Multitudes (7 page)

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Authors: Margaret Christakos

Tags: #Poetry, #General, #Canadian, #Women Authors

ohohoh what a lotta moonlight can do.
August 1, 2012 at 19:03 
gnossos songs.
August 4, 2012 at 00:26 
dniw niwd iwdn wdni all askew.
August 5, 2012 at 13:12 
the benefit of teens staying up till 2:30 am on summer nights
is that they sleep their faces off all morning. I tiptoe around
on little mom feet, drink coffee, think, write and read. (oh,
that’s my work, for all those who think I do nothing.)
August 8, 2012 at 9:53
coming into toronto last night, side-by-side signs:
BAGEL | BIO GEL
August 9, 2012 at 17:55 
drainched.
August 14, 2012 at 13:30
chaoasis.
August 16, 2012 at 17:54
buyological impairative
August 17, 2012 at 8:28 
hearing phrases from glass's einstein on the beach in the
mount rushmore climax of north by northwest.
August 19, 2012 at 22:32 
get home with cold beer look in mirror peer prominent black
smears under both eyes from Layton tribute.
August 22, 2012 at 20:09 
at times like these all you can do is hope the kids have
brains about storms. hoping.
August 27, 2012 at 2:38 
beaiouty
August 29, 2012 at 1:26
little that depresses me more than being asked to vote
for the best poem
September 2, 2012 at 1:54 
just sitting here on facebook … and i know that my kittens will
lead me on …
September 2, 2012 at 13:07 
curious relative passages.
September 3, 2012 at 14:32 
cu ri ou sr el at iv ep as sa ge s.
September 3, 2012 at 14:33 
at cu el ep ge iv ou ri s sa sr.
September 3, 2012 at 14:35 
rsassir uoviegpe leuctasa.
September 3, 2012 at 14:38 
recessive ovum pollutants.
September 3, 2012 at 14:40 
took 7 minutes of my own life.
September 3, 2012 at 14:40 
now now now now now now now now now now
September 11, 2012 at 8:53 
persuasion sway suede. some people say wordplay is not
interesting but i think it is everything for it is writing in the ear
which is listening to itself become itself, and therefore selfcritical,
selfaudible and aware of the others the proximate the adjacent
and imminent. and as you offered with hear her here it quickly
also becomes very libidinal, multiply directional, defeating binary
structures between interlocutors such as us here hers hearing.
September 12, 2012 at 11:09 
facebook status
aabcefko ossttu
sutatsko obecaf
September 15, 2012 at 22:51 
thinking about how writers have always been derided for
wasting time in cafés. on terraces. patioslackers. And now we're
told it's a waste of time to be on facebook. But there's enough
that's new and intriguing about the poetics of this polyvocal
improvisational milieu that I feel I learn from it. Present.
Presenth. If only someone would bring me my absinthe.
September 16, 2012 at 15:25 
why does flarf parse only the most base and banal of the
internet when we can parse anything anything as if there's
something less valid about the brilliant
September 17, 2012 at 11:00 
all hail broke loose.
September 17, 2012 at 20:30 
odd ode
ddd eoo
edo ddo
September 19, 2012 at 9:11 
‘Demand for The Clock is expected to be high so please
expect significant wait times.’
September 21, 2012 at 1:29 
brain feeling a little on the verge of.
September 26, 2012 at 11:15 
aabee eeeeffg g hiiill ln nno orrtt tv.
September 26, 2012 at 13:57 
foegr evehtno e lttila gn ile efnia rb.
September 26, 2012 at 13:59 
selftrust eflrssttu tsurtfles
September 26, 2012 at 22:21 
Please maintain control of your personal property at all times.
What???
September 27, 2012 at 2:48 
enotsat tesor
aeenoor ssttt
rosetta stone
September 28, 2012 at 19:17 
the phonetic charge of every phrase
aac ceeeeeef ghhhhi no opprr rsttvy
esa rhpyreve foegra hc citen ohpeht
September 29, 2012 at 6:09 
rain in Bath which seems about right.
October 2, 2012 at 12:27
clitoris, solicitor.
cciiiill, ooorrsstt.
roticilo, ssirotilc.
October 3, 2012 at 18:11
on a six week trip visiting sites significant to my grandmothers'
early lives before they emigrated, one from britain, one from
greece, both 1914–15 at the age of 15. And thinking about
autobiography, self-narrativity and girls' changing self-
display practices over several eras.
October 6, 2012 at 19:06 
membrane in the brine. (for karim)
October 9, 2012 at 14:28
arising to the window of her subjectivity
abcdeee fg hhi iiiijn no oor rssttttuvwwy
ytivitc ej bus rehfow od niw ehtotgnisira
October 13, 2012 at 9:10 
thrilled to be at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus; note the ‘ode’
in odeon
October 14, 2012 at 9:32 
awake; it’s still dark
aaade; iik kllrs st’tw
kradl; lit sst’ie kawa
October 14, 2012 at 23:46 
siren einrs neris
October 16, 2012 at 5:14 
not jazz; how abt sum female vocal trance
aaa aabc cee efh jll mmnnoo orstt tuvwzz;
ecn artl avo vel ame fmustb awohz; zajton
October 16, 2012 at 5:52 
the antiquities are breathrobbing but the wifi is, alas, forshit.
October 18, 2012 at 14:47 
elektra i am on your side girl
aadeeeg i ii kl lmno orrr stuy
lrigedi s ru oy noma iart kele
October 18, 2012 at 16:17 
eating peanuts at a hotel in delphi.
October 19, 2012 at 12:51
please bat some puns around with me to balance out my
brain; the beauty's killing me. antiquity's quitting me.
October 19, 2012 at 12:56 
a colossal limestone female head
October 20, 2012 at 11:53
is brainzonked, or to put it in greek,
metadekapitroniekronopolitisi. hha.
October 22, 2012 at 4:57 
single czech ladies
accdee eghii llnssz
seidal hcezc elgnis
October 23, 2012 at 3:47 
swam in the aegean
October 24, 2012 at 1:22
lightning, thunder, streaming rain the whole night; cycladic
baptismal
October 24, 2012 at 2:38 
do I look LACONIC enough?
October 28, 2012 at 11:10
tonight in athens saw an unending stream of citizens
coherently hitting the streets, young people, elderly people,
many workers, families.
November 7, 2012 at 19:20
rome = over-the-knee leather boots.
November 8, 2012 at 12:19
dormituttimatini.
November 11, 2012 at 5:12
just realized why the cat obsession on facebook: CHAT.
November 12, 2012 at 3:40
chaos and order
aacdd ehn oorrs
redro dna soahc
November 18, 2012 at 1:48 
um, can I go back.
November 19, 2012 at 11:44
mirror l rorrim
imorrr l rrromi
rorrim l mirror
November 24, 2012 at 22:31
thanks Anne for connecting me to Tiny Furniture. Crisscrossing
Fat Girl, High Art and My So-Called Life, etc.
Can't believe I hadn't seen this.
December 1, 2012 at 2:38 
Maybe it's a poor replica.
Aaabc eei i lmoo pprrst’y.
Acilp err o opas t’iebyam.
December 3, 2012 at 14:49 
a bunch of feminists
a bceff hi imnnosstu
s tsini me ffohcnuba
December 6, 2012 at 14:33 
proud to have raised feminist sons.
December 6, 2012 at 15:05 
that satisfying feeling of suddenly seeing a dozen easy edits.
letting it change. letting it become something else entire.
December 12, 2012 at 11:02
now actively repeat it all
December 15, 2012 at 18:09
did u think i had forgotten u
add d efghh i iik nnoortttu u
une t togro f dah iknihtudi d
December 18, 2012 at 1:48 
just came up with an awesome constraint.
December 18, 2012 at 16:56
If there’s one thing that lightens my mood it’s overhearing
genius shower singing
December 19, 2012 at 22:04
everoreveroreveroreverie
December 25, 2012 at 23:40 
just simulread Idle No More as I Die No More.
December 29, 2012 at 14:28
2012, we had a time.
December 31, 2012 at 12:28   
the horizon of the desirable; walk in that direction
aaa bcddeee ee fhh hhiiiiikl; lnnn oo oorr rstttttwz
noi tceridt ah tni klawelbar; ised eh tfon oziroheht
January 1, 2013 at 22:23 
Moribund Facekvetch
 Hey Margaret,
January 1, 2013 at 22:58 
Moribund Facekvetch
 are these part of a larger project.
Reragel jepcoetr?
January 1, 2013 at 22:59 
Margaret Christakos
 each is a meditative construction that i
build in realtime as i am posting; i compose them according to
the constraint of a lyric phrase that resonates within a variety
of thematic areas, which is then reordered as an alphabetic
translation, and then as palindrome of the original phrase using
its letter count template. point is it's not random, rather highly
dictated and yet the result is a wild unassimilable kind of
foreign currency … as a cumulative composition the individual
pieces gain narrative dimensions, invite oral performance, and
draw me into a deeper contemplation of simultilingualism …  
so yes esy sey
January 1, 2013 at 23:10 
John Barlow
 my mind zipped out vividly internally auditorially
with that one and it sounded like busy queen st w in just such

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