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Paul was cereal: part XXVIII
[this box of Trix was opened on 1 February]
Paul was how to complete a sentence. Sentiment. Concern. The sort of lines, unscripted that slip in. It was in a cigar box in the clearing. Found like a postcard from out West.
“Remember at school when you got lost on Neversink?”
When will the papers open up & let sky through, & let a clear hole be formed for flight from this white enclosure?
“& when you came back the kids were all chanting ‘Row Boat! Row Boat! Row Boat!’”
That was another time. Brown boxed stacks reached skyward & expanded in branchless bursts with thin, frail leaves; small paper fragments clustering to obscure a sky view. Blending memories. Like lines pulled from a dream.
Paul continued moving & shifting through tenses; where birds would feed; a seed stand set in the small yard.
“Yeah, I’m a mechanic now”
Ralph, crawling around under cars. Less spacing | as in pauses | to give the buyer not exactly enough time to think. Joke with the men, flirt with the women. Out of all the telephone numbers, someone knew Paul.
“Do you want an Eagle?”
Paul had to visit the guidance consoler after that. Not a trip to the principal, but to the guidance consoler. A pity purchase. The sound of kids playing in the background. But generally, a nice guy.
Follow the steps back to class. It wasn’t really talked about. tracks decodable in printed snow. Ring a bell when a sale is made. Piece together parts of speech to sell a subscription.
Eyes red & puffy. Paul placed the metal solider on the corner of his desk.
Add comment 28 February 2009
Paul was cereal: part XXV
[this box of Life was opened on February 1]
Paul was the stillness
an empty winter wood.
White, white, white, white,
white, white, & white.
The space expanding its own possibility.
| little letters show life |
Tracks decodable, open to interpretation as the narrative direction or motivation of writer to give reader understandable lies|lines to follow. phollow phonetics, the size & shape of this printed snow
a rabbit, a squirrel, a comma, deep hollow foot holes “he moved out west” & then the yelling stopped, perhaps a fox, deer?, there those tracks there point to something more unidentifiably large & catlike.
Up must walk up.
Up must post update.
Up must walk up.
Maybe lost? Just drawing out the journey?
Tune in tomorrow for Part XXVI of “Paul was cereal”
Add comment 25 February 2009
Paul was cereal: part V
[this box of Cookie Crisp was opened on 1 February]
Paul was not this genre. Growling sounds behind him had prompted Paul to once again sprint sprint upwards. So many enjambments but no where to hide. Tracks behind him a guide to his heavy progress. The glossy brown borders moving up up reaching a ceramic sky.
“Two ice cubes. No more, no less”
A sloping whiteness, no trail or markers. Space dissolving behind in an orange heat. Paul finds a clearing, its openness astounding after weaving for so long through the boxy brown climbing clusters. Yet, despite this openness there is no sky view. Branches, timelines, style guides, newsletters, train schedules, academic journals, maps, calendars, cover sheets, text books, drafts, faxes, laundry lists, notecards, romance novels, parking tickets, encyclopedia articles, Christmas wrapping paper, penny dreadfuls, toilet tissue, concert tickets, day-to-day pullaway calendar sheets, shopping lists, business cards, graphic novels, television schedules, post-it-notes, how to manuals, hate mail, hamburger wrappers, D&D guidebooks, telemarketing scripts, literary journals, business reports, flashcards, boarding passes, manifestos, wedding invitations, memos, Christmas cards, tree limbs, toilet paper, train tickets, visitor identification badges, twigs, outlines, flyers, self help books, pulp novels, announcements, vispo, indexes, comic books, dictionary pages, novellas, laws, proofs, newspapers, Mormon bible tracts, zines, posters, scrap papers, straw encasements, paper bags, post cards, fan mail, tabloids, envelopes, legal documentation, love letters, blue lines, sight seeing guides, class notes, court subpoenas, hard copies, arts magazines, bills, , bulletins, tax return forms, magazine subscription inserts, loan applications, photopaper, notes passed, corrected copyedited pages, instruction manuals, xeroed copies, box tops, dot matrix printouts, children’s refrigerator artwork, standardized tests, stationary, finical records, stock reports, ticker tape, appendices, lined paper, certifications, telephone directories, loose leaf paper, & footnotes all form a canopy clotting out sky.
Centered in this clearing, a small grass halo with a cigarbox.
Will Paul ever find an open patch of sky? Will anyone actually read that text chunk or just scroll though to the next episode?
Tune in tomorrow for Part VI of “Paul was cereal”
Add comment 5 February 2009
Paul was it took time for information to develop; thoughts & events to be transmitted through the wires; actions to be carried out.
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