Losing It Again: After Reading a Complete Portrait of Picasso

Poem d'après Gertrude Stein & upcoming readings

Photogram 4 (Darian Razdar, 2023)

Losing It Again: After Reading a Complete Portrait of Picasso

If, to trust, let’s say is to true. If to trust is to be true trust so is truth is true. To true is, if to truth, to is too. Is trust in trust to as truth is trust is too as true? To trust to truth as true is as two as in truth is too. The true is and is and was as it was and was is true. 

Sitting, here I am. 
Sitting here, I am. 
On a shattered mirror,
sitting here. I am.

The mirror shattered. So, it shatters. Is it true? The mirror. Shatters shat and shatters and so shatters shat and shatters and so and so shatters and so shatters shat and so shatters shat and shatters and so. And so shatters shat and so and also.

The mirror, shattered. Shatter. Shattered it, it does. It, it does. Does it does. Does it does and was shat and shattered does it does it’s true. Shatter was it too or two or to. It’s true it’s shattered. Shat. The mirror. Two.

As trust is true. And so. Because.
As in truth as in truth as by truth as in by truth as as in truth as as in by truth as as in in by by truth as as in in by by truth truth. 

If I told them would they like it. Would they like it if I told them.
If Plutonium if I told them if I told them if Plutonium. Would they like it if I told them if I told them if Plutonium. If I told them if Plutonium if Plutonium if I told them. If I told them would they like it would they like it if I told them.

Fame is and fame was. Is fame? Famous. The mouse misses its muse. Famous, the mouse misses. Muse it in muse ick and it muses in music it’s true. Miss us and the music misses us and misses and misses and misses mouse is muse to misses. Us. It’s true. The mouse is muse it’s too. The muse is true as and as fame is is us is as us is it fame us. Music mouse its muse the mouse it moves, moves ick. The move is muse as ick as mouse is fame and us in us its muse and ick.

It moves.

Is the word. Is the word the word. A word. Is the word a word the word. A word word. So the word is word and is word is not a word. Their word is the word is not the word word. Is and is not. Not and is is. The word and not.

Trust the mouse. It moves and not its muse. 

And I and it and it and and I and it and I and I and an I and it and an it it it it it and I and I and I it it and I and it and I.

Let us recite what teaches. What teaches. 

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I’ll be in two readings next week that I’d like to invite you to:

1. Summer 2023 Workshop Reading @ The Poetry Project (online)

   Sunday 01 October, 2023 - 2PM EST

   I’ll be reading dream sequences that I wrote in Zoe Tuck’s 10-week “Like Dreamers Do” workshop & you’ll hear readers from this class among others.

   RSVP in advance here for the link

   

2. Poetry Open Mic @ Trinity Square Video

   Tuesday 03 October, 2023 - 7PM EST

   401 Richmond St West, Suite 121, Toronto, ON

   I’ll be reading selections from my New York State travel project, and maybe even the piece in this post. It’s amazing to see the visual arts scene in this city embrace poetry so openly ~~