DECEMBER 1976

FROM ACOUSTIC (DIS) ORIENTATION:

by Travis Dobbs

(Available at Coventry Books)

Photo by Sandy Block

-THERE ARE PLANETS OF EXISTENCES

nonono

PLANETS OF FREQUEN-

CIES

INTERMINGLED WORLDS APART

ONE TRUTH

I GET THE OVERPLAY: RECORDED CHOIRS OF VOICES

EACH SPEAKING A COMPLETE LIFETIME

TIME IN THE SAME ZONE PLAYED BACK AT HIGH SPEED

FORCED THEY

EXITS BE FOUR BEFORE ONE ME AND COMMUNICATES THE MIND

NONEXISTENT

TO ANOTHER ONE FOUR (FREQUENCY)

OR ANOTHER (FREQUENCY) OR SOME OTHER SPACE

CLOSE

SMOLDER ABOUT ME BUT NEVER SEEEACH OTHER

OUTWARD AND WITHIN ME THEY DO NOT CARE

THEY CARE NOT OF OR FOR THEMSELVES

AND THEY DON'T CARE FOR ME

I SHOULD CALL THIS:

POWER

HIGH GEAR

WATCHING HANDS

IN DREAMS ALOOF

MY VISION A REASON TO SHOW MY HANDS. FONDLING KEYS BLUE ANYONES BLUES RED

TALL WHITE DOGS WHITE WITHOUT EYES PROTECT BLACK WHITE

AND

SLEEPING HAMSTERS ON ORANGE MARMALADE WALLS

PLUCK OUT MY EYES AND BITE MY HANDS

MY ATTENTION SPANS NO BLOOD

DON BLADES

GONE SINCE '68

OR WAS IT '69

CALLS FOR KEYS

TO REMOVE THE SECRET CORPSE

FROM THE VAN

IN SEPTEMBER LAND

I GAVE MY LIFE TO THE MAINTENANCE SECURITY MAN WHO WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND

THE ABORTION UPON HIS BRAIN

THE CRYPTO SCHEMES

BUT KEEPS THE DREAMS GOING ON AND ON

AND On

COMING HOME TO DARK ROOMS ALONE

Quiet and alone STRANGE FACES CALL OUT

MY FEELING ASIDE

Is anyone there there the air

NIGHT BORN

BRING IT BACK

BRINGING ME BACK TO LONG

MIRRORED CORRIDORS

THAT I'VE SEEN SO MANY TIMES BEFORE

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HOLIDAY HOMECOMING LITTLE JOE

HIGH AND NAKED THEIR SCREAM/SINGS

SILENCE

SO LOUD

IT SPLITS THE CHILL STILL SEASONS BECOME NOW MY BI-CIRCULAR VISION SO Still

IT IS A COMMUNION WITH A SUPERNATURAL Death

AND IT'S HOME THAT'S ALL ALL FOLD FOLDING AWAY HOME

JUST ANOTHER FOLDAWAY HOME

THERE CORRIDORS AND BURIAL ROOMS

WHERE THE SOUL

OF EVERY BEING EVER PAST NOW FREELY SPEAKS IN TONGUE

TO NOTHING TO NO ONE TO NO ONE BUT ME (?)

I SPEAK & I AM IGNORED AN I ALSO UNHEARD GREEN GREEN WALLS PEEL AWAY

THEMSELVES

YELLOW HOLES STUFFED GOLDEN SCREAM Scream

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