Thomas Lowe Taylor -- A THEORY OF EVENTS

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The beginning when it is like this
where it is that and no substitute,
is or has where it will be as that
which it also is, in between all the rest
that it might be.
In a way,
to the red, but in between,
as a phase or status, there from
of other eases, but unknown
to all who remain, nor practice,
but skips around unlike anything
where the openness itself is surprising,
but after, too, in shadow, as turning around
one might see the after. So.

initial, the forward quality of a name
which is not personal nor property,
like the feeling of walking around
and around, but which is ;never
devious, but separated off sectioned off

though I too am worried about stopping
altogether getting to a certain place &
being stuck, & perhaps even later
being asked about it.
Which is a kind of
gossip,

but space, as I have it, here,
resembles nothing, is all there is,
inside which time is, getting away to
the peripheries of itself,
gravitational,
or variations in the present tense,
though this, has as its edge
nothing, and beyond that, little else,
so to speak, to say or be doing
anything "other-than" in reflex or
athletic-ally
in hesitation out of what already
is in the present / is as is, beyond
nothing and why not?

Because I already enjoy this and would
enjoy it ;more if I continued so why
stop because that too is pleasant and the
in between is too. stop.
or listening to any descent,
as if to be other, other than that,
or elongated. whaled. apart from taste
or interruption, but listening and
descending from here to here and listening
apart from all the rest, and out.

But is it verbs? But to speak in
a familiar or already familiar discourse
is not the same as its opposite.
to know that, besides.


though to be extra careful is all right.
no, it is not like listening
or, it is not listening at all.

which is how you mean it.

A beginning would be then like anything
else. or even talking about it would too,
so why not do it and talk about it,
or how could you do otherwise
than what you are doing,
anytime would be like that.
Over-hearing this.
doing it too.
thinking about overhearing it & doing it.
waiting at the same time
to keep on doing it
and thinking about that, etc.
which is nothing.
which is also space
or where it is done-around. in.

But that would be like anything
else too
even the space part,
or what he forgets, but not stopping,
or stopping. That, too, whatever.
and then in the familiarity of presents,
to remind one of one's documents & archives.



that very mixture of styles of which is speaks
"An American can fill up a space in having
his movement of time by adding unexpectedly
anything and yet getting within the
included space everything he had intended getting."
or any setting, but there as a work
would be
not to confuse a thing with its manner,
which is incomplete
as thought,
But linked as
there is nothing else to say
but what you are saying,
and in that, to cohere as a one.
to go beyond none.
to have it closely.
to eclipse modernity.
to restitute

or not. any way I look at it
it is the same, & not confining.
especially to talk like this, in this way
of speaking. Things are not so much
replaced as brought forward
through their vary qualities,
it is what is to be seen.
"I decided that if one definitely completely
replaced the noun by the thing in
itself, it was eventually to be poetry
and not prose which would have to
deal with everything that was not
movement in space."
which borrowing and the moveable left
or lights, away, to say this, that
as discourse, a composition would behave
in its manner, to accept only what it
is saying
to include here
all that is here
is a position, to take

what it is not, however, is fire
bursting from the sea or anything else
but a gradual giving in of the visual
toward what it is, and nothing
plainer or simpler, an existence of
the thing in its domain & in relation
to itself there for what it is and
not an object
but an existence
which has for itself
and nothing else
a strategy
a closeness
a peculiarity
a locale
a fortress
of quantity

any rigor of movement would outlast its
impulses, would collapse into space
with arrival and its constellation of
contexts.




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Sacramento, California