Chris Vitiello
from Irresponsibility
23 July 2004
35th birthday
Durham, NC
The office1
The mouse underside cakes gradually
with dust // Dust accretes there
Bartok string quartet number one, lentoDone unloading outside
the ramp noisily rolled up into
the delivery truckNoticing with effort
Am I supposed to write that it rained?One, two, three, four, five, six
What rained?
The carpet patterns
Sticking out
Seven2
Comprehensive always includes contradiction
Insert Williams’s Spring and All here
Things look the same
They want to use it, not read it
Parataxis is an aesthetic
Bartok string quartet number three, ricapitolazinoe della prima parte
The blue chair is two blues and a green
Stephen muttering behind the cubicle wall
Wesley Willis They Threw Me Out Of ChurchNictitating context // A subset cannot know what is outside of its set
Why it rained
3
Yes, I will make it automatic
Cannot know it is a subset
is a setWriting recapitulates experience
is a convention // For example
Epistemology is a plenum floating in a vacuum is
an analogy is a
statement of factSearching on vinculum
You are here because you have lacerated a tendonI cannot hear people approach
Cross-reference Hocquard and DeNiro
This isn’t this is this isn’t this