quarter
As William Butler Yeats
Buster addresses an irate
Irish crowd
that thinks that Poetry
makes Nothing Happen
but lets itself be bathed
by its Truthful Light
As a Cannoneer
Buster explodes his own
ship's magazine
treads water in Gunpowder
Light at a safe distance
& blushes in
embarrassment at his Clumsiness
As a Violinist
Buster surpasses Paganini
until Boston-Concert-Hall
Light
Poisons him with Love for
a Proper Bostonian Maiden
2
Spirit of Buster Keaton
if you survive as yourself
receive Please our honor &
praise
you conscientious Workman
Hard-working Buster Keaton
when you arouse the
laughter of children
as you live in Projector
Light
Your Karmic Residue
dissolves in Joyous Shouts
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