Madhouse
$50 for the use of the word womb
Georgie O’Keefe
cool explosions
passionately chaste
orchidaceous tones
cool and white
singular and opposed to plural
fit meat for brave minds because
they at the same time transfer
its courage to themselves. Take
the words Conqueror Meteoric
Attack Magnificent.
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An aeroplane over Paris
trailing a long white banderole
on which is written in huge
letters the words Dry Gin.
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I believe that inanimate
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The word Aphrodisiac
according to the dictionary is a
drug provocative of sexual desire.
But for me it is the name of a yacht
and white as her great white sails
and has nothing whatever to do
with sexual desire.
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Always dominate
the word.
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There is the automatic
word as for instance with me
the word Sorceress where the
word goes on even while the
attention is focused on entirely
different subjects just as in
swimming my arms and legs
go on automatically even
when my attention is focused
on subjects entirely different
from swimming such as
witchcraft for instance or
the sorceress
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The evolution of a word
in the mind requires despotic
power and unlimited elimination.
How would Yes for instance flourish
among words such as dog or corset
or safety-pin or hot-water-bag or eunuch
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A word should be not
merely an image but a directive
force which guides the flight of
the soul
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Names of horses: The Arrow,
Locomotive, Firecracker, Tornado, Galloper Light,
Trajectory, The Meteor, Fleetness, Velocity.
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Slang: snifetr = a little drink,
kiss-pretties = go to hell, jumping =
jumping into bed with someone hence
the expression ‘she’s a jumper,’
what’s the crępe = how are you,
marriage of invulnerability with Yes
of the Red Wolf, with the Gold Bumblee
of Madness with Ră.
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Birdileaves, Goldabbits,
Fingertoes, Auroramor, Barabarific,
Parabolaw, Peaglecock, Lovegown,
Nombrilomane.
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I understand certain
words to be single and by themselves
and deriving from no other words
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A nursery game called
Hunt-the-Slipper. A flower called
Lady-Slipper. Running in the
Gold Cup a horse called Slipper.
Drinking champagne out of
her Red Slipper. From these
magic sources the development
of the word Slipper in my mind
so that it becomes the word internal
and therefore as such a part of
me as my eyes or feet.
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