Lines and phrases selected from "V. imp." by Nada Gordon (Faux Press, 2003)
"sci-fi slow river consolation" (p. 14)
pythoness:pithiness/ a rat scurries by me. as one./i squeal. a rat. we are all...catalytic (19)
Massive revelation box of altruistic salvo (23)
p.s. HOOKAH is to/B L A S T- P I P E/ as MERIDIAN/ is to A M P U L E S (25)
"I put my lover's pussy in the bottle/ of time (28)
HAVE A GOOD PEACOCK (30)
sometimes, gazing up at the cloudy firmament
I realize that I have never understood anything (36)
levaucho becho uehayu me odecha-
levanecha veshinantam lana'am uvish arecha- (37)
the so-called "power of/ lyricism" (38)
my orange-pineapple afro, irking
Tantarella's pansexual intellection (40)
I have an exaggerated sense of my own unimportance- (Nada Gordon)" (41)
the writing falls apart (again...) (42)
I think about what to do in deep thought in the future (47)
Somewhere there is another world (50)
"Sometimes it's good to fall into emptiness..." (50)
In 1974 I was writing about Elvis movies (56)
extremely "hot" dimple ((60)
*between his breasts (69)
zen zen nani mo nani mo wakaranai (72)
*glukupikron (74)
biting down on the daisy singing LEL LEL (77)
Poetry...I too /my head...won't go into it (78)
"the politics are in the poem" (79)
No ideas. Just sensation (81)
and we will buy a new vacuum (Lao Tzu) (83)
Contemporary culture/ births a red tarantula (85)
DOESN'T ANYBODY WANT TO DO ANYTHING INTROSPECTIVE ANYMORE- (89)
"palomine lotion:libinaggravation (93)
Pascal's "ills of the body (94)
burnin burnin burnin (97)
muscle, excrement...sky (100, 101
terror-
Dactyl- (102)
(in my dreams) (103)
Elizabeth Barrett Watten !106)